As students transition from home or residence to off-campus living, they are suddenly gifted with the freedom to figure out who they really are.

This often happens in a house, commonly called a ‘digs’, with three or four other people who are just as confused as they are.

When you sent them off into the world, you might have told them to ‘sing like nobody’s listening, dance like nobody’s watching, and love like they’ve never been hurt’.

As long as you didn’t give them one of those ‘live laugh love’ posters for their wall. You’re better than that.

The reality is that they’re probably going to party like it’s nobody’s business, drink like there’s no tomorrow, and eat like an unrestricted five-year-old.

We exchanged office stories about people we knew at varsity who managed to get scurvy.

I repeat – scurvy. The disease that pirates get.

Long story short, and I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but that cash you send them every month is probably not being used to maintain a healthy, well-balanced diet.

There is a way around that, though, and it’s called Daily Dish.

Each week, Daily Dish offers five different menus to choose from, with each menu featuring three or four meals (for one person, two people or four people, depending on the size of the digs).

You can select the set menu (there are five options for delivery every Monday – Family, Classic, Banting, Vegetarian and Pork-Free), or you can choose the individual dishes you’d like included in your Daily Dish dinner box.

Every week, they post 20 new recipes in five different menus for you to choose from.

Then on a Monday, the highest quality and freshest ingredients required to make the meals are delivered to your kid’s door, perfectly measured out to avoid the guilt of food wastage.

The ingredients come complete with idiot-proof recipes that even the most inept of your kid’s housemates will be able to follow. Hey, we’ve all been there, and there are only so many two-minute noodles one can eat.

Check out next week’s Classic Box, for example:

If there’s anything there that you don’t like, just switch it out for a meal from one of the other menus.

Four meals for the week will set each kid (or parent) back approximately R270, or around R65 a meal, which is a small price to pay to ensure that your kid doesn’t get scurvy.

Added bonus – order here and score up to R250 off your first Dinner Box with 2oceansvibe. They’ll thank you, I promise.

Then tell them to get a job, because the quicker they learn about the harsh truths of the real world, the better for everyone.