{"id":725954,"date":"2022-01-16T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T22:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/?post_type=trend&#038;p=725954"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:21:42","slug":"convenience-cooking-meal-kits-for-convenient-cooking-enjoyment","status":"publish","type":"trend","link":"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/en\/insights\/trends\/convenience-cooking-meal-kits-for-convenient-cooking-enjoyment\/","title":{"rendered":"Convenience Cooking: Meal kits for convenient cooking enjoyment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-convenience-cooking\">Convenience Cooking<\/h1>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-serif has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">From Michelin-starred restaurants to young fresh-food startups to established cookbox providers, meal kits, previously a niche concept, have gone mainstream in the Covid 19 era. Restaurants and other companies not only deliver completely ready-made menus, but also specialize specifically in the production of menu components that need to be finalized into dishes at home. The growth of major international meal-kit specialists such as HelloFresh, Blue Apron, Marley Spoon and Home Chef, with sales increases of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/unternehmen\/handel-konsumgueter\/kochboxen-versender-der-bange-blick-von-hellofresh-fuer-die-zeit-nach-der-pandemie\/26964690.html?ticket=ST-666568-1lEZaKxYQrk3y22Av712-cas01.example.org\">more than 100 percent<\/a>, speaks to the strong trend and the changing dining and cooking culture here.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"509\" height=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FoodTrendRadar-Kitchen-Convenience.jpeg\" alt=\"Convenience Cooking: Meal kits for convenient cooking enjoyment\" class=\"wp-image-634006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FoodTrendRadar-Kitchen-Convenience.jpeg 509w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FoodTrendRadar-Kitchen-Convenience-480x320.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FoodTrendRadar-Kitchen-Convenience-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FoodTrendRadar-Kitchen-Convenience-500x334.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-sans-serif wp-block-paragraph\">Best Practices: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellofresh.de\/\"><strong>HELLOFRESH<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueapron.com\/\"><strong>BLUE APRON<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/marleyspoon.de\/\"><strong>MARLEY SPOON<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homechef.com\/\"><strong>HOME CHEF<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dinnerly.de\/\"><strong>DINNERLY<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/getvoila.com\/\">VOIL\u00c0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-serif wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.istockphoto.com\/photos\/beautiful-smiling-young-asian-woman-received-a-full-box-of-colourful-picture-id1273900591?b=1&amp;k=20&amp;m=1273900591&amp;s=170667a&amp;w=0&amp;h=ViH6bt7tqCWpGoQvPhG9Sag7EpawWDuNdixkQ-D7n1s=\">istockphoto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convenience Cooking From Michelin-starred restaurants to young fresh-food startups to established cookbox providers, meal kits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":634007,"template":"","trend_category":[1209],"trend_status":[1205],"trend_group":[],"trend_timeframe":[1210],"class_list":["post-725954","trend","type-trend","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","trend_category-kitchen-en","trend_status-safe-bank","trend_timeframe-today"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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