As a college student living alone, I like Hello Fresh for three reasons (they would apply to any similar service btw). 1) They allow me to get meal ingredients in quantities reasonable for a single person to make and consume alone in before the leftovers go bad, without having to eat the same dinner 5 days in a row. Can you cut normal recipes in half? Yes, but it's very hard to buy meat in such small quantities. Even if your grocery store has a butcher's counter where you could buy however little you need (this is definitely a big if in a lot of places in the US), they won't be open at 10 PM when I've finally left campus and have time to do grocery shopping! And heck, even places that have them, don't always really have them manned, so they effectively don't have them. 2) As an anxious, picky eater with sensory issues, these are a lower-stakes way to try new ingredients or types of cuisine. Again, because of the small quantities, but also because they formulate the meal options to have broad appeal, so it's easier to just dip your toes in the water. 3) As an engineering student with a long commute, school takes up a lot of my time and energy, and if I didn't have something like Hello Fresh delivering groceries to my door, I would be doing a lot more eating out. I very often don't have it in me to find recipes, take stock of ingredients, put together a big list, go shopping, put everything away, etc, when it's in the middle of the semester and I'm spending the whole day studying, doing labs, or working on class projects. In terms of the quality of Hello Fresh's food, most of it is just fine, nothing to get really excited about. But I have gotten some things out of it that I'll take with me when I cook in the future. For example, the trick of breading a cutlet by thinly coating it with sour cream and then shaking it up in a bag with panko and whatever seasonings you want. The sour cream definitely adds some flavor to a plain meat like chicken breast or pork chop. Also, it introduced me to my favorite quick and simple rice side dish: lemony jasmine rice cooked with scallions.
I agree with everything you've said! In the end it all comes down to what's most important to us as individuals. Not eating garbage food all the time, paying a bit more to ensure you're eating better food, saving time and mental energy, and trying out new things! The meals might not be the most exciting or flavourful sometimes, but I have really been loving not having leftovers going bad in the fridge!
Hello 'Fresh' have been outed for letting food rot away in whatever unsuitable storage facility it's held in. I'd rather nip to the supermarket and pick my own.
fantastic video great job! sour cream is a very common condiment for things like sandwiches in eastern european/ashkenazi cooking, so it didn't surprise me at all that they used it to make a sauce.
Yea like you I only tried it cause I got a steep discount but ultimately the dishes were... Just ok! A lot of packaging and the size of meals were small imo. Definitely not worth the price and definitely not cheaper than groceries. If you don't like mealprep, I would look into batch cooking. It's similar to mealprep, but you just prepare the ingredients for the meals and make different things during the. Week with those already chopped veggies or cookies meat and grains. I do this all the time and it saves so much chopping, frying, and cleanup lol
I'm definitely not rich. Unfortunately, im not sponsored. if I was sponsored by HF. I wouldn't have to pay for the meals 😂. But I just signed up today. Week 1, discount is quite nice! But I don't like $119+ for 2 ppl. The following week's
I'm currently looking at trying hello fresh as a truck driver. While I do have the income to afford hello fresh my job also means that I'm eating junk food the majority of the time since that's all that's available to a trucker most of the time in this post lockdown world.. and when I am home the last thing I want to do is to drive some more to restock on groceries. I'm hoping that this would be a happy medium between cooking totally from scratch and eating junk food all the time
I'm in the UK and tried HF but didn't like the quality of the meat - the chicken was really fatty, and I had missing ingredients. Over here we have Gousto which I like a lot more. 5 meals for 2 people on an introductory discount is only £15 so I do it occasionally to get new cooking ideas. I am sick of seeing all the sponsored HF content on RUclips and Insta now though, it seems like every second video is sponsored by them so it's hard to know if they're actually any good, so thanks for the unbiased review!
I did Hello Fresh for a month and it wasn't worth it. Out of about 15 meals I liked about 4 of them. Everything else was below average. It did save me time, but not money, and I didn't enjoy what I was eating
this sounds good like if you have to stay home or something like that sounds great. I do like to snack healthy and unhealth option so if you get this meal plan your just getting the main course and that's all from what i can tell so unless this is enough food for you i think you might still be running out the the store still. Unless they provide an additional snack option but hen will probably cost you more in the long run
We had a “Wrap Bar” in my high school cafeteria and one of the sauces available for them was “Buffalo cream” (yeah, not a great name). But it was Franks Red Hot mixed with sour cream and it was SO good. A combination I still use on my wraps. A very bizarre, yet delicious combo! So funny seeing Hello Fresh do it
Ya sometimes they were a bit tiny yet the calorie amount would be pretty high. I think the day of the burger I was still hungry after, but everything else was pretty satisfying!
$50? I was thinking of signing up and you know the 1st time deal is 55% off right. So that works out to be 50 something for 5 meals in canadian but 10 servings. Is that what you got but didn't show the second serving or... That's today's deal I'm talking about so maybe since your video they made it more affordable, I dunno. The regular price is still expensive but the sign up price is good for 10 servings.
Yes the intro prices are always very good! I was getting the boxes with 2 servings of each meal. All of my discounts have run out so 4 meals a week (8 servings) would be $100 USD after shipping. They run a lot of differing intro offers.
@@tarahartmanThanks. I was gonna sign up but they wanted to charge me before I could look at the menu. I asked chat gpt to make me a grocery list and recipes for 5 days dinner. She did pretty good however I did not like the meals. Now I'm on the hunt for 5 meal I like, easy to prepare and microwaves well so I can take the second portion to lunch. It's hard choosing what you want to make though, usually I hate cooking because everything I know how to make takes hours
Honestly, this video just made me want to try some of their other options. I'd always do their healthy options and they were pretty boring and pretty much the same regurgitated stuff over and over again. HF is something I use when I'm in a recipe rut and just don't know what to cook anymore. Having said that, I will never use them again because they be shady. I had them for a week once (got a steep discount, just like you lol) and tried to cancel for my next box while I was at work. Phone browser didn't work. I even downloaded the app and couldn't get it to work. By the time I got home that day and tried to cancel on my computer, it was too late. I called and explained and they told me that I would have to pay for and accept the box. The only way I'd use them again is if they sponsored me on YT and I did the dumb ad read lmao. Random side note, but what camera do you use? 🧐
One thing I used to do in the past is just look at their recipe cards online for new recipes to try. That's always helpful when you're stuck in a recipe rut! It is really annoying when something on the technical side gets messed up and then we end up eating the cost. My box for this week would not let me change meals at all or choose my free item. So I just got whatever was randomly chosen and missed out on the freebie, and same as you they basically said it was my fault lol. I'm still giving it a few more chances because the reduced mental load of deciding what to make and shop for has been really nice. So I'll at least use it until my discounted boxes are done. I have one left I think. My camera is a Sony zv e-10 with the 11mm f1.8 wide lens on it at the moment. I really like it!
@@tarahartman Okay for some reason YT is not notifying me when people comment back! And yeah, I don't blame you. Having ADHD the mental load is sometimes just too much. (Although them being so strict on timelines and whatnot really doesn't help. The bastards lol). I tried the dad gum Sony ZV-1F a while back (About $500, so not too expensive, not too cheap) and I could not get it to work right. I'd look airbrushed or just not right or the footage would be blurry. It was really freaking annoying. I returned it and started using my phone, but I'm going to try again with a real camera...someday.
@maddiedoeswhatshewants I've heard a lot of people say the same thing about that camera. There was definitely a learning curve for me with the zv-e10 but I think I've almost got it down, except when I film in my kitchen with the light on and forget to switch things and get the vertical running lines lol. Sometimes a phone camera is just so much more convenient and quick!
If you're interested in trying it for yourself here's a referral code. It looks like it gives you a discount (free box? what's the catch? THIS IS HOW THEY GET US) and then I get "$45 off premium meals" I didn't even know there were premium meals lol www.hellofresh.com/freebox/VGFyYS0yNjc4NDAxNDEtMC00LTE2LVVT
Worst service I ever had. Never sent what I ordered except for my first box. They make it near impossible to cancel, and it is mediocre even when you get what you want, which you don't. I was supposed to get free breakfasts but only got it once. Each box is 80$, so idk where this 50% off bs is. 50 bucks for 3 meals for 2 with small portions. Huge scam.
Erm no thanks. I'd rather get my food from the supermarket, where I can actually see it, rather than put my trust in something which has been outed by ex-employees and current customers as rotting away in a warehouse somewhere before arriving.
Doing the lord's work. I'm dying because you said you don't like pork, but you got THREE pork recipes that week
😂 ground pork I don't mind as much!
That’s all the give you as a standard protein. I have to always go in and choose chicken or something else.
As a college student living alone, I like Hello Fresh for three reasons (they would apply to any similar service btw).
1) They allow me to get meal ingredients in quantities reasonable for a single person to make and consume alone in before the leftovers go bad, without having to eat the same dinner 5 days in a row. Can you cut normal recipes in half? Yes, but it's very hard to buy meat in such small quantities. Even if your grocery store has a butcher's counter where you could buy however little you need (this is definitely a big if in a lot of places in the US), they won't be open at 10 PM when I've finally left campus and have time to do grocery shopping! And heck, even places that have them, don't always really have them manned, so they effectively don't have them.
2) As an anxious, picky eater with sensory issues, these are a lower-stakes way to try new ingredients or types of cuisine. Again, because of the small quantities, but also because they formulate the meal options to have broad appeal, so it's easier to just dip your toes in the water.
3) As an engineering student with a long commute, school takes up a lot of my time and energy, and if I didn't have something like Hello Fresh delivering groceries to my door, I would be doing a lot more eating out. I very often don't have it in me to find recipes, take stock of ingredients, put together a big list, go shopping, put everything away, etc, when it's in the middle of the semester and I'm spending the whole day studying, doing labs, or working on class projects.
In terms of the quality of Hello Fresh's food, most of it is just fine, nothing to get really excited about. But I have gotten some things out of it that I'll take with me when I cook in the future. For example, the trick of breading a cutlet by thinly coating it with sour cream and then shaking it up in a bag with panko and whatever seasonings you want. The sour cream definitely adds some flavor to a plain meat like chicken breast or pork chop. Also, it introduced me to my favorite quick and simple rice side dish: lemony jasmine rice cooked with scallions.
I agree with everything you've said! In the end it all comes down to what's most important to us as individuals. Not eating garbage food all the time, paying a bit more to ensure you're eating better food, saving time and mental energy, and trying out new things!
The meals might not be the most exciting or flavourful sometimes, but I have really been loving not having leftovers going bad in the fridge!
Hello 'Fresh' have been outed for letting food rot away in whatever unsuitable storage facility it's held in. I'd rather nip to the supermarket and pick my own.
girl i love your review style, you should do videos like that more often - cheers from brazillll
Love the hangry sweet potato rant :D I'm usually complaining that my supermarket sends me giant sweet potatoes and I don't know to do with it all.
fantastic video great job! sour cream is a very common condiment for things like sandwiches in eastern european/ashkenazi cooking, so it didn't surprise me at all that they used it to make a sauce.
Yea like you I only tried it cause I got a steep discount but ultimately the dishes were... Just ok! A lot of packaging and the size of meals were small imo. Definitely not worth the price and definitely not cheaper than groceries.
If you don't like mealprep, I would look into batch cooking. It's similar to mealprep, but you just prepare the ingredients for the meals and make different things during the. Week with those already chopped veggies or cookies meat and grains. I do this all the time and it saves so much chopping, frying, and cleanup lol
I feel like the meals are pretty good but I also add way more seasoning, it never has nearly enough salt
Yes, portions are not as big as they used to.
I'm definitely not rich. Unfortunately, im not sponsored. if I was sponsored by HF. I wouldn't have to pay for the meals 😂. But I just signed up today. Week 1, discount is quite nice! But I don't like $119+ for 2 ppl. The following week's
Flatbreads look awesome. Pasta looks good. The egg and cheese sandwich...noooo. Microwave eggs...never! The rest, underwhelming. Thanks for sharing!
I'm currently looking at trying hello fresh as a truck driver. While I do have the income to afford hello fresh my job also means that I'm eating junk food the majority of the time since that's all that's available to a trucker most of the time in this post lockdown world.. and when I am home the last thing I want to do is to drive some more to restock on groceries. I'm hoping that this would be a happy medium between cooking totally from scratch and eating junk food all the time
I'm in the UK and tried HF but didn't like the quality of the meat - the chicken was really fatty, and I had missing ingredients. Over here we have Gousto which I like a lot more. 5 meals for 2 people on an introductory discount is only £15 so I do it occasionally to get new cooking ideas. I am sick of seeing all the sponsored HF content on RUclips and Insta now though, it seems like every second video is sponsored by them so it's hard to know if they're actually any good, so thanks for the unbiased review!
2:12 You are not crazy. Those packages are like impossible to open. Every once in a while it has a tab but most of the time I gotta use scissors
girl loved this vid. Your vibe is just the thing i needed for a late afternoon lunch/dinner
I did Hello Fresh for a month and it wasn't worth it. Out of about 15 meals I liked about 4 of them. Everything else was below average. It did save me time, but not money, and I didn't enjoy what I was eating
😂😂😂let me find out I get a discount cause of my job so I pay 56$ fir 10 or 12 meals a wk🤷🏾👀
That pork looks perfectly cooked. It looks white. Raw pork is dark pink, and slightly rosy pink pork is also safe to eat.
this sounds good like if you have to stay home or something like that sounds great. I do like to snack healthy and unhealth option so if you get this meal plan your just getting the main course and that's all from what i can tell so unless this is enough food for you i think you might still be running out the the store still. Unless they provide an additional snack option but hen will probably cost you more in the long run
We had a “Wrap Bar” in my high school cafeteria and one of the sauces available for them was “Buffalo cream” (yeah, not a great name). But it was Franks Red Hot mixed with sour cream and it was SO good. A combination I still use on my wraps. A very bizarre, yet delicious combo! So funny seeing Hello Fresh do it
oh my god the ad before this video began was hello fresh IM DYING
Loving your video as always!❤ I Like the idea to not really need to think about what meals to cook, nur to me the portions seemed rather small…
Ya sometimes they were a bit tiny yet the calorie amount would be pretty high. I think the day of the burger I was still hungry after, but everything else was pretty satisfying!
$10 discount for something that came three days late? Should have been a full refund!
Right?! If not a full refund since it did eventually show up, three meals worth for the three days it was missing would make sense.
I agree. This is food and I would have expected a full refund
Very good review. Thank you!!
I signed up and I did not like the food that was sent.
$50? I was thinking of signing up and you know the 1st time deal is 55% off right. So that works out to be 50 something for 5 meals in canadian but 10 servings. Is that what you got but didn't show the second serving or...
That's today's deal I'm talking about so maybe since your video they made it more affordable, I dunno. The regular price is still expensive but the sign up price is good for 10 servings.
Yes the intro prices are always very good! I was getting the boxes with 2 servings of each meal. All of my discounts have run out so 4 meals a week (8 servings) would be $100 USD after shipping. They run a lot of differing intro offers.
@@tarahartmanThanks. I was gonna sign up but they wanted to charge me before I could look at the menu. I asked chat gpt to make me a grocery list and recipes for 5 days dinner. She did pretty good however I did not like the meals. Now I'm on the hunt for 5 meal I like, easy to prepare and microwaves well so I can take the second portion to lunch. It's hard choosing what you want to make though, usually I hate cooking because everything I know how to make takes hours
Hello fresh if you see this.. try and remove the plastic
Honestly, this video just made me want to try some of their other options. I'd always do their healthy options and they were pretty boring and pretty much the same regurgitated stuff over and over again.
HF is something I use when I'm in a recipe rut and just don't know what to cook anymore. Having said that, I will never use them again because they be shady. I had them for a week once (got a steep discount, just like you lol) and tried to cancel for my next box while I was at work. Phone browser didn't work. I even downloaded the app and couldn't get it to work. By the time I got home that day and tried to cancel on my computer, it was too late. I called and explained and they told me that I would have to pay for and accept the box.
The only way I'd use them again is if they sponsored me on YT and I did the dumb ad read lmao.
Random side note, but what camera do you use? 🧐
One thing I used to do in the past is just look at their recipe cards online for new recipes to try. That's always helpful when you're stuck in a recipe rut!
It is really annoying when something on the technical side gets messed up and then we end up eating the cost. My box for this week would not let me change meals at all or choose my free item. So I just got whatever was randomly chosen and missed out on the freebie, and same as you they basically said it was my fault lol. I'm still giving it a few more chances because the reduced mental load of deciding what to make and shop for has been really nice. So I'll at least use it until my discounted boxes are done. I have one left I think.
My camera is a Sony zv e-10 with the 11mm f1.8 wide lens on it at the moment. I really like it!
@@tarahartman Okay for some reason YT is not notifying me when people comment back! And yeah, I don't blame you. Having ADHD the mental load is sometimes just too much. (Although them being so strict on timelines and whatnot really doesn't help. The bastards lol).
I tried the dad gum Sony ZV-1F a while back (About $500, so not too expensive, not too cheap) and I could not get it to work right. I'd look airbrushed or just not right or the footage would be blurry. It was really freaking annoying. I returned it and started using my phone, but I'm going to try again with a real camera...someday.
@maddiedoeswhatshewants I've heard a lot of people say the same thing about that camera. There was definitely a learning curve for me with the zv-e10 but I think I've almost got it down, except when I film in my kitchen with the light on and forget to switch things and get the vertical running lines lol. Sometimes a phone camera is just so much more convenient and quick!
I really like your personality
If you're interested in trying it for yourself here's a referral code. It looks like it gives you a discount (free box? what's the catch? THIS IS HOW THEY GET US) and then I get "$45 off premium meals" I didn't even know there were premium meals lol
www.hellofresh.com/freebox/VGFyYS0yNjc4NDAxNDEtMC00LTE2LVVT
Yes
Marketing is getting next level clever.
Worst service I ever had. Never sent what I ordered except for my first box. They make it near impossible to cancel, and it is mediocre even when you get what you want, which you don't. I was supposed to get free breakfasts but only got it once. Each box is 80$, so idk where this 50% off bs is. 50 bucks for 3 meals for 2 with small portions. Huge scam.
❤❤❤❤❤ Greatest....
HF fucked up two of my orders in 2 weeks, and I only subscribed 4 weeks ago... 😢
I want to cancel Hello Fresh!
Erm no thanks. I'd rather get my food from the supermarket, where I can actually see it, rather than put my trust in something which has been outed by ex-employees and current customers as rotting away in a warehouse somewhere before arriving.
Lmao n where do you think the food at the super market comes from 😂
Im hungry now 😂
Hello fresh are a scam company be warned
What do you mean by this?
@Clarakroger when we placed a order there keep taking your money even when you cancel your order