Speaker 1: One Potato is a family friendly meal subscription service. I'm
Speaker 1: rich Tomiro. This is rich on Tech Daily. Well, I've
Speaker 1: tried a bunch of these meal subscription services. Basically a
Speaker 1: box of food they deliver to your house every week.
Speaker 1: You cook it up. I've tried Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and
Speaker 1: one called Green Chef. If I had to rank them,
Speaker 1: I'd say Hello Fresh, then Blue Apron, then Green Chef.
Speaker 1: But One Potato is different. This is a meal box
Speaker 1: that's designed with families in mind. It might be my
Speaker 1: new number one. It's kind of for families like mine
Speaker 1: that want to eat better, but you don't know where
Speaker 1: to start. And yes, I've tried the recipes thing. My
Speaker 1: wife and I we actually plan out all of our
Speaker 1: meals for the entire week on Sunday. And here's the problem.
Speaker 1: You buy all the ingredients for recipes and you just
Speaker 1: made yourself like a forty or fifty dollars dinner because
Speaker 1: you're getting spices and all these little things you only
Speaker 1: need a little bit of, and the rest usually gets wasted.
Speaker 1: One Potato was started by Katherine McCord. It delivers a
Speaker 1: box to your house every Tuesday full of enough ingredients
Speaker 1: to cook two or three meals for the entire family,
Speaker 1: so everyone's included, which in our household right now, we
Speaker 1: do the meal kit for us and then we cook
Speaker 1: something separate for the kids. So this way you can
Speaker 1: cook one meal for everyone. Everything is really easy to make,
Speaker 1: and the recipes equally appeal to adults and kids. The
Speaker 1: ingredients are organic, which you're gonna love, and they're also
Speaker 1: semi prepared, so mostly the work is done for you.
Speaker 1: The ingredients come in a lot of plastic bags, so
Speaker 1: if there's like a broth, it's in a plastic bag,
Speaker 1: some sort of sauce, and a lot of times you're
Speaker 1: just sort of mixing things up, heating things up. There's
Speaker 1: minimal prep work, so, like Catherine explained to me, if
Speaker 1: you're making French fries, you're not gonna have to chop
Speaker 1: up the potato. They're basically going to send you pre
Speaker 1: chopped potatoes and you just put them in the oven
Speaker 1: with a little salt and pepper. Right now, one Potatoes
Speaker 1: delivering to eight states Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
Speaker 1: and Utah. From what I hear, it sounds like they're
Speaker 1: expanding to the East Coast very soon. I know they
Speaker 1: have a long waiting list of people that want it there.
Speaker 1: They also have options like nut free and vegetarian, and
Speaker 1: you do get to choose your recipes each week from
Speaker 1: a handful of options. But right now they only deliver
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays, so that's when your box arrives to your house.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a little backstory quickly on Katherine McCord.
Speaker 1: This is really funny. She started a website called Welicious
Speaker 1: many years ago. When I had a kid, I started
Speaker 1: looking at that website to kind of get an idea
Speaker 1: of how to cook for kids. This is where I
Speaker 1: learned to broil salmon, and so I was really impressed
Speaker 1: with that. And here's the funny thing. So a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, we were looking through recipes for something
Speaker 1: to cook and I found one that I clipped from
Speaker 1: Parents magazine back in like twenty eleven when I had
Speaker 1: my first kid, and we made it and I looked
Speaker 1: closely and look who the recipes author was. It was
Speaker 1: Catherine McCord. I was like, all right, I gotta do
Speaker 1: the story on one potato because they had pitched me
Speaker 1: on one potato. And I figured you know what, if
Speaker 1: this is happening, I broiled salmon. I know how to
Speaker 1: broil salmon because of Catherine. I made this other recipe.
Speaker 1: It was like a pesto chicken pasta that was just delicious.
Speaker 1: The whole family loved it. I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I gotta try out one tato. So recently I was
Speaker 1: in her kitchen. We made two meals from the box.
Speaker 1: The first was fried chicken with smashed peas, freshly baked biscuits,
Speaker 1: and coal slaw. And everything was really easy to make.
Speaker 1: Even the egg wash for the chicken that you know
Speaker 1: you used to bread, it was already prepped and its
Speaker 1: pasteurized eggs. The biscuits, all we had to do was
Speaker 1: separate the dough and then bake them up. And the
Speaker 1: coal slaw you just spooned out of a plastic bag.
Speaker 1: It was already prepared. In fact, Catherine always looks to
Speaker 1: make kind of healthy options whenever she can. So the
Speaker 1: coal saw is made with yogurt instead of whatever they
Speaker 1: make coalsau with. I guess mayo, and so I tasted
Speaker 1: it and it was great. Everything tasted great, in fact,
Speaker 1: and the whole family will love it. Another meal we
Speaker 1: made was turkey burrito bowls. Now here's the deal. I
Speaker 1: am not a huge fan of ground turkey. I know,
Speaker 1: I for some reason, I just don't really like it.
Speaker 1: But so I was a little hesitant when we made
Speaker 1: this one because I had to try it. And it
Speaker 1: was delicious. And we didn't even season the ground turkey,
Speaker 1: which is kind of crazy. We only made the meal
Speaker 1: kind of like halfway, but I made it kind of
Speaker 1: faster than normal, and it was really good. And I'm
Speaker 1: not just saying this part, but the prepared salsa and
Speaker 1: guacamole that I had that came in the kit was
Speaker 1: among the best pre prepared gualk and salsa I've ever
Speaker 1: had in my life. So it was really good. I
Speaker 1: was very impressed. And did I mention Each box of
Speaker 1: one potato comes with a little roll of cookie dough,
Speaker 1: So the flavor we had was like lemon coconut. I
Speaker 1: baked those up at home and they were really good.
Speaker 1: The flavor changes every week. Pricing for the boxes start
Speaker 1: at sixty dollars a week. It works out to about
Speaker 1: seven to thirteen dollars a meal depending on how many
Speaker 1: meals you purchase, So the more that you buy, the
Speaker 1: cheaper the meals get and yes, drive throughs might be cheaper,
Speaker 1: but they're definitely not as fulfilling for you or as
Speaker 1: good for you in the family, and this way the
Speaker 1: kids can help you cook. Now, if you want to
Speaker 1: try one potato you can use my code rich on
Speaker 1: tech thirty for thirty percent off your first box and
Speaker 1: let me know what you think. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it for our family. We're gonna start next week.
Speaker 1: We just canceled our Blue Apron to try this one. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: I will say, if you're going for one of these kits,
Speaker 1: maybe you're just adults. You don't need the potato for
Speaker 1: the family. I say, Hello, Fresh is better than Blue
Speaker 1: Apron in my opinion, So let me know what you
Speaker 1: think on Twitter if you want. Otherwise, thanks for listening.
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Speaker 1: If you want to see me cook up one of
Speaker 1: those one potato meals, I've got the video there. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: I will talk to you real soon