I'm an avid cook and a regular grocery shopper but I also get meals occasionally from a couple of services here in Canada. Getting together all of the ingredien

I'm an avid cook and a regular grocery shopper but I also get meals occasionally from a couple of services here in Canada. Getting together all of the ingredients for a meal -- many of which can only be bought in quantity, but might only be needed in very small amounts -- is much more of a nuisance and expensive than many estimate. And in the end the meal kit costs me around $40CAD for a 4 serving meal which is entirely reasonable. Which is why I think these services are doomed. I don't see how they can do it as inexpensively as they do. Really it's a remarkable value. And to many of the comments, one of the services here now has a selection of meals each week that are only available if you pick it up at a large grocery chain, that partnership being presumably how they're trying to reduce costs.