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I periodically go through my upcoming available meals and set this up for the first week in May. It is a good example of what we get and why I order. Now for four days in the first week in May I've got the primary meal set with pretty good food, calories within spec and the price is still good (I used the voucher):

And the price breakdown is:

So, $6.80 per person per meal. I won't see these numbers again so I'm enjoying it while I can. The highest calorie count of the four meals is the chicken stir fry at 660/serving.

I think Hello Fresh still owes me some money too so I'll grab that once I've got my other Dinnerly order with the voucher and I'll have meals through end of May.

I may have manifested a price increase but it was inevitable. I think Dinnely has the most efficient, least wasteful, service of all the delivery services we use. They claim a less than 1% food waste and the intent to reduce that. And they have already cut a few things that the other services have continued (so far). Dinnerly used to just throw in a garlic bulb if any of your meals had garlic in them. The other services may provide one clove if one clove is in the recipe. We never bought garlic as Dinnerly always provided. Then they cut that as a cost savings measure. I was onboard with it and really thought the addition of an entire clove was a little much anyway however much I liked it. So we started buying garlic again.

After my saying yesterday that they would be raising prices soon I received an email last night saying just that. It works out to about $4 per week if we get three meals for the two of us. One dollar of that goes to shipping, the second shipping price increase by Dinnerly this year.

The others will soon follow, I'm sure. They can not absorb what is happening. It is still cheaper to get food from these services. Likely more efficient on the food chain and the quality and variety is still pretty good. And, most importantly, I don't much have to think.

No real flight trauma. Alaska Air worked same as Southwest. Up and Down smoothly. A few minor differences the largest of which is the Southwest weirdness in the way they load people. I'm used to how it works so it is easy for me but having an assigned seat is OK. I paid for an upgrade and had leg room.

The biggest deal with Alaska is it was non-stop, a feature that SW does not have. Really nice to be able to get here without getting off the plane in some random faceless airport and wait for a different plane. This was all in one long shot.

One of the few times I've ever flown where there were no clouds at all. And me without a map. No way to know where we were. But spectacular geography that I did not think to get on a picture until the mountains came up:

These mountains went on for 454 minutes of flight time. I think they are part of the Rio Grande National Forest east of Telluride, CO.

This was in the Cascades I think. Pretty sure it is Rainier. Not too far from the final approach into Seattle.

In hind sight I'm kicking myself for not thinking I could get a good picture of some of the amazing geography I saw. I've flown all my life but seldom when the skies were so clear and with what turns out to be a decent camera, my Pixel 5a.

And dinner:

Very cool restaurant, Fat's Chicken and Waffles. While we were there run by a black woman wearing a t-shirt with Huey Newton's jail mug shot on it. The grits and biscuit were great. The chicken tried too hard to be unique. I wasn't about to tell her that, though.

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