Review of Gobble Green

Well, my experimentation with Gobble Green is done. It was a fun week of lots of new foods. I decided to do a pro/con list of using the meal service. I'll start with cons, because I like to end on a positive note!! :)

Cons:
It is expensive - however, all meal delivery services are expensive and there's a reason for that - we are paying for a service. I don't think that Gobble Green is any more expensive than other non-vegan services. If you would like to pay for the convenience, then its a good buy.

Not good for picky eaters - I eat a lot of weird stuff now, BUT I still don't like mushrooms very much and I don't like olives. Unless you pay more for the custom meal plan, you get what they give you. This ruined a few meals for me, which is money out the window for me.

I missed cooking - if you like to cook, it is hard to give up for long periods of time. The day I finished my meals, I spend an entire day in the kitchen cooking and preparing my favorite foods.

Pros:
Great company - I had some questions/delivery issues in the beginning. Customer service got right back to me and even threw in a free t-shirt for my inconvenience. I appreciate any company that goes the extra mile for their customers.

Good food - the food overall was really good, and it actually tasted fresh. The few dishes that I did not like were more because of my own food preferences and not that the food was bad. The desserts were amazing!

Good nutrition - the meals were well balanced nutritionally and I was always satisfied after my mals.

Convenient - Even though I love to cook; it was nice having a clean kitchen all week and not have to worry about what I was having for any of my meals. I love that!


Final Conclusions:
Due to my pickiness, I decided not to go ahead and do the weekly service. For any meal I didn't like it was about $7 down the drain. I am trying to do better to make extras of my own food to freeze for eating later. The expense is less and it gets me done in the kitchen in just a day's worth of work. I think I will order some of my favorites to have on hand whenever I need it, and also I will definitely get some desserts. These are desserts that vegans and nonvegans will like and would be easy to bring along to parties and know that I don't have to worry about what to eat.
I would recommend it to any vegan who would like a meal service. It was yummy and convenient.

A yummy day 5!!

Unfortunately I did not get to take a picture of my AMAZING Chickpea salad for lunch. Think pasta salad but only with chickpeas instead. The flavors were perfect, and it was colorful and pretty. This one might be my favorite meal.

Dinner was also pretty yummy. It was an Indian (I think??) dish - Aloo Matar. SOOO good. It was potatoes and peas with this tomato-y sauce and tons of cumin and Indian spices over brown rice. I really enjoyed it. The portion was huge though and I ended up eating too much - oh well.


The for dessert was peach cobbler. While very very good, I am in love with the cookies this company makes, so this was only "okay" in comparison...

That was day 5...a really delicious day :)

Day 3 and 4....sidetracked with Pi

Interesting start to the week. As some of you know this week marks the beginning of a new chapter of my life...at least legally it does... So what does one do to mark such an occassion of being legally barred from ever seeing my standing mixer again?? - I eat lots of pizza from Pi!!!

Monday night, two of my co-workers/friends took me out to Pi for some yummies. This is the place I have mentioned before that serves the most amazing vegan (and regular, of course) pizza - so good that its one of Obama's favorites as well. Anyway, I got a zucchini and spinach pizza that was delicious and a Pi2 (basil martini) - yum yum!! We had a blast talking and laughing. Then Tuesday night came...I had the meal ready to go - chickpea salad. But, the other half of my pizza was just sitting in the fridge calling out my name. I couldn't not eat it... and now my tummy is full and happy.

SO, since I've missed two meals, I'll make those my lunch and supper for tomorrow and figure out what to do for breakfast at 7am when I'm rushing out of the house so I can get to work on time. In the meantime, here are some of the yummy dishes I ate over the past two days.


This was the breakfast biscuit. I like that it looked really greasy and not healthy like you would get at a diner or something - when in reality it was really good and not unhealthy. Good little meal. I must say I like Morningstar Farms breakfast sausage better, but this was pretty darn good.

This looked a lot prettier in person than in this picture. This was mediteranian couscous - it had couscous (duh), almonds, spinach, green onion, olives and some other spices. Olives kind of freak me out and I've never eaten them much, so besides that it was a good and filling lunch.

This colorful bowl was the tofu chow mein - can you say Yum?? Good flavor, and even the tofu came out really good after being cooked and frozen and recooked again.

Well, I guess that's all for now. I'm going to go watch some mindless television and go to bed with hopes of waking up to go for a run...we'll see...

Day 2 of Yum

Ah, rainy Sundy mornings. I stayed in bed until 10am. That never happens, but it was delightful!! Then it was time to greet the day with banana pancakes. Yum!! They don't look that great, but they were so good. I am writing this with a full and happy belly right now. A+

The question is now to do some housework, or go curl up with a good book...






Well, I curled up with a good book while doing a little laundry...then fell asleep. I LOVE LAZY SUNDAYS :) After a snack of banana chips, and my lazy morning it was time for lunch. I didn't post a picture of lunch because it was lentil soup that looked like puke. In Gobble Green's defense, all lentil soup looks a little like puke. I didn't like it, though. I think someone else might have liked it, but I couldn't eat more than a few bites. It reminded me of split pea soup or something and I just couldn't deal. Luckily, breakfast and my snack were so filling that I wasn't really too hungry anyway. Did I mention that I loved the banana pancakes??!!

Then I was off to my parents for dinner. Since they were bbq-ing, I brought along my dinner meal - Sweet Morraccan Fusion with Couscous. This meal was weird, but really pretty good. It was chickpeas, carrots, onions, raisins, and a sauce with couscous. Good meal, and again, very filling. I also may or may not have snuck a few french fries from my brother's plate...

Dessert was a large fudge brownie...it was fudgy and rich. Just slightly undercooked, and I liked it that way. Yum Yum.

So today was a little bit of a mixed bag. That lentil soup just wasn't for me. I don't have a calorie count because I didn't eat the soup and the morraccan fusion nutrition information wasn't listed on the website. From what I am seeing though, the meals are pretty well balanced, which as a nutrition person I am happy to see.

I am very surprised as to how filling these meals are - not very high in calories, but still feeling nice and satisfied after the meals.

Monday's dinner will be pre-empted by some Pi thanks to two wonderful co-workers of mine :)

Gobble Green Day 1

Day one of Gobble Green Eating. This is supposed to be a breakfast bar. I admit it didn't look very good. Plus its only, like 250 calories which isn't much for a breakfast. After another scuffle with Jillian Michaels (I am doing one of her videos, because its a good work out and does not require me to run out in the heat), I dug right in. It was actually pretty good for a basic breakfast bar. It had a little bit of coconut flavor to it, and was surprisingly filling...

Round 2: Falafels with Basmati Rice. This did not look promising from the packaging. A block of white crud, and some brown balls...hehe...weird.

Putting it on the plate didn't help....

Then I figured out that I needed to "fluff" the rice. Now it looks like a good size portion and very appetizing...
Falafels were AWESOME! I'm still not quite sure what a falafel is....I think the main ingredient is chick peas. But they were very delicious. It did not taste like frozen packaged food. Tasted like they had just been made.

I was actually excited about the "meat" loaf. To me it looked like a good size portion and it looked pretty good. And then I ate it...not good. I'm not sure what to compare the flavor to, but it was just not good. The texture was good - I would bet that meat-eaters might not even know that it wasn't meat. It could have just been me, but did not like this. Left a few bites (but was still filled up).


The night ended with a massive and delicious looking chocolate chip cookie. There is no picture of that because I ate it before I had a chance....oops. Yeah, it was REALLY good.

Breakdown for day 1:

2 really good meals and a great dessert. One repulsive meat loaf.

Calorie total was around 1470, and all the other nutrients were right on.

I was never hungry or feeling like I didn't get enough to eat.

Nothing tasted like mass-produced frozen food.

Back to Blogging and Becoming a Green Goblin...

Well...I'm back. You didn't miss much. Over the past few weeks, the pain-in-the-assness of taking care of a house all by myself for the first time caught up with me. I went from making myself lovely homemade meals daily to living on Diet Mountain Dew, Twizzlers, Q'doba, and Bread Co. It was a sad state of affairs...but now I'm back and trying something new.

I plan on selling the house to move into a condo. Yikes! Its hard enough keeping the house clean enough for myself to live in it, and now I'm going to have other people walk around in it while I'm not even home?! I don't know how any of you who have sold a house before did it. Anyway, I enlisted a little help with the food part so I don't have a dirty kitchen every day. This week I'm doing an experiment to see if I like it.

There is a company called Gobble Green that prepares vegan meals and delivers them right to your house. This sounded perfect while I got my house ready to sell. So I ordered a weeklong trial...3 weeks ago. The delivery was ridiculously slow, due to the holiday and me not knowing how this whole thing works. Customer service was good though - I emailed to make sure I was still getting my food, and they apologized and threw in a free t-shirt. I like free t-shirts :) So anyway, after waiting and eating junk (not wanting to stock the pantry in case the food showed up), I got my delivery last night.


This is Queso checking the package to make sure that there were no poisons or bombs inside...

This is my vacuumed-packed t-shirt. Its kind of cute, right? Did I mention I love free t-shirts??

The rest of the pictures are of all my food - enough for 3 meals a day plus snacks for a whole week - vacuumed packed and ready to eat. Looking at the food packaged, it looks like really small portions, which worries me a little. The instructions say to add more fruits and veggies if the food isn't enough...hmmm...I thought that's why I was paying the big bucks to get this food - so I wouldn't have to buy and cook anything else. Maybe it will expand when I open the packages?

Mmm...cookies...

So, this week I will try out the food to see if it actually tastes any good, and see if this is what I would like to order to use while my house is on the market. I've posted pictures of my kitchen after I cook, so it is obvious that this would be helpful.

I'm going to judge it on 1) tastiness, 2) nutritional balance (what can I say - I'm an RD), 3) satiety (whether I get full enough eating the food), 4) value for the money... We shall see what happens. Stay tuned...