HelloFresh: Meal Kit Delivery 4+

I rarely rate apps but I love HelloFresh so much! The app itself is easy to use and enjoyable. There is so much I like about the program. The selection is great. The food quality with a mix of hello fresh products, name brands and fresh produce is fantastic. I love that each meal comes in a happy brown bag with all the ingredients for each meal inside minus the meat. The meals taste great! The prices are very good. It usually costs less than drive through fast food and is better for you. The produce available in our small town is sometimes questionable so this is a huge improvement. I’ve only found two slight negatives with HelloFresh. I enjoy cooking and while I like not having to plan each meal, I also feel like I lose pride in what I’ve cooked because I didn’t think of it and it took so little effort to make it happen. I also wish the app would allow commenting immediately after cooking rather than the waiting period they add. The instructions are fresh in the customers mind and they could give feedback in greater detail. The instructions sometimes will say something like chop half the shallot but you get a giant baseball sized shallot so you have to use your best judgement. In that case it would be better if it said chop two tablespoons of shallot and immediate feedback would help those tiny details to make it onto improved instructions for repeating recipes.

After cooking for a family of 5 for 18 years it was challenging to scale back to just cooking for two when the kids went off to work or school. My shopping list was always the same, boring!
With the pandemic and being diagnosed with cancer my kids got me started on different meal plans. One had food already prepared and just needed heated and served. It was not any better than TV dinners from my youth days and I hated those. Then I tried Hello Fresh. I have a seafood allergy so it is great I get to have so many meals to choose from. Many spices I have never tried and cooking combinations that are new to me but easy and fun to help me out of my comfort zone. My husband and I still like our ‘boring meals’ once in a while but these meals offer a change of taste without tons of labor and prepping or having a huge investment in stuff I might never use again (spices, dressings etc)
I have gotten many friends started on these meals and my very picky older brother and his wife are my latest converts. Having kids working in the food industry, they were very protective of me during chemo and radiation therapy so eating at restaurants was not an option. These meals are good tasting, and no more expensive than a modest restaurant meal without leaving home. And I don’t feel compelled to leave a huge tip so we save money using this service!

Two things: My husband travels a lot now which leaves just two to feed and I loath deciding what to cook each a week and then shopping for ingredients. Hello Fresh makes my life easier for cooking! I work at my daughter’s school, so when we get home, it’s in the late evening and I’m tired, but I’m willing to cook us a meal that tastes like we went to a 4-5 star restaurant to eat 4 nights a week!! It sure does beat running to the grocery store last minute after work. The meals are healthy and the portions are perfect for us. Sometimes we might have a little but left over for a 2 person meal and that’s fine. I love not having to figure out portions and find recipes that are healthy. You have to cook the meals that week so your produce doesn’t go bad. And I love hearing my 12 yr old tell me that dinner smells SO good and she also loves the taste. The plan is reasonably priced and I saved gas too! The other plans are around the same price, so unless you want to complain about how expensive it is, may I suggest you give this a try and then you can be the judge. Thank you Hello Fresh! The only thing I would change and I have shared this with HF, I would add the option to chance meal plans on the app as long as you’re not canceling it. To chance plans, you have to call in. CS was friendly and helpful and if they never add that feature, oh well. I will use Hello Fresh as long as the Good Lord blesses us!