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Threw $150 down the drain on that meal prep service last month
I signed up for one of those meal kit deliveries thinking it would save me time and money. After three weeks I realized I was paying $25 per box just for ingredients I could buy at the store for $10. The portions were tiny and half the produce went bad by day two in my fridge. I cancelled after the fourth box and lost about $150 total including the first week discount that didn't really save me anything. Has anyone else gotten tricked by those flashy ads promising restaurant quality meals at home?
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the_jamie9d ago
My wife signed up for one of those local farm delivery boxes thinking we'd get fresher veggies. $40 a week and we ended up throwing out half of it because we couldn't plan meals around mystery vegetables. What gets me is how these services all operate on the same trick @sageross mentioned - they sell you the fantasy of yourself as someone who has it together, but the reality is you're still just a person with a normal schedule and a normal budget.
The price markups are wild when you look at it. I've noticed the same in gym memberships and those meal replacement shakes. They charge you for the lifestyle you want, not the product you actually get. And they count on you being too busy or too embarrassed to cancel. So yeah, that $150 hurts, but at least you caught it early. A lot of people just let the charges keep hitting their card for months.
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Yeah, the marketing totally oversells how much food you actually get.
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sageross1mo ago
Notice this same thing everywhere now. Restaurants put ads online showing plates piled high with food, then you get half that amount in real life. Clothing stores photoshop their models to look slimmer, then the actual shirt fits like a tent. Even those infomercials for kitchen gadgets make it look like you'll chop an onion in two seconds flat, but my knife skills are still pretty average. It's like companies decided the actual product matters less than the fantasy version they sell you.
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