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First draft of script 3 handed in. Still a little way from being ready, but close. I thought it was best (with a month to go) to get a first draft of the other three scripts together. It's starting to feel a bit more like I might get the work done in time, but this is still only halfway there and I have no idea what's going to happen in script 6.
We decided to give
Gousto a try this week (because that's who we are now) and our first box arrived today. We've done various fruit and veg boxes in the past, but this one sends you all the ingredients for making actual meals, which is an interesting idea and might possibly save us some time. On receiving the box my initial feeling was that it wasn't for us. You get the ingredients for four meals (which you can choose from their website) but they're all in one box and pretty much every ingredient comes in its own packaging. Some of that is recyclable, but some of it isn't and it seems weird not to put each meal's ingredients more or less in one bag. And individually wrapped egg (even if the container is cardboard) feels a bit much. It's nice to have the correct spices and know that they are relatively new, rather than having been in a drawer of spice rack for an indeterminate amount of years, and it's cool to have the right amounts weighed out, but again, the packaging feels wasteful.
I cooked two of the ten minute meals today and the instructions were easy to follow and I created meals that I'd never have done on my own and the food was tasty. I felt like I'd done special cooking, when in fact I'd done hardly anything. But I am ultimately on the fence still and conflicted about what using this service says about me as a human being.
Who am I?
So not sure I'd recommend and I'd feel happier if all packaging was recyclable or compostable (but I am sure that I will be told that the impact of getting stuff delivered in this way is the greater issue). But given our limited time and depleted energy this was a pretty helpful service and aside from a bit of an ordinary naan bread, you could serve this up if you had people coming to dinner and they'd be reasonably impressed. If they are of a similar poshness level to me (ie not very).
