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I work for Good Eggs. If you you live in the greater bay area want a dinner kit with local ingredients and focus on minimizing waste and packaging...

https://www.goodeggs.com/sfbay/dinner-kits

We use produce and groceries we were already selling as parts of our kits, as well as partially prepared food we prep/cook in-house. 80% of what we sell is made within 200 miles of SF.

We also assume you have things like olive oil. Hah.

Also worth mentioning is that we hold onto produce for usually less than 24 hours from the farm to your door.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Good-Eggs-hatches-ne...

Let me know if you'd like a beta invite to try the kits out. (Or to talk Operations Engineering (my team), it's fascinating and full of classic compsci problems)

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I think assuming people will have a base set of ingredients (i.e. olive oil like you said) is a great idea.

It's probably a good idea too to offer these ingredients through your service as an upcharge. "Buy your kitchen starter pack".

For meal kit customers who may not have the time or knowledge to stock the basics, this could be a win-win.

Oh, totally - it's one of the very next things we're implementing (personalization/recommendation, etc)

Super interesting. It's a shift from straight meal kits that are more "healthy meals that you don't have time to shop for" to more wholistic kitchen foodstuffs management.

It's more like a personalized Instacart in that way. Could see this going the way of "Trunk Club for the kitchen"

I saw Good Eggs on Nextdoor and learned a little bit about you guys there. I think I'll definitely check out the service. One thing I'd like to know is the average calorie count of the meals in the dinner kits. I couldn't find any information about this. I like my dinners to be on the higher-calorie side - anywhere in the general range of 700-1000. If you guys hit that consistently, then the dinner service would be pretty awesome for me.

That's a great question. We haven't done the calorie calculations yet but they're full of healthy fats. Each meal is about three servings, if that helps any.

Good Eggs version looks worthwhile, Blue Apron and the rest are not same day convenient, and you've got quality groceries alongside.

Your profile email looks outdated, may I request beta invite?

Fixed - send me an email :)

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