Blue Apron: Ingredients & Menus for SIX Single Serve Meals Just $29.94 Delivered ($4.99 Each!)
Tired of cooking the same recipes? Blue Apron to the rescue!
Wow! Blue Apron (a fresh-ingredient and recipe delivery service that helps chefs of all levels cook incredible meals at home) is currently offering new customers 3 FREE Single-Serve Meals ($30 off) delivered straight to your doorstep! No grocery shopping or menu planning required!
Blue Apron is designed to teach you how to cook new recipes that you may not have tried before, introduce you to seasonal, farm-fresh ingredients and reduce food waste. PLUS, Blue Apron takes care of the menu planning and shopping (providing you with fresh, locally sourced ingredients in pre-measured quantities), so all you have to do is cook and enjoy! Sounds good to me! 😀
How does it work? What’s the Catch?
To order, go here and click on the “Redeem Offer” link at the top and enter your email address. Next choose the 2-person plan where you’ll receive $30 off your first week at checkout and pay only $29.94 shipped (regularly $59.94) for THREE different recipes with enough food to feed 2 people per recipe.
For $29.94 delivered, you’re essentially getting a total of SIX single-serve meals shipped straight to your doorstep AND you don’t have to do any grocery shopping or menu planning! That’s just $4.99 per serving for a fresh, home-cooked meal with quality ingredients! Love that!
By ordering your first box, you are signing up for a Blue Box continuous subscription and will receive weekly deliveries billed at $59.94/week to your designated payment method until you cancel. BUT there is no commitment! You can receive meals whenever it’s convenient for YOU, skip any delivery up to 5 weeks in advance OR cancel at any time through the Account Information page in your Account Settings!
Do they accommodate various diets?
Blue Apron accommodates a variety of dietary preferences – vegetarians, pescetarians, etc. and you are able to personalize your menu each week based on your preferences. Ingredients are carefully packaged in a refrigerated box so food stays fresh even if you’re not home whenever they deliver.
However, please note that all of their boxes are assembled in the same processing facility, so we don’t recommend ordering Blue Apron if you have a serious food allergy.
Thoughts from Lina, our recipe/DIY gal…
These meals were yummy, high-quality meals. Our favorite meal was the quesadillas! The lime corn salsa they have you make was awesome. We ordered these meals: (1) Mexican Beef Quesadillas with Creamy Corn & Shishito Pepper Salsa (2) Seared Chicken & Fregola Sarda with Salsa Verde, Corn & Tomato AND (3) Seared Salmon & Miso Soba Noodle Salad with Fairy Tale Eggplant & Baby Greens.
I like that you can learn a new way of cooking something and that they give you just the right amount of ingredients that you may not have on hand, like miso paste and fresh parsley. Plus, it’s a good way to discover produce that you’ve never had before like fairy eggplant and shishito peppers – both were yummy!
We tried this. It’s not a bad deal for the first time since they give you a discount, but beyond that it’s really not worth it, in my opinion. The per serving cost is quite high, and you need to make sure you cook everything within 5 days max as it starts going bad really quickly. The food also took quite a lot of time to prepare. It’s ideal for someone who wants to learn gourmet cooking/plating but doesn’t know where to start. A few other downsides: they use a LOT of packaging, and even though it’s recyclable, it’s still wasteful. Just my two cents. 🙂
Even with the discount – I can’t see it. $4.99 per serving? I guess you’re paying for the convenience. But like Kristen said – the packaging alone is a huge waste.
Bummer! Thanks so much for the honest review Kristin! I sure do appreciate it!
Thanks for commenting on the packing. I was curious about that.
we tried it and it was very good, but i was dismayed by the amount of packaging. a little bit of oil- there is a bottle to ship it in. a tablespoon of rice wine vinegar– its own bottle. a tablespoon of butter, another little bowl with lid. garnish of cheese, another plastic bowl with lid for that.
We just did the one week trial but they were offering $50 off. So I wouldn’t jump in this $30 off. I paid under $10 for 3 nights of meals for me and my husband. They were very yummy but too tune consuming for me.
Thanks so much for the feedback Noelle! Sorry to hear they took so much time to make 🙁
i also tried this and mygreenchef.com. i liked mgc better. the recipes were easier. i felt overwhelmed with blue apron and couldn’t even try the dinners, it could have been because i wasn’t feeling good though. i signed up for emails to blue apron and after a month they let me try it for 9.95. so it is exciting to get the box in the mail. the box from mgc is bigger and easier to understand, color coordinated stickers. it does teach u how to cook if u follow exact instructions. the dish i got from mgc i make all the time now: chopped zucchini, roasted red pepper, red whine vinegar, let marinate. its real good.
I tried Blue Apron and loved the recipe and instruction but hated the cost – especially for us deal hunters. So I found that you can download all of the recipes for FREE so I made my own recipe book from Blue Apron recipes and my own recipes. Hope others can benefit from this advice!
Yeah! We had the same idea! Some of the recipes are simple but a new twist so it’s a great place to browse for recipes then make your own stuff from the grocery store.
Oh neat! Thanks for sharing Amy!
Comparable to eating out every day, it’s cheaper, but no where near the chat that us deal hunters pay for groceries. I tried Blue Apron, loved the recipes but couldn’t justify the cost either. But then I found that they make all of their recipes available online for free! So it made me think of making my own recipe book – so I did! Blue apron recipes and my own recipe book combined into s binder with sheet protectors! I feel so organized and inspired to cook even more!!!
I attempted to try once. But, they were restrictive on which combinations of meals i could select. We were going to try the 3 meal option from groupon. I cant remember exact recipes but one was a lamb dish and it let me select it only if i selected other fish or veg dishes. It told me i could not select the lamb with the other beef choice offered. I canceled and got my money back. For the price i should be able to select anything available. This was a while ago, maybe its changed now.
We love Blue Apron. We receive their monthly wine subscription in addition to our weekly meals. It is the best thing to ever happen to my family. Saves us time and money. We love it.
Oh how cool! Thanks for the feedback Gretta! Glad to hear how convenient it has been for your family!
I have tried both and personally prefer hello fresh. More meat options here.
You can get $40 off your first box with code 222525F7ABHT (enter at checkout). Total is also $29 so slightly cheaper. You can also get more servings with $40 off if you prefer.
Enjoy!
I’ve heard terrible things about them lately. Apparently their delivery system needs serious help. They attempt to deliver warm spoiled food days after it was supposed to arrive.
Oh no 🙁 Sorry to hear about that!
if anyone is unsure about this because of the price, i felt that the portions were quite large, and fed us adequately.
for example, i have 4 kids (oldest are 5th grade & 7th grade). we ordered this and expected portions for 2 adults. we tried a dish with fish and rice, and we were all full and had about 3 cups of the cooked rice side dish leftover after my family of 6 ate our fill.
for the other dish we tried, a pasta dish, we were also all full and it was delicious. again, 6 of us ate what was supposed to be for 2 people, and for this meal we just added on our own bag of salad as a side. this one had about 2 servings of pasta leftover after we ate our fill. i’m not kidding.
we appreciated that the recipes were available online, and the pasta dish was good enough that we will make it again on our own.
these were kits that seemed geared toward helping someone prepare gourmet meals, and were a bit involved as far as preparation goes.
that being said, i only tried those 2 entrees so far. we are average-sized people, and our kids are pretty small. if you had 2 adults and 2 teenage boys, YMMV. but it seemed plentiful for us.
Thanks for such helpful feedback Rebecca! Good to know about the portion sizes!
My family loves Blue Apron. It brings us together in the kitchen to make meals I’d never think of.
I have been doing Blue Apron for about 8 months now and love it! I am single and so when I make each meal I have dinner that night and lunch for the next day. The fresh ingredients and the opportunity to try fresh foods I had not tired before is awesome. And I am a bit of a novice cook, so I love the step by step instructions (and videos online) and I have really enjoyed learning cooking techniques I can apply in the future for other meals I make. For the quality of the meals and the fresh ingredients, I think $10 a meal is a good deal. I do have to plan about an hour per recipe to make them, but the tasty end results are worth my time. I have lost weight and eat DRAMATICALLY better on weeks I get blue apron (I have a tendency to lean more towards the vegetarian meals.) In the cooler months I have a tendency to get the deliveries more often than the warmer months. And roasted cauliflower and Fregola Sarda is the bomb people (and I would have never found out about that otherwise!) It may not be everyone’s thing, but I really like it. And if you have a friend that does Blue Apron, they most likely have a coupon code to give you that will give you 1 week / 3 meals for two for free (that is how I got hooked!)
That’s awesome Julie! Happy to hear you are enjoying it! Thanks for sharing your experience! 😀
We tried it for a few months and we actually loved the food! The recipes were different from our normal items so we felt like it was our “eating out” meal for the week. I liked their recipes much better than hello fresh. But like others mentioned the recipes are time consuming so with 3 little ones I ended up canceling which was a bummer. But I do get their recipes online and make every once in a while.