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Testing Amazon’s new meal-kit delivery service that is taking on Blue Apron
Video taken from the channel: GeekWire
Blue Apron vs Plated vs Hello Fresh vs Home Chef vs Green Chef (Review)
Video taken from the channel: RIZKNOWS
How the new Amazon meal service stacks up
Video taken from the channel: Good Morning America
What Are Meal Kits?
Video taken from the channel: Feed My Curiosity
Hello Fresh Unboxing and Review: Is this meal kit delivery service right for you?
Video taken from the channel: Tom’s Guide
Amazon has a new meal kit delivery service—is it worth it?
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BEST MEAL KIT DELIVERY SERVICE (HONEST REVIEW) Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, Home Chef, EveryPlate
Video taken from the channel: The Deal Guy
Complete Guide to Meal Kit Delivery Services Plated. Subscription details: Meal kits are available for two, three, or four servings per night. Customers commit to Blue Apron. Subscription details: Recurring, weekly meal kits available.
Considering using meal kits? I spent weeks cooking with boxed ingredients shipped to my door. Here are the best.Meal kit delivery services are reinventing the dinner ritual a very good way.
Working couples, singles, and busy families who care about eating fresh, home-cooked meals.Check out which is the most affordable meal kit delivery subscription service on the market. Our guide compare prices, variety, and the quality of ingredients. Find out which is the cheapest service without sacrificing taste and quality.Deciding what to make for dinner (or breakfast or lunch) stressing you out?
Cooking is one of the greatest skills.Let me tell you about a delicious plot I cooked up. Over the course of one year, in an effort to clean up my eating habits, I ordered one-week trials from 20 different meal-kit and food delivery.WALMART: LEAVING NO STONE UNTURNED. Walmart launched their meal kits delivery after Amazon and Blue Apron.
Walmart offers about 30 meal kits with the plus point being that Walmart sends you the kitchenware you need to make the meal. On an average, its charges range from somewhere around $32 to $79 for a meal for four.A Complete Guide To Prepared Meals & Meal Delivery The way that consumers shop and purchase groceries has been changed by the introduction of meal boxes.
Whether they are prepared meal kits, grocery boxes, or meal kits that you put together yourself, this newer way of shopping for groceries has attempted to disrupt the food industry as we know it.Meal Kit Delivery Service Prices. Meal subscriptions range in price and are typically between $10-13 per serving with the exception of one budget friendly option at $6.50 per serving. That means for a couple, you will usually be dropping $20-26 for dinner.
My father objected to these prices by saying he could go out to eat for this price.Why Everyone (and I mean everyone) Is Switching To Prepared Meal Delivery Services. Up until recently Meal Kit Services were all the rage.
It took the hassle out of shopping and planning your meals every week. But you still ended up having to do most of the cooking & clean-up which became a bit of a hassle. But Meal Kit Services are now the.These days, there is so much more in prepared food and meal kit delivery, the consumer is all but overwhelmed with choices. One of the food delivery business genres seeing explosive growth is that of Meal Kit Delivery Service.
Most meal kits take about a half hour to an hour to prepare and cook. Though prices vary, they can run on average about $8-$14 per person per meal.It is a kind of customized service that lets you order vegetables, fish, meat, eggs, condiments and other food items in exact portion and receive them right at your doorstep.
New and delicious meal-kits basically include a recipe and all the necessary ingredients to prepare a healthy and wholesome dish.Total with meal kit service: $39.96 for four servings ($19.98 for two servings) This is a great example of a simple meal that can be made at home for much less than what the meal kit delivery service is offering. The meal prep cost would be even cheaper if you already had the seasonings on hand.
Recipe #2: Meatloaf With Sweet Potatoes and Green.Consumer Reports evaluated five meal kit services that deliver nationally: Blue Apron, Green Chef, HelloFresh, Plated, and Purple Carrot. Using our secret shoppers, we ordered every meal (except.Market Overview: Meal Kit Delivery Systems. The meal kit delivery market started in the United States in 2012 and in Europe in 2007.
By 2025, Hexa Research estimates that the global meal kit industry will hit $9.84 billion USD while the American market will reach $4.0 billion USD. It is growing at a rapid rate, and North America is estimated to.
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159 comments
I’ve been using Hello Fresh but their insulation is really bad. I live in Phoenix and at least half of my deliveries since March have been melted and the bottoms of the boxes hot and soaking wet. To their credit, they’ve refunded me every time this has happened, but there have been several more times when the meat inside the box is warm and I just replace it myself because it’s such a hassle to contact them every single week. First they fixed it by promising me that UPS would no longer deliver the meals, it would be FedEx only (earlier in the day). Then they promised me that they would only use the thicker insulation on my deliveries, because even with FedEx I was still getting the occasional melted, sopping wet box (though far more rare than with UPS). Today UPS delivered another hot box with the thin, flimsy insulation. If they can’t guarantee FedEx, and they can’t guarantee proper insulation, they can’t guarantee delivery in a region that’s regularly 110 degrees and higher. I finally just cancelled. Great food when it shows up cold, though. Maybe I’ll give Blue Apron a shot and see if their packing materials are better.
Have you tried Tovala? I’ve only been looking for a few hours, but it looks like the best potion especially for your grandparents. I’m liking the option to cook other meals outside of their own. I know they can cook all if Trader Joe’s, but I’d like to know if they’ll do the ones you’ve reviewed. I’m hoping Hello Fresh. That would be a grand slam for me. Thank you, B
I use hone chef and I love it ��. I like how they package their ingredients because it’s really helpful for blind people like me to have all of the ingredients for one meal together.
Matt, I’ve been hoping to get a review on these programs. Thank you very much!
I can see these for handicapped shut-ins in assisted living, but that’s it. There is no more lurid indictment of the Millennial generation than these meal subscriptions. How freaking weak, incompetent, helpless and clueless does one have to be to need to buy these? Answer: Very.
Blue Apron is a total ripoff. Unless you’re rich and have at least one solid hour to prepare dinner every day, it’s so expensive and time-consuming, that I only tried it for only one week before realizing how much work this entire system is. Each recipe requires on average at least FIVE different processes, requiring every cooking skill imaginable. And here’s the “bad news.” After spending this much time and money per meal, the results weren’t even worth the extreme effort and difficulty. When you combine this reality with the piles of packaging materials used per meal, you’ll have to own your own landfill just to put it all into. I much prefer either going out to a good restaurant, or eating my own home made recipes—better, faster, and cheaper. PASS.
I’ve only tried Hello Fresh so far. There was only one recipe my husband and I weren’t crazy about, otherwise the rest were all pretty good. A few of the produce we received wasn’t the freshest, but the meat quality is really good I’d have to say, compared to what I usually buy myself anyway. I just don’t like how much waste is involved from ordering these meal prep kits. Better off just picking a few recipes off their website and buy your own stuff.
Recipes all over youtube, homecooks, chefs, celebrity chefs, just watch a fucking recipe video buy your ingredients and cook. Meal kits look stupid
Blue Apron or Hello Fresh because they are good well known brands
Dinnerly is slightly cheaper than EveryPlate, and has a better selection of vegetables.
Great timing on this video.. Perfect for the high risk group during this virus.. Hope you have a blessed day,my friend..
I must say I really do like the look and taste of blue aprons food. I’m not really a fan of any of the others because of what was mentioned in your review.
Amazon being to Colorado and make it for up to 6 -8 people for a dinner party or week night woe dinner for a large family
One issue I have with HelloFresh is that they don’t have the caloric information listed on the website (you can cross reference the recipes on another part of their website, but it’s annoying)
I think going grocery shopping on Saturday and cooking meals from recipes is easier and uses a lot less packaging.
With so much packaging these all look like an environmental disaster.
Great rundown on the home meal delivery services, Matt. My parents are also part of the “retired diners” club. This probably won’t cost much more than a restaurant meal, with the added benefit of social distancing. You gave me some Food for Thought today ��
For just about a full year, I have been SOOO happy with Blue Apron. Never had a meal we hated (one or two we’d choose not to have again). IT IS NOT CHEAP. It is a replacement for eating out. We can skip weeks easily if we need/want; each week I can choose our menu from about 10 options, altho husband prefers to be surprised. I find the meals are ample and we frequently have enough leftovers for lunch for one the following day. I find the meals mostly delicious and all of them easy to prepare. The meal delivery services resolve the “what’s for dinner” “I don’t know, what do you want” “I don’t care, whatever you want” dilemma, and help you avoid supermarkets. We have also translated some of the recipes to dinner parties and family gatherings. And during the current crazy situation, it is absolutely a relief not to have to worry about running to the grocer.
Fuck that. I could just go out and by the ingredients for way cheaper.
I don’t get the hole idea. Why go thru Amazon when you can just go to your local grocery store. And how much was this box. Is this for lazy people
Homechef never have enough its so diff to try i think its bs sorry its true:(
I think it’s hysterical this idiot woman thinks she needs to comment on how “biodegradable” the packaging is. Honey, if that is something you actually care about, you’d go to the supermarket yourself and shop for real food. Having Amazon deliver you a couple meals all pre-packaged like this means you don’t actually care about the double trip needed by a car or biodegradable anything and you don’t actually believe the words you belch out of your mouth because you think you are supposed to say something about biodegradability. What a fraud and a joke this person is! #BlackTransLivesMatter
I felt the same about blue apron. I think their recipes were pretty boring. I loved home chef and Terra’s Kitchen. I don’t think anyone will feel safe with Terras reusable packing now though.
Awesome Matt! Thanks! I’m going to look into this and also suggest it to my Dad who is older and lives alone.
I don’t get it, I thought these meals would be pre-made? If you have to still cook everything then why not just buy the ingredients in the store and save money? How is this convenient?
I took the Home Chef for a while. I liked them quite a bit. We stopped because of reasons that had nothing to do with the meal service.
I’m SO OVER tipping $8-10 for dinner and an hour of my life just to eat a meal. I DO however like 10PM leftovers. But I’m SO ready to try a minimal prep meal service (s)
You guy’s cook worse than my 13-14 teens. Knife stirring? Pulling food off the pan in the oven? Dumbass. Sorry.
They could have picked someone else to do the review that was more interesting than this person.
U buy food at kroger wal mar and grocery store save more moneh
Its horrible the amount of plastic that all of those “services” have.
Its really bad…
UPDATE: plated is no longer active as far as I can tell………and based on this video and the comments…….that’s was the only one i was interested in…….oh well………….back to cooking
you’re basically just paying a premium to have a pre-prepped meal. They send you the “mise” as you would have it on the line at a restaurant. Simple execution and whole foods. I feel that personal chefs might see a lot of competition from something like this. Its way cheaper than a personal chef and it seems like a viable option when you are completely clueless in the kitchen. The most positive thing about these is that regular people can afford them too, so it’s almost like having a “remote” private chef handling your meals. It is opening up good food to people who previously may have had no interest.
Home Chef is super organized boxes and the meals are sooooo good. It’s the best of any I’ve tried.
Research “the Safeway Amendment” and how it allows discrimination against employees on the basis of genetic characteristics. Amazon is guilty of this discrimination, along with all the propaganda in their “marketing” and administrative practices. This is an evil, evil company. Don’t give them your business!
This is great I was looking couldn’t choose PERFECT thanks so much Matt!!
Very bad review, seems she was not interested at all. Plus throwing ingredients like that. Why do you waste you and our time though?
It’s like a real chef’s. How come no one mentioned the price.
The sarcasm is annoying, it’s like shes being negative about the dumbest things. The food looked good and the way it was packed was super convenient. But girl we get it, you have all the ingredients. Dont fucking order it then. Obviously biased towards home fresh
I think the Swanson’s dinners at probably the best they’ve been around forever and they’re all organic they take us all organic it’s come up in the truck comes by
Millennials enjoy paying triple for bland kitted food because their mother’s never showed them how to cook, they were raised by screens and fed hot pockets and have no sense of adventure,imagination or self confidence…..We damaged these kids with useless leftist education and participation trophies now they can’t function and it’s nothing to be proud of…….
First of all, great review! Green chef gets my vote. Organic, earth friendly and a mystery meal every week. I’m sold.
Just tried it after using blue apron for 2 years and it sucked
Soon as I heard only delivered in Seattle I clicked off this video. I’m in Texas so ok bye ��
Meal kits are a total waste of money. Plus ruin an ingredient/s on the stove and you’re screwed for sure.
Today on Feed My Curiosity, we look at what a meal kit is, how a meal kit service works, and what are some of the popular meal kit services out there.
Have you’ve used a Meal Kit service before? If so let us know in the comment section below!
When a youtuber tells me to click like or subscribe, I always click thumbs down.
We had Blue Apron for awhile, however we discontinued because so many of the meals were spicy. We called the company, and were basically blown off. So, we are now using Home Chef. I like the choices, and that it is easier to avoid spicy meals.
Plated, because the price per meal of fresh ingredients and produce.
Man we gonna get spoiled if things are cut for us. We won’t go back to the norm.
Wow. And my mouth is full of saliva. Who else went to kitchen after this video? I would pick Hello Fresh because of low price, lots of recipes and comfy packing.
every one of these services yields a large amount of waste/packaging. i wish there was a remedy.
I found Home Chef gave the MOST veggies! I tried Blue Apron, Freshly (��), and Hello Fresh. Home Chef was most generous!
You made it seem like the woman in ur video, who actually used these services for years as you claimed, DIDNT EVEN LEAVE HER OPINION! Waited until the end for her to leave input and she never appeared again:/ lol. Damn.
Trader Joe’s is a number one organic all the way I don’t want my food coming in a box I like to buy and pick my food like I pick my clothes I don’t like Amazon screw up
Personally, I enjoy chopping, washing and prepping my food. It allows me to enjoy it so much more.
I’ve tried hello fresh and blue apron. So many delays, ruined boxes (days and days late or meat busted all over). Maybe because I live off the beaten path? Either way it wasn’t worth the cost, never got a refund (well, they offered credit but I don’t want the service so it was pointles).
@The Deal Guy Are there any companies that are all USA sourced or at least tell you where all the ingredients come from?
I also enjoy the actual chopping and slicing and prepping all the meal that’s the fun part. If all you have to do is open it up and cook it i might as well have a frozen dinner
I love Platted, I am a member of all of these except green chef. I use these because it is easier for me without wasting food. I think if you can afford it pick whatever company you enjoy. The most affordable is Dinnerly if you are on a budget. I am a member of home chef but I recently got bored using because I like international cuisine. So platted, blue apron and hello fresh have great options. I also am a member of sun basket and they are super healthy with a lot of veggies. I also belong to Gobble and they have super easy recipes even the veggies are cut for you and many times the carbs are cooked for you already. Some of these companies don’t ship out of California so you have to check where they ship from.
Also many of the cook times are off especially if you don’t or never cooked before. So knowing that chicken or fish is fully cooked is on your discretion. Baking time is accurate for the most part for these meal services.
I have used all of these services except Home Chef. This was over a 2 year period. My different complaints: 1. would prefer to pay more and get better proteins. All of them used the cheapest cuts possible. 2. Items were left out of several different services. Some of the items were crucial for the menu. 3. I had items that were unusable. We are not talking a little wilted. I mean rotten!! Can’t even believe that quality control didn’t catch it. I am now using Marley Spoon. Cook time is less. Fewer steps involved and no rotten or missing items yet. Only been with them 2 months so they have time to make a big mistake. I own my on business and my husband is also self employed. Neither of us have much extra time during the week. I adore cooking and my free weekends in fall and winter I am in the kitchen working on the stews and soups and scratch baking. I enjoy finding fresh quality ingredients for that time and am willing to sacrifice it somewhat during the week. But not to the extent that I have previously experienced. I keep hoping Marley Spoon will fit my needs. So farso good. But I would love to have better selection of proteins. I guess there is no perfect world. I don’t do the services as a whim. I do it so that I can feed us without all the extra crap that you get from take-out and pre-made meals without having to do meal planning. I sound pretty picky. Actually I am not. So when I dumped a service I always gave them 3 chances. This new enterprise that figures out how to do it the best will win. Right now it is all about $$$$ and not about quality. When the perfect balance is found, that service will come out on top.
This video is too busy. Too much going on from too many different people. Focus on one at a time or something. Couldn’t finish.
We are senior couple empty nesters. We love Every Plate. Love the recipes, the price, and the packaging. They are great, Every Plate.
Thank you for your time, effort, and energy in doing this and sharing it with us! It is so helpful:)
Would you also be able to review other kits like Purple Carrot, Hungry Root, Green Chef, Dinnerly, and Gobble? I personally thought the dishes from Dinnerly were not enjoyable (which is unfortunate, because they are well-priced), but I don’t know if that was just my own experience.
Thank you again!
$60 bucks a week for this crap? White people’s problem. No thanks! I rather buy my ingredients and cook it. Do you really think those vegetables in there wasn’t sprayed with some chemical to preserves it? Think twice people’s!
Very well done, Deal Guy. First of all, I’m thankful that you weren’t partial to any one or two or three service companies. Nobody likes a sell out. Secondly, I don’t know how you were able to sustain your high speed but it was killer, Nobody wants to waste time. You kept the digression brief, succinct, and helpful. However I do have what I believe is a sensible suggestion. Your good video was over 11 minutes of pretty vital info on the subject. So I appreciate the rapid but i’m thinking that it would be super helpful to provide a synopsis at the end. Maybe a simple one_page chart with a column of companies on the left and price
I think sometimes it’s the area where you live. We received great ingredients from blue apron but the hello fresh was horrible. Going to try some others.
Always enjoy your videos. Searched through your library and could not find anything on hot tubs. With so many options, interested in what model gives the best bang for the buck (not necessarily the cheapest that will fall apart)
Green Chef seems awesome. Like other commenters if you could pick your meal but even so doesn’t really differ me from picking them. but I would either pics from hellofresh first or Blue Apron second just for affordability
Thanks for the review and comparison but I can cook on my own. ��
I have done 4 of the 5 options reviewed. I have not done GreenChef. I absolutely love HomeChef over all the others. There was one time where the produce delivered was subpar and they immediately credited my account despite the fact that it was still usable (as long as it was used quickly) I also had one delivery where they gave me grits instead of rice for a recipe and gave me 2 free meals despite me telling them that I had the rice in my pantry. What I’m trying to say is that their customer service is absolutely amazing.
I liked Blue Apron and Hello Fresh but I have picky eaters in my house and their recipes were much more “exotic” than what they were willing to try. Plated was good but many of the recipes they had that looked and sounded really good didn’t pan out so well for novice chefs like myself. But I did like that they had a dessert option the others didn’t have.
Hello Fresh and Blue Apron also have wine accounts you can subscribe to, but it should be noted you don’t actually get a normal sized bottle of wine. They have smaller bottles than what you will find at your local liquor store at the same price. The wine accounts aren’t really worth it at all.
In my experience with all those the quality of the beef isn’t great from the ground beef to steaks. Also none seem to realize you can’t seal wet spinach in plastic bags and expect it to be edibile in 4 days.
For me, the watermark/banner at the bottom of the video made it unwatchable.
The only meal delivery service I have tried so far was Veestro. I really REALLY wanted to like Veestro. I ordered the gluten free meals; three meals per day for seven days and I was quite disappointed. The meals were very expensive and I expected so much more for the price. Unfortunately the food was bland and didn’t settle well in my stomach. The meals are prepackaged and frozen like cheap TV dinners from the grocery store, except TV dinners may be safer.
They don’t give refunds so I am out of a couple hundred dollars. Obviously I will cancel my membership. Veestro seems to be more hype than health.
farmed salmon is the worse salmon buy it destroys the environment The farmed salmon also has heavy metals worse food choice u could pick
Why is so much emphasis put on sustainability and trash and not portion sizes? jesus christ
Matt, what about Green Chef? How do they compare to Sun Basket? I know that they cater to many of those same markets of specialty food group eaters. Also, Dinnerly is also by the Marley brand. I would be very interested to see what a Dinnerly vs a Martha by Marley Spoon meal look like up close.
I have personally had both Home Chef and Dinnerly. With Home Chef there are more ounces of protein per meal, each day’s meals are sent in separate bags, everything that has already been peeled or portioned is sealed, and there are printed menus. With Dinnerly there were a few fewer ounces per dinner, all of the week’s ingredients were in the bag together, and you looked on-line at the recipes to match everything up. Dinnerly, however, is half the price of Hello Fresh.
USA stuck on stupid and not only getting dumber by the day but we have become some ugly fucking people.. gene polls need cleansed bad and I thought that is why we all Voted for Hitler.. When is this great extermination coming?
Home Chef. Beautiful produce. All meals chosen so far were delicious. Big variety of meals to chose from each week, or skip the week if nothing really appeals to you. Steaks, salmon, no complaints so far!
We have debated for months about this and then I bought a book that requires one pan and I have been off to the races. Cook at home or go out to eat. They should set up shop in Sam’s Club or Costco and then we can try before we buy.
Tried blue apron once but it never looked as good as the pictures:P
Blue Apron is a garbage service. I got several bad/moldy bags, and they have the MOST restrictive options of the bunch. I’m surprised you didn’t think to mention that it will LOCK YOU OUT of options depending on the recipes you pick. Oh, you want the salmon meal and the shrimp pasta meal? Nope. Pick one.
Also, saying Home Chef has the fewest options is a BLATANT LIE. It has 16 options per week, it has the MOST. The hell is wrong with you?
I got blue apron.the quality and taste is pretty much there with all their meals.portion sizes r ok and prep time is about 30 min.for 10 bucks a meal it blows away what I could come up with on my own
unless you’re handicapped that is unbelievably LAZY. go shopping. save packaging and stop buying into employee suffering ‘Amazon’.
What a gimmick. I can buy a cook book and buy the specific ingredients. Boom saved money
So far we have tried Hello Fresh and Home Chef. Honestly, i am liking home chef. Hello fresh, i had issue with the food quality. The proteins were not always the best quality. The meats were sometimes poorly cut and we had a couple of times where the chicken was just real poor quality. Additionally, the produce was more often then not, sub par on freshness. And finally, the selection, not thrilled. they seemed obsessed with zucchini and sweet potatoes, was almost impossible some weeks to get 3 meals with out at least one of those in it… and given im the only one in my house that like sweet potatoes and NO one likes zucchini, it wasn’t good. As for Home Chef, Food quality is far better. the meat cuts each week are very good as well as the veggies, no complaints at all and so far we’ve only had maybe 2 meals that we didn’t like and its entirely possible user error on one of them. the only issue i had was our first box was a day late… not their fault though, Fed Ex dropped the ball on that, but because of how they package it, everything was still nice and fresh.
This looks better than the other services. I can’t wait for it to come to my area!
Blue Apron has had great recipes, but they have missed two of our orders and we have also had missing ingredients. We are hoping customer service will make of for the meals we were expecting and looking forward to for our dinner party. Plated has been our new one and has been delightful. Looking forward ti trying home chef.
Or you could just go to the grocery and save a tonne of money.
I have HelloFresh & I love it! ❤️ Going to fast food places cost us more money per meal and not as healthy!
1:09-10 love it, made me think of a nice hay ride. So the lettuce wrap was not a good thing to the office co-workers?
Since i would be buying a prep me for one person, I would go with blue apron. However, I always have my doubts on meal prep delivery services and what to do with the boxes and packaging afterwards in terms of either reusing and/or recycling.
Chefs I have a question?.. I LOVE cooking & trying new recipes on my own most nights, but I also have a chronic illness. It sounds great to have some help once or twice a week. However, I want to know from you guys IS IT WORTH IT???? Thanks for any suggestions!!!❤️
Which is the good for 3 family household. 2 parent work heathy enough for 4 picky year old?
I love every plate and use them regularly-its just the best bang for you buck
It seems strange for a review to end by saying, well you should just try them all. Isn’t the point for you guys to save us that hassle?
10:04 you show the sauce pouring out of the plastic Green Chef container.
Then immediately after you claim they are cognizant of plastic packaging and that everything is recyclable. Hmm
Our son has a kidney issue and we wanna look into this to help with his diet. Thank you for this video
Perfect for everyone because everyone is high risk with this virus.
I tried hello fresh, blue apron, homechef, &sun basket. Blue apron is about the worst, had so many meals, I had to toss, due to it tasting like garbage. Homechef was the best really good!!
Exactly the info I was looking for. Thank you for posting and for moving through each so quickly! Very well done!
Nice commercial.. Except it wasn’t. Please give Amazon their money back
shame you left out sunbasket, they are probably the best and very healthy
Frist world problems…
Choping!
For gods sake…
And the amount of plastic is horrible…
Wow, very thorough. Ive used all of these services except blue apron and I pretty much agree with you on your points. Home chef was who I went with for two years. They were great at customer service and everything else. I’d go back to them if I restarted service. Now i’m craving baja tacos.
Excellent video review. Thanks for doing it!
The beginning of the video was a bit confusing because too many people are talking at the same time. The video improved once the cooking demonstration started.
Rukm?!? I just spent all that time bc I actually wanted to know which was best, not your very diplomatic, don’t step on toes, everyone’s a winner, “honestly just try em all out yourself” bs fake review! That sucked!!! Js
Hello Fresh menus had a lot of variety and the food was good. However, the first order I got from them didn’t have the meals I had selected. They also sent the instructions for a meal they didn’t send but not the instructions for one of the meals they did send. I was supposed to get discounts on my orders, but these weren’t applied to my account. The next week, I waited all day on Thursday for my delivery. Nothing. I waited again on Friday. Again, nothing until 9 p.m. This time, they again sent the wrong instructions (for my add-on). They sent correct instructions for the meals I ordered, but they DIDN’T SEND ONE OF THE MEALS. I canceled. It wasn’t worth the frustration.
Is it priced per serving or per meal? So would it be $10 for everyone to eat or for each person
You forgot home chef is great with food allergies and gives you options to have more fish chicken or beef and can eliminate allergy foods
Amazon I’m not joining Amazon up paying more s*** I go to store and get this better organic food I’m sure Amazon get it from Walmart and I hate Walmart that garbage food grind up baby hamburger meat
* Green chef is NOT ALWAYS 100% organic. Read the fine print. It says organic “WHEN AVAILABLE” and it’s also $15+/per meal
* Blue Apron also focuses on free range grass fed beef, sustainable fresh caught, vs China farm raised, fish and all proteins are hormone and steroid free.
* Hello fresh is between $12-$15/meal not $10.
Plated: “we strive to leave as little of an eco foot print as possible”
Also Plated: wraps everything in plastic and ships with foam
Great review! My wife wants to know where you got your dress from
Blue apron seems like the best choice because they started the service first so they have more experience and can be trusted
I’m already subscribed and didn’t know that love that you did this I’ve tried hello fresh so I’m wondering where they stand
Angry at Hello fresh. Used a code for 10 free meals with free shipping but somehow still got charged 154.75$.. DO NOT USE THOSE CODES NOT TRUE….
You can pick all your meals with Green Chef, the review was not accurate. You can also decide between Paloe, Gluten-free, vegetarian, keto, etc. Also the food is all organic.
I found that the food from Hello Fresh was getting more and more unhealthy overtime, but the family version is good for pickier kids.
Plated and Blue Apron were the most time consuming to prepare.
I try blue apron before haven’t try the rest yet but now I might just have too didn’t even know their where other one out their lol thank you guys for always bringing new thing to the table you guys are awesome
The service is only available in Seattle and they sent you Atlantic Salmon….that makes sense.
It looks like Blue Apron or Plated gives you the most options to create/pick exactly what you want. I just might have to try them both!
Hello Fresh and Home Chef are easily the best. The recipes are easier to follow and both have tons of coupon codes available, especially if you do a trial and put your account on hold. They’ll send additional codes every few weeks. We just flipflop back and forth on which ever company has the best discounts. We generally get 2 meals per week and really enjoy just about everything.
No Purple Carrot? I hear they are 100% plant based and pretty nice.
I thought it was interesting that this video pointed out that Plated wrapped everything in individual plastic bags and that Green Chef is completely recyclable but it doesn’t point out that Hello Fresh packs all of the ingredients for each meal in one paper bag. It’s one thing that I found more appealing about Hello Fresh. I also find, as stated, it’s more affordable than other services and has more family (picky husband) friendly recipes. Blue Apron definitely had a more fancy, gourmet flavor, which I liked but didn’t always suit my husband’s vanilla taste buds. Thank you for your reviews!
Lol honest review from channel with 670k subs? I’m not convinced hahahaha
You can learn to build your own meal kit delivery app with this course https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1828098406/learn-to-build-your-own-meal-kit-delivery-web-app/
I just ordered my first box from home chef! I made this decision because I can have 6 meals for 2 ppl delivered a week! And I can choose my meals out of a good number of choices. I’m a very picky eater so I love choosing my meals.
Good evening just want to say I love your videos, but I have a question. Have you reviewed any prepared meal delivery services, and if you have can you forward me the link to that review? Thank you very much hope you have a great evening
I can’t even find this… oh only in Seattle wtf
Or you could just go to the grocery and save a tonne of money.
Blue apron. Only cause we have tried it in the past and they always have deals.
Food safety wise you need to learn not to use the same utensils to pick-up cooked food that were used on raw food, especially the raw chicken.
To all the critics: Not every body lives where you can shop for the kind of food provided in these meal delivery boxes. Some find shopping overwhelming. And some have physical disabilities that find it extremely helpful to have a meal kit delivered. My family has benefited greatly from a company that was not mentioned. Thanks for the tip about donating the ice packs to the food pantry.
But wouldnt you rather just order food thats already cooked!?
I tried Hello Fresh for a while, I prefer to do my own thing.
I received a gift card through the mail and looked into this, I suppose this may just the ticket for some families, but the packaging needed is resource wasteful and just adds to the trash that has to go in the landfill. Buy fresh from the local farmer’s market rather than some distribution point far away with minimum wage employees.
I like going to the stores actually organic bestie Trader Joe’s it’s fun to go store why you got to sit home 24 hours a day and then given to you hell no I like the malls I like that everything, Amazon one by the what government run by the Democrats screw screw them Trader Joe’s is independent
Ive been using Hello Fresh and Marley Spoon for a couple of years now. The both have their plusses and minuses. I appreciate you offering a look at the other services because Ive been wanting to try some different ones.
Plated Review:
Con: They sealed all produce in plastic wrap.
Pro: All the produce came fresh!
I am pretty sure I can cook those meals for less. You can buy great side products at the Dollar Tree or Dollar General. I live in an area where I have a grocery store that has a great weekly sale and sometimes a weekly 3-day sale on certain meats. I am not convinced on any of the pre-packaged meal companies.
Awesome collaborated review thank you! Could you included/comment on the time each of these meals took to cook? Thanks!!
I have been using hello fresh for a while and I loved it at first but i am getting tired of the choices. I am thinking of trying another food service for variety I found the review of the plans helpful.
I have used a number of these services and your thoughts are definitely fair and unbiased.
For the record “scarfed down” isn’t a phrase. Scoffed is, however
Video sucked. Food service sucked. Sound sucked. People talking over each other. I vote this worst video ever uploaded to the you tube.
Crim meenie mushrooms, and you got two Pat’s of butter, not two sticks.��
Question? How much did this Amazon ready meal cost delivered to your door? Did the dinner say it served 2 people or?
Every meal delivery review has this ‘plastic is bad’ notion. Obviously, many have not invested their curiosity toward the paper and pulp industry. How much energy is needed, how much water is consumed and overall how much pollution is created through the manufacturing process of paper? It’s astounding. Imagine what it takes to bleach tons of paper to an absolute white color. Polyethylene, plastic, is what will stop world hunger, not paper. Polyethylene is the most environmentally friendly, versatile and efficient packaging material to produce. Yes, paper is recyclable, but so is plastic. Yet the disrespect that is done to the environment to manufacture paper far, far, FAR outweighs anything that will ever come from recycling it. Emotional videos of plastic in our Oceans are driving the ignorance that is keeping the paper and pulp industry alive. Responsible nations and consumers can handle plastic.
Just because a bunch of people say paper is good and plastic is bad, doesn’t mean it’s actually true…
Why do you keep talking in the third person? Aren’t you one person?
Thanks Matt for this video. I’ve been curious about several of the other companies you spoke about.
Currently I am using Home Chef. My husband is on a Keto diet and he is surprisingly enjoying it. The meals are delicious and easy to prepare.
Our family has been trying these for the past year or so. We have tried Blue Apron, Plated, and Hello Fresh. Our thoughts are basically that Plated was the best in terms of meals and quality. We consistently enjoyed their recipes more than other ones week after week and the ingredient quality was superb! The downside of Plated was that many of their meals were surprisingly high in calories. Most of the Plated meals topped 800 calories and many going over a thousand. I am not sure about you, but eating 1,100 or 1,200 home cooked meals seems a bit absurd to me.
Blue Apron was our least favorite. We ended up trying it for about 3 months solid and I think we paid for about 2-3 weeks is all. This is because we had so many problems with the service that they kept refunding us week after week. Many times we got the wrong meals that we didn’t order, or we were missing ingredients, or ingredients were simply not edible. Even though their customer service was great at resolving the issue (usually refunding the meal) we eventually canceled because of the hassle of having to constantly do an inventory to check if we had the right stuff and if everything was fresh enough to eat and then needing to go to the store anyway to replace items. So while they are the cheapest, I really don’t think Blue Apron is worth anyone’s time. We also felt like the meals were just “ok”. Most of them were pretty basic, especially compared to the epic recipes that Plated came up with. In your video example, you guys were pretty impressed with how “unique” your Blue Apron recipe was, which surprised me because it was just a chicken stir-fry over rice. That seems like a pretty basic me, but a lot of that will depend on what you otherwise eat. My biggest complaint with BlueApron is ingredient quality. Its mediocre at best, and we almost always got at least one ingredient each week that had to be thrown away.
HelloFresh was our second favorite. These meals were noticeably healthier than Plated and BlueApron. The ingredient quality was significantly better than the low bar set by blue apron, but not as outstanding as Plated. But we were happy with the ingredients. The recipes were pretty unique but we did notice after a while a lot of similar recipes started to come back, but with small tweaks. We did like the nutrition of HelloFresh. We don’t follow any specific diet other than just overall healthy eating, but we felt that overall the HelloFresh were the most balanced meals nutrition-wise. They covered all your macros well and in good ratios, and most of the meals come in at 600-700 calories which is about perfect for a dinner meal.
Anyway just wanted to supplement this video with my family’s view on three of these services. We tried each meal service for 3-4 months each. Plated was by far our favorite. We sometimes make some meal modifications to lower the calories of these meals, but the ingredients are seriously the freshest (farmer’s market fresh usually) and the recipes are the most interesting and unique. If Blue Apron offered us a free month of food (which they basically did), we wouldnt even waste our time with them. It just wasnt worth it.
We prefer Hello Fresh. We tried Blue Apron and it was just ok.
Being that the weather has been so warm on the west coast US, and many people are home “distancing” a lot of people are working in their gardens. How about using your awesome testing skills on “Solar Powered LED Path Lights??” That would be much appreciated. PS> You crack me up, which really helps break up the strange vibes everyone is living with these days. Many thanks, Matt!
We tried Hello Fresh for four weeks, 12 meals, and were generally very pleased there was only one meal that was unacceptable, and oddly enough, one that should have been easy for them to get right. If there is any protein that is an American staple, it is ground beef. Yet the meat HF sent us for one of their gourmet burgers was so tough and stringy, it could easily have been a ground up rodeo saddle. Everything else we had would rate between very good and excellent.
Green Chef does allow you to choose your meals. Maybe they didn’t in the past.
She mispronounced Romaine and she is super negative about everything. Her whole attitude is crap, I’d hate to have to be around this woman for any length of time
The only thing i think needs to be added is a amazon cooking kit. Incase you dont have basic utensils. They ship you everything you need to cook their meals. Like a cast iron skillet cause it can be used for EVERYTHING a few knives, a spatula, a sauce pan and throw some spoons and fork and a steak knife in there as well to eat the meals and it would be perfect you just need a oven thats really the only thing you need to buy from a store. If you dont have one. Just basically the minimal basic cooking untensils to at least cook the meals and eat. Imma just assume you have stove that works cause if you dont, why are you ordering that service at all? You get the utensils from amazon, you order from a company of your choice.
So glad I was blessed with learning how to cook in school….when they offered home economics!
Thank you I was trying to make up my mind about choice one I wanted
ikea of cooking. too many waste material. but for many that dont know how to cook better than mcdonald and processed food.