April 16, 2018 • 5 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
One Potato is a family friendly meal subscription service. I'm
rich Tomiro. This is rich on Tech Daily. Well, I've
tried a bunch of these meal subscription services. Basically a
box of food they deliver to your house every week.
You cook it up. I've tried Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and
one called Green Chef. If I had to rank them,
I'd say Hello Fresh, then Blue Apron, then Green Chef.
(00:26):
But One Potato is different. This is a meal box
that's designed with families in mind. It might be my
new number one. It's kind of for families like mine
that want to eat better, but you don't know where
to start. And yes, I've tried the recipes thing. My
wife and I we actually plan out all of our
meals for the entire week on Sunday. And here's the problem.
You buy all the ingredients for recipes and you just
(00:48):
made yourself like a forty or fifty dollars dinner because
you're getting spices and all these little things you only
need a little bit of, and the rest usually gets wasted.
One Potato was started by Katherine McCord. It delivers a
box to your house every Tuesday full of enough ingredients
to cook two or three meals for the entire family,
so everyone's included, which in our household right now, we
do the meal kit for us and then we cook
(01:10):
something separate for the kids. So this way you can
cook one meal for everyone. Everything is really easy to make,
and the recipes equally appeal to adults and kids. The
ingredients are organic, which you're gonna love, and they're also
semi prepared, so mostly the work is done for you.
The ingredients come in a lot of plastic bags, so
if there's like a broth, it's in a plastic bag,
some sort of sauce, and a lot of times you're
(01:32):
just sort of mixing things up, heating things up. There's
minimal prep work, so, like Catherine explained to me, if
you're making French fries, you're not gonna have to chop
up the potato. They're basically going to send you pre
chopped potatoes and you just put them in the oven
with a little salt and pepper. Right now, one Potatoes
delivering to eight states Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
(01:53):
and Utah. From what I hear, it sounds like they're
expanding to the East Coast very soon. I know they
have a long waiting list of people that want it there.
They also have options like nut free and vegetarian, and
you do get to choose your recipes each week from
a handful of options. But right now they only deliver
on Tuesdays, so that's when your box arrives to your house.
Let me give you a little backstory quickly on Katherine McCord.
(02:14):
This is really funny. She started a website called Welicious
many years ago. When I had a kid, I started
looking at that website to kind of get an idea
of how to cook for kids. This is where I
learned to broil salmon, and so I was really impressed
with that. And here's the funny thing. So a couple
of weeks ago, we were looking through recipes for something
to cook and I found one that I clipped from
Parents magazine back in like twenty eleven when I had
(02:35):
my first kid, and we made it and I looked
closely and look who the recipes author was. It was
Catherine McCord. I was like, all right, I gotta do
the story on one potato because they had pitched me
on one potato. And I figured you know what, if
this is happening, I broiled salmon. I know how to
broil salmon because of Catherine. I made this other recipe.
It was like a pesto chicken pasta that was just delicious.
(02:57):
The whole family loved it. I said, you know what,
I gotta try out one tato. So recently I was
in her kitchen. We made two meals from the box.
The first was fried chicken with smashed peas, freshly baked biscuits,
and coal slaw. And everything was really easy to make.
Even the egg wash for the chicken that you know
you used to bread, it was already prepped and its
pasteurized eggs. The biscuits, all we had to do was
(03:18):
separate the dough and then bake them up. And the
coal slaw you just spooned out of a plastic bag.
It was already prepared. In fact, Catherine always looks to
make kind of healthy options whenever she can. So the
coal saw is made with yogurt instead of whatever they
make coalsau with. I guess mayo, and so I tasted
it and it was great. Everything tasted great, in fact,
and the whole family will love it. Another meal we
(03:38):
made was turkey burrito bowls. Now here's the deal. I
am not a huge fan of ground turkey. I know,
I for some reason, I just don't really like it.
But so I was a little hesitant when we made
this one because I had to try it. And it
was delicious. And we didn't even season the ground turkey,
which is kind of crazy. We only made the meal
kind of like halfway, but I made it kind of
faster than normal, and it was really good. And I'm
(04:01):
not just saying this part, but the prepared salsa and
guacamole that I had that came in the kit was
among the best pre prepared gualk and salsa I've ever
had in my life. So it was really good. I
was very impressed. And did I mention Each box of
one potato comes with a little roll of cookie dough,
So the flavor we had was like lemon coconut. I
baked those up at home and they were really good.
(04:22):
The flavor changes every week. Pricing for the boxes start
at sixty dollars a week. It works out to about
seven to thirteen dollars a meal depending on how many
meals you purchase, So the more that you buy, the
cheaper the meals get and yes, drive throughs might be cheaper,
but they're definitely not as fulfilling for you or as
good for you in the family, and this way the
kids can help you cook. Now, if you want to
try one potato you can use my code rich on
(04:44):
tech thirty for thirty percent off your first box and
let me know what you think. I think we're gonna
do it for our family. We're gonna start next week.
We just canceled our Blue Apron to try this one. Otherwise,
I will say, if you're going for one of these kits,
maybe you're just adults. You don't need the potato for
the family. I say, Hello, Fresh is better than Blue
Apron in my opinion, So let me know what you
(05:06):
think on Twitter if you want. Otherwise, thanks for listening.
If you can leave a review for this podcast, I
love when you do that, you can do it in
the Apple Podcasts app. Imrich jamiro Rich on tech dot tv.
If you want to see me cook up one of
those one potato meals, I've got the video there. Otherwise,
I will talk to you real soon
One Potato is a family friendly meal subscription service. I'm
rich Tomiro. This is rich on Tech Daily. Well, I've
tried a bunch of these meal subscription services. Basically a
box of food they deliver to your house every week.
You cook it up. I've tried Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and
one called Green Chef. If I had to rank them,
I'd say Hello Fresh, then Blue Apron, then Green Chef.
(00:26):
But One Potato is different. This is a meal box
that's designed with families in mind. It might be my
new number one. It's kind of for families like mine
that want to eat better, but you don't know where
to start. And yes, I've tried the recipes thing. My
wife and I we actually plan out all of our
meals for the entire week on Sunday. And here's the problem.
You buy all the ingredients for recipes and you just
(00:48):
made yourself like a forty or fifty dollars dinner because
you're getting spices and all these little things you only
need a little bit of, and the rest usually gets wasted.
One Potato was started by Katherine McCord. It delivers a
box to your house every Tuesday full of enough ingredients
to cook two or three meals for the entire family,
so everyone's included, which in our household right now, we
do the meal kit for us and then we cook
(01:10):
something separate for the kids. So this way you can
cook one meal for everyone. Everything is really easy to make,
and the recipes equally appeal to adults and kids. The
ingredients are organic, which you're gonna love, and they're also
semi prepared, so mostly the work is done for you.
The ingredients come in a lot of plastic bags, so
if there's like a broth, it's in a plastic bag,
some sort of sauce, and a lot of times you're
(01:32):
just sort of mixing things up, heating things up. There's
minimal prep work, so, like Catherine explained to me, if
you're making French fries, you're not gonna have to chop
up the potato. They're basically going to send you pre
chopped potatoes and you just put them in the oven
with a little salt and pepper. Right now, one Potatoes
delivering to eight states Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
(01:53):
and Utah. From what I hear, it sounds like they're
expanding to the East Coast very soon. I know they
have a long waiting list of people that want it there.
They also have options like nut free and vegetarian, and
you do get to choose your recipes each week from
a handful of options. But right now they only deliver
on Tuesdays, so that's when your box arrives to your house.
Let me give you a little backstory quickly on Katherine McCord.
(02:14):
This is really funny. She started a website called Welicious
many years ago. When I had a kid, I started
looking at that website to kind of get an idea
of how to cook for kids. This is where I
learned to broil salmon, and so I was really impressed
with that. And here's the funny thing. So a couple
of weeks ago, we were looking through recipes for something
to cook and I found one that I clipped from
Parents magazine back in like twenty eleven when I had
(02:35):
my first kid, and we made it and I looked
closely and look who the recipes author was. It was
Catherine McCord. I was like, all right, I gotta do
the story on one potato because they had pitched me
on one potato. And I figured you know what, if
this is happening, I broiled salmon. I know how to
broil salmon because of Catherine. I made this other recipe.
It was like a pesto chicken pasta that was just delicious.
(02:57):
The whole family loved it. I said, you know what,
I gotta try out one tato. So recently I was
in her kitchen. We made two meals from the box.
The first was fried chicken with smashed peas, freshly baked biscuits,
and coal slaw. And everything was really easy to make.
Even the egg wash for the chicken that you know
you used to bread, it was already prepped and its
pasteurized eggs. The biscuits, all we had to do was
(03:18):
separate the dough and then bake them up. And the
coal slaw you just spooned out of a plastic bag.
It was already prepared. In fact, Catherine always looks to
make kind of healthy options whenever she can. So the
coal saw is made with yogurt instead of whatever they
make coalsau with. I guess mayo, and so I tasted
it and it was great. Everything tasted great, in fact,
and the whole family will love it. Another meal we
(03:38):
made was turkey burrito bowls. Now here's the deal. I
am not a huge fan of ground turkey. I know,
I for some reason, I just don't really like it.
But so I was a little hesitant when we made
this one because I had to try it. And it
was delicious. And we didn't even season the ground turkey,
which is kind of crazy. We only made the meal
kind of like halfway, but I made it kind of
faster than normal, and it was really good. And I'm
(04:01):
not just saying this part, but the prepared salsa and
guacamole that I had that came in the kit was
among the best pre prepared gualk and salsa I've ever
had in my life. So it was really good. I
was very impressed. And did I mention Each box of
one potato comes with a little roll of cookie dough,
So the flavor we had was like lemon coconut. I
baked those up at home and they were really good.
(04:22):
The flavor changes every week. Pricing for the boxes start
at sixty dollars a week. It works out to about
seven to thirteen dollars a meal depending on how many
meals you purchase, So the more that you buy, the
cheaper the meals get and yes, drive throughs might be cheaper,
but they're definitely not as fulfilling for you or as
good for you in the family, and this way the
kids can help you cook. Now, if you want to
try one potato you can use my code rich on
(04:44):
tech thirty for thirty percent off your first box and
let me know what you think. I think we're gonna
do it for our family. We're gonna start next week.
We just canceled our Blue Apron to try this one. Otherwise,
I will say, if you're going for one of these kits,
maybe you're just adults. You don't need the potato for
the family. I say, Hello, Fresh is better than Blue
Apron in my opinion, So let me know what you
(05:06):
think on Twitter if you want. Otherwise, thanks for listening.
If you can leave a review for this podcast, I
love when you do that, you can do it in
the Apple Podcasts app. Imrich jamiro Rich on tech dot tv.
If you want to see me cook up one of
those one potato meals, I've got the video there. Otherwise,
I will talk to you real soon
Host
Rich DeMuro
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