D. Taylor's Food & Travel

“Hello Fresh” is the third of the Meal Delivery services we tried.  Ordering Online ordering is similar to other services. Very easy to accept the suggested meals and relatively easy to change them. The variety was fine; we could select weekly beef, pork, and chicken meals.  Health I like that the front of the recipe card shows the number of calories for the meal. Finding the number of carbs and net carbs requires diving into the website.  Receipt I particularly liked that all of the items for a particular meal were in the bag for that meal. (Some other services had the fresh produce loosely in the big box.)  The recipe cards for several of the items were missing. Going back online, finding the item in my received items, and printing the recipe instructions was frustrating, especially when the Hello Fresh website didn’t know our package was delivered until several hours after I received it and was looking for the recipes.  Quality All of the fresh items were fre...

For our second of the Meal Delivery Services, we tried Blue Apron. We found the service to be a mix of good and bad. Health I found it frustrating that you had to dive several layers into a selection to learn its nutritional value. I like to know the net carbs of a meal. There is plenty of room on the description page to include that information to compare items, but they make you dive several screens down on each item to learn about calories and carbs. Receipt Upon receipt, I always put the meats into a container. Every order has something leak leaving some blood or juice in the bottom of the container. I’m not sure if any of the items were leaking themselves or if they were once in contact with another package that was leaking. In any event, the apparent leakage was disconcerting.   Quality We had difficulty with some of the food quality. The prosciutto in the “Creamy Prosciutto & Tomato Pasta” was a terrible ball of stringy fat. I needed to crisp the prosciutto in a pan...