My daughter thought it was weird 'getting our dinner in The Post'.
It actually came via courier, in a cardboard box with a cooler bag & packs which I can reuse plus mostly recyclable packaging. Eggs were each in their own tiny box with some shredded paper for padding.
Its supposed to be for a family I ordered so I'm presuming 2 adults and 2 children. I didn't see the number of people on it. They have options for a single person or a couple also.
https://dropchef.com/sign-up/
It would have cost €83.40 full price @ €6.95 per person for 3 days worth of dinners. It's subscription-based, but you can pause and restart it anytime. In a Community Centre, I worked in subsidised meals cost €7, that's with tea and scones around 11 and tea, dessert, cake and biscuits after. The Dropchef meal just includes the ingredients for your meal and a recipe card. They have red wine and a white you can add on for €9.99 too.
I didn't execute it very well the first night. Someone visited in the evening, and I was slightly embarrassed about getting my dinner delivered, so I hid it. He had been there another day when I had food delivered from the Supermarket to The Organic Farmers house. I was attempting to be more efficient.
They start joking about me 'Not even wanting to go to the shop now' .I'm not sure what he'd make of this. This is rural Ireland so generally, if you want food you have to go get it yourself, inner-city Dublin they would probably take no notice. He was distracted by whatever topic of conversation that was going on. I got away with. See how grown up I am?
By the time he had left my daughter had been dropped back after football, and I started prepping with frequent check-ins from both of them. I hate people looking at me doing things in the kitchen especially if I'm not sure what I'm doing. The first recipe was Vietnamese Meatballs -I had presumed they would come made and I would just have to cook them. They didn't. I made many tiny ones instead of two golfball sized ones as suggested. The recipe had said put them in the oven. I had forgotten both his ovens weren't working. Frying pan it is. Rice Noodles came with it. My daughter thought they looked like a bag of cable ties. I over boiled them. The Organic Farmer liked the meatballs but not the noodles, bread was had with them. My daughter must have got a lump of chilli pepper in her first bite. It was a no from her. She had my back up a portion of pasta with a stir in.
My cooking is hit and miss anyway so usually there's maybe one new thing and the rest is familiar, well-liked. Then if we can't eat my creation, we just eat the rest. I try not to waste food as it's like throwing time and money in the bin. I console myself that it does feed the birds. I throw it far out into the field and so far have had no other visitors for it.
The next day went better. I cooked up both meal options that were left. The Organic Farmer suggested using the grill as a mini oven. I took out the grill tray, turned it on and closed the door. I had marinaded the chicken earlier and only used some of the chillies and peppers suggested in the recipe. They will eat them, not loads. I baked the salmon in the grill oven using my own herbs as The Organic Farmer doesn't love the sundried pesto that came with it. I put it on on the table with the wraps, veg and new potatoes that were for the salmon meal and we picked whatever we wanted. This worked better. There's enough left for today, maybe we were greedy when it was all out. The portions will be small. We are going to lunch today so small is good. I'll be using the extras left over for a curry tomorrow. I think the I'll keep the recipe cards, they will give me ideas I can adapt. I think tis a far cry from Jack Monroes living on £10 a week for food but it is an option for people who are cash rich and time poor. They essentially save you the shopping and thinking the time of what to cook. In theory, there should be no waste as you get exactly what is required, so that is money saving if you generally overbuy or throw things away due to spoilage.
I have photos of my attempt, but my phone won't let me upload so I'll be adding that later
Dropchefs Photo
Ahem, what I did to it...
It actually came via courier, in a cardboard box with a cooler bag & packs which I can reuse plus mostly recyclable packaging. Eggs were each in their own tiny box with some shredded paper for padding.
Its supposed to be for a family I ordered so I'm presuming 2 adults and 2 children. I didn't see the number of people on it. They have options for a single person or a couple also.
https://dropchef.com/sign-up/
It would have cost €83.40 full price @ €6.95 per person for 3 days worth of dinners. It's subscription-based, but you can pause and restart it anytime. In a Community Centre, I worked in subsidised meals cost €7, that's with tea and scones around 11 and tea, dessert, cake and biscuits after. The Dropchef meal just includes the ingredients for your meal and a recipe card. They have red wine and a white you can add on for €9.99 too.
I didn't execute it very well the first night. Someone visited in the evening, and I was slightly embarrassed about getting my dinner delivered, so I hid it. He had been there another day when I had food delivered from the Supermarket to The Organic Farmers house. I was attempting to be more efficient.
They start joking about me 'Not even wanting to go to the shop now' .I'm not sure what he'd make of this. This is rural Ireland so generally, if you want food you have to go get it yourself, inner-city Dublin they would probably take no notice. He was distracted by whatever topic of conversation that was going on. I got away with. See how grown up I am?
By the time he had left my daughter had been dropped back after football, and I started prepping with frequent check-ins from both of them. I hate people looking at me doing things in the kitchen especially if I'm not sure what I'm doing. The first recipe was Vietnamese Meatballs -I had presumed they would come made and I would just have to cook them. They didn't. I made many tiny ones instead of two golfball sized ones as suggested. The recipe had said put them in the oven. I had forgotten both his ovens weren't working. Frying pan it is. Rice Noodles came with it. My daughter thought they looked like a bag of cable ties. I over boiled them. The Organic Farmer liked the meatballs but not the noodles, bread was had with them. My daughter must have got a lump of chilli pepper in her first bite. It was a no from her. She had my back up a portion of pasta with a stir in.
My cooking is hit and miss anyway so usually there's maybe one new thing and the rest is familiar, well-liked. Then if we can't eat my creation, we just eat the rest. I try not to waste food as it's like throwing time and money in the bin. I console myself that it does feed the birds. I throw it far out into the field and so far have had no other visitors for it.
The next day went better. I cooked up both meal options that were left. The Organic Farmer suggested using the grill as a mini oven. I took out the grill tray, turned it on and closed the door. I had marinaded the chicken earlier and only used some of the chillies and peppers suggested in the recipe. They will eat them, not loads. I baked the salmon in the grill oven using my own herbs as The Organic Farmer doesn't love the sundried pesto that came with it. I put it on on the table with the wraps, veg and new potatoes that were for the salmon meal and we picked whatever we wanted. This worked better. There's enough left for today, maybe we were greedy when it was all out. The portions will be small. We are going to lunch today so small is good. I'll be using the extras left over for a curry tomorrow. I think the I'll keep the recipe cards, they will give me ideas I can adapt. I think tis a far cry from Jack Monroes living on £10 a week for food but it is an option for people who are cash rich and time poor. They essentially save you the shopping and thinking the time of what to cook. In theory, there should be no waste as you get exactly what is required, so that is money saving if you generally overbuy or throw things away due to spoilage.
I have photos of my attempt, but my phone won't let me upload so I'll be adding that later
Dropchefs Photo
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