Five Best Meals in a Box for the Holiday or Anytime

December 6, 2018

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(Gerry Furth-Sides) These appealing boxed “meals” to cook at home differentiate themselves because they are put together by a restaurant executive chef with key ingredients and Justine Kelly, co-founder and Executive Chef and the team at Sun Basket (www.sunbasket.com) for meal delivery service //localfoodeater.com/new-pangea-nutrition-brings-mediterranean-diet-to-usa/ with key ingredients and recipes. Sun Basket Family meal kits differentiates themselves with high-quality, non-GMO ingredients with choice of Paleo, Vegetarian, Seafood, Poultry.

“Steak Au Poivre” from SUN BASKET

The meals are all contained in a brown “grocery bag” carefully packed in an insulated box. Instructions are in booklets inside and all the materials can be recycled.

The “little brown bag” of SUN BASKET groceries

Sun Basket’s insulated box with dry ice.

(2-4) For the whole kit and caboodle, Spoonful of Comfort is the best holiday treat, whether it is the original chicken noodle soup or butternut squash we loved even more. It’s home delivery feels like a gift of a talented chef in your kitchen, perfect for any holiday, house-warming, “care package” to a college students. or “get well” sentiment (the founders’ intention).

“Spoonful of Comfort” adds a fresh twist upon this old-fashioned favorite, proven scientifically to be healing, with seasoned, roasted chicken, fresh thyme and parsley, and “oodles of noodles.”

A healthy, reusable glass container holds the soups

Inside are carefully cooked and packaged homemade soup, rolls, cookies and a beautiful ladle. Each item is prepared and sent out for delivery the same day, items travel from box to freezer because of the sophisticated packing, which includes dry ice. www.spoonfulofcomfort.com/

In the carefully packed boxes are:

64-oz. jar of homemade-style soup (4-6 generous servings)
1/2 dozen back rolls (just chewy and dense enough, dotted with rosemary)
1/2 dozen cookies
A ladle “to serve up the smiles”
Personalized note card
Colorful, custom packaging

(Photo courtesy of Spoonful of Comfort)

Cookies are as big and bold as the graphics on the box

One bottle of soup serves 4-6 generously ($10 for the complete meal).

Butternut Squash Soup (photo courtesy of Spoonful of Comfort)

Refined, Gingersnaps with appealing crunch, chew and thumbprint cookie flat top surface.

(5) Jessica Weiss’ Apple Crostata baked at //www.caffemarchio.com a Roman-Style Coffee Shop in NYC are so popular . These rustic, yet exquisite pastries, as only Italian bakers can create, are now offered by Joe Ariel’s Goldbelly, which brings them to your doorstep overnight in top form, no delivery charge. Goldbelly also offers popular regional signature items for delivery.