I’ve never used them but I like the concept of zero food waste. If I need a couple of mushrooms or something for a dish, I usually have the choice of going to a supermarket and having to buy a whole pack or going to the green grocer and paying £££ for the right amount. So annoying.
What is a good salary in UK at present?
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The trade-off is quite a bit of wasted packaging, single paper bags for one vegetable and the like. When we had Grubby meal kits it was almost all paper or recyclable at least, but deffo felt the waste after each meal.
Yup it it avoids food waste, keeps portions appropriately sized to avoid gorging and (like someone else mentioned above) we find we spend less money with it than without it.
It is the future \o/
Agree with @LuckyBenski that there probably is a little bit of extra recycling + other general waste though.
This is why I stopped HelloFresh. A lot of the packaging was not recyclable. Compared to MindfulChef ($$$$$$) and Gousto, it was way behind the curve.
Yeah green chef is expensive.
Tried it for a few weeks and it's coming in at 100 for 8 meals.
With this it's easy to hit 100 a week.
I'm a tad disappointed with the waste from it.
Each week a load of frozen water packs + insulation come which has to be put in the bin.
Have huel too which is a bit cheaper. But really easy. Can gave powders for breakfast and the dried stuff for lunch. Really good. For camping and days outdoors.
Not sure I can tolerate the green chef at 100 for 8 meals.
Sorry. That's 16 meals for 100. There's 2.of us.
I'd say if went beyond the trial it would work out 120 a week for food. 500ppm for 2 people
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Yeah I was super shocked you dont send this back once a month for something.
The freeze packs and insulation is completely reusable.
I don't think I'll use it past the trial. I'd say I't doubles the monthly black bin amount just using it.
Usually have one black bin full a month. Now it's 2.
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QQ: That hello freash 3 day plan, is that 2 meals per day so 6 meals in total?
I only tend to eat two meals a day, one of them being a salad/warp/sandwich for lunch then my main tea...
If it is 6 meals, I would consider getting that for my tea and then I would only have to shop for my lunch.. and on the 7th day it would be my cheat day aka kebab, pizza, curry take away.
I only tend to eat two meals a day, one of them being a salad/warp/sandwich for lunch then my main tea...
If it is 6 meals, I would consider getting that for my tea and then I would only have to shop for my lunch.. and on the 7th day it would be my cheat day aka kebab, pizza, curry take away.
We have green chef (on trial) and there are options.
Best value seems to be 4 meals for 4 people.
Cook all 4 and then it lasts 2 evening meals (some can't really do that)
But you can get 3 meals a week for 2 or 4 meals for 2 people for example.
I assume all these places are the same?
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I'm currently in the same dilemma with contacting and a permanent position, GP locum though not IT. Contracting/locum work has collapsed in the last few months and I'm planning for a worst case scenario of a 40% drop in gross income. Though we could quite easily manage and absorb a drop like that I'm tempted to pick up a permanent position to tie me over for a short period of time until I can see the lay of the land hopefully next year.
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Out of random interest what do you do out there?
I'm very interested in potentially emigrating to NZ in a 2-3 years
I'm a civil engineer but working in a senior role in vertical construction. My wife works as PM for NZs largest Telco company. It's safe to say that we have it extremely sweet. We're looking at serious drops in income if we move back to the UK. I genuinely cannot believe the rubbish money on offer.
We're also looking at Dublin as the salaries in our fields on offer is higher, but they seem to have a housing shortage/crisis from what I read. Then there's the passport/visa thing. Not sure what the deal is for UK passport holders (and now NZ passport holders) these days with moving to Ireland.
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Why come back? A lot of us are wanting to leave!
I'm on a very good salary (infrastructure/civil engineering) but I could earn 50% more in private sector and abroad.
I'm hoping to find opportunities abroad at the moment.
Family reasons. Parents getting older, not really in our daughter's life apart from through a screen once a week. And it's a helluva flight to get there.
Money is better in Australia than NZ. I'm leaving 30% on the table by not working in Oz. Prefer NZ though. We truly have a sweet life here. The weather can be testing, but you all will know about that in the UK.
Don't know what we'll end up doing yet.
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Ah I can understand that. My family live in the Med so not as bad. But yes they're getting old now.
Yeah I prefer NZ to Oz.
Well good luck whatever you decide to do.
Very envious.
Im starting research as to if its viable for me and what I may need to do to make it happen.
NZ is expensive housing wise, and yeah Oz is better. But it doesn't appeal as much.
I hope it happens. But a few things have to align for it to happen.
I'm dejected by so many things in the UK and personal that I really do want to both leave UK as well as having the pull to NZ.
Main issue is jobs and what I need to do to make it happen. Sorry to hear you feel you have to come back if you feel you need to rather than want to.
Soldato
I feel your pain... I just want to pay off this mortage (7-9 years left), then I'll be playing a different ball game and will have a long hard think about the future.
My current long term goal is to live in Kos.. but the reason for the quoting is that when I was talking to an empoyer in Dubai, they said it was quite common for people to go to Dubai and work there for a few years then move on to Aus/NZ afterwards. It might be worth looking into; working in Dubai for a few year and getting paid tax free before moving on to Aus/NZ.
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My brother must have been a pioneer in this as he worked in Dubai for a couple of years and then moved to Australia in the 90's. Got the UK/Aussie accent. It is really unique actually when you hear it. He did consider moving back in the mid 00's mainly because of family but I think he dodged a bullet when 08 happened as we have nosedived ever since.
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Housing is expensive yes, but where I am, it's still very doable and you get value for money. The wife is an absolute house snob, and what we can get for our money in the UK is rather poor in comparison to what we have now. It's almost idyllic where we are.
Lots of work in NZ, so you'll find something for sure, but it needs to be decent paying and you'll have to bring a bit of coin with you to buy a nice place. NZ can be just as dejecting if you pay any attention to our idiot, toddler, clown news media. Or having to complete in the low or middle end of the housing market, earning an average salary. Then it's going to be better the devil you know.
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Currently around 63k - the missus will most likely be around the 40k mark.
I think it's 15 hours a week. Kids start school at 4 or 3 in the UK?
I didn't realise cable was still a thing. Pretty much no one uses that here. It's all finer. Unless you're outside of the city / major areas - then it's well, whatever you can get. Sometimes only half decent cell service.
Will keep that in mind when searching for a place. Is Virgin Media pretty good then?
Thanks for the tip. I don't need a big limit. Even 20 pounds would be fine, if it meant I can use it to build a credit score.