Meal Kit Services

Still too much work!How about you give me a list of meals, I pick 50 or 100 of them, and then you give me a shopping list for the month including where to get it at the best price, taking advantage of bulk purchasing and overlapping ingredients. Then email/text/notify me every day with the recipe for dinner that night. I'll keep the left overs and use them for lunches.This should minimize time for planning and cost of meals, two things Blue Apron largely fails to do.It&#x

I created Let's Be Chefs to help solve a lot of the pain points of Blue Apron and other such services. We don't deliver the ingredients, so you're free to buy organic/regular, swap ingredients, alter number of servings, etc. as you wish. (Receiving ingredients never really reduced my grocery shopping anyway because I still have to buy milk, bread, eggs, etc.). We don't have the associated waste, and the service is much cheaper ($6.99/month after a 7 day free trial -

Out of curiosity, are you talking about Blue Apron? I could benefit from a similar solution

With services like Blue Apron and HelloFresh, you're paying for convenience. Perhaps you don't want to go to the grocery store, look up recipes, etc.

Isn't that what Blue Apron is for? https://www.blueapron.com/Still kind of pricey at $10/meal.

That's exactly how I'm using the service: get ideas for new meals during the promo, then cancel and make the ones I liked myself with ingredients from the store. So I do have some hope that I'll get faster. :)

which chef did you use? what was it for? i'm looking through and this seems like it could be great for when a bunch of people come round and expect food... but the idea that you can order a week's meals for $15.000 is also tempting (we're going to gain weight...).

Home meal prep. I think there's an opportunity for someone to nail this, just nobody has. I'd love somewhere to create a schedule, dietary preferences, family size, and have a fresh, healthy, varied meal delivered every day, without having to think about it again.

I've been a happy user of the service for about a year. I've never had any problems with missing or poorly packaged ingredients, but have had shipping delays maybe once every six weeks or so, often resulting in a refund.At any rate, wanted to point out that they recently expanded the number of meals you can choose from in a given week and introduced new "faster to prepare" meal options, so they are definitely listening to that criticism. Note that I haven't tried any

Another upvote - Hello Fresh for exactly those reasons - I know how to cook, I like to cook, but it comes with a lot of baggage - this lets me focus on the parts I like :-)