This year, at the ripe old age of 28, I decided I was finally going to start cooking for myself – and I’ve fast become a meal box devotee. Taking the hassle out of dinner times, these subscription boxes deliver fresh vegetables, pre-portioned ingredients and recipe cards to your door. Livening up mid-week meals, meal boxes such as Gousto are perfect for culinary-illiterate home cooks like myself.
As a student, I was a Pot Noodle and toast cliché – in my mid-twenties, I graduated to pesto pasta, the occasional M&S ready meal and microwavable soup. Between commuting, work, events and socialising, rustling up dinner was my the lowest priority. But recipe boxes have eliminated both the planning and shopping involved in meal times: all I’ve got to do is cook.
