wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 02:21:26 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
> > On Sat 22 Jul 2017 04:45:12p, jmcquown told us...
> >
> >> Here's an article which states they aren't all that. And no, they
> >> won't make you and your children have a better time together.
> >>
> >> http://time.com/4863064/amazon-meal-...apron-cooking/
> >>
> >> Meanwhile, sorry but I'd rather not. I'm pretty good putting
> >> meals together without someone sending ingredients in a box.
> >>
> >> Jill
> >
> > It's an interesting concept, but I'm not so sure that I would want
> > everything they send to make the meal. In my case, and I'm sure in
> > the case of many other people, there's a situation where one person
> > likes one thing, another person likes something else, and that only
> > multiplies with the number people who will be eating. If you're
> > really a spontaneous cook, you're might not be in the mood for what
> > arrives.
> >
> > There are more variables, of course, and that in itself can make it
> > problamatic.
> >
> > All that aside, how good is the food? Not having read or
> > researched the options, how many companies are now offering this
> > meal in a box?
> >
> > We keep a well stocked refrigerator, freezer, and pantry, and I
> > consider myself a pretty decent cook and have been planning meals
> > for over 50 years. I don't I need it.
>
> I can see situations where it would be useful - there's a woman down
> the hall from me who fell, smashed her arm and broke her hip. She is
> home finally after time in rehab, this would solve a few problems for
> her! Back in the day when we were both working, had three kids, I
> would have enjoyed a break occasionally. Usually the night we picked
> up the groceries we would swing past KFC but an alternative would have
> been nice once in awhile.
>
> If you are very busy, or are inconvenienced then a delivered meal
> might be tempting. They have 'Meals to go" in my supermarket but I
> don't bother, not my sort of taste and expensive, but they sell.

Hi Lucretia,

There may be a mis-link here. The stuff they are talking about is not
a prepared meal, but a box that has the ingredients and you chop them
up and prepare per the recipe. It may for example have 4 baby potatoes
that you chop in 1/2 and roll in the included olive oil (for 5$lb or
more cost for that item). It may have a shrimp dish where the shrimp
works out as 40$lb

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