Rating: 7/10
I forgot to cancel or skip Gobble after my first week trial, so I found myself getting the default meals for this week. Of course, I had to pay full price for them (minus the $15 credit I got because they had sent me the wrong meat last time). Given my previous experience with Gobble, I wasn’t altogether upset at my error and I was happy to get a kit that I assume is vegan.
Gobble distinguishes itself from other meal kit companies by delivering kits that can be prepared in 15 minutes (maybe 20 for those of us who are slow in the kitchen). They do this by pre-dicing and pre-cooking some ingredients and including prepared sauces/spice mixes (other meal kit companies do the latter). In this case, the rice came pre-cooked and just needed to be heated up in the microwave, and the tofu came pre-cubed. I still had to trim and cut the green beans, slice the garlic, remove the stems from the basil leaves and, had I used the chilies, I’d have had to slice them.
While I prepared the veggies, my teen daughter actually cooked the meal and she found it to be quite simple to put together. She doesn’t like peppers, so she didn’t use them in this dish. She was quite happy with the results, and particularly loved the rice. The tofu, alas, tasted like tofu, but she hasn’t encountered a recipe in which it tastes of anything else (e.g. where it actually absorbs the sauce).
The only concern we had about the meal is that it wasn’t a big enough portion for two people. She ate more than half for dinner (the photo shows the leftovers which she had for after-school snack the next day).
From my perspective, the main issue with this kit is that it’s really expensive for what you get and not distinctive enough. My daughter has been making herself stir fries with just as much ease for just a few dollars. Also, while this meal might have been vegan, Gobble doesn’t offer enough vegan/vegetarian meals for vegan/vegetarians to have choices every week.
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