I guess 750kcal is a ton for small people or people whose diet strongly deviates from a standard diet. For a standard human near a 2000kcal/day diet, 500-500-1

I guess 750kcal is a ton for small people or people whose diet strongly deviates from a standard diet. For a standard human near a 2000kcal/day diet, 500-500-1000, 400-1000-600, 1000-600-400, are all normal and healthy meal breakdowns depending on which meal of the day a person goes bigger on. For someone who has a standard large lunch or large dinner, 750kcal is NO WHERE NEAR "a ton" but is rather an extremely healthy meal when we look at the breakdown of ingredients and their nutrients. Of course, the only portion control that truly matters is PERSONAL. If 750kcal is too much for you personally, it's your own responsibility to eat half of that meal and save the other half for a future meal. There, it's only 375kcal and twice the servings! "then I just go online and look around for some recipes and walk over to the store and grab something, or plan a day ahead and buy stuff for a couple of days ahead of time at 1/5th the cost and where I can better control for caloric intake." That's what we all did before Blue Apron. Then in 2 months of Blue Apron we'd tried dozens of new ingredients and cooking methods we'd never thought to try, that we'd never have picked off the internet, that our favorite food bloggers never wrote about, that our local grocery store never stocked. I admit the cost is very large and not a long term solution, but as an educational tool I have not found anything which gets remotely close to Blue Apron. And I love food bloggers, food Youtube, trendy cookbooks, and yet I still learn something new from every Blue Apron that I incorporate into my future diet plans. Plus, it's convenient to get perfectly portioned amounts of rare and expensive ingredients. If you have to shell out $15 for $2 worth of an ingredient -- you're not going to make that meal ever. Plus, some of the ingredients they send me are not found at local grocery stores and require planning and tripping to massive farmers markets and buying in large bulk. EDIT: https://www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites/default/files/usda_food_patterns/EstimatedCalorieNeedsPerDayTable.pdf https://www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites/default/files/usda_food_patt... Men 20-30 should be around 2000-2600 kcal a day on average depending on activity, and women should be 1600-2000 depending on activity on average. So perhaps women should consider eating only ~75% of a portion and giving their extra to a man, who could consider eating ~125% of a portion, to ensure that kcal goals for differing bodies are still met.