Hello Fresh – Everything but the Chef!
As a busy working mum the idea of ready meals leave me feeling as though I am failing in my maternal duties but if I am totally honest, at the end of a long hard day the office the very last thing I want to do is plan meals let alone traipse through a supermarket and slave over a hot stove. To my utter delight stumbling across Hello Fresh has been one of those eureka moments where you realise life just got a whole lot easier.
In a nutshell Hello Fresh deliver recipes and exact ingredients to your door every week. The recipes are not only delicious, but also nutritionally balanced meaning that the only thing left for you to do is follow the simple cooking instructions and serve. Boxes include exact quantities of every ingredient you will need, even basics like garlic cloves, stock cubes and condiments. No more wrestling through supermarkets, having to buy enormous quantities of ingredients you merely require a ‘ dash of’ in order to spice up a meal, its’ all there and it’s all fresh.
Each week Hello Fresh Head Chef Patrick and his team create new recipes complete with photos and step by step instructions – I can vouch for them being extremely user friendly! You can choose from a variety of boxes suitable for both meat eaters and veggies alike each including 3 or 5 meals that will serve 2 or 4 easily people. We opted for the family meat and fish box which contained recipes for award winning gammon steaks with lentils and roasties, tiger prawn risotto with Irish shellfish butter, chicken jambalaya with orange and honey and speedy lamb and mint meatball tagine. Despite being very easy to cook, the dishes tasted incredible, and even my super fussy children came back for seconds and thirds!
The misconception with these types of services is that they are going to be very dear, but if I break down what I would normally have to spend in order to cook full restaurant quality meals from scratch for my family every day of the week I would definitely be saving money using Hello Fresh. Prices per head start as low as £4 per meal and delivery is free!
Deliveries can be expected every Tuesday and Thursday and arrive packed inside a chilled recyclable box. If you are not home, need to change delivery instructions or simply have an enquiry about your order the extremely helpful team at Hello Fresh go out of their way to help (as I discovered when at the last minute I realised no one would be home to take my order). Also, the service is flexible so you can pause your deliveries when you go on holiday!
Hello Fresh has alleviated so much stress from my week that I would be foolish not to continue wih the service. From now on I will be taking full credit for all their hard work and I look forward to the likes of my mother in law being in awe of my culinary abilities whilst I juggle working a full time job and looking after 2 children. I will bask in the glory of my newfound superwoman status..…..and yes, I know it’s cheating but when they make it this easy its hard not to!
Reporter: Carolyn Owlett
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