We tried a bunch of meal delivery kits, and here’s what we think
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2015
- If you - like 35 percent of your peers - have recently moved to a new place, you might find yourself in an unfamiliar, frigid city on this fourth Thursday in November. Loved ones are hard to come by, because making friends in a new city is quietly, enormously difficult - and now a plane ticket home costs more than your rent. The thought of going to a grocery store to prepare an attempt at a Thanksgiving meal for yourself is enough to drive you to drink your dinner.
But spending time in the kitchen can be truly therapeutic: you work with your hands and produce something that, if all goes to plan, will nourish you and taste good. The act of cooking nutritious, somewhat complex meals for oneself is a mark of many things: adulthood, authority over one’s personal health, and maybe even learning how to make sustainable food choices.
Are the same things accomplished when you have all the elements of a meal designed, compiled, and transported (in a monumental amount of packaging) by someone else for you? We took it upon ourselves to try out four meal-kit delivery services - Blue Apron, Sun Basket, Hello Fresh, and The Purple Carrot - to try out the experience for you, dear reader. Watch our video to find out which ones we liked best. - Фільми й анімація
Hahaha 'they're extremely popular. At least, among venture capitalists." GOLD
That laugh in the end! epic!
This would be a great service for shut-ins, those convalescing from surgery, those who want to try a recipe that they've never tried before, those that live in locations where variety of foods is not easily attainable, I know when I've lived in some very rural places the choices are pretty limited, and funnily enough UPS comes by and drops packages all the time so they might like the service too.
Yeah, hey, finance guy here. A current valuation of 2 billion means they could actually have 2 billion dollars in debt. So don't be fooled by those numbers. There's a lot more to it, but none of those companies are actually turning a profit yet. And most of them, and the ones that pop up in the future are going to fail. Although some of them may also be foolishly purchased by larger corporations so long as the bear market doesn't show up, and start beating the living shit out of everybody. Just FYI. :)
Sun Basket no longer require packaging to be returned for recycling. All packaging can be recycled at home.
Blue Apron's packaging actually is fully recyclable, there's instructions on there website for how to recycle the different parts and you also have the option of shipping them back the the packaging and they will recycle it for you.
All of the packaging in the Blue Apron box can be recycled at home. The provide details on their web site. And if your city doesn't have recycling, they also provide a service to send it back to them. blog.blueapron.com/how-to-recycle-your-blue-apron-box/
Also worth mentioning that Blue Apron tries to ship from near you. I live in Phoenix, so my boxes are always shipped from Arizona or California.
Ahhhh your content is amazing! I totally thought you would have over a millions subs!
For $10 a meal, you can just get healthy takeout from a restaurant and not have to prepare it or risk disliking the dish. I really wish they would lower the prices for these meal delivery subscriptions :(
B Bunny yeah, it is expensive, you can get take out full course healthy restaurant meals with a desert that's cheaper. Why pay all this money, waist all that time cooking something that you might not even like.
Good point.
someone would pay a delivery fee for dishes to be delivered. They value more on time than money. WHy thinking it would be cheaper to get food delivered to your place?
If you're trying a new restaurant or even a new dish at a restaurant, you're risking disliking the dish all the same.
There is one and the food is good, called EveryPlate.
I suspect the carbon footprint of shipping packaging back to a supplier would out weight any benefits. Just recycle the damn stuff locally.
wwaxwork they do now just make everything recyclable
WORD!
wwaxwork Shut your hipster ass up. No one gives a shit.
hes right tho your just ignorant so you get no respect
check yoself bro
recycling is stupid
Placing emphasis on getting closer to your meal sounds nice, but in reality, full disclosure and commitment to quality ingredients and organic certifications is where we should make our decisions. Environmental concerns? Your city/county needs to be held responsible for making bins or other options available. The company making your meals should not have to deal with YOUR WASTE, driving up the cost of the service for the rest of us.
You made a really good point of eating local food!
Do you know if these kits deliver to West Coast in Canada? I didn't know there were so many choices.
was the numbering your ranking of the meals? i missed that. if so, surprised hello ftesh came in 4th. also. based out of germany. but food shipped from NY? i didnt realize. im in california. would prefer local. sure they don't have a west coast office?
Shipping empty packaging back to be recycled is counterproductive to the cause of being environmentally friendly...
I love this! Thanks for such a nice vids. I think I might have an addiction to subboxes!
real talk that falafel place at the beginning is kinda awesome though
+Nick Abraham you're not wrong
Why is is that west coast ingredient sourcing is a plus? Are west coast farms better than east coast or central? I'm genuinely asking. I live in Southern Ontario and we've got the best soil in all of Canada.
We are located on the West Coast -- we called it a plus for us as this probably means fresher ingredients that didn't have to travel as far to get to our plates.
WESTSIDE!!!
In Australia we only have Marley spoon and Hello Fresh and Dinnerly
This girl could be the voice for fionna in adventure time
I live in Oregon so I get fresh deliveries.
tfs!! great video 👍
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Great video! Very interesting.
+Nerfinator1000 hey thanks! glad you enjoyed watching.
i dont think you can rank sun basket with the rest being they primarily deliver to the west coast, such as blue apron the east coast, recycling shouldnt even give points for the fact that there is recycling in most u.s. cities and towns nowadays...they should have been point based on cost/affordability, taste, and content
Good points! But it is important not to confuse recycling with reusing packaging, like the insulating foam coolers and mylar bubble wrap. Reuse is much more eco-friendly than recycling. However, the return shipping is still an issue.
Sounds like you should make your own video.
+Jefferdaughter Yes, good point. Recycling is, contrary to popular belief, actually bad for the environment. There are definitely exceptions like tin cans and electronic waste and a few other things, but none the less.
Meal kits are genius from the sellers' pov and dumb as hell from the consumers' pov...
Good info
Smart shopping can eliminate food waste just as well as one of these meal kits. Want to use some celery for your ambitious meal? Don't get a whole bunch of celery! Buy a little veggie snack kit that only has about 1 to 2 stocks worth of celery. You just got yourself a little snack on the side. Tada. Mystery solved.
Mr. Mystery but then you have to eat raw celery, which is disgusting.
you ever tried the celery fleshlight?
Do you understand how much more you're spending after the convenience markup on a "snack kit?" Give me a break dude, most of this is recyclable. If it's not, is it really the consumer you should be hounding?
60 to 70 dollars a week for a total of 6 meals. At 3 meals a day I eat 21 meals a week. I think I'll have to stick with the occasional Healthy Choice frozen dinners and continue cooking as I always have.
Most people only use these for dinner and leave one night a week open for doing something different like going to a restaurant or something they want to make.
Try, "just add cooking" next!
I'm sure Purple Carrot is tastier than BAs veg options but Blue Apron's non vegetarian options are tastier than Purple Carrot in general.
Some of these food comes from where.
I love finding and eating human hair in my food
i repeatedly tried to subscribe to your channel but was blocked by signal:" ---- problem with the network- 503 "
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put the eggs in cold water and bring to boil. :)
It is amazing that sourcing food and putting meals together is so challenging to so many people these days. Guess home meal prep boxes are better than eating out.
In addition to healthier than eating out, it's often about the time saved planning meals and grocery shopping.
Prepare your meals in advance on a Sunday afternoon. Chicken and rice all the way!
"ever buy a stalk of celery only to use one stalk?"
No, I just eat the celery as a snack. Compost your spoiled food using a worm bin and you will save tons of money over these expensive services. And get free fertile worm poo that is worth about a dollar a pound.
Celery is disgusting.
I've tried Blue Apron and Hello Fresh in the past. Wasn't crazy about the recipes. I got turned on to Sun Basket and have my first delivery from them coming next week, because at least their recipes look interesting to me. You can choose 2 breakfasts instead of one dinner recipe, for example. Sometimes I just get too lazy/uninspired to shop for groceries. I'm bad at planning out my meals to use up extra ingredients.
Ypu choose veg options and ranked the only one that specializes in veg options . Idk doesnt seem like a fair rating to me
hella pricey
Just a waste of packaging. .. no thanks. Go get the stuff yourself if you can. If you can't this is a great idea. If your able but don't want to, you're the problem with this country.
Bummed that this featured only vegetarian/vegan meals. I would have liked to see more representative selections.
Why on earth do you need to feel closer to your food source? What a weird goal.
Jeff
She means knowing what exactly you ‘re eating and what goes into each dish.
Damn, she's got some massive plaque buildup. She needs to brush her teeth!
Vegan only? That's why you're getting bland results.
vegan foods can be very delicious if you know how to season and cook food..
most of them were vegetarian
and the vegan one was ranked 1st...
You're comment lacks basis and understanding. The best one was vegan!
ikr ! the moment she said "all vegan" is the time i told myself, NOPE, time to hit another video xD
Millennials.
for god's sake, put your hair in a ponytail when cooking. beside that, great video.
and now your gonna start saying chefs should start wearing beard caps
+kade b where I live thts common
Lilian Dorea its her food tho
Lilian Dorea girl shut up
You're cute
Vegan Sarah Silverman?
Honestly I would have watched the rest of thereview but the music was so loud and the woman's voice was not confident and strong so better luck next time
Did you just have an eye check or did you take some hallucinogenics for this video, because your pupils are blown the hell out?!?
i think shes medicated
funny
vegan all the way
hippies......
unaccurate
Millenial wannabe hippies?
You lost me the minute you said you only got vegetarian and vegan ... I wanted to know what the kits that I would buy were like ... Learn to cater to ur audience
Did it ever occur to you that they did cater to their audience and you're just not a part of it?
Wtf.... cant any one do a review with normal food.
Most people are not vegan why the hell would you make a review of vegan food?
Why is it so hard to find a normal review of these services?
Because these services are HEALTHY. What did you expect? A McDonald's burger Patty?
@@PhayzinOut Vegan isnt healthy.... Its just insanity.
@@xADDxDaDealer Perhaps if you dug hard enough on UA-cam, there are PLENTY of, what you call, normal reviews. Found quite a bit in the time it took you to reply. Not that hard 😉😉😉
food looks disgusting & bland
Lauren smith which one? Or all...
starmsjc all of them
You have to bring your own herbs, spices, salt, and pepper to the table.
somebodys jelly
@@CC-jy4gr Eating too much Popeyes can do that to someone 😂😂😂
I’m a simple man I hear “all vegetarian meals” and I dislike and click away