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To me, the highest cost of cooking for myself is planning and shopping. The value, therefore, is to offload the thinking, planning, and shopping part of this. T
by etep 11y ago
To me, the highest cost of cooking for myself is planning and shopping. The value, therefore, is to offload the thinking, planning, and shopping part of this. The prep and cleanup is actually fun and easy to fit into my schedule. Therefore, solid value prop and great idea.
Further, imo, the cost and packaging "waste" is nothing significant. When I shop for myself I still get packaging. Worse yet, a lot of food gets wasted anyway, i.e. because the grocery store doesn't sell me exactly as much food as I need, whereas Gobble does. I suspect this is actually more efficient, i.e. on all frontiers, especially given the waste I always generate from shopping for these ingredients.
- JTon 11y ago> To me, the highest cost of cooking for myself is planning and shopping I agree with shopping. But not so much with planning. Once you've been cooking for yourself for a couple months you can pretty much nail down a rotating meal plan that requires no substantial planning On the packaging waste, I was delving through the Gobble website and found out they offer a free "Return & Re-Use Program" [1] [1] https://gobble.com/faq https://gobble.com/faq
- etep 11y agoI think a better comparison is the planning it would take to get to the variety that Gobble offers. I've been on that rotating meal plan and it is pretty narrow in my experience. Every once in a while I find a new recipe, euphoria ensues, and then I spend two hours going to whole foods and trader joes - lesson learned, don't do that! I don't think it is you and I appreciate the honest comment, but from the other comments it seems that everyone here has mastered the art of fitting in the planning, shopping, prep, cooking, and cleaning. Truly amazing! Or simply surprising that they can't hypothesize about the poor folk like myself who just can't quite get there in their life.