

None of the dishes on their menu take less than 20 minutes to cook. While their menu of meals includes seemingly impressive like green olive pasta puttanesca, salsa verde enchiladas, and hoisin-glazed meatballs, many of their dishes take 45 minutes to prepare. The biggest consumer complaint about HelloFresh? It doesn’t save that much time. So if booze is a priority (to each their own), you can get six bottles delivered monthly through the HelloFresh Wine Club. HelloFresh meals include fresh ingredients, delivered straight to your door in a box insulated with ice packs.Īnd, interestingly enough, the HelloFresh meal service also ships wine. Recipe cards include the nutritional information for the recipe, which helps support health-conscious consumers. Family plans start at $7.87 per serving, plus $6.99 in shipping costs.Įach Hello Fresh box comes with recipe cards and the ingredients to make those recipes. You can order their classic plan (a mixture of meals for 2-4 people), vegetarian plan, or family plan (for 4+ family members).Īccording to some reviews of the service, the family plans were one of the biggest draws of HelloFresh, allowing entire families to eat together. A variety of meals are on the menu, including fish, chicken, steak, or plant-based meals. HelloFresh offers a subscription service that starts at just $6.99 a meal (plus $6.99 shipping). We’re sizing up some of the top contenders in the market-Hello Fresh and Blue Apron-to see how they compare and how (or if) they make the adulting game easier.

If you’re considering signing up for a meal kit delivery service, keep reading.

Meal subscription services like Plated, Blue Apron, Green Chef, and Hello Fresh take care of the planning and shopping, and ship the recipes and ingredients straight to your front door. Instead of strolling through the Whole Foods hot bar for the fourth time this week, why not try a meal subscription. Grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning your house? They’re just not going to get done in your 50+ hour workweek. And when earning a paycheck takes precedence (again, #adulting), sometimes not everything on your personal to-do list gets checked off. Work, laundry, making an impromptu appearance at the gym-there’s simply too much in the workweek to check all the boxes. If there’s one thing we know to be true, it’s this: Adulting is hard.
