Neighborhood Meal Kit Co-op

A group of families in my neighborhood started a meal kit exchange during the pandemic. Each household prepares ingredients and instructions for one recipe and distributes bags to the other 7 families on Sunday evenings. The app they use is just a shared Google Sheet with a rotation schedule and dietary notes. It's the least polished interface imaginable but works because everyone checks it at the same time each week. Meals tend to be simple: shakshuka kits with pre-measured spices in labeled bags, or dumpling wrappers with filling in a jar. Instructions are handwritten on index cards. It works because the labor of planning 7 dinners per week gets divided by 8, so each family plans and preps once while eating something different every night. The cards themselves have become collectible in a weird way, with different handwriting and occasional drawings from people's kids.