Is the question “what’s for dinner?” a stressful sore spot in your household? My family recently had the opportunity to try out the meal delivery service trend for a few nights and we were pleasantly surprised! Discover stress free dinner with HelloFresh!
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What is HelloFresh?
HelloFresh is a meal kit delivery service – #1 on the market – that provides pre-packaged ingredients for easy-to-follow recipes for your family. Basically, this service takes the guess work out of “what’s for dinner?”!!
How does it work?
You visit the HelloFresh website and simply select a plan that best suits your needs and schedules!
- Choose what type of meals you want based on a wide array of recipes, like Quick & Easy or Beyond Meat.
- Select any add-ons, like garlic bread to complete your weekly dinners.
- Determine how many meals you wish to receive each week (plus how many mouths you’re feeding).
- Voila! A box pre-measured ingredients arrives at your door!
Our experience with HelloFresh!
We, as a family, don’t really have a super hectic schedule! But we do like to plan our weeknight dinners out in advance in order to be prepared. For this sponsored testing opportunity, I selected the Family Friendly category because of the selection of dishes and flavours the whole family would love. We are a family of three, so I selected “4” for the number of people, since you can only select in even numbers.
Lucky for us, our HelloFresh box arrived at our door on a Monday morning, so we had our dinners for almost the whole week! When I opened the box, our three dinners were separated out into three recyclable (and compostable) paper bags. The meat required for each meal kit was packaged in the bottom with extra insulation and ice packs.
What did we make for dinner?
- Hearty Meatball and Mushroom Stew with Roasted Garlic Parmesan Mash
- Creamy Mushroom and Pork Linguine with Fried Sage and Parmesan
- Teriyaki Chicken with Garlic Rice and Broccoli
Let me just say, when they emphasize “pre-measured ingredients” – they really mean it! Of course, we had to chop onions, mushrooms, celery, etc – but everything else was ready to rock! Also, all of the ingredients needed for each recipe were included in each bag. The only items we had to supply from our kitchen were salt & pepper, milk, olive oil, and butter!
Easy to follow recipes make for a stress free dinner with HelloFresh!
We love to cook as a family and HelloFresh helped to make that togetherness happen! With step-by-step directions and all the necessary ingredients at the ready – we really enjoyed cooking dinner!
Overall opinion!
I would order HelloFresh in the future! In general, all three of the meals we received were delicious! Our favourite was the Meatball and Mushroom Stew with Mashed Potatoes! All of the ingredients were fresh (some celery was a little brown) and of excellent quality.
HelloFresh really does take the guesswork out of meal planning and saves time and money on buying groceries. Fall in love with cooking again and enjoy a stress free dinner with HelloFresh!
A few things to mention!
- There will be leftovers! We anticipated that we would have extra since we are a family of three and requested meals for a family of four. However, we preferred to have more than we needed instead of not quite enough for each of us. It meant we could have some for lunch the next day too!
- Get the kids in on the action! With how simple the recipes are to follow, the kiddos can get involved in the prep work and cooking too. Make creating dinner a family affair!
- With the kids on board, some of the meals took a little longer than stated on the recipe card for us, but that’s all part of the fun!
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