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We’ve got an elderly neighbor who loves Home Chef.

Delivered to her house, saves the trip to town. Just enough for her and her hubby w/o having a lot of leftovers.

Cheaper than a trip to town for restaurant food.

I'm shaking my head at so many things. Heinlein's remark that "specialization is for insects" keeps surfacing.

I knew people ate out too often. I didn't know the number was northward of 40% of all meals. Further, the bulk of groceries in a store are on the inner aisles. This is all processed and prepared meals.

Amongst the outer circumference of shelves in any typical grocery store are unprocessed food. I learned that decades ago when I began the low carb approach to eating.

Imagine how helpless the average American has become. It is not unique to one social economic class. I knew a vet tech who did pet sitting. She would visit mostly the wealthy homes. I remember her one day having a fit. She described these amazing kitchens in the homes. The majority were never used and they did not have a single item in the pantry except of course pet food.

I try to imagine how small the percentage of Americans are who do animal husbandry, hunting, gardening, food preparation and of course food storage.

This bioweapon has exposed numerous vulnerabilities in our system. What is the price of convenience when so many intricate links can be broken to bring everything to a halt. Decentralization builds resilient communities and that begins with the individual and family. Sadly, resilient individuals have been derided as crazy preppers.

I hope more people wake up and realize the failures of their false gods and begin taking responsibility. Somehow if we survive this Great Depression (guaranteed with the shutdown of China), multi waves of this virus and government repression, we will come out the other side a stronger people.

My son works at a catering place. They were pretty much shut down for a couple of months. The owner got into the meal kit thing and now has three workers (including my son) packing meals. More workers will be coming back next week.

It is a learning process though to get into a slightly different venture.

I thought everyone was dead broke and had no money to feed their starving kids.

Meal kits are “$5.50 to $7.50 per serving.” Uh, helloooo. I posted way back about taking the kits’ online ingredient lists and making those meals with my own ingredients. Not rocket science. My copy cat meals were between $1-$2 each. In fact, the food budget here has long been $5 per person per day.

But, to answer the question, yes, people are lazy and will continue to purchase these kits along with their prepacked junk food. Just like they buy McD’s chicken nuggets every other day and wonder why their kids are fat.

The homemade super simple no brainer corn dog muffins from #72 above came to $1.75 for 57 mini muffins. Compare that to Walmart Great Value brand at $2.18 for just 16 minis. OK, these are fattening but it’s a holiday and the leftovers went into the freezer for July 4 so not an everyday thing.

Off to see if the homemade yogurt has cooled enough to jar up.