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by return0 3349 days ago
It's a difficult problem, but food just takes too much of people's time. Something like a personalized service that brings you food according to your own nutritional schedule would be nice.
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I feel that a lot of people receive a lot of joy from selecting good food from a variety of options. I think with the immense popularity of websites/apps like Yelp, people are even more picky eaters than ever before. I think this makes a personalized food service incredibly difficult to appease a wide net of people and tastes while considering things like costs and logistics.

Of course the existence and popularity of something like Soylent goes against my assumptions. I imagine there are just people who value their time over enjoyment from food, as well as people who feel the opposite.

Also fitness enthusiasts are an entire category
- Don't eat for pleasure

- Only drink water

- Eat once a day

- Eat the same thing every day (mostly)

- Prepare all your meals once a week

If you ignore weekly grocery shopping and meal prepping, I spend less than 1 hour a day thinking about food, preparing food and eating food.

I feel the opposite. There's no shortage of startups trying to serve you every kind of food on the planet quickly and cheaply, but more often than not the enjoyment is in actually going out and spending some time at the restaurant or preparing a nice dish on your own
GoodFood is a Canadian company that does something like this. https://makegoodfood.ca/en/home