Food Delivery Boxes

How can people afford these

Started using Hello Fresh during lockdown and then moved to Gousto and remained with them ever since. We order 4 meals per week and can highly recommend them. Great choice and good value. If anyone wants to try -
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gousto.co.uk/raf?promo_code=CATHE42027908&utm_source=iosapp

I prefer Gousto, as they have a better variety and more choices for vegetarians, although there are usually several meat substitutes which I'm not keen on. Most of the Hello Fresh veggie choices seem to be pasta based, which is not great value.

The packaging is recyclable, other than perhaps the sachets - you get things like tomato puree in a sachet rather than the usual tube, as the ingredients are weighed out. Everything else is paper or cardboard, other than a woolly thing that they use to wrap the ingredients that have to go straight into the fridge. I don't think they are any worse than supermarkets for packaging. I find the portion sizes are fine. We sometimes have leftovers.

I've used Simply and Hello Fresh. Both not very good especially if you want anything vegetarian. I use Gousto and find them excellent. I got fed up with food and it was nice to have recipes that used herbs and spices that I'd never dreamt to use. I also find it saves money in that I have no waste. I get fed up with the fridge clear out when there's things gone off. I live on my own BTW.

I can endorse hello fresh. The ingredients are always top notch, and all the additional things that come in the small sachets I find really useful if I don’t end up making the recipe.

Ocado is my salvation as I struggle to shop. They deliver the freshest of own brand food and a great selection of M&S meals
Far preferable to a veg box whaich in my area was delivered on a Tuesday and rarely lasted until the weekend

Mindful Chef was a godsend for us in lockdown, and we carried on with them afterwards as DH (my chef) likes to try different recipes and this is an easy way to ring the changes. We’ve changed to Gousto now as they’re a bit cheaper. We have a fortnightly delivery of three meals for two, which suits us. We certainly wouldn’t have carried on if the ingredients hadn’t been top quality and the recipe choices interesting and healthy.

My DD has a subscription to The Spicery which i would recommend.. I don't know all the details. It's not an actual meal you get but the necessary spices and recipe/method card for the meal you choose.

You did say you were bored with eating so i'm assuming you would be happy to shop for the necessary ingredients for the recipes. It gives a shopping list for what you need to buy.

She is vegetarian but the recipes can often be made with either meat or the veggie options. I've had lots of them, many different nationalities of food, and helped make some so can say that the instruction leaflet is very well done. It's laid out in time order so that your meal all comes together at the right time.

The recipes usually serve 4 so when it's the 2 of us it does twice . The servings are generous. Be prepared though for a full on cooking session as it's often a 2 course with sides as well. I'm glad i've always done it with help but then i suppose you don't have to make everything on the menu card. You could choose which dishes to make and when.

None of them are available where I live so can't comment.

A relative very kindly ordered a lot of individual Cook meals for me and dh after I’d spent 3 weeks in hospital last year, and was still weak and wobbly.

Unfortunately, probably because of all the ABs I’d been on, and still was, everything continued to taste weird or horrible for quite a while.
Dh pronounced them very good, though!
Same relative has used the large Cook meals for big family gatherings.

I've used Gousto and Green Chef. The meals are better on Green Chef but are about £15 a week dearer ( for 5 meals) so I've gone back to Gousto. Main problem I find is expiry date of the fish/chicken, very short. I have to cook the five meals in expiry order so occassionally end up with chicken on three consecutive nights.

Mel1967

Does anyone use or have used any of the Food Delivery Boxes?
Hello Fresh etc.
If so what are did you think of them, are they good or bad?
All comments appreciated.
I’m bored with eating (See my post).
And thought that maybe they might be a way for me to enjoy food again 😊
Thank you 😊

No we've not used food delivery boxes. Not sure they're available way out here. I'm easily bored eating, though I cook a wide variety of foods - I assume old age to be the culprit and eat what I need to survive.