Blue Apron

A few days ago I blogged about my Girl Scout Mom Time.  One of the topics we discussed was cooking.  One mom said, "I don't cook."  Which I love.  I love this because it's a chance for me to ask questions about how other people eat.  I'm always interested in other people's diets because everyone always seems so interested in mine--like it's totally exotic and I cook strange things strange way.  Oh, and I cook.  Everyone always assumes I cook a lot.  I'm realizing this isn't really so true.  "I don't cook" mom, does, in fact, cook.  I think people associate "cook" with "prepare elaborate meals every night".  I think very few people actually do this.  I know I don't.  I cook most night, but there are always a few nights a week (sometimes more) when I take the lazy route. Like last night (grilled cheese and tomato soup) and tonight (vegetable soup my mom made a few weeks ago and is not in my freezer).  But I do one thing a lot of people don't and that's menu plan. I learned this from my mother. I can remember her sitting at the kitchen table with a list and her recipe cards and cook books surrounding her.  She'd plan the menu for the week, make a grocery list and shop for the week.  So this is what I've been doing since I moved out on my own. (Not, of course, when I lived in the Phi Mu house.  Jackie Chan cooked my pink chicken and crack brownies then!) I need to do this now.  I need to look at the week's activities and plan what I'm going to cook each night so I don't have a night where I'm going to arrive home at 5:30 after haircuts and need to have a meal on the table.  Or the opposite, where I need to be somewhere at 5:30 and I need a meal that is quick to clean up.  Anyway, back to "cooking".  I have no idea how this became a topic of conversation, but last weekend was Ellie's birthday party and my brother in law started telling us about Blue Apron.  (He was actually supposed to write this post.  When he was talking about it and showing the page I kept encouraging him to open blogger and just write his thoughts down--didn't take.) Blue Apron.  Great idea, perfect for his family, not great for ours, but worth sharing alway.  In a nutshell: It's a subscription service that will send you all the fresh ingredients to cook a meal.

It looks really interesting, but as it says, families of 4.  It might be worth a try to just do the vegetarian options and do 2 people.  Then I won't have to worry about creating a veg dinner for Liv and I every night.  Cost?

Other question:

Looks interesting.  The price looks like a lot, but really, for fresh ingredients and a healthy meal, it's not too bad.  When you don't have to go to the store your'e not going to throw stuff in the cart because "that looks good!" or because the little people that shop with me toss stuff in there all the time that I don't realize until it's too late.

I love the concept!  The cool thing is you get the recipe too, so if it's something you love, you can always make it again and again.  My brothers in law love it.  Check out the site.  It shows hundreds of their recipes and has many more detail.