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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're a family of four and got a Hello Fresh as gift. The prep was reasonable (for a teen boy!) and we enjoyed the variety it brought to our stale menu. The quality was pretty good (trigger warning - I shop at Aldi) and the portions were small but adequate.

We looked at their offers for extending but decided against it. The cost an issue but [b]the hard NO was the literally insane packaging waste[/b]. The freezer packs are bags of gelatinous goop that I could not dispose of responsibly: 
Will they take them back? Heck no.
Do I need another 10 pounds of freezer packs every week? No. 
Can I pour it down the drain? They warn that it will clog your drains and I believe them. 
Can I pour it on the ground? It's labeled as "non-toxic" but Hello Fresh won't tell you what it is. My own test show that it does not break down or go anywhere for a month when poured on the soil. It kills the grass, if you consider that useful.
Do I send it out in the trash? That's what Hello Fresh says and I think this is irresponsible. Adding that thin bag of goop to the waste stream is a guaranteed mess from the my trash bin to the street to the truck.

In my digging around, I found that Hello Fresh uses water, just water, in the freezer packs in other countries. Those customers just empty it into the sink!
But if you want to skip the meal-prep boxes because you're a good cook, that's good enough reason for me.[/quote]

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We were given a few weeks of hello fresh when we were new parents and I didn't hate the food but the packaging waste was super stressful and because we did it like three weeks in a row it just built up. I would do it again of the fixed the waste issue.

Actually, sometimes our Whole Foods has some ready made or low prep meals available in their deli that cost about the same and are less work. There are made fresh that day and pretty tasty, and they come in easy-to-recycle containers that we can also reuse for packed lunches. I don't get what the advantage of hello fresh is.[/quote]

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