WRS has a competition today for Meal Delivery Switzerland — Quality, Ready-To-Eat Meals | Powermeals . Intriguing product and not too expensive.
Here is a five minute interview with one of their employees.
Has anyone tried this?
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If I read correctly, it’s 70chf for 4x meals… which equates to fresh/ready takeaway or delivery near my office…
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I didn’t, but we should totaly have a wiki with all of these.
Shoutout to Legends pies, our freezer is stacked with these 
highly recommended!
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It’s always an internal struggle not to cave in and indulge in this kind of service. I’m time-poor but also a tight-wad. I know some families that swear by it a couple of times a week just to get them out of the tight spot of busy working life and kids with activities. Tempting to favour that over a Sunday afternoon sweating over a batch-cook session.
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I have been curious about them and wanted to do a trial. Same price as the Felfel fridge or the canteen but I can control the nutrition type and seems healthier.
What has irked me is the fact you cannot do a trial, you need to sign up for the abbo and then deselect further deliveries… I can see how that can go wrong and I will be stuck… Shame really but…
I’m currently experimenting with Huel “hot and savoury” meals and their pot noodles.
It goes against my “no UPF” mentality, but it really is easy (and cheap). Maybe I do it for a few weeks to remove some of the excess weight, then return to eating my usual…
When I first came to Basel there was a guy who had a traditional English pie stall outside Globus, they also trialled them in the food hall. I think they were called LePie, the guy who made them had worked in restaurants in Britain and was hoping to get them stocked in Globus all year round. I looked online and it seems to be a much bigger company based in Geneva now, found out they sell them in Manor. They truly were delicious. Bigger branches of COOP do nice pies that look like they might come from the same company.
I like making my own pies from time to time. This week I made a big chicken and ham one from leftovers and as a sauce to bind the meat together I used a parsley sauce I’d made from half cream, parsley and mustard that I’d served with the roast ham. I love using leftovers, it’s the challenge of opening the fridge and seeing what’s in there.
Le pie is in Tartegnin, near Rolle between Nyon and Morges. http://lepie.ch/
But I think that Legands pies are much better.
http://pies.ch
I think that’s part of the attraction of UPF meals.
I’m in!
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70 CHF for 4 meals isn’t so cheap… That’s half my weekly shopping budget for a family of 5!
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I remember that @GrumpyGouda was selling pies for a while at the Viadukt? Does anyone remember where they were from?
There is a pie shop at the Viadukt, I can‘t remember if Grumpy ever sold them.
The current owners of the Viaduct cheese place sell Legend Pies according to the Legend pies website.
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Legend = http://www.pies.ch
And Grumpy personally recommended them to me a few years back.
No, but in case some of you want this sort of preordered meals there is also this version of meals being delivered to your door by HelloFresh. Only in the case you don’t shy away from doing a bit of cooking. You can choose your menus online and everything comes packed in bags - the ingredients and the cooking instructions (nothing really complicated). The cons I can think of are - the German they use there is somehow weird, which btw made me think of a recent discussion here that kids dont get enough German language lessons in school, but of course easy to follow, after all is not rocket science.
Another thing is they use a lot of fresh cream in their recipes which is tasty but there are people will all sort of allergies and this was my final no on their recipes to be honest.
The pros - if you want to involve your family in cooking - that could actually function very well. As for the quantities - quite sufficient for four persons. We tried some of their menus in 2020 and 2021 during the pandemic but they might have improved their offer since then, I don’t know.
This is actually a service I have tried, it is not from hearsay from friends etc and can recommend with the caveats I have mentioned above. They praised themselves for sourcing their ingredients from local producers so there’s that too.
These sorts of discussions make me realise just how much of a backwater we live in down here in Valais. I have no desire whatsoever for the pseudo-ready meal options, but the pies would be good, and the very idea of food delivery of any sort is now so alien to us here.
Do you city-dwellers, on balance, think it’s a good thing to have all the easy options available, or would you embrace the idea of having to cook nearly everything yourself?
Maybe I’m old-fashioned or cheap, but I prefer to cook everything myself.
I can do a weekly shop and don’t need someone to pre-portion and package ingredients for me and deliver it to my door for a mark-up. That seems unnecessarily expensive and environmentally unfriendly.
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Yes, we know you’re old-fashioned and cheap 
What about take-aways and/or deliveries?
Well, in all fairness I’m not that much of a city-dweller and have chosen this service during the pandemic but I thought there might be people out there for whom this idea is very appealing.
As for cooking nearly everything myself - I cook a lot but not everything. Some things are simply not worth the trouble if you can buy them already and are better and cheaper than what you can produce yourself. I can think of a lot of things here.