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.

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...