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[โ€“] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Aren't those meal kit boxes pretty simple? Helofresh

[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

The kit is fine. The problem here is actually turning the kit into food. Hot liquids, stove elements etc. suck a big one when vision/balance/grip strength is impaired. Remembering my mother when she started her final decline - all the elbows of her cardies were burned through where she'd brushed them too close to the stove element ... it amazed us all that she didn't get seriously burned but that was the point where she had to go into residential care to keep her away from the stove.

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

They're not really that simple, they do the planning and provide the ingredients but there is still a lot of actual cooking and chopping involved. They also don't do single meals, so you either need to work out how to divide it over a couple of nights cooking or have a lot of leftovers.