Thursday, February 13, 2025

Meal Kits – Are They Worth It?

Picture this: you’re sitting by the tranquil lakeside, basking in the gentle breeze and enjoying the serene beauty of the water. It’s a perfect day, and the last thing you want to do is spend hours in the kitchen preparing a meal. That’s where meal delivery services come to the rescue. In this blog post, I’ll dive into the world of meal delivery, how it works, and my honest review.

My husband and I tried quite a handful of meal delivery services. We started with HungryRoot, then tried Hello Fresh and Home Chef, and now we have been on Green Chef for the past few months. The whole ordering process is simple. After creating an account, you select your diet type, how many people you would like to feed, and how many meals a week you would like to receive. Then choose your recipes, pay for your order, and tada!! You can look forward to seeing your delivery truck in a few days.

Food Safety and Delivery Times

My biggest concern about food delivery services was food safety. Like many others, I worried about the meat getting spoiled during the transit. On hot summer days, when our box with meat, and other groceries leaves the shipping warehouse, gets loaded on a plane, trucks, and finally on the delivery truck, where the driver opens the door constantly to unload other packages.

Good news! All the food subscriptions automatically provide 24-hour next-day delivery services. In the well-insulated cardboard boxes, you can find ice bags on the bottom following your meat, then another layer of ice bags, and your other groceries with recipe cards on top of them. On rare occasions (probably twice) during the six months of trying out various meal kits, we received something rotten, and surprisingly, it wasn’t the meat. In this review, we are comparing the costs, portion sizes, taste, and food quality.

HungryRoot

This meal kit was the first one we tried. The recipes are delicious and easy to make. If you want to eat clean and lose weight, this is the perfect solution. The portions are about half what you would usually eat – great for keeping the calories under 1400 a day. Therefore, we switched to a different meal kit – this one wasn’t doing it for us. But if you want to reinvent your healthy meals, HungryRoot is the way to go.

Hello Fresh

Food Subscription Review Hello FreshBurst of flavors and new meal ideas, that’s how I would describe Hello Fresh. Hello Fresh makes you feel like a celebrity chef in your own kitchen. The ingredients come neatly packed and portioned. The recipes are super easy to follow, with step-by-step instructions and colorful photos that guide you through the cooking process.

HelloFresh offers a wide variety of delicious recipes, from classic comfort food to international cuisines. Be prepared to try meals you would never cook at home otherwise. Your taste buds will do a happy dance! Why did we cancel this meal kit? They somehow managed to mess up our delivery schedules and never hit our credit card on the same day of the week, which made it harder to plan our expenses.

Home Chef

We had Home Chef meal kits only for about four weeks. The portions were optimally sized. Recipes were tasty as well, although almost every recipe used a half-onion for two people, and we got delivered a whole one for each recipe bag, so we ended up having at least two whole onions at the end of the week we had no use for. We ran into an issue where they delivered moldy tomatoes, and we constantly had a recipe card or a meal bag missing in our box, so we canceled the subscription.

Green Chef

From all the meal kits we tried, we stuck with this one the longest. Green Chef is all about sustainability and organic goodness. What stands out is their commitment to using high-quality, non-GMO, and organic ingredients. The difference in taste between the organic produce and the generic one is staggering! Thanks to fewer chemicals in the food, I noticed major skin improvements in terms of my adult acne.

The portions are just right, you won’t be full but neither hungry. Whether you’re into keto, paleo, vegetarian, vegan, or just looking for some wholesome family-friendly meals, Green Chef has you covered. The only thing I would point out is that they automatically select recipes for you every week. If you log in to their website, you swap the preselected recipes. But if you forget (writing from experience), you wind up with at least two recipes in a week with pork. I don’t have a problem with pork, but two times a week is too much. When it comes to chicken, one can see that the animal didn’t eat any hormones – the chicken breast is half of the size of the “antibiotic and hormone free” chicken breasts sold at Walmart.

Conclusion

Incorporating meal delivery service into your lifestyle can bring convenience and relaxation to your daily routine. If you’re looking for a meal kit service that aligns with your values of health, sustainability, and deliciousness, Green Chef is a fantastic choice. On the other hand, if you would like to explore cuisines, and expand your culinary Horizon, I recommend Hello Fresh without a doubt.

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