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Meal Kits
It’s hard not to spend a lot of money on food in New York. Furthermore, if you’re in the city or in Queens, it’s hard to resist the urge to order in food all the time. Us New Yorkers are properly spoiled when it comes to meals. Literally, every type of food is at our finger tips— and not just restaurants from every culture around the world, but amazing restaurants. For $40 I can have a meal from any type of cuisine of my hearts desire in 30-40 minutes at my doorstep.
As a single person who lives alone, it’s real easy to fall into the habit of ordering food. I do like to cook and I’m pretty good at it, but I’m often away for gigs or visiting family and I just don’t go to the grocery store enough. It wasn’t actually until I was in Portugal when I realized just how much money I was spending on food. Since, in Portugal, the food is so much cheaper.
Being a broke person for a long time made me savvy, however. And what I’ve been doing for a few months now is signing up for meal kit services with their promo codes and then after two boxes I cancel my subscription. I’ve gone through Hello Fresh, Factor, Freshly and Blue Apron. Factor and Freshly meals were frozen, microwave dinners (which are great for me when I’m working multiple jobs in one day). Factor is superior to Freshly, in my opinion. Hello Fresh and Blue Apron are very similar. Both provide easy meals to make that are healthy and tasty.
Doing this has saved me a bunch of money. And I already canceled my Blue Apron and will try another service next (haha). I recommend doing this. I even recommend keeping the subscriptions as well. It’s actually too much food for me to make/eat as a solo person to keep deliveries going every week. But if you’re coupled up or have a family I think it’s a great way to skip the store and learn how to cook meals you would have never cooked otherwise.
One of my initial concerns about the meal kit delivery services was the amount of plastic waste. I try to be as conscientious as possible when it comes to reducing my carbon footprint. And with the meal kits there are lots of ingredients wrapped in tiny containers.
However, last year I was at party in Brooklyn where there was a young woman in grad school who was doing her thesis on reducing plastic waste. She told me that the meal kits are actually a great way of saving waste, because it ends up cutting out multiple middle men/stages that require unpacking and repacking. She went into further detail but I was drinking heavily that night so I only remember the highlights. She was super smart and also pretty cute and a lesbian which made my then boyfriend nervous because he thought I might leave the party with her instead of him (haha).
With Blue Apron, I ran into a little problem. I had signed up via Facebook and Facebook automatically filled in my former address of my childhood home on Long Island. On that Saturday I was anticipating the box, I was very excited because I was going to cook all three meals and prep my fridge with lunches for the whole week. I had a busy upcoming week because I was going to be at Fox News every day writing for Gutfeld. Alas, I got a text message from my old neighbor, telling me her neighbor in my old house got my Blue Apron box.
Goddamnit.
Blue Apron did credit me and I had my brother go pick up the box so he and my cosmic sister in law could enjoy it. I later got a different box from Blue Apron. Cooking is therapeutic and I like to play good music while letting my mind wander and unwind. Of course, their meals take around a half hour to make and less than ten minutes to consume, but they are healthy and tasty meals (and I often don’t follow the directions exactly and they still come out good).
See? Sometimes my blog is informative! At risk of lecturing you, reader, I always encourage people to mind what you put in your body. Trust me, I’m a sweet tooth fiend and rarely pass up dessert. But portion control is everything. Avoid fried foods. Your body is your house. Don’t fill your house with toxins. Unless that toxin is booze (I’m kidding… sort of). But seriously, COVID is never going away. We are going to live with it forever. It’s going to mutate and adapt and we’ll figure out ways to fight it. Hands down, though, the best thing you can do for yourself is eat healthy.
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