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> But store meals required purchasing food in larger quantities than necessary (think a 12-pack of hamburger buns for a two-person meal). This is the key, and
by bfrydl 7y ago
> But store meals required purchasing food in larger quantities than necessary (think a 12-pack of hamburger buns for a two-person meal).
This is the key, and one of the reasons I love Blue Apron. The meals come in such exactly portioned amounts that the only thing left when I'm done eating is the packaging. There is zero food waste, ever. (Incidentally, this makes an effective weight-loss diet if your problem is overeating like me.)
That being said, I wonder if Blue Apron would still come out ahead of home cooking if you did not attempt to make the same meals but instead more typical home cooked meals. Blue Apron recipes on average are more varied and have more ingredients than what a person would normally cook, so I wonder if the extra food waste is more a consequence of trying to reproduce them.
- craftyguy 7y agoFreezers are a thing.
- jbob2000 7y agoThere's an energy cost to keep food frozen for weeks or months at a time. It's common for houses to have multiple fridges and freezes, you wouldn't need to do this if food was delivered when you wanted to eat.
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- lostmsu 7y agoDo you think many users of that service sell their fridges?
- jjeaff 7y agoHaving more stuff in your freezer actually costs less. Due to the higher thermal mass that takes longer to warm up when the freezer is off. So if more food delivery means less stuff in the freezer, it's going to take more energy. And let's be honest, no one is going to ditch their freezer entirely for something like blue apron.
- jbob2000 7y agoMy brother just moved into an apartment and wants to get a chest freezer so he can store more frozen food. But there's really nowhere to put it, so he has to go out grocery shopping more often then not. People who already have freezers won't ditch them, why get rid of something that works. This will be a generational change - younger generations will never get secondary freezers because they'll be big consumers of meal kits.
- slowmovintarget 7y agoOne good snowstorm or something else that interrupts delivery... No food for your family. Seems like it makes society more brittle. Kind of like internet everything.