Interesting writeup! Can you cook? How much time did you you spend arranging a cook and preparing for their arrival?
I would have thought cooking in bulk with simpler recipes would save more time overall than arranging someone to turn up to cook for you unless it was a regular thing or simpler recipes aren't good enough.
I can cook basic meals, and I still do for a few meals per week. Things like scrambled eggs, steak, burgers, and chicken.
>How much time did you you spend arranging a cook and preparing for their arrival?
I think that's one of the main weaknesses because I'm still spending about one hour per visit searching recipes, checking which ingredients I have available, ordering new ingredients from FreshDirect, and making sure the kitchen is ready.
>I would have thought cooking in bulk with simpler recipes would save more time overall than arranging someone to turn up to cook for you unless it was a regular thing or simpler recipes aren't good enough.
A big motivating factor is desserts/snacks. If I wasn't outsourcing it, I wouldn't have the motivation to cook myself desserts. So I'd just end up eating less healthy snacks and not being able to keep up the diet.
> I can cook basic meals, and I still do for a few meals per week. Things like scrambled eggs, steak, burgers, and chicken.
So things like chilli, roasts, lasagne and burritos are classics for bulk cooking and aren't that difficult.
> A big motivating factor is desserts/snacks. If I wasn't outsourcing it, I wouldn't have the motivation to cook myself desserts. So I'd just end up eating less healthy snacks and not being able to keep up the diet.
Haha, surely you should be avoiding dessert completely if you want to be healthy? What's wrong with store bought desserts?
Not knocking whatever your preferences are by the way, I'm just genuinely curious about business models such as this and things like Blue Apron. Spending money to free up time for what you want to do makes complete sense to me.
The issue with store bought desserts is that they generally don't fit the keto diet. If I didn't want to do the keto diet, I probably would have more flexibility because there are services where I live that offer home-cooked meals delivered to you, but none of them are keto-compatible and I've only seen a few that offer any sort of desserts.
Keto desserts are usually fat bombs which haven't become popular as a store bought dessert (yet). They usually consist of a serving of fat (like cream cheese) and some sort of artificial sweetener like stevia. They fill you up but have no carbs and so are actually healthy for you in keto.
I would have thought cooking in bulk with simpler recipes would save more time overall than arranging someone to turn up to cook for you unless it was a regular thing or simpler recipes aren't good enough.