Dinner is hard in my house. We have 30 to 40 minutes max after we’ve finished work and daycare pick up to get something on the table or we are in for it with our toddler.
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I was sceptical about what the quality of EveryPlate meals would be like considering its affordability, but I was pleasantly surprised. Picture: SuppliedCould it help ease my weeknight dinner process? Save me some cash? Make me look forward to dinner time? Plan was to alleviate the stress of weeknight dinners and use leftovers from each meal for an adult lunch the following day.
Certainly enough that I should feel inspired to start making enough food to have leftovers for lunch.there have been year-on-year increases on essentials such as bread by up to 13 per cent, dairy by 11 per cent and meat such as pork by eight per cent.The fruit box wasn’t great though, some items – like the punnet of strawberries and some stone fruit – were very soft and needed to be eaten that day.
The four-step recipes were simple to follow and the food was easy to make but every dish bar one – ‘creamy garlic fish spaghetti’ – took around 15 to 30 minutes longer than stated on the recipe cards.I had to bash the chicken breasts for the ‘easy chicken parmis’ with a rolling pin, which felt like a weekend level of effort. Not easy at all.
None of us particularly liked the ‘easy chicken parmi’ and a lot was leftover. Maybe my complaints about how much effort it was to make took the joy out of it, who can say?The ‘creamy garlic fish spaghetti with tomato and baby spinach’ was the best, it tasted like a lot of effort had gone into it yet it was the easiest to make.Double, triple yes if you have some time flexibility on hectic weeknights to allow for recipe cooking time running over and if you don’t have picky eaters to cater for.
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