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At Home Meal Delivery Kits Can Feed Your Family without the Weekly Shop

May 23, 2018 by Suguna Vinodh 3 Comments

Grocery shopping is an unavoidable chore. And while it may seem it only takes a few minutes to run down to the store, our grocery shopping actually takes a lot longer than most of us think.

The Time Use Institute estimates that an average person spends more than 40 minutes in the grocery store. Multiply that by 1.5-trip weekly average and you realize that you’re spending more than 53 hours buying groceries every year.

And that study only looked at single people – we all know that family trips to the grocery store take a lot of more time and patience. Picking up groceries isn’t an exactly an easy job while you’re trying to keep an eye on your children at the same time.

How Can Meal Delivery Kits Help?

Are you fed up with spending hours and hours coming up with new recipes, picking out groceries, and trying to calm down your kids in the grocery store? While people often like to say “there’s no ultimate solution for anything” in this, there actually is.

Since so many people hate to cook and don’t have enough time to do their grocery shopping each week, meal delivery services have rose to prominence in the last couple of years.

In addition to taking grocery shopping completely out of the equation, meal services can also help you:

• Stop recipe-guessing

As far as we’re concerned, there are exactly two types of people in this world: the ones who look for new recipes all the time and the ones who stick to the same few recipes month after month. Well, both types can benefit from using a meal delivery service.

Every meal kit comes with a new recipe. On one hand, if you like trying new things out, you can easily explore new dishes without having to guess what you are going to like. Many services accomplish this by giving you a quiz which narrows down the type of meals that suit your taste.

• Wasting time on prep

If you don’t like cooking that much, you probably spend a few hundred dollars monthly on takeout meals. That’s not only costly but also pretty unhealthy – especially if you have young children. Frozen dinners are a cheaper option, but they aren’t all that  healthy either.

People who don’t have enough time cook their meals should definitely look into meal delivery. Services like Sun Basket and Home Chef – more on them later – deliver healthy dishes that you can prepare and serve in less than half an hour.

• Clean up the kitchen quicker

Possibly the worst part of cooking is the cleanup that comes after a meal. Let’s face it – no one likes having to put things back in their place, clean the dishes, and throw the leftovers away. Meal delivery companies know just how mundane all of this is, so they make an effort to minimize your job.

Meal kits package their ingredients in recyclable containers. So after your done with your meal, you can simply throw them in the recycling bin. That means, by using meal delivery kits, you won’t have to worry about spending an hour cleaning up after every meal.

In order to help you make the right choice, we’ve ordered and tasted a couple of different meal kits to see which of them truly deliver…

Five Best Meal Delivery Kits

1. Home Chef

While the company is still relatively new, in short five years of existence, Home Chef increased their subscriber base immensely. At the moment, they deliver more than 1.5 million meals to their customers on a monthly basis. The company has built its reputation of the quality of the ingredients they deliver to your front door and the delicious recipes that even the inexperienced cooks can prepare.

2. Sun Basket

People who are looking for soy-, dairy-, and gluten-free food should look into Sun Basket. Their “Family Menu” was created by the famed Food Network chef, Tyler Florence. This particular menu can feed a family of four and can help your children learn new skills in the kitchen as they help you prepare meals such as carne asada fajitas.

3. Martha & Marley Spoon

The third service on our list is the only one that not available nation-wide. However, if you live in any one of the five NYC boroughs, you should try Martha & Marley Spoon out. You can choose between 2, 3, and 4 meals per week. All of the meals come with safely packed, labeled ingredients and step-by-step instructions.

4. Plated

By signing up for Plated, you’ll get access to more than 14 new meal options every week. The offering includes everything from peach/berry empanadas to buffalo chicken pizza. Plated offersorganic vegetables, sustainably sourced beef, and antibiotic-free chicken for all of you healthy eaters. The service has trained chefs on the staff, so you can be sure that every meal you order will be wonderful.

5. HelloFresh

If you’re looking to have some fun in the kitchen with the rest of your family, HelloFresh has got you covered. The HelloFresh app gives you audio and video tutorials that can help you and your children prepare a healthy meal together. Plus, the HelloFresh official Facebook page – which has more than 1.7 million likes at the moment – often streams live events.

The Bottom line on Meal Delivery Kits

No matter if you’re cooking only for you and your spouse or your whole family, one of these meal kits can help you save a ton of time. Of course, before you make your pick, make sure to additionally research every single one of the services we listed .

We hope you found writing interesting and our tips useful. As always, if you have any additional questions, feel free to leave a comment in the comment section below and one of our staff members will answer it as soon as possible.

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Suguna Vinodh

I'm Suguna Vinodh aka Kannamma. I love south Indian food and I am passionate about baking. My Favorite things include my Wusthof knife, Coffee, Ilayaraja, Tamil and beaches. I love Jacques Pepin and Julia Child.

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Comments

  1. Ajith says

    May 26, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    Are these in India?

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    • Suguna Vinodh says

      May 30, 2018 at 11:19 am

      Meal delivery kits are available in select cities in India too!

      Reply
  2. Lalitha Shankar says

    May 23, 2018 at 7:36 pm

    The post is well written , but, I am afraid where we are heading to!!!! In one side, the world is going for strawberry picking,cherry picking and apple picking and the other side, everything gets home delivered 🙁
    Our children will never know how to go to a vegetable vendor(with a bag) , choose the vegetables, feel them touch them know the rates and buy them 🙁 ….No offense against you Suguna! Just a thought!

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