On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:28:00 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

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

The mis-link is you! I know what they are from ads, here they
certainly make it plain you do the prep and cooking. Just the same,
for her to be able to phone up, choose what she wants and have it
delivered would be an option. Currently she can't drive because of
her arm.

I can think of other reasons some people might like to use them, the
world does not exist on just the people here. Can you tell me why
they advertise and clearly sell them if nobody is buying?