Hi! Tired father of a two year old here! I’m the primary caretaker of our daughter after preschool ends at 2:30. My wife and I both work during the day and really struggle with finding the time to make dinner at the end of a long work day. Does anyone have any recommendations on meal box services that aren’t overly complicated? We tried Green Chef and another one which I can’t remember, and while we liked the idea of cooking at home more, the recipes were too time intensive for one of us to be in the kitchen while the little one is running around the house. I often found their prep/cook time estimates to be incredibly inaccurate. Usually add on 15 additional minutes to what they quoted on the recipe cards.
Are there any other services out there that are more simple in their prep? Bonus difficulty, I’m a carnivore and she’s a pescaterian who hates anything with carbs. I don’t require meat for every meal, but like it from time to time.
I’m sure most parents here will understand the delicate dance that is walking the dog at 4, start dinner at 5, bath at 6:30, bed by 7:30.
The only experience I had was Hello Fresh back during lockdowns. I also found myself taking longer to cook the dishes than they quoted. Hopefully someone else has more experience and can add some suggestions, but while looking around I saw that there are some services that are more ‘open and heat up’ than cooking. Maybe that could work for the busiest days of the week?
You also might have already come across this, but I browsed this article on pc mag to see what’s out there now.
Factor? It’s fresh made ready meals, basically like meal prep but someone else does the prepping. Then you just heat it up. You could each choose your own meals.
Or tbf, you could do meal prep on the weekends. One person takes the kid for a walk and the other just cooks for an hour or two and puts everything in the freezer.