Quote Originally Posted by tyckspoon View Post
For me a big part of the attraction of the Hello Fresh kind of plan is not having to source and then commit to buying large amounts of odd ingredients, most of which I am going to end up wasting because I don't regularly cook a (Korean/Indian/Chinese/Sicilian/whatever) meal - if Hello Fresh or whatever meal plan company can split out the appropriate portion of kaffir lime leaves or lemongrass or asafoetida or Sichuan peppercorns or that one particular variety of cabbage that I could buy but then I'd have half to 3/4 of a chunk of cabbage that I had no plan for, and then do the same thing for another dozen people and send each of us just what we need to make that dish.. that seems reasonable to me.
Unless you are running a restaurant, recipes are plans, and plans always have to adapt to reality.