{"id":1123,"date":"2015-11-30T20:47:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2020-06-24T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T00:10:00","slug":"hills-home-delivery-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"Hills Home Delivery: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear god what have we done to ourselves.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1124\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1124\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151130-first-hills-delivery.png\" alt=\"freezer packed with food\" width=\"592\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151130-first-hills-delivery.png 592w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151130-first-hills-delivery-222x300.png 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 85vw, 592px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our first delivery from Hills Home Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of Meghan&#8217;s friends raves about a grocery delivery service called <a href=\"http:\/\/hillshomemarket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hills Home Delivery<\/a>.\u00a0 After listening to their sales pitch, trying some sample food,\u00a0 working out the costs, and checking reviews online, we wanted to give it a try ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Our first delivery came tonight.\u00a0 This is several months worth of beef, chicken, pork, sausage, fish, and veggies, packed into a freezer in our basement.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a turkey and some cookie dough, too.\u00a0 Not pictured is several shelves of dry goods: pasta + sauce, flour, sugar, paper towels, and toilet paper.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t completely new to us, Meghan already buys her coffee and a few other things from Amazon, but wow that&#8217;s a lot of food all at once.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery guys were friendly and professional, and pretty darn close to on-time. (Ten minutes late, but our delivery was scheduled for 5:30 pm &#8212; it&#8217;s night-time dark already, and rush-hour traffic is in full swing.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t consider that &#8216;late&#8217;.)<\/p>\n<p>On paper, this looks like we should be spending the same or less on food than we&#8217;re spending now &#8212; and we can cut out a bunch of time at the grocery the store.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll just need occasional trips for fresh things like dairy, eggs, and fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear god what have we done to ourselves. One of Meghan&#8217;s friends raves about a grocery delivery service called Hills Home Delivery.\u00a0 After listening to their sales pitch, trying some sample food,\u00a0 working out the costs, and checking reviews online, we wanted to give it a try ourselves. Our first delivery came tonight.\u00a0 This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hills Home Delivery: Day 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[234,237,235,236,115],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-food","tag-from-the-have-we-lost-our-minds-dept","tag-groceries","tag-hills","tag-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-i7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}