Meal kits may be a greener alternative to grocery shopping

Meal kits may be a greener alternative to grocery shopping

Meal kits, with their abundant packaging and precise instructions, have become a sort of shorthand for modern wastefulness. All that cardboard and plastic, plus the pre-portioned servings and glossy instruction cards, have to be the least environmentally friendly way to get dinner on the table, right? Turns out, meal kits may not be so bad after all.