hello fresh is not pre-prepared yooly. It is a collection of items bagged and portioned (more or less, I'm fairly sure they don't use a scale quite the same way I do! :lol:) that is supposed to be prepared per the recipe.

So think of it like having ordered I guess 2, or 3 or 5 separate recipes that arrive as a bag of veggies, a bag of meats, and unique condiments—there is an assumption that you will provide base condiments such as oil or salt. You also get the recipe instructions on how to prepare the food.

So the base selecting, portioning, maybe some of the prep (though I recall chopping) is already done. But you still have to prepare the food.

And that was my base issue if you will… if i was cooking "from scratch" anyway… why cook their stuff.

The time saving I guess is in choosing from a particular recipe and then all the ingredients arrive without you having to worry about assembling the collection or whether you have the items you will be needing for the recipe.

Part of the issue for myself, I guess, is that I found it more stressful to be trying to follow a recipe than to free-wheel. Honestly I suspect in large part it's more what we're each used to…

I got a julienned carrot, julienned boiled potatoes, Campbell's pho stock, and everything except the noodles "instant pho" bowl ingredients plus water soup going! Was going to put in some of the frozen soup/hot pot beef slices I got a while back… but haven't done so yet…

So all this… and cookies ;-) Cookies are NOT helping me meet my goals. Just saying!

Yooly… this all sounds a tiny bit precarious. And I do hope you have some distance (or sandbags) between you and the dry river bed…. ugh.

Got sidetracked with a lone garden cucumber… and 42.5g of old cheddar…. not sure where the 42.5g of old cheddar crept into the situation… still… the main problem is the cookies! anyway you cut it 150g of cookies remain 150g of cookies! 😲😥🤐

Switched over to chopped vegs salads - must practice knife & chewing skills. Think it digests faster than I can chew, I oughter shrink before our eyes. Lol

With smoked salmon cream cheese on 'everything' mini-bagel.

Batch prepped vegs

That bottom one looks extra interesting. don't get me wrong: all the other ones like most wonderful bunnies (though a tiny bit suspicious re: glistening ;-) but they seem semi-standard bunny combinations (I guess the right hand one looks "interesting" too ;-) But the bottom one is definitely in the interesting category! :-)

Yakky - if you’re going to be shredding and chopping in volume, a food processor with a shredder blade is a life saver. You don’t need top of the line or even full size. My electric mini chopper works well for smaller jobs.
Of course hand cranking / chopping does burn more calories…..

How did the cookies sneak into your house? Perhaps a cookie fairy flew them in the window in the dark of night?

Shredder blades. You take out the chopper grinder thingy. Put shredder on post usually right under the feeder tube. Miracolo!

Today's food:

Coffee with 2% fairlife milk and SF syrup

Tuna melt (low carb bread, toasted. Tuna with light mayo, onion, garlic salt and pepper. Slice of lite white cheddar cheese)

Large ice coffee with 2% milk and SF syrup

6 pineapple teriyaki chicken meatballs with egg white noodles and frozen stir fry veg.

Nonfat Greek yogurt with leftover raspberry puree from the cheesecake

OK…. plans changed… 1/4 of the lasagna tray remains for tomorrow!

The other quarter went away with some carrots I fished out of the leftover soup from yesterday ;-) AND… I added FRUIT BUNNIES ON SALE!!!!

The fruit platters are on sale… so 7.5 bunnies of watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, and strawberries were consumed!

1130g (1150g actually). Officially four I guess. I ended up consuming about 66% though I logged 75%🤣 close enough since no one else is getting any of it and I'm finishing it off today 🤷🏼‍♂️ whole thing is about 1400Cal. And since I paper towel sucked out some (but not all) of the surface fat from the cheese, it is probably legit within the calories.

Legit, if you grab a third and add lots of bunnies you can make a good sized meal for under 600 Cal. And that's the full fat version cause sale! The "blue menu" version cuts down substantially on calories from fat due to different cheese mainly and I prefer it when equal priced

Wellllll……. so far today, let's see… 3x fruit bunnies to start and the first "1.3kg" platter is DONE! It being "soooooo" super hot (insert insane giggling by others), I grabbed some overpriced pulled (korean spiced) chicken white meat… that was expiring today so half price yes, a resounding vote of confidence by everyone I know at the store giving me 50-50 chances of survival, but… half price, right?!…. and put 100g of it on 53g of bread! I've got another 115g for later. And broke open the jar of costco pickle spears (the ones that are a dill pickle, and onion, an olive, a pimento)… and had about 6 of them with a metric crap ton of water… I better get a blood pressure reading later today! Whew…. 109 / 63 @ 73bpm after eating (admittedly medicated)… maybe I'll survive another month!

Well the chicken is "pulled" off the store's left over birds.

Actually, a secret birdie has told me that they even cook some of the birds just to pull them because they sell out pretty much most of what they put out in the display anyway. So cooked. But expiring today after 3 days sitting on display in their cooler!!!

Living on the edge.

I didn't have 3lbs of foods TODAY…. I had 2.25bs of fruit LAST NIGHT and 0.55lbs of fruit THIS MORNING. BIG difference you know! :)

pickles were 150g (so 1/3 of a lb)

currently trying to recover from the experience ;-)

We went out with friends last night. My meal was okay calories but the salt bomb! 💣

Oh yeah the scale was up two pounds this morning! It really wasn’t all that great a meal - it was on the “lighter” menu. Six ounce steak filet with green beans and a side of carrots. About 350-400 calories total. However all parts of the meal were salted much more than I usually have at home. Tasted great 😊 but …..

Going out was more about time with friends rather than the food. Small price to pay.

Oooh - I believe our low temperature overnight managed to get down to about 78F. Humidity to match the temp.