Rating 7/10
I was planning to make a chicken stew tonight, but my husband bought skinless, boneless chicken thighs instead of the chicken parts I’d asked him to get. So I was left with trying to figure out what to make for dinner with the ingredients I had at hand. I could have easily replicated a meal I’d made before, but I saw it as an opportunity to try something new. I looked through different meal kit company sites, but the only one that had a simple recipe I could make with the stuff I had at home was EveryPlate. Perhaps I should have started with them.
This recipe for Garlic-Rosemary Chicken with Roasted Root Veggies was uncomplicated, but I thought pretty good. My daughter, who didn’t want the rosemary-garlic topping found the chicken flavorless, but that’s to be expected. The rosemary-garlic topping was good, if not gourmet quality. I’m not sure I’d make this particular dish again, however.
I used chicken thighs rather than the chicken breasts that the kit would have used, both because that’s what I had at home and because I much prefer them. I didn’t have a carrot, a sweet potato or Yukon gold potatoes, so I substituted with the two large russet potatoes I had at home.
I made this meal for 3 people. EveryPlate does not have kits that feed three, but their kit for 2 would have cost $13 (including shipping). A kit for 3, if it existed, would have cost $18. I spent ~$7.50 making it for the three of us. Had I used a carrot and sweet potatoes, it might have cost a couple of dollars more. While I didn’t buy any ingredients to make this meal, I had bought some recently enough to qualify as not being in my pantry just waiting to be used.
| EveryPlate Ingredients | My Ingredients | Cost |
| 2 skinless boneless chicken breast fillets | 6 skinless boneless chicken thigh fillets | $5.50 |
| 1 carrot | ommitted | – |
| 2 sweet potatoes | ommitted | – |
| 5 Yukon gold potatoes | 2 Russet potatoes | $1 |
| rosemary | rosemary | homegrown |
| 1 red onion | 1 red onion | $1 |
| 2 garlic cloves | 4 garlic cloves | pantry |
| 1 “unit” chicken stock concentrate | 1/2 tsp chicken stock concentrate | pantry |
Thanks for the information. I like to remake the recipes but I don’t always write down the ingredient amounts when I purchase kits.