Re:Meal Kits Have a Smaller Carbon Footprint Than Grocery Sh...
by 27182818284 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:21PM
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One of my biggest problems with meal kits was the huge amount of plastic waste with each one. Blue Apron was an example of this with little bottles of ketchup.
Look, I have ketchup already in my house. The meal kits need a way for you to check off the general staples like that. OK send me fermented garlic, but I have ketchup and vinegar don't waste the plastic sending me those.
It makes me wonder if there is just a lot better way of doing cookbooks. I know that Isa Chandra already has sections of her books for "a well-stocked pantry" that just gets you stocked up on the items that will be used and reused throughout her books (e.g., liquid smoke or tamari). Expanding off that idea and refactoring meal kits I think could really work in everyone's favor. Perhaps at a point in the subscription, you could just get larger items sent to you once that the kit provider knows will be used over and over in subsequent recipes since they're the planner.
Look, I have ketchup already in my house. The meal kits need a way for you to check off the general staples like that. OK send me fermented garlic, but I have ketchup and vinegar don't waste the plastic sending me those.
It makes me wonder if there is just a lot better way of doing cookbooks. I know that Isa Chandra already has sections of her books for "a well-stocked pantry" that just gets you stocked up on the items that will be used and reused throughout her books (e.g., liquid smoke or tamari). Expanding off that idea and refactoring meal kits I think could really work in everyone's favor. Perhaps at a point in the subscription, you could just get larger items sent to you once that the kit provider knows will be used over and over in subsequent recipes since they're the planner.