...but you wouldn't spend 60-90 minutes cooking.
How does the cost and time commitment compare to frozen meals?
The last time I baked a frozen lasagna it took over 2 hours, but was far larger than any of these meals, and I wasn't cooking the entire time.
How much more would these meal kits cost if they chopped vegetables for us or combined some of the 10-20 packets they send with each meal?
I have vastly too many things to do to spend all of this time cooking.
The other day I threw a HelloFresh meal in the pressure cooker.
I was sure it would be fine! 😃
It still took 10 minutes to open all of the packets and prepare all of the vegetables.
It was firecracker meatballs and we liked it, even though it didn't look great.
Mom had seconds and ate the leftovers the next day.
My family kept being high-maintenance when I needed to write paperwork. My brother keeps asking to go to the store and Mom won't take him.
Another time I hadn't eaten all day, I tried to find something for a quick lunch, but we didn't have any leftovers, and I received another box of meal kits the day before.
I finally opened it, and it seems to be owned by the same company.
It seems like all of these kits have a burger menu, which should be fast, right?
Right?!
Since these take forever I started looking for shortcuts. Instead of quartering, seasoning, and roasting the potatoes I threw them in the pressure cooker for 45 minutes, which probably took an hour total.
They were ready around when the burgers were finished!
All it said to do with the meat was season with salt and pepper, so what took so long?!
Besides needing to clean tons of stuff before I could cook.
Since the sink was so full of Mom's dishes that I couldn't wash anything I moved enough stuff out of the way to start washing.
Mom screamed and smacked me, but finally got bored.
One of Mom's many insane characteristics is that she will not allow dishracks (solutions to problems) in her house--nor does she dry or put away dishes.
There is a constant pile of once-clean dishes, but I always need to wash them before I can clean them again, so I washed, dried, and put away everything, cleaned a ridiculous amount of junk from the counter, washed Mom's cookie rack, laid the hand towel I was using on it, started washing everything remaining in the sink, and left it to dry on the hand towel on the cookie rack.
I didn't finish until 8!
All that I did that day was make and eat lunch and wash some dishes!
There were a ton left, but Mom stayed up late and cleaned them.
Then I was supposed to watch my brother while she went grocery shopping before driving down to see my girlfriend, but Mom napped after shopping, and since there weren't any leftovers when she left, after I finished my progress reports, and after my brother asked me to take him to the store, I made some creamy chicken sausage and kale cavatappi.
It looks nice, although I had concerns about the kale, and there were two big bags!
Apparently it was more pasta than anything else, 93 grams of carbohydrates per serving!
I finished in less than an hour, although it was supposed to take 40 minutes, and I didn't chop the two onions, I threw them in the blender!
How do I get onion flavor out of my blender?!
I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I crashed for 3 hours, and possibly lost my girlfriend.
My family refused to touch dinner.
I think that I will eat seconds at dinner. Sometimes I carbo-load when I cannot sleep.