My very sweet not-sister-in-law (but we're hoping that she is my actual sister-in-law one day) wanted to send us food since I've been sick. She decided to send one of those food box services like Hello Fresh, but not Hello Fresh because she and my brother are vegan.
Well, there's a vegan Hello Fresh. It's called Purple Carrot. The meals came today. Three meals, so over the next three days we are having:
- Baja Bowls (with hearts of palm)
- Tomato Farro Risotto
- Black Bean and Polenta Casserole
The meals sound good! We eat mostly vegetarian. But we are not vegan, so I am going to sub out their Veganaise for my own mayo, their vegan butter for my own regular butter, their vegan mozzarella and cream cheese for my own.
The meals are supposed to feed 2 people, and we are three, so I am going to try to bulk things up with stuff from my own pantry (I have polenta, basmati rice, risotto rice etc.). We bought a can of hearts of palm.
I would never use a meal service like this, because seriously - $72 for three dinners? But as I mentioned, I didn't pay for this, and it was very sweet of her to send it.
If we like the meals, they give you the list of ingredients and recipes, so we could make them again. Pretty certain I could make these meals for less than $24 a meal!!! I mean, polenta, black beans, green chile, cream cheese and spinach - that is like $5!
Have any of you done meal services like this? Did you like them? Did you do it save money or for convenience or ??
Purple Carrot
February 7th, 2018 at 06:35 pm
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February 7th, 2018 at 08:37 pm 1518035874
The conclusion was the best part was the Names they gave meals.
Snowed in, I recently read a book by an author/nutritionist whose theme was the benefits of meal planning by the month. ISBN978 0 968 27440-8 Health Wealth and Time in a Grocery Bag. [not vegan/vegetarian themed]
February 7th, 2018 at 11:54 pm 1518047679
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