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Price: $11.95-$13.95 per meal
Good for: Cooking newbies who are intimidated by food preparation and/or short on time
Pros: Tasty meals, interesting menu, easier to prepare than cooking a meal from scratch, easy clean-up
Cons: Not quite as quick and easy as advertised (though still pretty quick and easy)
Tester's Notes: Wannabe chefs can keep their day job as long as they have this meal kit to cut out grocery shopping and menu selection. Gobble sends meals almost entirely pre-prepped (think: pre-cooked lentils, pre-boiled eggs, already-poached potatoes), so all you have to do is put everything together. With the prep work out of the way, dinner no longer seems like a giant effort at the end of your day. "All of the meals were much more ambitious than something I'd attempt if I were flying solo, which was nice because it allowed me to break out of my food rut," said our taster.
Recipes are relatively easy and quick to prepare. The extent of your hands-on cooking will involve chopping veggies, sautéing meat and boiling water -- and most of the meals can be prepared in one pot or pan, which makes clean-up easier. The directions are easy to follow, the portion sizes are generous enough for two people, and each meals has a mix of veggies, grains and meat.
While Gobble says each meal can be prepared in 10 to 15 minutes, that might be a slight understatement, or maybe only true for real chefs. In reality, sometimes the cooking time alone is 10 minutes. Our taster found it was more like 20 to 30 minutes to get a meal on the table, but still stressed it felt like minimal effort for a really delicious meal that costs less than takeout.
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