In the year that Green subscribed to that meal kit delivery service, she made seared steak and pizza from scratch and a whole host of other things she would never normally prepare herself. Leila Green: Oh, no, I mean, I can I can cut, people and carrots, ok? I can you, know. Now I would think if you were a surgeon, your knife skills wouldn't be too bad. You really do have to feel like you're cooking things because you really do have to put everything together Leila Green: You have to learn how to like chop everything up and set it aside. Green is now a master in the fine art of mise en place.

Forget just pressing “cook” on the microwave. Plus, the meal kits helped Green hone her cooking skills. But more importantly, it gave her back time - something that as a trauma surgeon she does not take for granted. Getting a meal kit every week did force Green to upgrade her kitchen utensil game.

What is this? Okay, but I, you know, I'm a surgeon, so I have to have all the right instruments, you know, to put this stuff together. Leila Green: And that’s.it? I mean, I had to buy so many different things like, once these boxes started coming, you need all these like equipment and things that I didn't have. What Green is conveniently leaving out of her story is her level of cooking experience pre-meal kit. So I thought it would just be something fun to do. Leila Green: So I thought, well, I'll try it. No more time-consuming trips to the grocery store and no more desperation Big Macs. Leila Green: I was in general surgery residency at the time and kind of tired of eating like hospital food or fast food and things.Īnd that’s when she heard about this service - a meal kit delivery - that would send her all the ingredients she’d need to make three full meals, plus instructions on how to make them. And you know what’s really hard to do when you’re working a bonkers number of hours? Eat properly. Green, she had to do a whole lot of training. Then I’m glad we didn’t meet in real life.īefore Leila could become Dr. Leila Green: I meet people on the worst day of their life, usually. Lauren Ober : Leila Green is a trauma surgeon in Houston. This is a transcript of our episode “Blue Apron wilts, then rises to a new challenge.”

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