Food Delivery Services

Missy Tippens


Hey, y'all! I hope you're all staying well. We're doing well here at my house, and I've been cooking more than ever. We do order food from restaurants for delivery or curbside pickup on occasion. But for the most part, we've been making do with grocery delivery and digging deep into the pantry (hello beans and rice!!). :)

About three weeks ago, Myra Johnson happened to mention how much they're loving Dinnerly for meal ingredient delivery. Because I had been having trouble getting meat at the grocery at that time, I decided to give it a try. Myra sent me a coupon for my first box for free (+ shipping).

I have to say we're really enjoying it, too! There are a big variety of meals to choose from each week.The meals sometimes take longer than I would normally spend to prepare the food, but each time it has been worth it. And the food is healthy.

I've also found that I'm enjoying learning some new food prep methods that I haven't tried before or haven't thought of in ages.

This past week, this is one of the meals I made. Unfortunately, I didn't take photos of the ingredients. But it came with 4 small chicken breasts, fresh broccoli crowns, fresh green onions, fresh Yukon Gold potatoes, garlic, cream cheese and needed spices. I had to provide butter, salt, pepper, and olive oil (and on occasion have had to provide flour).

The chicken was seasoned with an "everything bagel" mix that has black sesame seeds, etc that comes on an everything bagel. So tasty on chicken! I pan sautéed it in olive oil.

The potatoes were cubed, then boiled. Then I saved some of the cooking starch water to mix into the potatoes (will use milk next time) along with butter, cream cheese and chopped green onions.

My only complaint about the service is that they send very small servings of green vegetables (broccoli and fresh green beans). What they send is usually only two servings at best (and our subscription is for 4). So I really wish they sent more veggies! This time, I decided to add my own carrots to the broccoli, and it still barely felt like 4 servings, especially since the ideal plate for good health is half non-starchy vegetables!

Here's a photo of the vegetables we had to ration. haha

We've had some really good dishes so far! I think my favorites have been a really nice pork tenderloin with a brown sugar and chili sauce, and yummy lemon garlic chicken. Oh, and really good steak tacos! We'll have another delivery tomorrow. If anyone wants to try it, let me know. I can send you a free box (you'll have to pay about $9 shipping). 

There are a lot of these food delivery services out there, so check them all out.

I hope you all stay well!

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