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Here comes Datermeister’s Silver Singles review for 2020.

So you’re over 50, single and want to meet new people?

Crosspath dating site website. In that case, SilverSingles.com could be the right dating site for you.

But is it reliable or some kind of a scam?

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Let’s find out – here’s our 7 things you should know about Silver Singles:

1. Is Silver Singles legit? Our reliability check:

SilverSingles.com is a rather new dating site in America.

It has been around for a couple of years now and it has quickly grown very popular among the 50+ singles.

When we look at the website traffic (from an unbiased source), it gets a solid 1.5 to 2 million visitors every month:

Now that’s a massive amount of 50+ singles on one website.

The website is run by a company called Spark Networks which is a global dating company running several successful dating sites. They run popular sites such as Elite Singles, ChristianMingle and JDate to name a few.

So yes sir/ma’am:

SilverSingles.com is legit and safe to use.

2. Who is Silver Singles good for?

So, obviously, it’s targeted for men and women over 50.

Secondly, we would say it’s good for people who are looking for a bit deeper and more meaningful connection with other people. This is because there is a personality test upon joining the site.

As it’s not a massively big site (yet?) compared to its competitors (such as Match or POF.com) which have been around for 10 or even 20 years, it works the best around large metropolitan areas such as New York, LA or Chicago.

There tends to be a lot of highly educated people on Silver Singles as well so if that’s the demographics you’re looking for, this site is for you.

Read also: 9 best Tinder alternatives in 2020

3. Joining SilverSingles.com – this is how it happens:

How fast and how is the joining process on SilverSingles.com? Sugar daddy website seeking arrangements.

Here’s the 5 main phases of joining this site:

1. First you give your email address and make up a password.

2. Fill out the personality test – takes about 10-20 minutes – depending on how thoughtful and analytical you get with the questions.

You will be asked questions about your personality, values, education and even income.

3. Add a photo (or skip this and add it later).

These days, in 2020, it is a MUST to add a photo to be taken seriously on dating sites and apps so have a photo ready!

4. Fill your profile (you can answer up to 7 different questions in your own words).

This one is where the magic happens. These are always the most interesting to read from other peoples profiles. Be honest and have fun in this part.

5. You are done and can see your matches!

It’s definitely recommended to immediately fill out your profile properly:

New members get a lot of attention on a dating site so be ready to upload a photo (or several) and fill out your profile in your own words as well!

4. SilverSingles.com’s features:

SilverSingles.com is a very straight-forward dating site which is simple to use.

These are the main features and ways to contact other singles on the site:

Matches:

Under this section you will find your matches.

So these people have been matched to you according to the personality tests you have both filled out. There’s even a “matching score” on each user to display how well you fit together (the higher number, the better):

“Have you met?” feature:

Here you will see users which you did not directly match with (according to the algorithm) but it’s worth checking as well. You can simply browse for users and hit either “X” to remove them from your list or hit the Smile button to move this person in your Matches section.

But, to send messages to other members, you need to pay a bit. More about the prices next:

5. Silver Singles cost:

So how much does Silver Singles cost?

That depends on the day you join as they might have some promotions going on. But during the making of our Silver Singles review, the prices looked like this:

Premium Light (3 month membership): $34.95 per month

Premium Classic (6 month membership): $19.95 per month (most popular)

Premium Comfort (12 month membership): $14.95 per month

The site features on the Premium Light are quite restricted so we recommend buying either the Classic or Comfort package.

So on Classic and Comfort you can view all photos of other users, you can see which users have visited your profile and you can see when and if another user has read your message or not.

Payment methods available on SilverSingles are:

Credit cards: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club

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NOTE: your membership will be continued automatically as it says on the payment page:

So when you stop using the site, just remember to cancel it so they won’t keep charging your credit card or PayPal account.

But before you even consider paying, just go and try the site for free: SilverSingles.com (and start filling out the personality test).

6. Silver Singles reviews from around the web (complaints etc.)

We had a look around the web to see what kinds of reviews Silver Singles has gotten.

People are always interested in the negative feedback so let’s have a look at the complaints on unbiased review sites like Google’s Play Store:

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Here’s a few complaints about Silver Singles which seem to be repeating several times: https://internetmarketingelite574.tumblr.com/post/657538678239936512/senior-match-dating-site.

“You can’t browse for profile photos – they’re all blurred!”

Yes. Unfortunately Silversingles.com is a paid dating site where you have to pay to see all photos and send messages. But, when we look at the typical user of SilverSingles, money is not an issue for them. They simply want a high quality dating site with high quality matches.

“Not enough matches! Everyone is too far away from me!!”

SilverSingles has around million visitors each month so it’s naturally not as massive as Match or other massive competitors. At this moment, in the beginning of 2019, SilverSingles.com is especially for 50+ singles in the bigger metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, New York and so on.

There might not be as many users in smaller cities. But on the other hand, you never know. You just need to meet 1 person to fall in love, or to find that new best friend (or whoever you are hoping to meet).

Other than those, there’s nothing dramatic. A lot of people have found new friends or even a new partner on SilverSingles.com so I guess you just have to try your luck.

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7. Silver Singles alternatives?

So you are 50+ and considering other suitable dating websites as well?

Here’s our favorite alternatives to SilverSingles.com:

EliteSingles.com – tons of educated and professional 50+ singles. If you want to find a wealthy and career oriented partner, this is your site.

Ourtime.com – this one is a massive site for people over 50. It has lots of senior singles as well, 60+, 70+ and even some 80+ people!

You can always try them all if you want and then stick with the one you find the best.

Conclusion

If you’re looking for a high quality dating site for over 50-year-olds, you should definitely give this site a try. And especially if you have a higher level of education and/or are a career oriented person, Datermeister recommends this site for you.

It’s free to try so just register at SilverSingles.com

Do you already have experiences with SilverSingles.com? What do you think? Leave a comment below.

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There’s nothing quite like turning on a cooking show and hearing the dulcet sounds of Gordon Ramsay screaming at a befuddled chef. One of Ramsay’s most popular profanity-riddled shows was Kitchen Nightmares, where the hot-tempered Scottish chef and TV personality helped struggling and failing restaurants, mainly by shouting at them about fresh produce and frozen appetizers, while the owners crossed their arms stubbornly. By the end of the episode, the restaurant’s inedible food and sub-par service were (usually) transformed and saved from extinction by crippling debt or sub-par Yelp reviews.

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Even though this popular restaurant makeover show was cancelled in 2014, there are still plenty of behind-the-scenes secrets that you probably never knew about Kitchen Nightmares. From how the reality show was filmed (and how much of it was actually reality) to how well restaurants fared after Ramsay’s team took over their kitchen, this is the untold truth of FOX’s Kitchen Nightmares.

Most of the Kitchen Nightmares eateries are now closed

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Although Gordon Ramsay spent a glorious six-and-a-half seasons transforming restaurants from one-star duds to passable eateries, apparently his professional magic wore off quickly for many of the restaurants that appeared on the show.  

In 2014, shortly after Kitchen Nightmares was canceled, The Daily Mail reported that 60 percent of the restaurants that appeared on the show had closed.

“You don’t ask to take part in a show called Kitchen Nightmares if your restaurant business is booming and therefore it is not surprising that many of the restaurants which Gordon has visited over the ten years are now closed,” a spokesperson for Ramsay told The Daily Mail at the time.

We did a quick update on those statistics for 2018 and found that only 15 restaurants out of the 77 that appeared on the show between 2007 and 2014 are still open. That means that for nearly 81 percent of these restaurants the “nightmare” is over.

One restaurant closed before the Kitchen Nightmares episode even aired

As we now know, most of the restaurants that appeared on Kitchen Nightmares didn’t exactly go on to have successful runs. But some of the restaurants fared worse than others. According to The Daily Mail’s report, some restaurants were closed mere months after filming. One restaurant — The Black Pearl in New York — closed just four days after their episode aired. But there is one featured restaurant that takes the cake as the unluckiest of them all: Lela’s in Pomona, California closed before viewers even saw the episode.

Before the episode aired, one blogger noted that Lela’s website and contact information had been taken offline. According to Screen Rant, the restaurant already faced struggles before Gordon Ramsay got in the door, and was facing bankruptcy after only eight months in business. After the episode was over, a message flashed on viewers’ screens saying that,  “the restaurant’s debts were too much and it closed.”

One restaurant owner said that Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares makeover “ruined” his restaurant

Although many of the restaurants featured on the show were happy to receive Ramsay’s help, one chef in particular didn’t mince words when it came to criticizing the changes the chef and his team made when he appeared on Kitchen Nightmares.

In an interview with The National Enquirer, John Chapman — restaurateur and owner of Chappy’s on Church, featured in season six — said, “it was truly a kitchen nightmare for me. Gordon Ramsay destroyed my business!”

Chapman said that Ramsay “hated everything” and redid the entire menu, replacing more authentic Creole fare with cheeseburgers and fried chicken. “My cus­tomers hated it,” he said, and told The National Enquirer that business went from about 200 customers a night to a mere table of patrons per evening. Chapman repeated his story to multiple news outlets, including Biz Journals and FOX News.

Chappy’s on Church closed in June 2013 for nonpayment of taxes, a mere month after the episode aired.

Gordon Ramsay has been sued multiple times by participants on Kitchen Nightmares

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John Chapman isn’t the only restaurant owner who was unhappy with the outcome of the show. Gordon Ramsay has been sued multiple times for his (sometimes explosive) temper by unhappy restaurant owners and chefs on the show.

In 2008, Ramsay was sued for £500,000 ($679,000 USD) for calling a restaurant manager “a lazy t*****.” Martin Hyde was the restaurant manager at Dillons — a restaurant in New York City — and said that he was reamed out by Ramsay even though he had no responsibility for the kitchen, and mostly looked after the bar and restaurant events.

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“Being ridiculed by Gordon Ramsay on TV has wrecked my life,” Hyde told The Daily Mail. “My reputation is in tatters and nobody wants to employ me.”

In 2014, another show participant sued Ramsay after he and the show’s host had “an explosive row,” according to The Mirror. Joe Naggy, who owned the Norwalk, Ohio restaurant, Mill Street Bistro, sued Ramsay and his crew for damages to the restaurant, including a gutted ceiling that was never fixed, and received £900 ($1,233) in compensation.

The famous Amy’s Baking Company episode of Kitchen Nightmares was not staged

Do you remember that episode of Kitchen Nightmares where the owners were wackier than usual? The Amy’s Baking Company episode of Kitchen Nightmares is probably the most infamous in the show’s history, and the conflict was so severe that the crew didn’t even get to complete their transformation. The shenanigans didn’t end when the credits rolled either: The owners of the now-closed eatery were notorious for threatening customers who left bad Yelp reviews and for posting long rants on social media.

Although Amy’s Baking Company is now closed, apparently their antics were just as off-the-wall as they appear in the show. One Medium blogger who was there during the filming of the two-part episode, said that the “epic blowouts” from owners Amy and Samy were “100% true to form and not doctored for TV.” Although blogger Greg Taylor said that the food was “just ok,” the owner’s behavior when he threw a tantrum was “shocking.”

Gordon Ramsay’s temper only explodes when he is on camera on Kitchen Nightmares

Ramsay may be infamous for his “nightmarish” behavior on his shows, including Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen, but apparently most of his on-air tantrums and profanity-laced rants are hammed up for the camera.

According to one show crew member who did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit in 2013, you’ll rarely see Ramsay get angry when the cameras are turned off, although he said that Ramsay’s temper is real (even if it is edited later on):

“You never see him get mad off camera, but that’s because he doesn’t have a reason to,” the former “Kitchen Nightmares” the crew member said. “The only time I saw him explode was during the dinner service when the kitchen staff was serving food that was a legitimate health risk […] He only gets mad when he has a reason to, otherwise he’s a very funny and nice dude. You can even see that in all of his UK shows. The US versions like to selectively edit to play up drama.”

Restaurant owners don’t interact much with Gordon Ramsay on Kitchen Nightmares

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Even though you may think of the show Kitchen Nightmares as Gordon Ramsay’s show, one couple who appeared on the show in season three, said in a 2010 interview with The New Jersey Record that they mostly interacted with Ramsay’s team and crew, and barely conversed with the famous TV chef at all:

“You have no interaction with Ramsay at all. He comes with a very big machine of assistants and helpers. The only time that I ever spent any time with him was on camera.”

The couple also pointed out that the producers of Kitchen Nightmares would generally try to stir up drama by asking them pointed questions like, “If this fails now, how can you stay with your husband?”

The couple ended up being happy with the way that Ramsay’s team “set their restaurant up for long-term success.” However, their restaurant, Bazzini, in Ridgewood, New Jersey is now closed.

It’s not the same Kitchen Nightmares the UK originally got

You’re familiar with the Kitchen Nightmares formula, right? Ramsay comes into a failing restaurant, berates owners and staff alike, and bullies them into being better. There’s a lot of swearing, a lot of name-calling, and the sort of abuse you sort of always wanted to see heaped on authority figures. Only, that’s not what you get at all in the original UK version — and The AV Club took a look at the differences.

When they watched the original UK version, they found a totally different Ramsay. The swearing, the cursing, and the yelling was gone, for the most part. He worked with restaurant owners, instead of coming in like a bulldozer. The narration was Ramsay himself, and it was Ramsay that seemed to know many were trying their best, they just had no clue how to fix what had gone wrong. There was some yelling, sure, but nothing on the scale of the US version. He’s so different you’ll have to wonder if he’s actually someone else wearing a Gordon Ramsay skin-suit, and it’s a shame Americans don’t get to see that side of him very often.

One restaurant owner from Kitchen Nightmares had mob ties

During the first season of Kitchen Nightmares, in 2007, Ramsay and his team actually gave a helping hand to an ex-mobster. Peter’s was a New York restaurant featured on an episode where the problem was the owner’s extravagant spending. It only came out later, when Gang Land News (via Cosa Nostra News) uncovered an FBI report from 2003 that said Peter “Pasta” Pellegrino had been a recently made man associated with the Bonanno crime family.

According to the Cosa Nostra News, Peter Pasta had already been kicked out of the family by the time he was on Kitchen Nightmares, as he had apparently been “falsely labeled ‘a rat’, with all its obvious nasty ramifications and ugly possibilities hanging over his head.”

It may have been for the best that Pellegrino had already been ousted by the mob before he saw how his episode turned out, as he had nothing good to say about the way he was portrayed. “That makes me look like… some kind of an animal, and worse. It’s a real-life nightmare,” he told Gang Land News.

Customers on Kitchen Nightmares are paid

There have been a lot of accusations leveled at Ramsay and Kitchen Nightmares, including claims that the show’s team plants a lot of the rotten food he “finds” and that all of those incredibly grossed-out customers that sit down to eat are paid actors. According to The Guardian, Ramsay doesn’t take the accusations lightly, and after one newspaper published stories about fakery, he sued for libel and won.

But there’s one claim that might have some weight to it, and that’s the one where customers are said to be paid actors. It’s likely a half-truth, if the fine print of the credits is to be believed.

Reality Blurred picked up on the disclaimers, written in the credits that most of us fast-forward through. One reads, “The producers may have provided customers at the restaurant with a financial contribution towards the cost of their meal.”

What, exactly, that means isn’t clear, and while it doesn’t suggest they’re actors, they are getting compensated for being on the show. But isn’t that fair? You wouldn’t want to pay for some of the food these places are serving up pre-Ramsay, would you?

One Kitchen Nightmares restaurant sued him twice

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It’s no secret that the restaurants on Kitchen Nightmares don’t feature the kinds of kitchens you’d want your food coming out of… not at first, at least. So, it’s also not surprising that some have taken issue with the way they’re portrayed — perhaps none more strongly than Oceana Grill.

The New Orleans seafood joint has sued Ramsay not once, but twice.

According to Today, the first lawsuit came in 2011. The owners of Oceana didn’t want the episode to air because they felt they had been misrepresented — and in case you’re wondering just which episode this was, you know the infamous clip: Ramsay vomiting after getting a whiff of some supposedly rotten shrimp. The episode still made it to air, but there were concessions made in the form of a settlement where the show’s producers agreed that if footage from Oceana was used in the future, the restaurant would be paid for it. They were also required to update viewers to the changes made at the restaurant any time they were featured. 

The second lawsuit came in 2018, when the Kitchen Nightmares British Facebook page posted that infamous, aforementioned clip with the caption, “No wonder this restaurant is failing…” Oceana and their legal team took issue with the fact that the post made it look like the restaurant was still in the same state it was seven years prior (which they called “largely fabricated in the first place.”) Lesson? Be careful what you post on Facebook.

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Yes, there are some success stories from Kitchen Nightmares

Sure, Kitchen Nightmares is a little notorious for its failure rate, but there are some major success stories.

Like Pantaleone’s, the Denver pizza place with an owner who just couldn’t understand why no one was coming in the door. It was the typical Kitchen Nightmares mess: denial, stress, and struggle. Fast forward to after filming, and the Gazette Review says the pizza place went on to become a success. Sure, there’s still some grumbling, but based on their TripAdvisor and Yelp reviews, they’re consistently 4-5 stars.

Also still open is Cafe Hon, featured in Season 5 and run by an owner who had managed to alienate much of the town with her attempts at trademarking the word “hon.” They’ve got around a 3.5 rating on TripAdvisor now, and a 2.5 on Yelp, which means they’re not a huge hit — but they’re not out of business, either.

Yanni’s Greek Cuisine is still open, too, from Season 6. The hundreds of reviews on Yelp have them sitting at a comfortable 4 stars, while TripAdvisor has them at 4.5. Not all the restaurants Kitchen Nightmares have visited reverted back to their old ways and for some, the experience truly was life-changing.

The suicide of one restaurant owner had an eerie connection to the Kitchen Nightmares episode

In 2007, Kitchen Nightmares visited Campania, an Italian restaurant in New Jersey where the problem was a boss that was too laid-back to tell employees what needed to be done to make them successful. When NJ.com ran a follow-up article with the headline “Joe Cerniglia of Campania survived Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares“, he didn’t have anything bad to say about the experience. But they had no idea what kind of terrible foreshadowing the headline held.

In 2010, ABC News reported that chef Joe Cerniglia had committed suicide. It was only a day later that the New York Post (via Fox News) connected his personal problems to an affair he’d been having with a pastry chef at the restaurant (amid a separation from his wife), and only a day after that E! News found he’d had previous issues with cocaine and narcotics.

The tragedy happened a few years after Kitchen Nightmares, but news outlets were quick to point out something eerie: Ramsay had told him “Your business is about to f*****g swim down the Hudson”… which was precisely where his body was discovered.

If you or anyone you know is having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at +61404532026-TALK (8255).

That time Gordon Ramsay tricked a vegetarian into eating ham on Kitchen Nightmares

The decision to go vegetarian isn’t one for everyone, but it’s simple enough to respect it. Ramsay got quite a bit of heat from the media after the airing of a UK episode of Kitchen Nightmares at La Lanterna in Hertfordshire (via The Telegraph), because of a cruel “prank” played on one vegetarian on the show.

The incident involved volunteers, including one eight-year vegetarian, recruited on the street to sample pizzas from the featured restaurant. When it was time to try the pizza, Ramsay assured a volunteer that one was, in fact, vegetarian. After the man ate it, he clarified… it was vegetarian except for the ham. Ramsay laughed as the man ran off, and a slew of celebrity chefs condemned the disrespect.

The Guardian was quick to point out just how bad an example he was setting, asking if he would have played the same “joke” on someone who avoided certain foods for religious reasons or because of allergies. When it comes to food, it shouldn’t be a case of ‘do as I say, not as I do’.

Here’s why his failure rate for Kitchen Nightmares is really so high

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For all the restaurants that do fail after a Gordon Ramsay-led makeover on Kitchen Nightmares, it seems a little mind-boggling from the viewer’s point of view. But Gene Marks of the small business consulting firm The Marks Group says (via Entrepreneur) that there’s something going on here that viewers don’t see.

He says that running a successful restaurant is about more than just good food, it’s the ability to think on the fly, to organize, to manage, to market, and make the tough business decisions that pop up on a daily basis. Some of that can be taught, but some can’t. What it comes down to is that some people have the innate ability to run a successful business, and some don’t — but everyone seems to think they’ve got what it takes to run a restaurant. According to Marks, it doesn’t matter how good a menu is, if there’s not that innate business acumen, it just isn’t going to work. 

He’s got a different take on the numbers, too. Marks says: “… a whopping 60 percent of the restaurants Ramsay tried to help failed after his visit. Does this surprise you? […] Based on my experiences, I would’ve thought that the number was higher. The fact that it’s only a 60 percent failure rate is a testament to Ramsay’s abilities.”

Gordon Ramsay regrets ending Kitchen Nightmares

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Are you a Kitchen Nightmares superfan who misses the show? Ramsay feels your pain. The popular show that launched Ramsay’s TV career ended in 2014 in part because Ramsay was tired of the restaurants he fixed reverting back to their old ways and failing (which may explain why so many of the restaurants closed since their episodes aired!).

In an interview with The New York Daily News in 2017, Ramsay explained that he was tired of the criticism he was getting from fans for Kitchen Nightmares restaurants closing left and right.

“I got fed up with Kitchen Nightmares because I was getting s***,” he said. “So I woke up one morning and I thought ‘f*** it, I’m done.’ ”

He added his remorse at the decision to pull his own show off the air, which was admittedly made in anger: “Yes it was wrong to pull my own show off air, but that’s it.”

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The Biggest Tech Product Flops of the 2010s

The last decade introduced a wealth of game-changing technology to our lives. But along with it came some true disasters.

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In the US, 20 percent of small businesses can’t make it a year, half are dead in five years and a full 70 percent can’t make it past a decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Success is even harder if that business is all about one particular product — especially if that product is tech-related.

Look at companies like Juicero, which couldn’t launch a smart juicer even with $120 million. Or Pono, a digital media player and music download service for audiophiles that Neil Young just couldn’t quite make happen. Crowdfunding has many tales of spectacular failure, like the Zano Drone, which earned $3 million on Kickstarter but couldn’t actually … fly.

Even big names like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon — the so-called Frightful Five of Tech — have their fair share of shameful screw-ups in the tech product space.

Related: The Best Esports Games for 2019

That’s what we’re here to reflect on: 10 years of tech product failure. Not the small ones like those above, but the products and services you came to love, or wanted to love, or can’t understand why they didn’t get any love. Some are great ideas that never went anywhere. Some were incredibly flawed products that never should have made it past prototyping. A few are glorious vaporware — products rumored, promised, or even guaranteed, but that never came to be.

Apple AirPower Wireless Charging Mat

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Apple’s good at delivering high-quality products most of the time. But occasionally it over promises, as it did with the AirPower in 2017. It was supposed to be the ultimate wireless charger mat for Apple products, powerful enough to charge an iPhone X, Apple Watch, and AirPods simultaneously. It took another 18 months or so before the much-delayed, destined-to-be-overpriced mat was cancelled because it would “not achieve our high standards,” according to Apple.

Amazon Fire Phone

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While you can expect a whole separate story from us on the major smartphone failures of the past decade, there are a couple that are just so bad they must be included here. Amazon’s first and only foray into the space was 2014’s Fire Phone. It was more than a phone — with 3D capabilities, it was a way for Amazon to help you showroom the world, and thus increase its own retail sales. Which some found offensive at best, especially in a $650 device that only worked with AT&T. Amazon, never one to shy away from pulling a loser off the shelf, killed the handset off in less than a year after taking a $170 million hit.

BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 10

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Research In Motion owned the mobile space in the first decade of the new millennium. But by 2010 it was trying desperately to stay relevant. The PlayBook tablet was RIM’s answer to the iPad and Kindle Fire. But it just couldn’t compete because BlackBerry didn’t have the apps; thousands of units shipped to retailers and never left the shelves, despite some big price cuts. RIM — by then renamed BlackBerry Ltd. — killed the device by mid-2013.

It also shipped BlackBerry 10 that year, a mobile operating system it hoped would give iOS and Android a run. It even had 100,000 apps — including 28,000 Android apps that apparently ran like they were on dial-up — but it was no use. BlackBerry 10 ran on a few phones, the last one being the BlackBerry Leap in 2015, but it couldn’t bring back the heyday of the “CrackBerry.��� 

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Once the most funded Kickstarter project in history (as of 2014), the Coolest Cooler — a cooler full of gadgets like a blender, wireless speaker, and USB for charging devices — turned out to be mediocre at best. By 2016, Coolest was out of money and couldn’t ship all its orders, a saga that continued through 2018. Coolest still has it for sale on its website for $399.99, though.

Facebook Home and More

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We could devote an entire story to Facebook screw-ups in the 2010s. From the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal to potentially messing up democracy itself in the US, the list goes on and on. But let’s focus on the bad products/services it tried to foist on us in the last 10 years.

Trending Section: A way to get people talking about the news, the Trending section met its demise in 2018 after accusations that its human editors were ignoring conservative news sources.

Facebook Home: Rather than create an actual phone, Facebook opted instead to release a user interface for Android phones that put Facebook front and center. Unfortunately, it was also a huge security risk.

Facebook Deals: For four months, Facebook tried to take on Groupon, but despite having billions of users, still couldn’t pull it off.

Facebook Email: Remember how in 2010 this unified inbox was supposed to be a Gmail killer? Since it died in 2014, no one else remembers either.

Facebook Places: Another standalone app, this one trying to outdo Foursquare. The power of the check-in eventually migrated over to regular Facebook posts.

Notify: From November 2015 to June 2016, you could get real-time news from a standalone app from Facebook, but no one bothered.

Facebook Gifts: Wanted to only do your shopping for gifts on Facebook? That might have worked from 2012 to 2014.

Is there more? Sure, but these are depressing enough.

Google Fiber

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Gigabit fiber expansion is expensive, even for tech giants. Google Fiber, which like Google itself is a division of parent company Alphabet, Inc., was all about fiber to the home (FttH) and launched with some fanfare in 2012 in the Kansas City metro area. It has won awards — more than a few from PCMag and its readers — for its speed and customer service. But FttH apparently isn’t a big money maker. Despite opening up in a few new cities through 2015, Google put a halt on further fiber expansion in 2016. If you’ve got it, enjoy it, because no one else is going to get it. (The same thing happened to Verizon Fios the decade prior; it ceased expansion to new cities in 2010.)

Google Glass

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The cyborg backlash started with Google Glass, an optical HUD that you could use with glasses or without, so all the data you’d typically see on a phone could float in front of your eyes. After selling a prototype for $1,500 in 2013, Glass went out to the general public the next year. But technical limitations and privacy concerns doomed the dorky high-specs, and by 2015, the first-generation of Glass was no longer for sale. Google has since moved on to only providing Glass as an “Enterprise Edition” for businesses at $999 a pop, but the rest of the world doesn’t care.

Google Nexus Q

Joe Britt, former engineering director at Google, introduces the Nexus Q.

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Google tried to get into the media hub game as early as 2012 with the Nexus Q, a weird little Magic 8-Ball sized thing you hooked up to a TV to stream YouTube and other Google properties. But it didn’t work with services like Netflix or contain any local storage, which made it pretty limited for $300. Google stopped selling it by January 2013, and the Chromecast came along to erase the Q from memory. 

Google Social Efforts (Buzz through +)

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Google’s rivalry with Facebook pre-dates the past decade, but really took off with the launch of Google Buzz in 2010, an attempt to bring some web-based social networking to Android and iOS users. Google killed it in October 2011, so it could concentrate on Google+.

What a waste or resources. Despite trying to graft this free social tool onto actual useful and popular Google properties like Blogger, Gmail and YouTube, Google+ never caught on. Worse, as the service was heading into the sunset, it was revealed that a bug in G+ in early 2018 exposed 500,000 profiles, and Google tried to keep it hush-hush. Then another bug came along that pushed up the timetable to kill the service from August 2019 to April. Google+ for the enterprise lives on, but the consumer version joins Friendster and MySpace in the hall of failed social networks.

Google TV

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The first attempt at interactive TV by Google was Google TV in October 2010. Available first from Logitech and Sony, the Android-based hardware integrated with the Chrome browser to make an overlay that should have made TV more active for viewers. But it wasn’t what passive TV wanted, especially not in such a clunky interface. By 2014, Android TV had taken over to power digital video streaming for smart TVs and media hubs.

GoPro Karma

GoPro is synonymous with action cameras, but it had a rough few years thanks in part to a foray into drones. The Karma worked with GoPro’s Hero4 and Hero5 cameras, but it was hardly a best-in-class drone — some fell out of the sky when the battery compartment door opened. After that, it only had 15 minutes of flying time. GoPro smartly killed the $800 Karma in early 2018.

JooJoo Tablet

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Imagine it’s 2008. Everyone thinks Apple has something big planned in the tablet space, but who knows? So Mike Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, decides to take on Apple with a $200 tablet called the CrunchPad, which uses an open-source OS to keep costs low. He teams with Singapore-based Fusion Garage, which soon decides it doesn’t need Arrington, who sues. The CrunchPad is dead.

Fusion Garage, however, releases it under the name JooJoo, with a pre-sale in December 2009 … for $499. In January 2010, the iPad is finally announced, crushing interest in the JooJoo. A few of them even ship to buyers, but it shouldn’t have bothered. Our 1.5 star review said it was “overpriced, doesn’t do very much, and doesn’t do anything particularly well.” By November 2010, the JooJoo was discontinued, and Fusion Garage (despite trying to sell another tablet called Grid 10) followed it into the ether not long after.

Lytro

The Lytro Light Field Camera

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Light field photography, championed by the Lytro, was tech that would let you take a shot — then focus on the subject later. Lytro’s tech was fascinating, but not particularly well-executed. In our 2012 review of the Lytro Light Field Camera (pictured), we found that “its image quality and ergonomics are poor, making the camera little more than an overpriced toy.” Two years later, the $1,600 Lytro Illum didn’t fare much better; “its image quality is disappointing and its price sky high,” we concluded. Despite a pivot into VR video capture, the company shut down in early 2018. It shut down its hosting services at the same time, so no one can share Lytro images anymore. Those we had in our reviews at the time are all broken links.

Microsoft Kinect

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This one flopped twice in the last decade. The original, called Project Natal during its development, debuted in November 2010 on the Xbox 360, turning your body into the game’s controller. It even came to Windows itself in 2012 and was forced upon the first buyers of the Xbox One. By 2014, Kinect was sold separately and was on its way to being a market failure. Microsoft stopped making them in 2017, but they still turn up in weird places. 

MoviePass

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Everyone wanted MoviePass to work. While it was founded in 2011, it exploded into the public consciousness in 2017 with a plan that would let you see as many movies as you wanted for only $10 a month. It was a doomed business model, of course, because that price is nuts, especially when trying to service an instant influx of 2 million subscribers. After a number of increasingly frustrating changes to its business model over the next few months, plus going to war with big-name cinema chains like AMC, MoviePass finally kicked the popcorn bucket in September 2019 with a one-day notice. Copycats abound, but none will ever have a price as crazy good as MoviePass once had.

Nintendo Wii U

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The Wii U was the successor to the original Wii, meant to take on the Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4. It moved away from motion control toward dual-screen play, but it launched in 2012 with very few games and was slow to see any traction. Nintendo admitted defeat as early as 2014, and gave it a mercy killing in 2017, a couple of months before the Nintendo Switch debuted — a device that improved on the Wii U’s concepts and game play in almost every way.

Ouya Video Game Console

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Ouya was going to change video games. It made a massive $8.6 million as a Kickstarter in 2013, with the promise of being an Android-based console. It went on sale that year, and even supported media apps like Twitch at the time. But then it never sold, because it wasn’t great at its one job: playing games. Our two-star review said it was an “ungainly mess of a consumer product that requires more work than it’s worth to get the most out of it.” By 2015, the company assets had been sold to Razer, which to its credit continued to support Ouya users until June 2019.

Path

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Launching a social network post-Facebook is like swimming upstream without legs. Path tried in 2010, hoping to be the social network for just you and your 50 closest friends, with chat and photo-sharing ultimately becoming more of a public journal space (because we needed another LiveJournal?). It had privacy problems (it was fined $800,000 by the FTC for storing data from underage users), and was eventually sold to a South Korean company, which killed it dead in 2018.

Sony PlayStation Vita

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Mobile gaming is all the rage, but now only Ninteno competes against smartphones for gamers’ affections. As of this year, the Sony PlayStation Vita ceased production after almost a decade of trying to catch on. As our analyst Will Greenwald put it, “It was a great system, ahead of its time and it didn’t have the Nintendo game list or pedigree that the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and 3DS had. It eventually just became this puzzling handheld only enthusiasts and Japanophiles dug.” 

Qwikster

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Qwikster never existed as anything other than a lesson in big companies dealing with public backlash. In September 2011, Netflix decided it would break itself into two services, one for streaming video, the other (Qwikster) for renting DVDs via mail, plus video games. Supposedly 800,000 people left Netflix in a huff over the move (and the fee increases Netflix had planned). So Qwikster never happened and today you can still log in with only one Netflix account to stream movies and rent DVDs and Blu-rays. But Netflix never did add video games and continues to gradually increase prices. So who really won here?

Samsung Galaxy Note 7

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The Galaxy Note 7 was a lovely phone … until it started exploding. Pants pockets were scorched, people awoke to smoking smartphones on their night stands and airplane passengers were spooked by malfunctioning phablets. Samsung issued a recall, but eventually threw in the towel completely and blamed faulty batteries. But while the Note 7 will go down as a huge disaster, the botched rollout didn’t kill the Note brand; the Note 8, 9 and 10 have since arrived without incident.

Samsung NX1

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Samsung played in the digital camera market with its NX system, introduced in 2010. Mirrorless tech was in its infancy then, but the system’s performance ramped up quickly. The flagship NX1, from 2014, offered a BSI CMOS sensor and 4K video — tech that would take some time to make it to other systems.

The NX300 followed in 2015, putting the NX1 toolset in a more affordable package. But the camera system struggled to gain traction in the market. Samsung did everything it could think of — including gimmicky events where photographers could swap an old — even broken — SLR for a free NX1, but it didn’t work.

Samsung unceremoniously killed the system later that year. It’s a shame, because the cameras were ahead of their time. — Jim Fisher, lead analyst for digital cameras

Secret

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The Secret app was intended as a place to reveal your inner-most secrets. You know, back before people remembered there was such a thing as privacy (thanks to Facebook’s scandals). One problem: The anonymity that Secret allowed made people act like jerks. Enough so that an entire country (Brazil) banned the app. It didn’t fit with the remaining founder’s vision, so after only a few years existence and a meteoric rise, the popular app shut down in 2015.

Steam Machines

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Steam proved to be a popular way to distribute PC games, so Steam-based hardware seemed like a natural evolution. But despite an early showing of Steam Machines in 2014 — which manufacturers could make with the Linux-based Steam OS software — they didn’t ship for over a year. And when they did arrive, even from big names in gaming like Alienware (above), they didn’t sell. Perhaps because Steam put itself in competition with its own (now-discontinued) Steam Link set-top box for TVs. By 2018, Steam itself removed the Steam Machines page from its nav bar, despite claiming the Machines are still a thing.

Tizen

Tizen running on a Samsung Z910F phone and SM-R380 Smartwatch at the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco June 3, 2014.

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Samsung backed this Linux offshoot for mobile devices from the get-go, hoping to forge a new OS that would use HTML5 apps to make smartphone users happy. Getting it on their phones would have meant controlling the money that typically goes to Google when you license Android for a phone. But Tizen never took off, not in phones, smartwatches, or tablets. In fact, the only success Tizen has seen is in smart TVs, where it resides today in about 21 percent of them. So it’s not a failure or flop in that regard — since it still exists. It’s simply a long way from where it started on small screens.

Vine

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This is less a tech flop than it is a case of tragic mismanagement by the company that acquired it. Vine was an instant hit when launched in 2012, limiting shared videos to only six seconds long and forcing creators to be extraordinarily creative. Twitter bought it and couldn’t figure out how to make money off the service — money-making not being Twitter’s forte — so it shut down in 2016. Vine’s co-founder said he’d launch a sort of Vine 2.0 by 2017, but financial and legal hurdles killed that before it was even born. Maybe his latest project, Byte (Vine 3.0?), will eventually become available, but with TikTok taking over short-form video, who’s going to care?

Windows 8 + Windows RT + Windows Phone

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With the memory of Vista fading, Microsoft was riding high on the success of Windows 7 when it launched the ill-advised Windows 8 in 2012. Changes to the OS — tiles, ugh — and attempts to make it more mobile-friendly all sent users into a rage. A year later, with Windows 8.1, Microsoft was walking back a lot of the interface “enhancements” to be more like Windows 7 again. When Windows 10 came along as a free replacement, and was welcomed with open arms by 8-haters and lovers alike.

Windows RT was a cripple-ware version of Windows 8, made just for tablets and laptops with lower-power chips to save money. It was crippled in that it only would run apps from the Windows Store — an Apple-esque move at which traditional PC users chafed. Thankfully, when Microsoft moved the Surface line of hardware to the high end, it killed off the low-end RT OS.

Microsoft’s other big OS failure came in three stages through the last decade, with Windows Phone 7, Phone 8 and finally Windows 10 Mobile. Maybe someone out there liked having their desktop OS shrunk down to a phone screen, but obviously not enough. Microsoft finally killed the last vestiges of its experiments with mobile in late 2018. Bill Gates blames the feds.

Honorable Mention: Apple’s Project Titan

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It’s taken as a given that Apple’s been looking into battery-powered, self-driving vehicles for a long time. Its autonomous vehicle group even has a name, Project Titan, and has been in existence since 2014. In 2018, the group had 27 cars registered for road testing. However, it recently laid off 200 people and shifted other staff around. Yet, it also bought Drive.AI, a tech for artificial intelligence in self-driving vehicles. Could a car still launch from the Cupertino loop by 2023, give or take? Or license tech out to others to make such a car? Check back again in 10 years. 

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Magic Kitchen Home Meal Delivery Service For Seniors

If you are looking for home meal delivery service for seniors Magic Kitchen is there for you. With Magic Kitchen you get frozen prepared meals delivered to your door on your clock. In this Magic Kitchen food delivery service review we are going to look how to get started, how much it costs, what can be delivered, like do they have gourmet frozen food delivery? And we will look at how people with special diet needs are catered for, then lastly we will explain a few Magic Kitchen label codes.

A Guide to Magic Kitchen Meal Delivery Service

Being tired of trying to figure out what to fix for meals is a common battle. Even with all of the different types of foods you can use, it can still be tough knowing how to cook it, so you get stuck in a rut.

Adding in all of the stress from trying to juggle a busy life and it’s no wonder that people are searching for quick, easy and affordable meal solutions. Thankfully, there are great meal delivery services such as Magic Kitchen.

By getting your meals from this company, you can put the enjoyment and the relaxation back into meal preparation again. It’s convenient, saves you time, and ends up costing you less money.

Getting Started with Magic Kitchen Is Easy

To get started, all you have to do is go to the company’s website and browse through their list of delicious food items. You choose what you want and how many serving sizes you want and simply add it to your cart.

The company has a huge selection of foods. When you go to the site, you can choose which meal program you’d like to have. You get to pick between A la Carte or special diet.

Each program gives you the option of having great tasting, healthy meals. If you use the A la Carte program, then besides main dishes, you can also choose which side items you want as well as whether or not you’d like to have dessert.

This way, you get to set up the meal as you’d like it. How often you can get the meals brought to your home is up to you as well. The company has a handy auto-ship option.

You can pick if you want the food delivered to you on a weekly basis, twice a month or if you only want to get a delivery once a month instead. Best of all, you’re not locked into any type of service agreement.

You can get food when you want it and if you don’t want it, you don’t have any cancellation fees or other costs that you’ll have to pay. This is a great way for you to introduce variety into your meal planning, to take care of a loved one’s meals or surprise someone with the gift of a delicious meal delivery.

The best way to jump into the experience of the meal delivery service is to pick out some different meals and order them. That way, you can get an idea of what’s going to suit your taste buds.

Then, what you’ll have the opportunity to do is to decide, with the company’s help, what you want in the future. You can work out any problems you have with foods such as those you didn’t like or you know you won’t like or food allergies.

You can also order more of the foods you really love and help yourself achieve your health goals through eating certain meal plans. The company will work with you to create an expansive selection of foods that you want and set up your packages for delivery.

Once you’ve been with the company for a few deliveries, they’ll contact you to see if you need to switch out any of your original food decisions. Best of all, if you try something and decide it’s not for you, the company will give you a different selection or give you back what you paid for the meal that you didn’t like.

Each of the meals comes to your home frozen and will be delivered even if you’re not there to get them. They’re packaged with food safety in mind, so you don’t have to worry about food spoiling.

What Is the Magic Kitchen Meal Delivery Going to Cost Me?

The pricing for the service is similar to the standard that you’d pay using other comparable services. However, Magic Kitchen also offers great discounts and deals on their foods.

You can find food items ranging from 10% to 25% to even half off certain selections. If you’re going to use a meal program, then you’ll find that you get savings each time you put in an order.

When you first start the program, you won’t have to pay any shipping costs at all. Following that first order, if you put in orders steadily at least within 30 days of the prior order and your total is at least $125, then the company will cover the cost of shipping the package to you.

If you choose not to take advantage of their money saving shipping cost deal, then you’ll have to pay to have the food delivered to you. Each box will then have a rate cost that’s figured according to what the company has to spend to ship it using standard shipping or UPS air as well as FedEx.

The choice is up to you, depending on how quickly you want your items. You can expect to pay close to $20 for shipping because the cost is determined by what your box weighs, which is why it’s a money saving move if you order from the company regularly.

If you want to pin down the day that you want your food items, you can choose that when you select your food. You can check on the delivery date for when you’ll get you order by using the zip code option on the website.

The average cost of the meals is also comparable at around $10 per person, depending on what you choose. Your food selections can make that cost either go up or down, based on how much you pick and what you pick.

For example, if you decide that you’re going to select a meal bundle, you then have to decide if you want that bundle to be in sizes one or two. If you choose the meals for one bundle, then you receive a total of eight meals.

You also get desserts – such as double fudge brownie or chocolate ganache cake. Choosing the complete package of the 8 meals with dessert that offers meals for one means that you’ll pay around $142.

It’s only $125 if you decide that you want to forego receiving the desserts. Deciding that you want to order meals for two servings means that you can receive the same foods with desserts for around $284.

Leaving off the desserts brings the package cost to around $249. Any time that you’re not going to be there to get the meals, you can opt out of delivery until you notify the company that you want to restart delivery.

What Can Magic Kitchen Deliver to You?

One of the great things about Magic Kitchen is that they have a lot of options when it comes to ordering what you’d like to eat. The meals are divided into meal bundles and that category is broken down into sections.

These sections are for 1-2 servings, 3-4 servings or 5-6 servings. Besides meal bundles, the selection is also broken down into choices like family style, comfort food, main courses, soups and breads, side dishes, desserts, complete meals for one, A la Carte Healthy, and senior meals.

The items in the meal bundles as well as the other food options are as close to natural as the company can get. There is an emphasis on using organic supplies in their fruits and vegetables to protect consumers against pesticides.

When it comes to the meats, the company uses ones that are free from any additional hormones or antibiotics. Occasionally, if an item is out of stock or the price doesn’t make it viable for the company, you may not always receive the exact same product although the company does have a policy of using the best ingredients and food items.

What consumers really like about ordering from Magic Kitchen is that you’re not locked into having to buy a complete meal. You’re allowed to choose only the items that you want to have.

If you choose to use the home style choice, you can either pick the meal bundle, which comes with a choice of main entrees, or you can just go with selecting side dishes if that’s what you want.

Picking only side dishes means that you have to choose the a la carte selection when you’re ordering. Just know that if you switch any items from the standard meal bundles with your a la carte selections, you may end up paying a difference in cost for the change.

Although the menu choices are homestyle or complete, each of these can be expanded. Under the choice of homestyle, you can select your main dishes along with soups if you’d like to have that.

But you can also add some additional side items or more servings as well as desserts if you want to. The company offers something called one serving meal bundles.

This is an excellent choice for people who only want a single serving size. When you get this food, you get the meal items packaged separately. You’ll have to let these choices thaw out before you can heat them to eat.

You can also choose what’s called their 7 Complete Meal Pack. These are great choices for people who don’t have time to wait for a meal to thaw out and don’t want to spend any time getting it ready.

If you’ve seen meals with items in separate portions of a tray or carton in the frozen section of the grocery store, then you’ll have a picture of what the meal pack meals are packaged like.

These delicious but simple to make meals can be pulled from your freezer and popped into either the oven or microwave depending on the meal’s cooking directions.

These meals are great for people who want to eat healthy. Unlike store bought frozen meals, these are designed to be low in calories, salt and carbs. The company’s customer service is so fantastic that if you need special considerations in your diet, the company will work with you to help make sure your nutritional needs are met.

Magic Kitchen Is Perfect for People Who Need Special Diets

When you have special food considerations, finding healthy meals can be a struggle. Thanks to Magic Kitchen, the search for meals when you’re on a special diet is now a lot easier. The meals are carefully prepared with your special diet needs in mind.

There are some people who have to have meals that don’t have much sodium in them. You can get meals specifically made with low sodium even though they’re convenient, such as in the 7 meal selection choice.

When you have a medical condition such as diabetes, then you know that eating healthy is what’s best for long term management of the disease. You can order meals that are suited for diabetics by using Magic Kitchen’s meals for diabetics.

You’ll find these choices labeled under diabetic friendly meals. The emphasis here is on portion control, low sodium and low carb. Eating healthy, but trying to take weight off is something that propels some people to search for better meal choices.

Thanks to the portion controlled meals offered by the service, you can lose weight without having to substitute taste. If you’re taking part in the Weight Watchers points program, Magic Kitchen makes it easy for you to keep track by labeling the meal with how many points the meal you choose counts as.

For people who struggle to gain weight, there are even options for you. You can find meals that are specially designed for senior citizens to make sure that they eat healthy.

The meals can be kept frozen for as long as three months. This service is especially helpful for elderly people who no longer want to cook for themselves or need help making better food choices.

Low carb diets with foods having as little as 9 carbs are an option as well as low fat diets. People who need to follow a heart healthy diet can find those at Magic Kitchen.

If you have to follow a renal diet or a dialysis friendly diet, the service also offers those meals as options. Consumers who are searching for gluten free meals will not be able to find that with Magic Kitchen’s meals although some choices are marked as gluten-free.

What Do the Magic Kitchen Label Codes Mean?

To make sure that the foods you’re ordering is what you want and that you’ll cook the food according to the direction, each of the foods are labeled. When you see the 1S label on a food, it means that you’re getting one serving size per package but two packages of that main food item.

The label LC means that the food is low carb and contains only 9 grams of carbohydrates for each of the 100 grams in the package. LS stands for low sodium and LF means the food is low in fat.

When you see CL on the package, it means that the food is low in cholesterol and is a heart healthy choice. The label RC means the meal is ready to cook. Meals with this label can’t simply be warmed up and will take a little longer before you can eat it.

When a meal is labeled with a V, it means it’s a vegetarian meal. However, if you’re someone who refrains from eating dairy or eggs in your vegetarian meals, you should be aware that the vegetarian meals can contain eggs or dairy. Despite the special labels to help guide you with your selection, most of the foods are microwave friendly.

Get meals on wheels for the elderly with Magic Kitchen!

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