I first tried Gobble when I saw a trial card over at Zombie Runner on California Ave. Back then, Gobble delivered fully cooked dinners at 7pm on weekday nights. I used Gobble about 3 nights a week for a few months. Dinner went from something I had to figure out, to the highlight of my evening. We'd get to eat something new and delicious a few times a week without playing out local restaurants or the handful of dishes that we'd normally cook. Gobble actually improved my relationship with my girlfriend.
At the time, my primary complaint was that I had to reheat the food and eat out of a takeout container.
About a month ago, Gobble switched to delivering these meal kits. Having just met Ooshma in person, I (naturally) gave her a really hard time about this. Cooking takes too long and I have other things to do.
There were fewer choices than before, I needed to wash a pan (sometimes two, if pasta was involved), and I needed to actually get off my computer to help make dinner happen.
That was 15 meals ago.
I still think about the first Gobble dinner kit I made in back August. I actually woke up the next morning thinking about how good perfectly the fresh mozzarella balanced the spicy kick of the chili flakes.
Dinner-Kits Gobble is the best Gobble yet. Now I actually eat dinner like a real person. Sometimes dinner takes a little longer than 10 minutes to prepare, end to end, and sometimes it needs more than one pan, but it ends up tasting so good that I feel stupid complaining about either of those things.
Out of 15 meals, about 8 of them have been wish-there-were-more-leftovers-amazing about 5 of them were good enough order again, and a couple were just ok. All of them were worth way more than the $12 and ~10 minutes of effort.
I have never had a problem with Gobble that a message to Ooshma didn't fix.
Yesterday I got an email from Gobble with 3 invites for 100% free boxes. I've got two left. I think you still need to sign up to use it, but I'm pretty sure you can cancel immediately. If you want one of the invites, first come, first served.
[1] Unless a double espresso and a nice piece of bread counts as a meal.