The growing options for outsourcing meal
planning, grocery shopping and cooking can
be called time-saving blessings or culture-
destroying curses. In the end, they’re probably a
complicated mix of both.
The positive spin goes something like this:
Assuming you can afford it, you’ll save precious
time by clicking a few digital boxes and getting
someone else to choose your vegetables and
deliver your groceries.
No time to plan a meal? An ever-expanding list
of meal kit services including Blue Apron and
HelloFresh will send you premeasured ingredients
to whip up a variety of recipes — complete with
step-by-step, photo-enhanced instructions. All
that for around $8 to $10 per person.