Cook Of The House

Day 48 (413) – February 17, 2019

Fresh – Sunday Stills / Contrast – One Word Sunday / Optional – FOWC / Color – RDP / Quest – WODC

I like to cook.  I think I do a decent job at it.  If you have been following me for awhile, you might remember this as it is something I talk about infrequently. Although if you go back to my Thanksgiving post you would see that I take it pretty seriously. That I tend to turn it in to quite the quest. That is, when I do cook.  Which use to be very rare as in order to cook you need ingredients, and in order to get ingredients you have to figure out what you need and then go to the store to get these items.  That is just was too much work.  Give me a can a can opener, a frozen pizza and a warm oven, a box of spaghetti and a jar of marinara, or the telephone and a phone number (to the closest carry-out.)  For the past few months I have been testing a bunch of the home meal delivery services out there.  For those of you not in the states, if you don’t know, this is a dinner/lunch program where you can choose 2 – 4 meals for 2 – 4 people a week, and they will deliver those meals with fresh ingredients that week.  You can opt in/out anytime, you can skip weeks for any reason, and with some you can choose some optional add-ons. It really isn’t a bad gig.  Except when you are like me and are juggling 6 different services. You have to remember who is delivering what, when, and to skip the week for at least 4 of the 6.  This is my limit, you can do whatever you want.  It really started as a simple pilot program where I wanted to test all of them to ultimately choose one that I would stick with.  Problem is they all have their positives and negatives.  And one may not have anything I like, so if I chose that one, I would probably be skipping more than I would be getting, completely defeating the purpose.  I mean I am dealing with some serious shit here.  As you probably have figured I have yet to cancel any of the services and am currently juggling the 6 (there are 2 I have yet to try but want to.  They make it really easy by offering great discounts for your first two boxes with the hopes of sucking you in.  Something that, admittedly, worked on me.) Each program has their own price range as well.  When money is tight I can just focus on the more economical services.  It really isn’t a bad gig, as long as you remember to skip weeks as soon as you can, otherwise you could end up with a loaded refrigerator and a lighter wallet.  At least the food is fresh and as long as you can follow directions, your culinary skills will have you cooking like a rockstar!  I can dream can’t I?

Dinner is served.

Scheduling the month

Look What I Found

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