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by throwaway422432 251 days ago
So we should be talking about autonomous delivery of mealkits: HelloFresh, Marley Spoon, Dinnerly, Blue Apron, etc?
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Aside from Blue Apron doing something of a reboot recently (and I wasn't wild about what they shipped me)--you don't hear much about the delivered meal kits for a variety of reasons. I know I don't care much for them--and it's not just cost.
It’s an incredibly narrow niche; those who want to cook at home but never progress past boxed ingredients.
At a fairly high price, with somewhat arbitrary company control over portion sizes, and locking you into typically two nights of next week’s menu. Many menu options I could replace with a lot of staple recipes from when I was going into office pretty much daily that would actually be faster from a combination of dry and frozen/preserved refrigerator ingredients.