Been doing three meals a week from Hello Fresh for a month now and am fairly impressed with the quality of the meals. Each week there are about a dozen meals to choose from. You pick out the number and type of meals you want and they show up on your doorstep the next week on the your designated day.
Blue Apron has a lot of mixed reviews and Kroger's offerings are not all that impressive. So far I would rate half our dinners as very good, about one-third as good, and a few as just average.
The dinners I really liked were:
- cheese tortellini in mushroom sauce
- rosemary demi-glaced pork chops
- ginger turmeric tilapia
- pork schnitzel
- chicken souvlaki pitas pockets
- figgy balsamic pork
- chicken sausage benelli bolognese
- flaky tempura tilapia
The best part is it gives you confidence to prepare different types of food. The kits provide all the necessary ingredients minus a fee basics like salt, pepper, butter, olive oil. There are usually a few minutes of chopping and the fire up the oven and stove and following the instructions.
I find most the meals are a bit light on veggies, but I usually have stuff on hand to fix that. (Add some extra bell pepper, onion, carrots, potatoes, whatever makes sense). The things I like is it cuts down on the need to shop during the week, it also cuts down on the time it takes to think about and plan meals, and you don't end up with a bunch of extra ingredients that end up rotting in the fridge. But really, it is pretty darn good variety of tasty food at a reasonable price, roughly $9 each for a meal for two, without having to go out and spending a fortune every night.
Blue Apron has a lot of mixed reviews and Kroger's offerings are not all that impressive. So far I would rate half our dinners as very good, about one-third as good, and a few as just average.
The dinners I really liked were:
- cheese tortellini in mushroom sauce
- rosemary demi-glaced pork chops
- ginger turmeric tilapia
- pork schnitzel
- chicken souvlaki pitas pockets
- figgy balsamic pork
- chicken sausage benelli bolognese
- flaky tempura tilapia
The best part is it gives you confidence to prepare different types of food. The kits provide all the necessary ingredients minus a fee basics like salt, pepper, butter, olive oil. There are usually a few minutes of chopping and the fire up the oven and stove and following the instructions.
I find most the meals are a bit light on veggies, but I usually have stuff on hand to fix that. (Add some extra bell pepper, onion, carrots, potatoes, whatever makes sense). The things I like is it cuts down on the need to shop during the week, it also cuts down on the time it takes to think about and plan meals, and you don't end up with a bunch of extra ingredients that end up rotting in the fridge. But really, it is pretty darn good variety of tasty food at a reasonable price, roughly $9 each for a meal for two, without having to go out and spending a fortune every night.