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REPORT
BOXING CLEVER
Busy lives make cooking - and even food shopping - difficult
for some of us. A growing trend in boxes of thought-through
meals could ease the strain. You still get to cook, but heaps
of hassle are taken away. By Angela Coffey, a journalist and
former Editor of Diabetes UK's Balance magazine.
Mindful Chef
I
t's easy to get stuck in a rut with
our evening meals. When we're
juggling work and family it can
be hard to keep up with dinner
that ticks all the right boxes. And
a recent survey* found that, on average,
we only have around six meals in our
repertoire. So, when we get a burst of
inspiration to liven up dinner, it means a trip
to the shops to find all the right ingredients,
followed by a whirlwind of measuring and
weighing then, more often than not, a
shedload of washing-up too. And what
about the leftover ingredients? Of course,
there's always the intention of using them
up. But life gets in the way and, before we
know it, we're sheepishly chucking away
bits of shrivelled up veg and suspicious
looking half-empty jars of things we didn't
get around to using. All in all, it can be
expensive business.
We know that when managing
diabetes you need to keep a closer eye
on your diet than the average person, and
meal planning can help enormously. It's
never been easier to rely on online food
shopping deliveries and apps to help you
do this. But, if you're time-strapped and in
need of livening up dinner time with less
fuss, it could be worth trialling a meal-kit
delivery service.
The food box business is booming
and it's not hard to see why. With
NOTES: New customer offers may change, so check prices and offers
before placing your order. The nutritional information in this article
only takes into account the ingredients supplied with the recipe
boxes. So, for example, cooking processes and adding staple cupboard
ingredients, like oil, will affect overall calculations.