While I’m waiting for some media to upload, I wanted to share spyMommy and I’s experience with the service, Blue Apron. What is it, you ask? In a nutshell, Blue Apron, prepares recipes and sends us the ingredients and we make it.
The idea appealed to me because I’ve been having a hard time mustering the motivation to come home and cook a meal. And more often than not, when I do want to cook, I end up missing ingredients. It’s the whole planning thing, it is exhausting and I am just really bad at it. So what ends up happening is delivery / take-out / fast-food. Yay.
So we’ve had the service for 2 weeks now. We skipped last week since we were out of town. So far, we’ve been pretty happy. There has been one recipe spyMommy didn’t like and there was one that I felt, while good (potentially) it was just kind of ‘meh’.
How it works is like this:
We’re able to see the recipes in advance, like a couple weeks ahead. We can pick and choose which ones we get. (3 dinners each week) They’re all pretty balanced and have done a good job of satisfying us. On Thursdays, a refrigerated box is delivered. It contains everything we’ll need (they’re assuming you have salt, pepper and olive oil) to make the recipe. All of the ingredients are measured out. The meat and veggies are the only things needing prep.
Then comes time to cook. You get these great recipe cards (8.5in x 11in) that take you through the recipe step by step. It helps to be familiar with cooking terms and techniques, but if you aren’t, Blue Apron’s website has a lot of really good information.
Each of the meals can be completed in about 35 minutes.
About the food:
According to Blue Apron, the food is source from smaller farms. They don’t say anything to the tune of organic or non-GMO, but they do state (somewhere) that they look at the farm’s practices as part of the selection process. Oh, and everything they send, packaging-wise, is recyclable.
All in all I have been really happy about the service, and I do believe in a couple months, I’ll start saving on food money.
I’m sorry I don’t have any pictures of the recipes I’ve cooked, but surprisingly enough, the finished product looked a lot like the pictures Blue Apron sends. I think that, in and of itself, says something.