Hello New Experiences
I am going to throw in a random blog just because.
I have undergone so many changes lately. It seems like in the past year, I probably wouldn’t recognize who I am today from the way I was this time last year.
One of the changes I have done was try HelloFresh. I usually don’t go towards the trends that are happening, especially since these meal delivery things seem to be shoved in my face everywhere I go, whether online or not. With how time crunched I am, and how I hate wasting things, especially with produce, I thought I would give it a shot, especially if it could potentially save me money.
My roommate was definitely curious as to what these were about. She went to Fresh Kitchen that’s down the street from our apartment and spent $80 on “better for you” type food, but the servings were real weak and she wasn’t crazy about how the food was.
I think I had to wait a little over a week before getting my first box. They assigned me Wednesdays for delivery day. I read somewhere that you could switch the days to one that’s more convenient to you. I didn’t really care when it came in, so I left it on that, but I’m sure a quick Google search would’ve had me switching if it was really dire.
The program has an app that’s pretty easy to navigate. They have it pretty easy to select the meals of your choice, skip weeks, cancel, etc. There’s also the “recipe cards” available on the app, but the hard copies are still sent with the meals, which I’m fine with, instead of having to keep my phone screen on.
In the box, they include mostly all you need. A lot of the ingredients were already premeasured when they were packaged, and some they sent some “extra”, but I always just poured the entire thing in, anyway and got good results from that. The ingredients in the meals come in small paper bags that are clearly labeled of what meal they are for. They usually include a couple random coupons and once they included a little chocolate/pretzel treat. Underneath the bags and the crazy looking stuffing they use to keep everything in, that’s where you’ll find your “proteins”, or the meats you’ll be using in between a layer of dry ice both above and under. When everything is taken out, the box still feels heavy from the ice like there is still something important in there.
There are a few things you need to supply yourself, like cooking utensils, olive oil, etc. I did have to run out and buy a zester. I never really needed one, but a lot of the meals I was choosing needed one, so I decided to try it.
There was one week where the recipes were kind of complex. I used all the burners at once while I was mixing something else off on the side. Multi-tasking skills is definitely a plus. I really did enjoy that they have taught me another way of preparing vegetables by baking them in the oven. The recipe cards always play off that there are only 6 steps, but in reality, each step has about two other steps thrown into them while under the 6 step guise.
I don’t think I am going to stay with them for too much longer. My roommate had a bad experience with one of the meals and I think it pretty much burned her out. I’m feeling pretty burned on all the produce prepping you have to do since a lot of the entrees come with multiple vegetables. I know it’s lazy to complain about this, but I am usually finding ways of cutting corners (like buying already minced garlic from the produce section instead of mincing the garlic myself). But it did teach me some new cooking skills and I feel more confident with my with a chef’s knife.
I have undergone so many changes lately. It seems like in the past year, I probably wouldn’t recognize who I am today from the way I was this time last year.
One of the changes I have done was try HelloFresh. I usually don’t go towards the trends that are happening, especially since these meal delivery things seem to be shoved in my face everywhere I go, whether online or not. With how time crunched I am, and how I hate wasting things, especially with produce, I thought I would give it a shot, especially if it could potentially save me money.
My roommate was definitely curious as to what these were about. She went to Fresh Kitchen that’s down the street from our apartment and spent $80 on “better for you” type food, but the servings were real weak and she wasn’t crazy about how the food was.
I think I had to wait a little over a week before getting my first box. They assigned me Wednesdays for delivery day. I read somewhere that you could switch the days to one that’s more convenient to you. I didn’t really care when it came in, so I left it on that, but I’m sure a quick Google search would’ve had me switching if it was really dire.
The program has an app that’s pretty easy to navigate. They have it pretty easy to select the meals of your choice, skip weeks, cancel, etc. There’s also the “recipe cards” available on the app, but the hard copies are still sent with the meals, which I’m fine with, instead of having to keep my phone screen on.
In the box, they include mostly all you need. A lot of the ingredients were already premeasured when they were packaged, and some they sent some “extra”, but I always just poured the entire thing in, anyway and got good results from that. The ingredients in the meals come in small paper bags that are clearly labeled of what meal they are for. They usually include a couple random coupons and once they included a little chocolate/pretzel treat. Underneath the bags and the crazy looking stuffing they use to keep everything in, that’s where you’ll find your “proteins”, or the meats you’ll be using in between a layer of dry ice both above and under. When everything is taken out, the box still feels heavy from the ice like there is still something important in there.
There are a few things you need to supply yourself, like cooking utensils, olive oil, etc. I did have to run out and buy a zester. I never really needed one, but a lot of the meals I was choosing needed one, so I decided to try it.
There was one week where the recipes were kind of complex. I used all the burners at once while I was mixing something else off on the side. Multi-tasking skills is definitely a plus. I really did enjoy that they have taught me another way of preparing vegetables by baking them in the oven. The recipe cards always play off that there are only 6 steps, but in reality, each step has about two other steps thrown into them while under the 6 step guise.
I don’t think I am going to stay with them for too much longer. My roommate had a bad experience with one of the meals and I think it pretty much burned her out. I’m feeling pretty burned on all the produce prepping you have to do since a lot of the entrees come with multiple vegetables. I know it’s lazy to complain about this, but I am usually finding ways of cutting corners (like buying already minced garlic from the produce section instead of mincing the garlic myself). But it did teach me some new cooking skills and I feel more confident with my with a chef’s knife.