meal ingredient kits have gone too far. Today in the grocery store I saw a cardboard box containing plastic wrapped ingredients that you can assemble yourself at home to make...
a sandwich.
For half as much money you can buy an already assembled sandwich with a lot less packing material or for not much difference in price you could buy separately packed ingredients for several sandwiches.
OTOH, milk was super cheap today. Also bought a cheese platter, which is out of character for me but it looked good.