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Meal-Kit Delivery Services have caught on. Have *you* participated? I haven't yet but have considered it from time to time. Nowadays there are so many different ones out there that how is one to choose? It seems that first you start with your main entree preferences - vegan, vegetarian, meats (any or all), seafood and from there you can begin to cull through all the choices.

The meal-kits are designed for a few different reasons:

1) broaden palettes and expose people to new and/or different foods.

2) give people alternatives to fast food and sodium/calorie heavy restaurants.

3) provide people and families opportunities to create delicious food together.

If *you* are like me and haven't tried a meal-kit delivery yet but have been considering it and yet don't know where to start on picking one, I've included three different reviews of the major ones that might help you choose which one to try first.
I Tried 6 Home Meal Delivery Services…Here is My Comparison
The Best Meal-Kit Delivery Services to Try in 2018
The Best Meal Kit Delivery Services of 2018

If you've tried a meal-kit delivery service I would love to hear about your experiences!

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

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