Meal delivery companies such as Sunbasket, Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and Gobble offer holiday-specific meal kits that provide pre-portioned ingredients and step-by-step recipes. These kits arrive days ahead in large boxes and include multi-course menus—from sides and biscuits to roasts and stuffing—allowing cooks to prepare meals mostly from scratch without handling all the planning and shopping. Premium kits can include seven-platter or seven-course options and higher-end items like prime rib. The kits aim to reduce the anxiety of holiday cooking while delivering restaurant-quality flavors and a satisfying home-cooked experience.
"Making a full holiday feast for guests can be daunting, for some perhaps even terrifying. The world, and especially Hallmark movies, is full of holiday disaster stories: ruined roasts, failed desserts, steamed hams. But I'm not bragging when I say that the first holiday dinner I prepared for my extended family-a little early this year-was an unmitigated success. My aunt couldn't stop talking about the black pepper in the biscuits and the sage on the carrots."
"But of course, I had cheated. I had ordered my holiday in the mail-one of the new breed of holiday meal kits. The meal was genuinely home-cooked, of course, prepared mostly from scratch. But the entire seven-platter feast-its ingredients and recipes-had arrived two days before, in a box large enough to house a primal cut of beef. It was a full family holiday feast in a box: a seven-course $200 "Chef's Table" meal kit available from sister meal delivery plans Sunbasket and Gobble."
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