Delievery meals

[naughtybear]

I'm on a kick to declutter my whole life. It may sound strange but this is one way I am doing it. I have ordered Blue Apron, HelloFresh and Greenchef and I am really excited to get these boxes. I tend to overbuy and overeat and I am hoping this plus a little variety will get me excited to cook and eat healthier. I will let you know how these boxes are.


Some of you like your clothes subscriptions or make up or magazines this will be mine.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Jan 20, 2017 13:49:34 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

I'm on a kick to declutter my whole life. It may sound strange but this is one way I am doing it. I have ordered Blue Apron, HelloFresh and Greenchef and I am really excited to get these boxes. I tend to overbuy and overeat and I am hoping this plus a little variety will get me excited to cook and eat healthier. I will let you know how these boxes are.


Some of you like your clothes subscriptions or make up or magazines this will be mine.

This makes no sense.  You have no money to get your car rekeyed and your clutch fixed, but you spend money on a food subscription service that is going to cost you way more than buying food at the grocery store.  How do you rationalize this?

[naughtybear]

"I" don't need to rationalize it, you need to try to or want to rationalize it because you don't know or can't understand why I haven't done these things you mentioned. I have my reasons, not every post includes every detail but yes at that moment in time I did not have 110.00 to run out to get a key made and neither did I particularly want to tbh. So I didn't and I haven't and I am not sure I will and that is all the info you will get.  If ya didn't get it, it was purely a bitch post.

[Sam_2.0]

I am interested to see what you think of them

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

It wasn't a bitch post, Naggie.  As this is a MONEY site, it was a discussion as to why you would pay 10x more for a meal because it is easier.  

For me, if I had the choice of paying $30 for a single meal vs transportation, I'd be eating a much cheaper meal and making sure that I had reliable transportation.  Those are MY priorities, and I suspect that they'd not be dissimilar from many others on this site.  And as you have no key to your car, you are willing to risk your non functioning car being damaged, possibly irreparably, for $110.  Or if it is not damaged, if your complex decides not to take the risk and tow you, you not only have the tow fees, but the impound fees as well.  That is going to make $110 seem cheap.

We make judgments from the info that YOU post.  If you don't like 'em, whatever.  

[NoNamePerson]

Are you ordering all three or did I misread? Don't they come once a week? What is the costs for three? I'm just curious since just me and haven't taken time to research thoroughly. 

Curious how many meals you get from three services. 

[naughtybear]

Yes, they have all been ordered because they are all coming at different times. One is not coming until two weeks. I guess that is the schedule. All were ordered with the teaser rates and one will be chosen, I would not have ordered all three at once until I realized the delivery schedule enabled me to try them out at once and be able to choose the one I like.



Blue Apron is three meals a week for two, how ever there is one of me so I will have each meal twice which is no big deal because I have no problem having leftovers within reason.

I'll get back with you on the others have to double check but they do look delicious I must say. There is actually two more that I would like to try.


Mich, I am waiting on proceeds from the divorce settlement which will enable me to put a hefty down payment on a newcr but I can't do that until my chap 13 is discharged (around APR/MAY I imagine) So I have just been putting off fixing the truck because I have been managing without it, it's a matter of deciding whether to put 1000 into a truck when I have not decided exactly what I am doing with it but the key post was a bitch post, I have plenty of people that will buy that truck for 1250 as is, I'm just waiting for my hand to be forced by something if you know what I mean.

[obelisk]

Jan 20, 2017 13:49:34 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

I'm on a kick to declutter my whole life. It may sound strange but this is one way I am doing it. I have ordered Blue Apron, HelloFresh and Greenchef and I am really excited to get these boxes. I tend to overbuy and overeat and I am hoping this plus a little variety will get me excited to cook and eat healthier. I will let you know how these boxes are.


Some of you like your clothes subscriptions or make up or magazines this will be mine.

does your service have anything to do with the new tax payer program that pays for the delivery and associated costs?

whotv.com/2015/07/15/food-delivery-for-food-stamps/

If so it should give  you more time to find a tax paying job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[naughtybear]

Yes it does.

[Deleted]

Jan 20, 2017 21:26:21 GMT -5 obelisk said:

Does your service have anything to do with the new tax payer program that pays for the delivery and associated costs?whotv.com/2015/07/15/food-delivery-for-food-stamps/

If so it should give you more time to find a tax paying job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. I wouldn't have a problem with people using food stamps just for groceries from Amazon.com, including fresh produce, but I have very mixed feelings about meal delivery programs, including those where they supply ingredients and recipes. Now our tax dollars are paying for additional services, not just food. If you can't use EBT (formerly known as food stamp) cards in a restaurant, why should they be permitted for meal delivery services?

[NoNamePerson]

Jan 21, 2017 8:36:04 GMT -5 @athena53 said:

Jan 20, 2017 21:26:21 GMT -5 obelisk said:

Does your service have anything to do with the new tax payer program that pays for the delivery and associated costs?whotv.com/2015/07/15/food-delivery-for-food-stamps/

If so it should give you more time to find a tax paying job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. I wouldn't have a problem with people using food stamps just for groceries from Amazon.com, including fresh produce, but I have very mixed feelings about meal delivery programs, including those where they supply ingredients and recipes. Now our tax dollars are paying for additional services, not just food. If you can't use EBT (formerly known as food stamp) cards in a restaurant, why should they be permitted for meal delivery services?

I've checked into some of the meal delivery services and they are not cheap. I wonder how much in food stamps a person is getting to be able to afford the meals? I wonder if it is a state by state thing? Or is EBT a federal program?

But I posted this years ago. I took a neighbor to Walmart since her husband had just come home from hospital (cancer) and she didn't drive. I was behind her in checkout line. Was surprised that she used the EBT card. Had no idea but no biggie. She had gotten a rotisserie chicken and it wasn't covered. She did have the money to cover it. 

When I got to cashier I just casually remarked that I couldn't believe the chicken wasn't covered. Cashier said no (this was long ago so things may have changed) but said that she could go to the high end bakery we have and use it to buy pastry goods!! I didn't understand the logic of that at all. Yeah, I know people with EBT cards need cakes, etc. but excluding a chicken because it is "prepared food" Heck the cakes are prepared??

[Deleted]

Jan 20, 2017 21:26:21 GMT -5 obelisk said:

Jan 20, 2017 13:49:34 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

I'm on a kick to declutter my whole life. It may sound strange but this is one way I am doing it. I have ordered Blue Apron, HelloFresh and Greenchef and I am really excited to get these boxes. I tend to overbuy and overeat and I am hoping this plus a little variety will get me excited to cook and eat healthier. I will let you know how these boxes are.


Some of you like your clothes subscriptions or make up or magazines this will be mine.

does your service have anything to do with the new tax payer program that pays for the delivery and associated costs?

whotv.com/2015/07/15/food-delivery-for-food-stamps/

If so it should give  you more time to find a tax paying job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These are curated, specialty meals.  The "classic" plan at HelloFresh is $9.99 per meal per person before delivery.  It's nice that they are healthy, but this is out of the price range for most middle-class people, even those living alone or without children.  My husband and I couldn't afford to eat like this 3X a week.

I am bothered on so many levels.  And I'm the taxpayer that doesn't really care if the SNAP participant buys a bag of chips or a carton of soda.  

[tskeeter]

Jan 21, 2017 8:36:04 GMT -5 @athena53 said:

Jan 20, 2017 21:26:21 GMT -5 obelisk said:

Does your service have anything to do with the new tax payer program that pays for the delivery and associated costs?whotv.com/2015/07/15/food-delivery-for-food-stamps/

If so it should give you more time to find a tax paying job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. I wouldn't have a problem with people using food stamps just for groceries from Amazon.com, including fresh produce, but I have very mixed feelings about meal delivery programs, including those where they supply ingredients and recipes. Now our tax dollars are paying for additional services, not just food. If you can't use EBT (formerly known as food stamp) cards in a restaurant, why should they be permitted for meal delivery services?

You did see that this was a proposal, not a program that exists, right?  And that the operation providing the food and delivery service had to be a government agency or a not for profit, not one of the grocery subscription services of the type that naughty bear identified, right?  My interpretation is that this proposal is intended to assist physically impaired seniors who find it difficult to shop for themselves.

[zibazinski]

How are you able to qualify for food stamps? You're able bodied but choose not to work. 

[naughtybear]

Are you asking me how I qualify for food stamps?

[taz157]

Yes I believe so.

[naughtybear]

HAHAHAHH  JFC I felt all the heads exploding from here.


That post was so far out of left field I thought it was sarcasm so I responded with sarcasm. I don't think I have ever indicated on this board that I have received food stamps because I haven't. Have never even applied for them. So I don't even know what/why or the purpose of that post was about.


Ask him/her why they felt it was appropriate to post that in this thread.

[Deleted]

Jan 21, 2017 9:37:28 GMT -5 tskeeter said:

Jan 21, 2017 8:36:04 GMT -5 @athena53 said:

Wow. I wouldn't have a problem with people using food stamps just for groceries from Amazon.com, including fresh produce, but I have very mixed feelings about meal delivery programs, including those where they supply ingredients and recipes. Now our tax dollars are paying for additional services, not just food. If you can't use EBT (formerly known as food stamp) cards in a restaurant, why should they be permitted for meal delivery services?

You did see that this was a proposal, not a program that exists, right?  And that the operation providing the food and delivery service had to be a government agency or a not for profit, not one of the grocery subscription services of the type that naughty bear identified, right?  My interpretation is that this proposal is intended to assist physically impaired seniors who find it difficult to shop for themselves.

Actually, it does exist as a pilot program for zip codes in the Bronx.  link I did some other research because I was so appalled.

HAHAHAHH JFC I felt all the heads exploding from here.

That post was so far out of left field I thought it was sarcasm so I responded with sarcasm. I don't think I have ever indicated on this board that I have received food stamps because I haven't. Have never even applied for them. So I don't even know what/why or the purpose of that post was about.

Ask him/her why they felt it was appropriate to post that in this thread.

naughtybear I actually almost asked you the same thing.  You implied you were getting SNAP when you agreed with obelisk that your post was part of the government program he/she was talking about.  I only backed off because I figured you didn't live in the Bronx.  Lol.  So you didn't really know what you were talking about.

[naughtybear]

HAHA

I did click on it and saw that it was from 2015 but that is as far as I got. I was like ooookkkayyy !!! Not sure where this was supposed to go but I guess he/she had his/her reasons for posting it.

[Deleted]

I thought the same thing when you said "yes it does".  Obelisk was talking about food stamps paying for delivery of food. 

[naughtybear]

Jan 20, 2017 21:26:21 GMT -5 obelisk said:

Jan 20, 2017 13:49:34 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

I'm on a kick to declutter my whole life. It may sound strange but this is one way I am doing it. I have ordered Blue Apron, HelloFresh and Greenchef and I am really excited to get these boxes. I tend to overbuy and overeat and I am hoping this plus a little variety will get me excited to cook and eat healthier. I will let you know how these boxes are.


Some of you like your clothes subscriptions or make up or magazines this will be mine.

does your service have anything to do with the new tax payer program that pays for the delivery and associated costs?

whotv.com/2015/07/15/food-delivery-for-food-stamps/

If so it should give  you more time to find a tax paying job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, Obelisk indicated that I was getting food stamps, the post was so far out of left field that I thought it was sarcasm so I replied with sarcasm...my post "yes it does"

[Deleted]

Jan 21, 2017 10:51:27 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

Jan 20, 2017 21:26:21 GMT -5 obelisk said:

does your service have anything to do with the new tax payer program that pays for the delivery and associated costs?

whotv.com/2015/07/15/food-delivery-for-food-stamps/

If so it should give  you more time to find a tax paying job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, Obelisk indicated that I was getting food stamps, the post was so far out of left field that I thought it was sarcasm so I replied with sarcasm...my post "yes it does"

Giving false information is NOT sarcasm.

[naughtybear]

HAHA

It was sarcasm in my mind and I am so glad I was right about what I though would happen.

[Deleted]

Jan 21, 2017 11:15:16 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

HAHA

It was sarcasm in my mind and I am so glad I was right about what I though would happen.

so you are just trying to bait people into something? I am pretty sure that is called TROLLING!

[naughtybear]

Really, and you don't think that Obelisk post was  trolling? Think very carefully on that, very very carefully before you answer that. Read what they posted.

[Deleted]

Saying something then changing what you said based on people's reactions sounds so much like our special "snowflake".

[Deleted]

Jan 21, 2017 11:23:44 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

Really, and you don't think that Obelisk post was  trolling? Think very carefully on that, very very carefully before you answer that. Read what they posted.

No i don't think that was trolling. I read what he/she posted. Besides YOU started this thread, not Obelisk. If you will flat out lie, why even start it?

[naughtybear]

I'm so confused. I started a post on home delivery meals, to give information to those who may be looking into it on quality and ease. Nothing else. Obelisk came in out of left field with a link about food stamps and said that it would now give me time to get a tax paying job. I don't know what that had to do with my OP, I was offended that what I thought was a fun post on Blue Apron, Hello Fresh etc that Obelisk posted a link to food stamp recipients getting home deliveries of food and "that it should give me time to get a tax paying job"  What about this thread had anything to do with food stamps let alone telling me to get I need to "get a tax paying job" I don't get it. if you don't see the oddness in that, don't know what to tell ya.

[Deleted]

If people didnt know your history from your posts, they wouldnt make those comments. If you werent you and somebody said that, it would be odd.

[swamp]

I also thought you were saying you were on food stamps too.