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Anyone tried any of those services that mail you like three meals a week? How did you like them? Was it worth the price to you?

We did it for a couple of months until my grandfather and I managed to get the basics down. We did HelloFresh and we really loved it. I can't speak for the price, my grandparents buy the groceries and I am not yet self sufficient enough to know what's reasonable, but that was three meals a week we didn't have to buy at the store, and we could eat cheaper, quicker things the other nights, or leftovers. HelloFresh has some really great variety, and even though I'm incredibly picky I think there was only ever one thing that both of us thought was just 'okay', and that was cod, which people can be picky over anyway.

A friend and her sister do blueapron. For them it's more about the time together cooking and then they do get leftovers from it. But they live in NYC so it was also really convenient because grocery shopping is very different since they are both so incredibly busy.

I had a conversation with someone about Blue Apron the other day. I guess you can keep the recipes and use them later, so it's a good way to start learning how to cook :)

I guess you can keep the recipes and use them later

You really can't, though, because a lot of them use special snowflake ingredients that you can't buy at a grocery store. I was really bummed when I realize I couldn't remake some of the recipes I'd enjoyed because I couldn't get the ingredients for them.

From my experience, HelloFresh had ingredients we could get pretty easily, and I live in a really small town area without a lot of options for 'fresh' or 'organic.' And anything you couldn't find, you could usually substitute pretty easily.

Aw, man. What were some of the snowflake ingredients? Blue Apron seems to advertise based on simplicity. :/

I wouldn't want to invest in something like that if I couldn't keep the recipe.

They're an enormous waste of money. I tried Blue Apron and it was not worth the price - $60 for three meals. $60 can get me enough groceries for about two or three weeks of healthy made from scratch meals, and the thing about the Blue Apron meals was that they're incredibly labor-intensive (and I'm an experienced cook, not a novice).

Don't waste your money.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm a reasonably good cook and have no problem grocery shopping, so those services seem way overpriced to me. The internet is full of recipes that are free. Unless you can't/don't want to Google recipes or buy your own groceries and you're willing to pay 2-3x the cost for the convenience of someone else doing it for you, I'd avoid them.

I'd love to live where you do! Sounds like you can buy anything you want whenever you want. That's just not the reality for everyone. We have Hello Fresh because we can't get a lot of the produce in local stores or if we can, it costs more than getting it through the subscription service.

Also, the internet is full of recipes that skip steps or have the wrong amount of ingredients listed or they're by Jaime Oliver and so they're a total waste of time and money and you're left getting takeaway, anyways. Cooking books aren't much better these days because like all mass produced books, they're full of typos and are poorly bound and cost more than twice as much as books did twenty years ago.

America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated and Good Eats/Alton Brwn are the answer for recipies that don't suck and the background info to understand why. Their cookbooks are in libraries. The more you cook, the easier it is to spot a bad recipie and the easier it gets to just invent things.

I keep forgetting how American FS is now.

If you subscribe, you get access to all their previous recipes. For like, two years. So you could sign up for a box, download all the recipes, try out the box, and then cancel your subscription.

Their recipes may also be available elsewhere online, so that's something to look into, but I just remember being really impressed with how many recipes I could download. Pretty sure you need to be subscribed for it but once they're downloaded you have them forever.

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Something I forgot about hellofresh!