Anyone here do meal delivery services like Hello Fresh?

We did it for a month or two. It is nice if you are feeding 2 mouths that are not finicky eaters. It turns into a complicated problem when you have young kids. Do you order the expensive option of 4 servings and risk them not eating it? Or do you order the two servings and feed the kids cereal?

The food quality itself was very good.

We did Hello Fresh for a few months but quit once we had a kid, it’s a good change of pace from our normal rotation when you can’t quite think of something different. We kept the recipes for the ones we like and still make them occasionally. Off the top of my head we still make some of the Mediterranean dishes, the black bean enchiladas(we add chicken), and they have a zucchini and squash flatbread/pizza with a lemon ricotta cheese base that we still make regularly.

My wife and I like doing it when we get bored with our regular menu.

We turn it off when we get tired of it. We'll enable it for a month or so, cancel it for 3 months etc.

The food is generally pretty good. Some if it has a lot more calories that I typically want for dinner though.

We do Martha and Marley 3 times a week. It gives us flexibility for eating out or dinner with friends. It is nice to have 3 meals figured out for the week.

My family has done Blue Apron and Hello Fresh for a while. We stopped Blue Apron because my finicky kid just wouldn't eat it or did and hated it. Supper is his only decent meal of any school day.

Started Hello Fresh much later after my wife died and found a family friendly menu. This was a huge help as a single dad dealing with work, hobbies and raising a 12 year old boy. Enter the new lady who loves to cook and is off a lot during the week. Even at two meals per week, some would have to be thrown out for one reason or another, and the meals were for two. To make it work, I would have had to switch to 4 person. While I do miss it because it exposes me to things I would never otherwise cook, the two of us just cook too much from the grocery for this to work well.

And as far as the learning to cook thing goes, I have actually learned a lot from these things and incorporate the lessons into my daily cooking.

We were doing Hello Fresh for a while and still occasionally. I agree with Kosmo about purchasing more protein to add to the meals.

Most meals have most always tasted great and have tried things like Couscous and other meal selections that are not part of my southern plains food culture.