{"id":14565,"date":"2025-03-29T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14565"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:20:51","slug":"dinnerly-meal-kit-review-hearty-meals-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14565","title":{"rendered":"Dinnerly Meal Kit Review: Hearty Meals on a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u201cThis is a<\/span> real Midwestern meal,\u201d my father said, digging into a plate I’d prepared from the Martha Stewart\u2013endorsed Dinnerly meal kit. \u201cMeat. Potatoes. Green beans.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, for my father, was high praise. It was the type of meal he’d grown up with as a child in Nebraska: hearty, no-nonsense, balanced, always something green, and always a slab of meat. For a week on a visit while my mother spent time with the grandkids, I cooked him dinners with Dinnerly, the lower-cost cousin of the truly excellent, cheffy Marley Spoon meal kit<\/a> also endorsed by Stewart (and also by me: 8\/10, WIRED Recommends<\/a>). The biggest surprise for him was how much some of these meals intersected with old-school American home scratch cooking.<\/p>\n

The \u201cGreek Lemon-Oregano Chicken\u201d we were eating did indeed involve a bit of citrus, but this character was less notable than the salty savoriness of deglazed chicken broth deepened by the browned bits from the chicken. Oregano hardly felt exotic, to anyone at the table. Heck, they might even serve this chicken in Nebraska. The potatoes were Yukon golds that I’d cut, boiled, buttered, garlicked, and mashed by hand. The beans were fresh, and simple as it gets.<\/p>\n

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