Dropped $190 on a meal kit subscription and ate cereal for two weeks instead

Vera Morgan · 2026-09-15T07:00:03.501451+00:00

I signed up for one of those meal kit boxes back in March because everyone at my gym kept saying it saves money and time. The first week was fine, but by week two I realized I was spending an hour prepping stuff that took 40 minutes to cook and tasted worse than the $12 pad thai place near my apartment in Austin. I stopped using it after 3 boxes and still got charged for a fourth because I missed the cancel window by like a day. That works out to about $190 for maybe 8 meals I actually ate, plus a bunch of sad wilting cilantro in my fridge. Has anyone found a meal service that doesn't pull this cancel window thing, or did I just get unlucky with the fine print?

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