Or, if what you're after is inspiration for what to make with your spices (beyond the same old chilli con carne), sign up for a spicebox subscription or recipe kit.
Don't panic if you opt for one of the dining boxes that form part of a bigger recipe subscription service: these companies are flexible, meaning that customers can pause, skip or cancel whenever they want.
If a company knows, years after you bought its stove, exactly how often you cook, what you cook, when you shop, and what you watch (on a stove-top screen) while you cook, it can continuously monetize your relationship: selling you recipe subscriptions, maybe, or getting a cut of your food orders.
Instead, the subscription service consists of recipe cards and what SimplyCook calls "ingredients kits," which are herbs, spices, sauces and other extras needed to cook each meal.
Gousto, the UK recipe kit subscription service that competes with Rocket Internet's HelloFresh, and Housebites (post-pivot), has raised $2 million in new funding.
To that end, I can see something along the lines of weight loss coaching app Noom's recent partnership with recipe kit subscription service HelloFresh.
And in what's being billed as "a world first, three-dimensional wellness experience" (presumably with a straight face), the recipe kit subscription service HelloFresh is partnering with weight loss coaching app Noom to tackle the problem from both ends.
Gousto, the UK recipe kit subscription and grocery delivery service that competes with Rocket Internet's HelloFresh, has announced the closing of £5 million ($8.3m) Series A round, led by Unilever Ventures, with existing investor MMC Ventures also participating.
Founded in 2012 by Timo Schmidt and James Carter, Gousto operates a recipe kit subscription service in the UK where you are sent three recipes per-week out of a choice of ten, along with the required fresh ingredients needed, so that you can get busy in the kitchen to make each meal for two.
To that end, Noom currently claims 6.7 million users of its app worldwide — it isn't breaking out numbers for the U.S. specifically, where the HelloFresh partnership will initially debut — so there's quite a lot of potential for up-selling the new HelloFresh-powered recipe kit subscription.
