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Treat any activity like that!

Unfortunately I can’t choose not to play.

Using a service like HelloFresh or Marley Spoon can help greatly with getting comfortable with cooking!

It takes away two of the hurdles: Buying the right ingredients and knowing when to what during cooking.
So you can ease into it, learn the mechanical side and get experience.

My wife is an athlete and I am in the dugout.

Use LITTLESTINKER to get 30% off on your first order

Make some trial mix

I HATE SPORTS SO MUCH

Learning a sport? Cooking is an art handle It with finesse and never regret your fuck ups unless you burn your place down 💯 👌

I actually find hello fresh to be really wasteful

I think for a lot of people they learn “recipes” rather than “techniques”. You can make one dish, by following the recipe exactly but what if you don’t have one item? Genuine skills like proper seasoning, cook time, knife skills and flavor pairing are all thrown out the window bc HF can just ship you your meal of the week on a diesel truck. I get that not everyone wants to be a pro home cook, but you’re telling me buying chicken thighs from the store, seasoning them and serving them w roasted broccoli is too hard?

If you walk onto the court with “big naturals “, even better

• What meat do I buy?
• What vegetable goes well with that meat?
• How much of either do I buy?
• What kind of pan or pot do I use?
• What temperature setting do I use?
• Do I use oil or butter? Which kind? How much?
• Seasoning: When and how much?
• When do I put my meat in the pan and when do I take it out?
• Do I have to boil the vegetable first? If yes, how long?

You probably don't think about most of these questions because you already can cook, but someone whose highest culinary achievement is spaghetti with ketchup certainly will.

A lot of these questions get answered by a meal kit service.
And so you learn and gain experience.

Will it make you a great home cook? Probably not, but neither was that the topic of this thread nor did I imply it would.

Regarding waste: A meal kit saves waste, because you have exactly the right amount of food, so no leftovers.
If that diesel truck drives from HelloFresh to my door or to the supermarket (where you have to get it from somehow) is not that impactful imo.

Oh and knife skills? Do you think every dish from a meal kit comes pre cut?

Damn I got served on this one.