Hello Fresh subscription grocery delivery service is here! Thanks to Mosaic Reviews for giving me the opportunity to check them out. You can check out Hello Fresh too! Then you can have meals brought to your door. They have made the recipes, done your grocery shopping and packed it all in an insulated cooler box shipped to your front door!
Where do they get their ingredients? They are not certified organic however they do look for the freshest ingredients. Click here to see their suppliers.
Read on from their website:
Where Our Ingredients Come From
Quality
We want our customers to be able to make restaurant-quality food in their own home. One of the key ways we make sure this is possible it by providing varied, high-quality ingredients that are packed with flavor. We use reliable, quality-controlled suppliers that regularly provide ingredients to the finest restaurants and whose products are not widely available in supermarkets.
Location
We work with trusted, local suppliers, and we try to use as few imported, non-local ingredients as possible. We believe that knowing who and where we get our meat, fish and produce from is the only way to guarantee quality.
Seasonality
We design our recipes to incorporate seasonal products whenever possible. This has environmental benefits, but most importantly means your meals are that much more delicious.
We want our customers to be able to make restaurant-quality food in their own home. One of the key ways we make sure this is possible it by providing varied, high-quality ingredients that are packed with flavor. We use reliable, quality-controlled suppliers that regularly provide ingredients to the finest restaurants and whose products are not widely available in supermarkets.
Location
We work with trusted, local suppliers, and we try to use as few imported, non-local ingredients as possible. We believe that knowing who and where we get our meat, fish and produce from is the only way to guarantee quality.
Seasonality
We design our recipes to incorporate seasonal products whenever possible. This has environmental benefits, but most importantly means your meals are that much more delicious.
How do they compare?
They have compared their Classic meal box for two people, with the cost of getting the same ingredients delivered for each dish from leading supermarket chains.
What exactly do you get?
Hello fresh offers two box types with gift card options as well.
The Veggie Box The Classic Box
Each box comes with all the ingredients for 3 meals that you choose for either 2 or 4 people. With each box comes colorful easy to follow recipe cards.
So, how easy it is? What did we make and how did it taste?
The preparations really are easy peasy. The first recipe we made was Chili Dusted Shrimp. I personally do not eat meat nor do I eat fish. I have made a few fish sticks and am not opposed to the family eating it I just don’t. We really don’t eat fish when it is there either (like family gatherings or a buffet) so I choose not to cook it. So I thought we would go ahead and give this recipe a try.
We gathered our food: The bag contains all that we need! We were even sent the can of corn.
we dusted the shrimp We cut and mixed the veggies
We cooked them separately
The kitchen smelled so nice when we were cooking this! We mixed garlic, ginger and scallions in with the veggies. Once were were done cooking it we put it together
Doesn’t this look delicious?
Since I did cook the shrimp and veggies differently I did try the veggies. They did have good flavor to them with a hint of vinegar (that part I didn’t really care for). Jacob and Cecelia liked the shrimp and ate it all! The meal was made for 2 so the rest of us had spaghetti!
The other two meal that we had were:
Steak and Brussels Sprout Stir fry Chicken Quinoa Stew
These recipes were also very simple to make and as the shrimp dish, all the ingredients were right there in the little bags.
I received the 3 different meals each made for two people. Overall the food is really good. You could possibly stretch another person out of the meals if you had to. We were not head over heals for the meats in either of these dishes, though. I have been purchasing organic chicken for my family for about year now I am not sure if that made a difference or not. The beef was chewy and stringy and the chicken had no flavor from what my family had said. I guess that is what happens when you get used to one kind and one kind only.
The gist of the program~
You get 3 meals delivered (for either 2 or 4 people) to your door each week as part of the subscription service.
They are automatically sent on the same day each week. You log on to their site to check what meals they are shipping. They have put together 5 meals for each week so if you do not like something that they have you can swap it out for one of the other meals. You will get your meals each week until you no longer want the service. If you are going to be gone for a week or so, no problem! You can simply log onto the site and hold your subscription for that week. It really is simple.
The 3 classic meals for 2 people cost about 69.99 per week with the veggie box about 59.99, with the dinners for 4 servings about double. This does include delivery however I would think that rates would vary as to where it was being shipped.
Was this a good fit for our family? Not really. Here is why:
Although I loved getting the box of food delivered to my door, with its ingredients all premeasured out in cute little packs. Our eating out consists of mainly pizza or a buffet since we are a family of 6 (including 2 teenage boys). We run on the budget system and we would need to purchase one of each of the boxes (the 2 and the 4) each week just for it to be enough food for all of us. This would cost us about 200 per week, just for those 3 meals! Yikes! Being a stay a home mom it isn’t the most frugal choice for feeding my family.
You can give Hello Fresh a try and receive $20 off your first box!
Use the code UA2ZCD for your discount.
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