Boxed food delivery (ie hello fresh)

I do Hello Fresh occasionally. You can choose your meals, but they have meals that they automatically send if you were to forget. The meals we have received have been really good. I think Hello Fresh is great for someone who likes to cook but doesn't like to grocery shop.

From a UK delivery I found Hello Fresh, convenient and useful  for a couple of days a week when I was working full time. I liked that all the ingredients were there to cook a full dish, even down to the spices etc and portioned/weighed out all ready to go. They're convenient in so far as I might see something in a recipe book that appeals to me but it needs different ingredients to what I would have in my store cupboard on a regular basis. If I bought some of these from a store I might not use them all up and end up throwing the rest away. Spices as am example.

You can pick out which meals you want here in the UK. It does give you a choice of different meals that you might otherwise not bother because you don't need some of the ingredients for other dishes. I suppose you can describe it as having more of a variety of dishes than you would otherwise have because you only have enough ingredients for that one meal. I've never had a bad batch of ingredients from them, it's all pretty fresh. Have you looked at their website?

We did Hello Fresh several years ago- portions were too small, meals took too long to cook, and recipes were a little more complicated than i liked.

We are doing Home Chef right now and we are loving it (after one week lol).
Plenty for 2 people, recipes have normal ingredients and generally dont take too long and even the expert level recipes are not hard.

We arr planning to do this lomg enough to compile a decent list of recipes thay we can then make on our own.

I've done Blue Apron, Hello Fresh and Every Plate. Hands down my favorite has been Every Plate and it is far cheaper than the others. All of the ingredients are simple common things and you make such yummy sauces. I can't say I had ever tried very many rice bowls before, but they are my favorites and I have recreated them many times.

We've tried a bunch.... Hello Fresh, Every Plate (from what I understand, it's the same company), Green Chef, Home Chef, Blue Apron, Gobble, Martha and Marley Spoon, Dinnerly, Freshly, Sun Basket, Purple Carrot.....
I think that's all the ones we've tried.
We liked them all.
We order the vegetarian meals.
Sometimes I take shortcuts if the prep time seems too long.
I don't use the spicy ingredients and give them to a friend who enjoys spicy food.
I suggest checking out Groupon for great deals, if you're a first time customer.
We have never paid full price for any of the boxes we ordered.
You can always get your first box for a great price.
Once we get the discounted box, I cancel the plan and wait until they send me an offer via email.
If it's not at least half price, I don't get it.
a few weeks ago, Hello Fresh had an offer to come back for 75% off .
We got a total of 12 meals for less than $30.
We have never had any issues with quality.
The one time we tried Martha and Marley Spoon, there were delivery issues.
Fed Ex said the box got damaged and they destroyed it.
Martha sent out another box, and the same thing happened.
We did receive our meals on the third try.
Other than that, no issues with quality or delivery.

My grocery store sells Home Chef kits, and I've made a couple of recipes from their website. The kits are fine in a pinch, or to try something new, but I haven't really loved anything I've tried. They're $17-20 per kit in the store, and for just a little bit more, we can order Panera or Noodles, and I don't have to cook or clean the kitchen. Also, there's never been enough for leftovers, and SO usually has dinner leftovers for lunch. So, I just don't find it to be a cost effective addition to my grocery lineup.

I’ve used Hello Fresh 50-60 times.  Great dishes.  You pick.  But I do feel likr I’m cooking my ass off.  

I think it is good for two.  The money we save from not overbuying and throwing away items makes it pay for itself, but for four people, it isn't such a good deal.  You can find the recipes on the hello Fresh website to try.  I really like their tacos and burgers for the sauces.  I have also been trying to find some of the spices (like Frank's Red Hot) in powder form.  When I get a new spice packet from Hello Fresh, I cut out the back and save it so I know what is in it when I make it again.

code TASTY12 (12 free meals across 4 boxes (weeks) and free shipping first box)

I’ll occasionally pick up a couple pre-packaged meals at our local Harris Teeter. I think it’s Home Chef. We’ve enjoyed many of the selections. On those days it’s great not to have to think about dinner until 4 or 5pm! Plus the recipes are dinner-for-two. I miss my favorite empty nest magazine “Cooking for Two.”

We used both Hello Fresh and Blue Apron for a few months a couple years ago. It was super easy to skip weeks with both and select our meals. We still use a couple of the recipes (especially Korean Tacos  ) regularly.

I have a couple of big eaters (DH & DS) that meant the meals were a bit light for our needs which was my main reason for stopping the service.

I have a friend who recommended everyplate over the other meal delivery services (she's tried them all). She said it was cheaper and had more "normal" food that her meat & potatoes type husband will eat. 

i recently started hello fresh and i like it. although a recipe that says 30 mins can take me an hour and 20 mins... i guess i am a slow chopper?? the food is good, i can always find 3 i like and even if i miss selection cutoff, the defaults have always been pretty generic that we will eat.

i got a free week and they give me coupons to give others to try. i will stop soon and start again in a couple of months. i am feeling inspired as some of the recipes i can easily recreate.