Hey everyone! We enjoyed our Hello Fresh dinners and I wanted to write a quick review of them. I also want to clarify a few things before I start:
1. This is NOT a sponsored post
2. I bought a
Groupon to try
Hello Fresh, and I totally recommend doing that, I saved about 70%
3. We ordered the Family Plan for four people
Now to the fun stuff!
We tried Hello Fresh two weeks ago. I purchased the
Groupon and then logged onto the
Hello Fresh website. I pulled up the next week menu options and I let each girl pick one of our meals. I wanted the girls to be involved in making the dinners (hoping they would be more willing to try them). I picked out our third dinner and we placed our order.
Our delivery was set for the following Tuesday.
Caroline and I came home from the gym and it was waiting for us!
I carried the massive (very heavy) box inside and opened it up.
A little booklet about the service.
Some coupons.
Each dinner had it's own handout, plus a fourth handout with nutritional information.
The meals were inside this cooler bag.
Each bag contained all the ingredients for one meal, except the meat, that was underneath.
Our first night we made the pork chops
Underneath the brown bags... the meat!
The girls were excited to go through the bag and pull out the ingredients.
They were pulling out potatoes for me to make the mashed potatoes.
They helped me prepare the sides.
Love these girls!
The pork chops on the grill pan for a few minutes before going in the oven.
The pork chops and asparagus cooked together in the oven!
Ready for dinner (with some fruit added).
Caroline squeezing more lemon on her pork chop
Pork chop, mashed potatoes, and asparagus for dinner #1!
It was really, really good.
Ben and I enjoyed the entire meal!
The girls ate most of their pork chop and asparagus.
Caroline LOVES mashed potatoes so she ate all of them, Elizabeth doesn't like them but ate her two bites required by her parents. :)
*This was the meal Caroline picked out
The next night, Ben made dinner with the girls.
He's showing them how to coat the chicken with the Parmesan and bread crumbs.
Fresh green beans and fingerling potatoes for the sides.
Parmesan and bread crumb covered chicken, roasted potatoes, and green beans.
The chicken was REALLY good. I don't care for fresh green beans (I prefer canned, I know, I know) so I didn't eat many of them. The potatoes were okay, they didn't get really crispy which is how I prefer them.
Ben really enjoyed this meal.
The girls would not eat the chicken when it was covered in the bread crumbs and cheese, they did eat it when we removed the toppings. They both ate a few green beans and potatoes, but again, not their favorite.
*This is the meal Elizabeth picked out.
Sorry, this picture is so terrible, but it comes with a story.
Our last meal was pork sloppy joes. They are made in the crock-pot and cook for six hours.
The night this was cooking, Caroline fell down the stairs and we had to go to the Kaiser emergency after-hours clinic. She is totally fine, but we did not eat our sloppy joes that night because we were at the doctor. We also didn't eat them the next day (a Friday) because it's Lent and we don't eat meat on Fridays. So, Ben and I had the sloppy joes on Saturday night.
I thought they were GREAT!
You can see I am eating them with left over mash potatoes from the pork chop night. They are supposed to be served with a carrot and raisin salad but it didn't look good to any of us (and we never tried it, whoops).
The Sloppy Joes were great, but the side with it was a hard pass. :)
*This is the meal I picked out
A few notes after trying the Family Plan for four people:
1. I would order from Hello Fresh again. The food was FRESH.
I enjoyed the main entrees and most of the sides.
2. Next time I order, I would only order the plan for two people. Our kids were just not into it enough and between the two of them, they only ate one portion (so we always had leftovers).
If your kids are older, I think the family plan would be great.
3. It helped me with my dinner rut. I needed some new ideas for dinners and I will be making a few of these recipes again.
4. You can check out their menu online to see what is coming up for the next several weeks. I saw several things that I could make myself or it gave me ideas for things to make.
5. You can cancel at any time. I cancelled after our order arrived so I wasn't charge for another week.
6. There are ALWAYS online discount codes, don't ever pay full-price to try it.
Hope that helps!
Happy Monday y'all!
