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One Meal Service Down; Try Again?

22 days ago
last modified: 22 days ago

Sixty years of making dinners. The old wife and her DH decided to try a meal delivery service. What a tangle!

It took us an hour by computer and phone to start an account with Factor. Cutting loose was another chore, and then they refused to stop sending the meals when we quit after the initial week. $200 down the drain -- the meals were rescued as a gift to a local charity, thanks to bpath finding a charity to take them.

The food was good quality, but I now realize that anything that arrives mostly cooked is not going to be great. Just because it's not frozen doesn't make much difference.

'Cons' were the heavy packaging -- a big box with two heavy gell packs of refrigerant top and bottom -- things we can't recycle. The meals come in typical plastic frozen dinner containers -- black ones, also not accepted by our recycling program. The boxes are in slide-off cardboard slips that provide instructions. The instructions are in 4-point type, requiring use of a magnifying glass. You're to heat two or three minutes then serve on a plate. Put this on a plate and you have ...mush. Close your eyes and it's tasty. (That's the 'pro' part.)

We cancelled, but were alerted the following week that 'our order' was coming in two days. There was no stopping it.

I put it to you, should we try another service? I'm thinking that the Tovala meals would be better, as you do *cook* those fresh. You have to accept their little oven though. A barrier. Why couldn't I just put them in my oven?

I don't want to have to prepare the dinners from a sack of ingredients, but I also don't want this partially cooked stuff that's not so different from frozen.

Advice welcome!

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