Fast food: DIY and eat

The UAE, especially Dubai, is one of the fastest-growing "takeaway" and "ordering in" markets. Most of us have no time - and/or energy - left by the time we get back home (after a hard day's work presumably) to head inside the kitchen and rustle up a mean meal. It's too exhausting. Planning, procuring, cooking. Who needs that kind of stress when you can pick up the phone and get food delivered at your doorstep? All you need to do is unpack the magical contents and eat. Having said that, I do feel awful most times being so lazy and lacklustre. So imagine, if there was someone who second-guessed what I felt like digging into at any given time, and supplied me the ingredients - in exact proportions - alongside recipes, to enable the unleashing of my inner cook? All I'd need to do is put everything together. It would be DIY, it would be healthy, it would be double quick. The good news is that this is exactly what's happening around town. You can once again be master (or mistress) of spices - with substantial help from meal-kit arrangers. Read about this new (and growing) brood of help-at-hand when hunger strikes in this issue of wknd.
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