WEBVTT - One Potato Delivers Organic, Family Friendly Meal Boxes

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<v Speaker 1>One Potato is a family friendly meal subscription service. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>rich Tomiro. This is rich on Tech Daily. Well, I've

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<v Speaker 1>tried a bunch of these meal subscription services. Basically a

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<v Speaker 1>box of food they deliver to your house every week.

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<v Speaker 1>You cook it up. I've tried Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and

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<v Speaker 1>one called Green Chef. If I had to rank them,

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<v Speaker 1>I'd say Hello Fresh, then Blue Apron, then Green Chef.

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<v Speaker 1>But One Potato is different. This is a meal box

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<v Speaker 1>that's designed with families in mind. It might be my

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<v Speaker 1>new number one. It's kind of for families like mine

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<v Speaker 1>that want to eat better, but you don't know where

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<v Speaker 1>to start. And yes, I've tried the recipes thing. My

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<v Speaker 1>wife and I we actually plan out all of our

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<v Speaker 1>meals for the entire week on Sunday. And here's the problem.

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<v Speaker 1>You buy all the ingredients for recipes and you just

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<v Speaker 1>made yourself like a forty or fifty dollars dinner because

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<v Speaker 1>you're getting spices and all these little things you only

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<v Speaker 1>need a little bit of, and the rest usually gets wasted.

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<v Speaker 1>One Potato was started by Katherine McCord. It delivers a

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<v Speaker 1>box to your house every Tuesday full of enough ingredients

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<v Speaker 1>to cook two or three meals for the entire family,

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<v Speaker 1>so everyone's included, which in our household right now, we

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<v Speaker 1>do the meal kit for us and then we cook

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<v Speaker 1>something separate for the kids. So this way you can

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<v Speaker 1>cook one meal for everyone. Everything is really easy to make,

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<v Speaker 1>and the recipes equally appeal to adults and kids. The

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<v Speaker 1>ingredients are organic, which you're gonna love, and they're also

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<v Speaker 1>semi prepared, so mostly the work is done for you.

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<v Speaker 1>The ingredients come in a lot of plastic bags, so

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<v Speaker 1>if there's like a broth, it's in a plastic bag,

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<v Speaker 1>some sort of sauce, and a lot of times you're

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<v Speaker 1>just sort of mixing things up, heating things up. There's

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<v Speaker 1>minimal prep work, so, like Catherine explained to me, if

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<v Speaker 1>you're making French fries, you're not gonna have to chop

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<v Speaker 1>up the potato. They're basically going to send you pre

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<v Speaker 1>chopped potatoes and you just put them in the oven

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<v Speaker 1>with a little salt and pepper. Right now, one Potatoes

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<v Speaker 1>delivering to eight states Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,

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<v Speaker 1>and Utah. From what I hear, it sounds like they're

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<v Speaker 1>expanding to the East Coast very soon. I know they

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<v Speaker 1>have a long waiting list of people that want it there.

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<v Speaker 1>They also have options like nut free and vegetarian, and

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<v Speaker 1>you do get to choose your recipes each week from

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<v Speaker 1>a handful of options. But right now they only deliver

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<v Speaker 1>on Tuesdays, so that's when your box arrives to your house.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me give you a little backstory quickly on Katherine McCord.

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<v Speaker 1>This is really funny. She started a website called Welicious

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<v Speaker 1>many years ago. When I had a kid, I started

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<v Speaker 1>looking at that website to kind of get an idea

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<v Speaker 1>of how to cook for kids. This is where I

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<v Speaker 1>learned to broil salmon, and so I was really impressed

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<v Speaker 1>with that. And here's the funny thing. So a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of weeks ago, we were looking through recipes for something

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<v Speaker 1>to cook and I found one that I clipped from

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<v Speaker 1>Parents magazine back in like twenty eleven when I had

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<v Speaker 1>my first kid, and we made it and I looked

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<v Speaker 1>closely and look who the recipes author was. It was

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<v Speaker 1>Catherine McCord. I was like, all right, I gotta do

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<v Speaker 1>the story on one potato because they had pitched me

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<v Speaker 1>on one potato. And I figured you know what, if

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<v Speaker 1>this is happening, I broiled salmon. I know how to

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<v Speaker 1>broil salmon because of Catherine. I made this other recipe.

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<v Speaker 1>It was like a pesto chicken pasta that was just delicious.

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<v Speaker 1>The whole family loved it. I said, you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta try out one tato. So recently I was

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<v Speaker 1>in her kitchen. We made two meals from the box.

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<v Speaker 1>The first was fried chicken with smashed peas, freshly baked biscuits,

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<v Speaker 1>and coal slaw. And everything was really easy to make.

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<v Speaker 1>Even the egg wash for the chicken that you know

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<v Speaker 1>you used to bread, it was already prepped and its

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<v Speaker 1>pasteurized eggs. The biscuits, all we had to do was

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<v Speaker 1>separate the dough and then bake them up. And the

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<v Speaker 1>coal slaw you just spooned out of a plastic bag.

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<v Speaker 1>It was already prepared. In fact, Catherine always looks to

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<v Speaker 1>make kind of healthy options whenever she can. So the

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<v Speaker 1>coal saw is made with yogurt instead of whatever they

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<v Speaker 1>make coalsau with. I guess mayo, and so I tasted

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<v Speaker 1>it and it was great. Everything tasted great, in fact,

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<v Speaker 1>and the whole family will love it. Another meal we

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<v Speaker 1>made was turkey burrito bowls. Now here's the deal. I

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<v Speaker 1>am not a huge fan of ground turkey. I know,

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<v Speaker 1>I for some reason, I just don't really like it.

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<v Speaker 1>But so I was a little hesitant when we made

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<v Speaker 1>this one because I had to try it. And it

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<v Speaker 1>was delicious. And we didn't even season the ground turkey,

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<v Speaker 1>which is kind of crazy. We only made the meal

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like halfway, but I made it kind of

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<v Speaker 1>faster than normal, and it was really good. And I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not just saying this part, but the prepared salsa and

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<v Speaker 1>guacamole that I had that came in the kit was

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<v Speaker 1>among the best pre prepared gualk and salsa I've ever

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<v Speaker 1>had in my life. So it was really good. I

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<v Speaker 1>was very impressed. And did I mention Each box of

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<v Speaker 1>one potato comes with a little roll of cookie dough,

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<v Speaker 1>So the flavor we had was like lemon coconut. I

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<v Speaker 1>baked those up at home and they were really good.

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<v Speaker 1>The flavor changes every week. Pricing for the boxes start

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<v Speaker 1>at sixty dollars a week. It works out to about

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<v Speaker 1>seven to thirteen dollars a meal depending on how many

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<v Speaker 1>meals you purchase, So the more that you buy, the

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<v Speaker 1>cheaper the meals get and yes, drive throughs might be cheaper,

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<v Speaker 1>but they're definitely not as fulfilling for you or as

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<v Speaker 1>good for you in the family, and this way the

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<v Speaker 1>kids can help you cook. Now, if you want to

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<v Speaker 1>try one potato you can use my code rich on

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<v Speaker 1>tech thirty for thirty percent off your first box and

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<v Speaker 1>let me know what you think. I think we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>do it for our family. We're gonna start next week.

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<v Speaker 1>We just canceled our Blue Apron to try this one. Otherwise,

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<v Speaker 1>I will say, if you're going for one of these kits,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe you're just adults. You don't need the potato for

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<v Speaker 1>the family. I say, Hello, Fresh is better than Blue

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<v Speaker 1>Apron in my opinion, So let me know what you

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<v Speaker 1>think on Twitter if you want. Otherwise, thanks for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>If you want to see me cook up one of

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<v Speaker 1>those one potato meals, I've got the video there. Otherwise,

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<v Speaker 1>I will talk to you real soon