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What Did I Learn from the Meal Delivery Kit Review Series?

This post contains affiilate links. For more information, see our advertising disclosure. As most of you know, for the past month, we’ve been trying out the many “meal-in-a-box” type delivery kits.  Having tried five of the leaders in this increasingly congested field, here are my takeaways.  If you can, you’re still better off just shopping […]

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Meal Delivery Review Series: Freshly

This is the fifth and final article in a series on “Meal Delivery Kits”.  Read my first article on Hello Fresh, second article on Green Chef, third article on Plated, fourth article on Blue Apron, or scroll on to see my experience with Freshly.  We made it! Our final article in the meal delivery kit series, […]

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Three Simple But Tasty Make-Ahead Lunches

Since we’ve been on our meal-delivery kit kick, I’ve been relieved of having to do my normal meal planning for dinner times, but that has come with one small flaw: we usually use our dinner leftovers for weekday lunches, but with meal delivery kits there aren’t any leftovers. So, after a couple weeks of sandwiches, I decided it […]

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Meal Delivery Review Series: Blue Apron

This is the fourth article in a series on “Meal Delivery Kits”.  Read my first article on Hello Fresh, second article on Green Chef, third article on Plated, or scroll on to see my experience with Blue Apron.  Guess who just wrapped up another meal delivery kit? This time, it’s Blue Apron. As with the others, […]

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Review of Plated, a part of our Meal Delivery Series
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Meal Delivery Review Series: Plated

This is the third article in a series on “Meal Delivery Kits”.  Read my first article on Hello Fresh, second article on Green Chef, or scroll on to see my experience with Plated. Please note: Plated advertises on Mrs. Millennial, but that doesn’t affect our review.  Post contains affiliate links. Another week, another meal delivery kit! This […]

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Meal Delivery Review Series: Green Chef

This is the second article in a series on “Meal Delivery Kits”.  Read my first article on Hello Fresh, or scroll on to see my experience with Green Chef.  So, for our second meal delivery kit, we received another free box through a friend to try Green Chef. Once again, I’ll review them on a […]

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Meal Delivery Review Series: Hello Fresh

Today marks my first post in a new series on some of the most popular meal delivery services out there. If you’re new to this concept, companies like Blue Apron, Plated, Hello Fresh, and many others will ship you all the ingredients necessary for a week’s worth of meals, plus step-by-step recipes, at a cost similar […]

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Homemade Chili Powder!

Thanks to the fact that the weather in Texas still hasn’t realized it’s fall yet, my serrano pepper plants just keep cranking out peppers — like 30-40 a week. I’ve canned enough pepper jelly to keep us well stocked this winter AND still have enough left over for gift-giving, so this week I thought I’d […]

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Tricks (But Mainly) Treats for a Great Halloween Party

This past weekend, we hosted our Third-Annual Pumpkin Carving party for our friends and their kiddos, and tried out a bunch of fun new recipes. (If you’d like to see previous years pics, here are the posts from 2015 and 2014!) Our snacks included (from left to right in the top photo): Rice Krispie Pumpkin […]

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A Week of Low-Carb Meals, Day Four: Slow Cooker Beef Stew

Well, we got a little off track with our posting cadence, but we’re still aboard the low-carb train here at Unintended Domesticity headquarters and this past Monday, I made one of my all-time favorite meals. You see, when I was a little girl, I had a very old nanny named Aunt Neva. Aunt Neva always […]

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