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Anyone heard of this?
I just came across it last week and, by coincidence, I got a message from my son that a delivery was coming before 09:26...
Well it did, and it was a heavy box, full of all the measured ingredients to cook three meals for two people.....
Very impressive....so far!
You then get the pleasure of sending a box to three friends, for the princely cost of £39.00.
Your meals cost £6.90 each and you still have to cook them!
So, in fact the cost of your box is, in truth £19.50 and you are paying for the free ones.
I wonder how many people will never order again, as I won't be doing so!
I can't imagine the economics involved but I guess they make a small profit from the first three orders and are then looking for future orders
at £39.00 to make a real profit.
It reminds me of those stupid "Graze" boxes of nuts, dried fruit and other nibbles, that you can have delivered daily to your work place.
The reality is that you can buy chilled meals from a supermarket, for a fraction of the cost, and even takeaways are little more, if at all.
I just came across it last week and, by coincidence, I got a message from my son that a delivery was coming before 09:26...
Well it did, and it was a heavy box, full of all the measured ingredients to cook three meals for two people.....
Very impressive....so far!
You then get the pleasure of sending a box to three friends, for the princely cost of £39.00.
Your meals cost £6.90 each and you still have to cook them!
So, in fact the cost of your box is, in truth £19.50 and you are paying for the free ones.
I wonder how many people will never order again, as I won't be doing so!
I can't imagine the economics involved but I guess they make a small profit from the first three orders and are then looking for future orders
at £39.00 to make a real profit.
It reminds me of those stupid "Graze" boxes of nuts, dried fruit and other nibbles, that you can have delivered daily to your work place.
The reality is that you can buy chilled meals from a supermarket, for a fraction of the cost, and even takeaways are little more, if at all.
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dont know why you call Graze stupid - great marketing as now in Boots stores - and smaller variety bags and packets now in waitrose sainsbury ocado WH Smith, sublime product placement ... all off the back of the original angle....
It is indeed a great marketing idea, but that doesn't mean it's good for the consumer, who is clearly subsidising the "free" one to a recommendee!
The point I was making is that, as you say, you can buy what you want, from retail outlets, without paying for postage and subsidies to your friends boxes!
Ok....back on topic if we may....
I had the first of the meals yesterday...."Korean Beef Bulgogi" with "Ginger Stir-Fried Broccoli".
This, they say, is so popular that it's almost a national dish!
Looking at the photo, and with the knowledge that the main flavours would come from just Garlic, Ginger and Soy Sauce.
I wasn't expecting much and I was right!
If I had cobbled this up, from just available ingredients, I wouldn't have been congratulating myself.
Tonight I will be turning the second helping into a Biryani, and it will be much better for it.
I had the first of the meals yesterday...."Korean Beef Bulgogi" with "Ginger Stir-Fried Broccoli".
This, they say, is so popular that it's almost a national dish!
Looking at the photo, and with the knowledge that the main flavours would come from just Garlic, Ginger and Soy Sauce.
I wasn't expecting much and I was right!
If I had cobbled this up, from just available ingredients, I wouldn't have been congratulating myself.
Tonight I will be turning the second helping into a Biryani, and it will be much better for it.
Korean beef bulgogi ...?
dogs come to mind.
I'd avoid that one.
dogs come to mind.
I'd avoid that one.
Well, the Biryani was pretty good and a vast improvement on the "Bulgog" )wonder if that should be "Bulldog").
Tonight I'm having the "Pan-Seared Sea Bass" with New Potatoes and Cucumber-Dill Relish.
Will report on this tomorrow.....
Tonight I'm having the "Pan-Seared Sea Bass" with New Potatoes and Cucumber-Dill Relish.
Will report on this tomorrow.....
have they got a pulled pork dish.
Pulled pork was big a few months ago but seems to have waned.
Pulled pork was big a few months ago but seems to have waned.
They're a fckin rip off. I tried Gousto, which is the same sort of thing. £27.49 for 4 servings of food (two meal, two servings). They basically charge you ridiculous money for tiny amounts of stock ingredients and even the cat turned her nose up at the turkey mince. One of their recipes I really fancied, so I managed to get hold of the recipe and bought the ingredients myself. I already had some so ended up spending about £3 on ingredients and I fed 4 with it.
£27 for 4 servings is scandalous. I can go to Wetherspoons Monday to Thursday and enjoy the follwing for the same money:
Monday - Big Mexican burrito stuffed with rice and veg and served with nachos and sour cream plus a pint
Tuesday - 8oz sirloin with chips, peas, tomato, flat mushroom and a pint
Wednesday - Chicken breast, spicy chicken wings, southern-fried chicken strips, BBQ sauce, honey glaze, made with Jack Daniel’s® Tennessee Honey, rice, salad and a pint
Thursday - Choice of curry, rice, naan bread, poppadums and a pint
All that for the same price is the stupid Gousto box. I know whose side I'm on.
£27 for 4 servings is scandalous. I can go to Wetherspoons Monday to Thursday and enjoy the follwing for the same money:
Monday - Big Mexican burrito stuffed with rice and veg and served with nachos and sour cream plus a pint
Tuesday - 8oz sirloin with chips, peas, tomato, flat mushroom and a pint
Wednesday - Chicken breast, spicy chicken wings, southern-fried chicken strips, BBQ sauce, honey glaze, made with Jack Daniel’s® Tennessee Honey, rice, salad and a pint
Thursday - Choice of curry, rice, naan bread, poppadums and a pint
All that for the same price is the stupid Gousto box. I know whose side I'm on.
Cannot understand why anyone would pay £39.00 for this, on a repeat basis, having already sampled a free one and what you get for the money.
£6.90 per meal and you still have to cook it!
I did the Sea Bass last night and what a ridiculous combination of ingredients!
Served with Cucumber and Red Onion and, for Christ's sake "Little Gem" lettuce!
Supposed to feed two people.
Now I'm not greedy but remove the items mentioned, which have no substance at all, and you get a little piece of fish and a few potatoes.
Wasn't worth keeping the second portion so I ate the lot except for a few potatoes.
Tonight's dish is the one with the most substance, and should be fine, but who needs a recipe to make a Chilli?
"Spicy Sausage Chilli with Homemade Tortilla Chips"
Watch this space......
£6.90 per meal and you still have to cook it!
I did the Sea Bass last night and what a ridiculous combination of ingredients!
Served with Cucumber and Red Onion and, for Christ's sake "Little Gem" lettuce!
Supposed to feed two people.
Now I'm not greedy but remove the items mentioned, which have no substance at all, and you get a little piece of fish and a few potatoes.
Wasn't worth keeping the second portion so I ate the lot except for a few potatoes.
Tonight's dish is the one with the most substance, and should be fine, but who needs a recipe to make a Chilli?
"Spicy Sausage Chilli with Homemade Tortilla Chips"
Watch this space......
Well, as I thought, the chilli was the most substantial of the three, but whoever made a Chilli without Chillies?
Spices were just Smoked Paprika and Cumin and with Beef Stock.
Of course I added my own Chillies, but this meal is something I would cook, anytime, with available ingredients.
The Tortilla Chips is a rubbish idea.....cutting a soft brown Tortilla into wedges and oven at 200 degrees, with a sprinkle of oil,
and then calling them "homemade"!
They were inedible!
So it all comes back to stupid recipes, and £6.90 per meal, that you have to cook yourself!
The Sea Bass one cost £13.80 for just one meal.
To summarise, in one word, DIABOLICAL
Spices were just Smoked Paprika and Cumin and with Beef Stock.
Of course I added my own Chillies, but this meal is something I would cook, anytime, with available ingredients.
The Tortilla Chips is a rubbish idea.....cutting a soft brown Tortilla into wedges and oven at 200 degrees, with a sprinkle of oil,
and then calling them "homemade"!
They were inedible!
So it all comes back to stupid recipes, and £6.90 per meal, that you have to cook yourself!
The Sea Bass one cost £13.80 for just one meal.
To summarise, in one word, DIABOLICAL
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