Sunday, November 23, 2014

What's for Dinner?

Cooking is a hassle. Eating home-made meal is healthier but being a physician working over 70 hours a week, I really don't have the time. It took me a whole day off (the only day I'm off in a week) to cook.
Here's the break down:

  1. Recipe lookup (2 hours minimum)
  2. Grocery shopping (2 hours minimum)--getting to the supermarket, finding veggies, meat, spices, seasoning, coming home with grocery
  3. Washing and chopping (2hours)
  4. Marinating (1/2 hour)
  5. Cooking (2 hours)
  6. Washing dishes (1 hour)
  7. Cooling food and placing in fridge (1/2 hour)
Total: 10 hours!!!


This NYT article summarizes my ordeal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/nyregion/considering-the-place-of-the-working-parent-in-the-kitchen.html?action=click&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

So here's some solution to my dilemma:

 1) Blue Apron--all the ingredients and recipes (reduce my cooking time by 4 hours)
http://www.blueapron.com/pages/lp-1?cvosrc=retargeting.steelhouse.offer&utm_campaign=offer&utm_medium=retargeting&utm_source=steelhouse

http://www.blueapron.com/pages/team

2) Plated
https://www.plated.com/
http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/cooking-tips-techniques/cook-like-a-real-simple-editor?utm_source=taboola&utm_site=latimes&utm_title=This+Dinner+Hack+Has+Millennials+Ditching+Delivery&utm_thumbnail=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.taboolasyndication.com%2Flibtrc%2Fstatic%2Fthumbnails%2F9044c567dd6b62e2dce4b882b2b5c8c5.png