Deborama’s Kitchen — Bun Cha Gio, Approximately

I accidentally bought too much food, online, too close together. A while back, I did some trials, for my own information, of meal kit delivery services. I tried out (not linking, you can look them up) Blue Apron, Home Chef, Sun Basket, Hello Fresh, and Green Chef. The one I liked best, and still like best, is Sun Basket. The one I liked second best, and that only because they were kind of inflexible (and if you know anything about how I eat, and especially, all the many things I simply don’t eat, you know I need flexible) was Green Chef.

After a couple of months of this, I put them all on inactive status, completely closed the least favored, and started exploring other food delivery from the internet options. (This was right before the pandemic, and the pandemic hit me hard right at the beginning, so I carried on. I didn’t shop out of my home for most of March and April, and now only go to a grocery store once or twice a month.)

The main service I have stuck with, even upped it from every other week to every week, is Imperfect Foods. It’s as close as any service comes to matching what I want with what I can afford. But I also use Thrive Market occasionally, and used to use Brandless until they stopped selling food, and tried out Public Goods, but uh-uh. I also had an every-other-month subscription to Wild Alaska salmon and other seafoods…