Do You Use Hello Fresh? Or Other Subscription Meal Service?

I use a service called A Dinner A'Fare - you can order 2-3 portion sizes or 4-6 portion sizes and there about 20 different entrees to chose from each month.

I like them because you go online, pick what you want and it is delivered to your house and frozen until you are ready to use. You only pick for that month do if you don't need the service next month, you don't pay. You only pay when you actually order something.

The meals take less than 20 minutes to cook and get on the table and they are so tasty!

I've used Blue Apron in the past but found out quickly that DH and I didn't align well with their recipe selection (too much kale/squash - DH won't eat). I gave subscription meal service a break for a few months and recently started up with Hello Fresh. We are on our fourth week of recipes.

DH and I are both really enjoying Hello Fresh. I haven't made anything that either one of us straight up didn't like and have made multiple recipes that we both love. This week's sausage and pepper hoagies with roasted asparagus was delicious! I'm slow in the kitchen when it comes to prepping ingredients, so I tend to do them in batches so I'm not spending forever in the kitchen cooking dinner every night. For example, if I get two onions (for two different recipes), I cut them both up at the same time and just divide in half - use half for the recipe I'm cooking that night and place the balance in the fridge for the other recipe that uses an onion that will be made another night. I wash all the produce at the same time, rather than just the produce being used in the recipe I'm making at that moment.

I had an issue with one of the recipes I was delivered this week. The chicken package was punctured and leaked chicken juice. I place all the meat packages on a plate in the fridge when I open the box from Hello Fresh. When I took the plate out to get the sausage package, I noticed the plate had some chicken juice pooled at the bottom of the plate. Upon inspection, I was able to find a tiny leak in the chicken package, so threw the chicken away and washed the packages of the other two meats that were on the plate. I called Hello Fresh yesterday to let them know I had to throw away the chicken (the rest of the ingredients for that dish are fine - no juice on them). Hello Fresh credited me $23 (cost of the meal) to compensate for the chicken. This is the only issue I have had, but feel this could happen to any meal service subscription, or grocery store for that matter.

All that being said, I do recommend Hello Fresh!

We use Chefs Plate (Canada) and we love it. We get recipe cards and ingredients for 3 meals per week. Last year we were both balancing school and work and getting home late - meal planning and grocery shopping just felt like too much. It saves a ton of time and its great to know you're coming home to a planned dinner with all the ingredients ready.

Where are you located and what is the price.  I live in Niagara and haven't heard of this meal subscription service.

I like Hello Fresh better than they others for flavor and more of the ingredients that we like and eat.

We do blue apron and LOVE it.

We did Green Plate first. I liked that they were paleo/gluten free. But the kids (3 and 5) didn't like the food and it was expensive. We have been doing Blue Apron for a couple months now. We love it. The kids are willing to eat it. We do supplement some, since it alone really isn't enough for 2 adults and 2 kids at 2 servings per meal. I think that 4 servings for the family ones would be too much food for us. We have I think had one that I wasn't a fan of, the rest have all been really good. We have also used some of the recipes and techniques on their own since we liked them so much. I love not having to think, I just pick one of them and follow the directions.