A Culinary Experiment
So, a friend sent me a free HelloFresh subscription, and I paid for one "week" as well beyond that. The basic arrangement is three meals, each designed for two people, for I believe it was $69 - a bit under $12 per serving to have food delivered to your home with instructions on preparation. A few basics are not included (oil, salt, pepper, and I believe butter were all I've seen), but otherwise all the meat, herbs, spices, vegetables, and whatever else are included. That's not cheap, but it doesn't seem terrible either.
On the down side, it's a lot of food for one person to handle. I didn't have anything go bad on me, but the one steak meal I had really wasn't at all appealing after being split as leftovers for the next day (though the portion eaten freshly-cooked was fine). Also, both weeks I found the red meat had leaked in the box, though everything else seemed okay in the packaging.
I think the biggest up side was that it got me working with some things I don't usually. Living and cooking alone, I do try to avoid totally preserved crap-food, but it's hard to stock a variety of fresh herbs and veggies without either 1) going to the store every day or 2) having stuff going bad. So there's novelty and education in being given small quantities of basil or fennel seeds to work into a recipe.
The food itself has varied within the range of "okay." None of it has been bad, some of it has been not-really-to-my-tastes, some of it has been pretty good. So it's something I may do again, but won't rely upon regularly.
On the down side, it's a lot of food for one person to handle. I didn't have anything go bad on me, but the one steak meal I had really wasn't at all appealing after being split as leftovers for the next day (though the portion eaten freshly-cooked was fine). Also, both weeks I found the red meat had leaked in the box, though everything else seemed okay in the packaging.
I think the biggest up side was that it got me working with some things I don't usually. Living and cooking alone, I do try to avoid totally preserved crap-food, but it's hard to stock a variety of fresh herbs and veggies without either 1) going to the store every day or 2) having stuff going bad. So there's novelty and education in being given small quantities of basil or fennel seeds to work into a recipe.
The food itself has varied within the range of "okay." None of it has been bad, some of it has been not-really-to-my-tastes, some of it has been pretty good. So it's something I may do again, but won't rely upon regularly.
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