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Re: Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

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Post by joshgachnang »

kartayyar wrote: post #120

Okay I hate to be blunt about this: though this is super high calorie food. All 3 variants listed are fabulously unhealthy coming in at 500 calories per serving. If you want to pitch this as a tastier product and pursue that angle, that's one story but pitching this as "healthy" is quite flawed.

How is 500 calories unhealthy? As far as I can tell, this is designed to be a whole meal, and coming in at 500 calories is pretty spot on for one meal (if a little low, which is nice so I can add a side).

Re: Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

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Post by markbnj »

0x8BADF00D wrote: post #116
Finnucane wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But my local place will also offer naan and samosas.

Dunno where you live, but my local places also offer complimentary food poisoning with every meal.

I've been eating Indian food as often as I could get it for over 20 years. I've enjoyed it in Tel Aviv, London, NYC (Murray Hill, if you like Indian food and live in the area you know what I'm talking about). I eat regularly at a little family run place near us in North Jersey that is excellent.

I've never once gotten food poisoning, or even felt like the conditions in the restaurants warranted being worried about it. If your local places are commonly serving contaminated food the problem might be your locale, and not the cuisine.

Re: Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

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Post by Semiapies »

sohamsankaran wrote: post #49
xwdv wrote: post #47

I take offense to the high fat saag being portrayed by some fat bastard playing at an arcade machine while the other two images are of fit people doing healthy exercises. A high fat meal is key to getting energy for grueling tasks. This should be changed.

This was intended to represent a 'Classic' arcade game (Saag Paneer is the traditional preparation), not as a comment on physical activity. My apologies for any offense caused, and I'm happy to take suggestions for a new illustration. Email me at soham@pashi.com if you'd like to talk further.

I like the current image I'm seeing, with a thinner person playing the arcade game.

Re: Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

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Post by Skunkleton »

kartayyar wrote: post #120

Okay I hate to be blunt about this: though this is super high calorie food. All 3 variants listed are fabulously unhealthy coming in at 500 calories per serving. If you want to pitch this as a tastier product and pursue that angle, that's one story but pitching this as "healthy" is quite flawed.

If you ate it for all three meals, you would only be at 1500 calories for the day. What are you getting at? Since when do calories automatically make something unhealthy?

Re: Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

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Post by ApolloFortyNine »

yumraj wrote: post #119
sohamsankaran wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With Pashi, you get to choose the macronutrient ratio, which is not something restaurants expose or that frozen variants allow to customize.

Ok. If that is enough of a value prop, are we going to see startups offering KungPao as a service, Udon as a Service, Sushi as a service and so on - it doesn't compute. I really wish you success, since I'm sure/hoping you have other things on your roadmap, but am not convinced this is a sustainable business model at the moment.

Especially at $12 a serving... I find it really hard to believe you can't find a restaurant serving fresh Saag in San Francisco for that price.

It is a very nice website though.

Re: Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

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Post by nradov »

itake wrote: post #83
ccleve wrote: post #77

Two thoughts: First, $12/pound is too expensive. Yes, I know you've got delivery and other costs, and it's best to start high. But know you'll need to reduce the price over time. Second, consider pitching this to the keto market. Spinach + fat is a great keto item. It's really hard to order keto-friendly takeout. Might fill a niche.

$12 for 500 calories. That is barely enough calories for lunch.

That is a lot. I love saag but would need 6 servings just to get enough calories for 1 day.

Re: Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

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Post by meowface »

yumraj wrote: post #81

Is this just delivering a single Indian dish, in 3 variants, as a service (whatever that means in this context)? Currently available alternatives: 1) go to the nearest Indian restaurant and get it fresh when you need it. 2) use a food delivery service and get if from your favorite Indian restaurant 3) use a frozen variant found in many grocery stores. 4) cook yourself, which is not hard, but we can ignore it in this…

Yeah, I already find myself ordering saag paneer via food delivery apps about once per week. This service seems really cool, but I'm not sure if I have any incentive to use it.

Re: Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

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Post by wurst_case »

If I were to do 3 meals a day (1500 calories is low but let's say I snack inbetween meals) and $13 per meal on average, this will cost me $39/day, $273/wk, $1092/m. Maybe that's unfair. Maybe I use this to supplement one meal a day and cook the rest. That's $364/m to supplement lunch and I'd still probably have to cook some rice to go along with that. I just checked my local Indian restaurants on Postmates in San Francisco. The highest priced one was at $14.99 but ~%90 of the other options were from $8.99-$10.99 and I pay for Postmates free delivery which is 7.99/m so pretty much negligible. The other thing is that by buying from local restaurants, I can actually make a deal with the owners if I wanted to replace all my meals for the month. Let's say the catering discount I can get is %20, which is usually what you can get on large orders ahead of time. I'm looking at $10-$2=$8 a meal or $672/m to supplement all of my meals.

Finally, I've seen your response to this point elsewhere which seems to be, but those restaurants won't provide the macro nutrient breakdown or have different options for proteins. Just in the dishes provided around my house there's chicken, lamb, tofu, cheese, beans. The only thing missing really is seitan. And if I'm ordering from the same place consistently, can't I figure out what the macros are by asking the chef for an ingredient list? One and done.

I wish you all the best, and I actually love this idea but I can't make this work in my head. To me this just seems like a new, order only, expensive Indian place opened up near me. If you could reduce prices to at least meet brick and mortar restraunts then I'd consider using your service occasionally if it tastes good.

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