meals on wheels vs light n easy

[davidc4430]

ive been getting meals on wheels for many years and although they are fine for a pre prepared frozen meal for a while ive thought they are pretty ordinary.

my meals are/were delivered once a week on a friday lunch time so i had to be home.

my delivery comprised 1 hot meal and 6 frozen meals with deserts.

they would not let me order just the meals so every week i got 7 deserts i threw away, i dont like thawed out deserts. in fact i hardly ever eat desert, if i do its fresh fruit.

the aluminium packs often looked like they had been used for footy practice, all squished and unsealed in places.

but the meals were mostly ok.

some time back i was regularly getting some really nice meals, roast lamb, roast beef, roast pork, chicken snitzel, fish in batter.

but lately its all stews with the occasional fish, roast meal thrown in.

and allways with pumpkin which i dont like.

i dont get any choice as to my meals, its not until they are delivered i find out what i get.

i have no problem with the volunteers delivering the meals they are allways friendly.

so a friend said she was getting 'ligh n easy' meals and said she found them very good.

so i took the plunge and ordered some from light n easy as you can order just one time or regularly there are no ongoing contracts, you order and pay.

i recieved my first order today and i'm impressed by the paching!

they come in a lage polysteyrene box wuth a dry ice bag inside to keep them cold, the box is sealed with tape.

the meals are in perfect order ready to go into my freezer. not damaged at all!

online when ordering i get to choose what meals i want from a huge range! no pot luck here.

if i wanted i could order 7 of the same meal! not that i ever wood with such a large choice.

the delivery is left at my door if i'm not home. not possible with MOW.

so now i'm ready for the taste test, fingers crossed they are as good as they look.

btw, yes MOW is cheaper but when i dont have to buy deserts it works out cheaper.

i only buy main meals.

[imastawka]

Wow!    Great job.

A lot of hard work went into it, then.

I'm surprised that soil stayed put until the plants established themselves.

It looks lovely now.

[lyndal1838]

David, if you can it might be better to keep the parsley in a separate pot....it can grow quite large and thick and may smother the chives.

And as stawks says, chives will multiply every year.

Mint is another handy herb if you have any use for it.   Put it in a pot and throw plenty of water at it and it will go mad.

[davidc4430]

i think our dry winter helped with the soil not washing away, very few really wet days.

originally there were 7 big rose bushes across the garden with agapanthers and irises here n there.

so i was out there doing my most hated garden job of pruning the roses. one was dead so required removing, and well one thing led to another and i ripped all of the darn things out! no more thorns in fingers.

after that the garden really looked shyte!

so it was dig everything out!

then it looked even more shyte!!

so i got a few bags of soil each week when i shopped until i had about 6 or 8 then id spread those as far as they would go.

i plonked the irises and agapanthers into post while i was doing this to keep em alive (fingers crossed)

took a lot more bags of soil that id imagined.

once it was fully covered in the new soil i replanted the irises and agapanthas then i spread sugarcane mulch all over, that i did have trouble keeping there!

every few days i would sweep up most of it and put it back. but the ground covers began taking hold and well now its everywhere.

[davidc4430]

ordered a few new ones this fortnight,

Flame Grilled Meatballs,

good sized meal and vegies and mash tasted good.

[davidc4430]

Tonight Beef with Red Wine & Mushroom

loved it, very tasty indeed.

[davidc4430]

my parsley and chives have started coming up.

[imastawka]

Well done.

That parsley pot looks chockers.

But in your chives pot, if something with 2 leaves pops up, pull it out, it's a weed.

[davidc4430]

ok, i wasnt sure how many to plant, the seeds were really small.

i only used about 1/4 of the seeds in the little silver foil packs.

[imastawka]

The chives multiply over the year, so they'll be plenty.

They'll die down over next winter, but come back again next spring, so don't chuck the pot thinking they're dead.

The parsley will stay small if you've overplanted, but that's ok.

There's only you to use it, so no biggie.

It, too, will last til next year.

Your meals are looking very nice for the outlay.

[kwakagreg]

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