Sophia wrote on Aug 26
th, 2016 at 5:32pm:
Now, I am doing another experiment....I just joined up to get "Hello Fresh" delivered to my door every Tuesday, the package for 2 people with meat. So far, the first 2 nights meals I cooked via their package of food and recipes have been excellent.
I will keep it going a few weeks and see how that pans out over the finances and money and time and driving not spent going to supermarkets.
We tried that not long after it came on the market. I had been retired for a few months back then, but my wife was still working, so I was invariably the one who ended up doing the cooking.
The quality of the ingredients was generally very good, although for some reason I seemed to get quite a few rather rubbery carrots.
One thing I did like about it was that it made you try things that you wouldn't normally consider (I had never even thought of making a quesadilla until the ingredients turned up one week). There weren't any meals of theirs that I can recall not liking, and there were several that we kept the recipe cards for so that we could do them again.
I wouldn't say that it saved any money though. In fact I would suggest that you would pay slightly more than if you went to the supermarket armed with a recipe and bought the exact quantity of everything that you needed. Which, if you normally tend to buy a bit more than you need, might mean you actually do save, as there is no wastage. It does save you time, which would be a major plus if you're working.
We ended up cancelling it after about six months or so. The main problem I had was that my wife is diabetic and has a number of specific dietary requirements, and I had to sometimes swap from the meat box to the vegetarian box to avoid certain ingredients and, on a few occasions, cancel it for a week or two. And some of the vegetarian recipes were a bit basic - I mean, who needs a recipe to make an omelette or pasta with tomato sauce?
All in all though, a very good service that would suit some people and not others.
Thanks for telling me about it, and yes, I agree, am doing recipes I would never have bothered doing, and they are really really good!
There was this recipe with sticky pork balls, and some weird ingredient I had never heard or nor tried before, and absolutely loved it!
Kecap Manis.....that's an interesting ingredient.
Thick dark sticky stuff.
And here is a recipe to make our own Kecap Manis.
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