Have we discussed mail-order meals?

[redpoint5]

Winco doesn't have Yumm sauce anymore, either. Now the only place I would know to check is Roths.

Maybe there's a good recipe for recreating your own Yumm sauce online...

[Piotrsko]

Dual answer: the online yumm sauce recipes are close but not quite it. Typical online solution.

Grocery warehouse is a opportunity buy for overruns with some staples being done locally. My experiences: if you like what they have, you need to get a bunch because it may not return. We have three here, all different stock including the two owned by the same couple

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Xist

I saw some instructions for making your own MREs, but they just shoved junk food into a Ziploc bag.

Well, it would be quite pointless to pour the content of a can of feijoada into a Ziploc bag, unless a can opener would be unavailable such as onboard of an airliner.

MREs are at least made from food, even if it isn't tasty food, or if it doesn't still resemble it.

Exhibit A: Wheat Snack Bread:

It isn't wheat, it isn't a snack, and it isn't bread, but as long as it is unwrapped, you can sit or step on it without damaging it, and it will last until peace breaks out.

You can't do that with wonder bread.

I guess it wouldn't be much of an issue in the field, unless you'd want to have a hot-dog out of that Ersatzbrot and some canned sausages...

It seems weird to pack dry food when you need to pack water to compensate, but it lasts longer that way.

Even weirder in case the water supply is not so reliable at the place where the dry food is supposed to be rehydrated prior to being finally eaten.

They have soups and stews, but I have never seen ready-to-eat pouches in a grocery store, just camping suppliers.

Sure you won't find fine-dining supplies in a single-serving can, but I guess we're not talking about that "glamping" trend.

[Xist]

The only warehouse stores anywhere near me are Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe's, but if Dollar Tree has a great deal, buy them out.

You will never see it again, some clown will buy them out.

[Xist]

...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.

[redpoint5]

I went out last night and it basically cost a hundred bucks for fish and chips for 2. $25 for the baby sitter who always returns the baby naked after 90 minutes because she thought the baby was too hot, in a 69 degree house. The rest is 2 meals and 2 beers.

Still don't get meal delivery. It costs a bunch per calorie, you don't get what you want, and you've still got to prepare everything and wash the dishes, which is the hard part. As I said, Safeway will grab all the groceries you order for free and plop it into the trunk. Nothing fresher than straight from the grocery store, unless you're picking it from your garden.

I'm still eating my way through food from last year. I think all that's left is lil-smokies and a cheese ball.

Taco soup is a favorite since it's easy, and you make a ton so you can eat it for lunch all week.

My morning routine is to clean the kitchen. In the afternoon when I reheat something for lunch I tidy up the kitchen. In the evening I clean the kitchen. All I do is work, forum, and clean the kitchen. Eating is a colossal waste of time, and someone's got to do something about it, and wasteful meal delivery service isn't the solution. I need something like an insulin pump that meters precisely what I need, and all I do is change out cartridges or something.

[Xist]

Vegetable smoothies and protein shakes?

Only one of those meals had green beans and they seemed normal enough.

[freebeard]

Sounds all healthful and everything. I'm drinking Pepeprmint Mocha Almond Milk coffee creamer cut with Tonic Water.

[Piotrsko]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Sounds all healthful and everything. I'm drinking Pepeprmint Mocha Almond Milk coffee creamer cut with Tonic Water.

That's intentionally or is it desperation? Definitely cant contemplate the combination of flavors

[freebeard]

Experimentalism.

I tend to cut various juice drinks with Tonic Water (for the quinine). Watermelon juice or whatever is on the shelves where I do my hunting and garthering.