Tell me about Blue Apron
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Anonymous
| With kids back to school and crazy work schedule. I've been considering trying this service.... |
Anonymous
| We used it for about 8 weeks this summer and just canceled; may re-evaluate later in the year. The food is delicious and I like that it pre-plans several meals for me each week. But it doesn't solve my main issue of needing to turn immediately to cooking the minute I walk in the door each evening. I will probably go back to more crock-pot meals (easier in the fall), and some pre-prepped things on weekends. Also, our DD (6yo) didn't love many of the salads/veggies with the meals, so I often ended up cooking something separate for her. I think it's worth trying for a week or two though to see if it works for you. |
Anonymous
| I like it. The food is good. Nice to have a few meals decided for me each week. Expensive. |
Anonymous
| My bosses (married couple) and I were just talking about this the other day. She said it was nice having everything she needed in one box, but he complained the quality of food wasn't great. He specifically mentioned the cuts of steak being the cheaper cuts. |
Anonymous
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We used it for a few weeks and canceled. The recipes were really good, I learned a lot of new techniques, and everything seemed fresh and tasty. I also liked that my meals were planned and I didn't have to measure. (I'm working on my knife skills, so having to chop was good for me.)
The reasons we canceled: * There was a LOT of unnecessary packaging that caused waste. * DS wouldn't necessarily eat what was included, and as a family of three, we had to choose between getting a plan for two or four people. We opted for four (because DS has to try everything) and sometimes ended up with a lot of extra food that didn't make for good leftovers. * We kept getting the week's menu email too late to cancel for the week, so we'd be sent--and charged for--food we couldn't eat. DH had to make several phone calls to the company before we finally canceled for good. Tl;dr: the food was good, but the service wasn't for us. |
Anonymous
| Tried it but I don't like the menu options. I prefer plated where you can totally customize. I am signed oh but cancel weeks where I don't love the menu so we do it about 2 weeks out of the month. The food is fantastic but does take 30-45 minutes do prep. I try to get a lot of the prep work done the night before though. |
Anonymous
This was my experience. It took me 40 minutes-1 hour to prepare the meals. (I am slow on chopping/peeling). |
Anonymous
| I loved the convenience and did learn quite a bit from the recipes. I cancelled because the meals took too long to prep and I would dread coming home to prepare them and my kids did not like most the meals. Still looking for another option...... |
Anonymous
| It is not a time saver. We liked the meals in general but once received a dodgy package of chicken. We wound up cancelling because it was too expensive for what we were getting out of it. We're a family of 4 with picky eating young kids. Buying for 2 didn't make sense, but buying for 4 didn't really either... |
Anonymous
| I just can't spend 45 min plus making dinner every night. It isn't practical. |
Anonymous
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We used it for about 6 weeks. It was nice adding some new recipes into the mix, but it took 45min - 1hr to cook, which IMO is just too long. After work I want to spend time with DD, not stuck in the kitchen.
We also had quality issues with some foods coming to us moldy, deveined shrimp with veins, etc. I'll stick to pinterest. |
Anonymous
| I guess I'm the one dissenting voice. Have used it for over a year, really like the variety of food and seasonal vegetables, and the plug and play aspect. I am not a creative cook at all, but like to cook and find chopping somewhat therapeutic. Also had some issues with spoilage, have now takes to freezing the meat unless I will use that day and also sometimes rinse and re-pack produce. (The latter only occasionally...) |
Anonymous
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I love it. Have been using it for several months. I stopped the service at the beginning of the summer and ended up restarting it because it is so nice to have preplanned meals. I log on an look at the meal selections often and make changes as necessary. I have picky eaters and they eat the food pretty reliably. I have learned to modify the instructions to save time so most meals take me 30-40 minutes from beginning to end.
When I receive the box, I open it and separate all the ingredients by recipe so I just pull out a pile of stuff when I get home from work and start cooking. That also is a time saver. |
Anonymous
| We used it for a few weeks, but like PPs, it was not much of a time saver and also IMO overpriced. For the same price you could order takeout. It was a fun novelty but would need to be less expensive for me to consider using it on a regular basis. I also hated all the waste (mostly huge ice packs) it created. |
Anonymous
| The food was good, but for me at least, it took just as long to get a meal on the table since you still have to do basically all the food prep and cooking and need to be paying attention to the recipe to boot. I'm someone who is pretty good at throwing a meal together from whatever ingredients happen to be on hand, and kind of enjoy the challenge of doing so, so the step by step directions actually slowed me down. I suppose if I was making the their recipes over and over, I'd get more efficient though. The packaging, lack of leftovers, and inefficiencies of single servings of ingredients were also kind of a bummer. |