Scouted/The Daily Beast/Splendid Spoon
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I enjoy cooking and used to whip up meals often until life got extra busy recently. As a result, I found myself eating more processed foods or ordering take-out, which is not ideal, but as a vegan, I felt that a little plant-based fast food never hurt anyone (you can put that on my headstone). And maybe it didn’t hurt that much, but with less time for exercise, too, my jeans started getting uncomfortably snug. I began to think about ways to get back on track before needing to swap my pant zippers for elastic–or, even worse, letting my health be affected. I was also feeling low on energy; I’d gotten in the habit of not eating an appropriate breakfast and lunch, so I wasn’t fueled for the day. By the evening time, I’d scavenge anything that made it to my mouth quickest.
While I love my job, it doesn’t put me in the upper tax brackets, so to speak. So, like everyone else, budget is a consideration while researching new spends, and meal subscription services seemed too costly. But since one ad-hoc lunch delivery with fees put me out $30-40 for a sandwich and salad (OK, and maybe a cookie), eating was becoming a budget-buster anyway. After doing some research, I started to weigh options to help both my scale and bank account see better numbers while not pressing my already precious time. There are many meal subscription services to choose from, so I narrowed it down to one based on cost, service, and plant-based offerings and decided to give Splendid Spoon a try.