Spent $200 on a fancy meal delivery kit and ended up eating cereal for a week

I signed up for Sunbasket thinking it would make me actually cook dinner instead of ordering pizza. Everything came pre-portioned but the instructions were like 12 steps per meal and I work until 7pm most nights. After three days I had a fridge full of wilting basil and forgot to cancel the second delivery. Has anyone else thrown money at a solution that just made life more complicated?

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jessica_dixon11d ago

Did you ever hear about that study that found meal kit delivery services actually end up creating more food waste than regular grocery shopping? I read it somewhere and it totally tracks with your story. It is so easy to forget that these kits are basically auditioning to be the next curated problem in your life. The basil is always a sad little memorial to your best intentions.

emma_mitchell11d ago

Oh man, that study flips everything I thought on its head. I used to be all for meal kits cause I figured they were better than letting a whole head of lettuce rot in my fridge. But thinking about it now, I can see how the packaging and the exact amounts could backfire. Like I'd get a kit with two tiny potatoes and if I didn't use them fast enough they'd sprout in the bag, whereas at the store I'd just grab one potato and be done. And yeah, that basil is a straight up tragedy every single time. Honestly, this makes me want to pay more attention to what actually gets wasted in my kitchen instead of just assuming a subscription fixes everything.