I think they were just too big – if I were to make this recipe again, I’d definitely run the flakes through the food processor to make them a little smaller).Īnd it definitely wasn’t a time-saver. I also could not get the rice flakes to stick to the fish – they mostly just fell off the fish and burned on the bottom of the pan (the recipe warned that some would fall off, but the vast majority of mine did. Immediately I felt annoyed that I still had to wash all the produce – it’s one of my least favorite tasks, and I would WAY rather meal plan than wash food. I decided to go with the fish since I didn’t want it sitting in the fridge for several days, and I got to work.Įach recipe has a beautiful full-page, full-color card with the final dish on the front with which ingredients you need, and then on the back there are step-by-step instructions with photos of how to make the meal. Turkey Kibbeh with Cucumber Salad & Mint-Yogurt Sauce.Flat Iron Steaks with Ramps, Fingerling Potatoes & Shaved Asparagus Salad.Rice Flake-Crusted Hake with Sautéed Daikon Radish & Yuzu-Soy Sauce.Since I love food and cooking, it was kind of like Christmas to open it all up and see all the beautifully packaged ingredients (although I would have liked it if things were divided up by meal, instead of all being mixed together). We got home from the library, and Bart entertained the girls while I started pulling things out of the box. I could just pick one of the three meals out of the box and make it. My first box came on Saturday and when Ella, Star and I were making a library run that afternoon (Bart stayed home with a late-napping Ani), I saw the box on the doorstep and felt an enormous sense of relief that I wouldn’t have to figure out dinner. I generally spend about $75 a week on groceries, so $60 for three dinners is an enormous chunk out of my grocery bill. The regular cost for this would have been $59.99. I got the plan where you get 3 meals, each of which serves 2 people. I set up my account, put in our preferences, and voila – my box was scheduled to arrive later that week. It took me all of five seconds to accept. And, frankly, after seeing some of the things people got in their boxes, I wondered if I would actually eat them.įortunately, my neighbor is a Blue Apron subscriber (she loves it!) and when I asked her about it, she offered to give me a free week trial, which is apparently something you can do after you’ve been a subscriber for a while.
I liked the concept, but I was hung up on two main things – the cost (which runs about $9-10 per person, per meal) and whether or not my children would actually eat the meals. Every week you get a box with all the ingredients and instructions to make 2-3 dinners.
If you’ve somehow avoided the onslaught of paid reviews, the gist is that Blue Apron is a meal planning and delivery service. Raise your hand if you’ve read about 50 blog posts about Blue Apron.
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