The Mealime App + Parisian jaunts + hamsters

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The meal planning app, Mealime

I don’t know how to pronounce it: Meal-lime? Me-alime? Mealimé? But however you say it, we’ve been using it for a few months and it’s good.

We’re not big food planners but over the course of this pandemic we’ve experimented with many ways to make the endless preparation and consumption of meals more interesting… We’ve done takeout, we’ve done prepared meals from a local caterer delivered to our door; we’v done those meal kits… GoodFood and Chef’s Plate… Chef’s Plate gave us horrific food poisoning and had even more horrific customer service DO NOT RECOMMEND.

All of the above had their plusses and weaknesses (except Chef’s Plate - only weaknesses, for reals - they are monsters). Takeout is expensive and not very healthy; local caterer is scrumptious but pricey; the meal kits come with a ton of plastic waste and are often fiddly and stressful to prepare…

I don’t know where I stumbled across Mealime (Seriously - How do you pronounce it?) but it…