>shell out money every month >doomscroll to find something new to eat >the food is in separate little packages that create a bunch of trash>food isn't even cooked, you have to cook it yourself>costs more than just going to the store and buying the ingredients yourselfWhy would people use services like hello fresh? Are they stupid?
>>21672937>Are they stupid?Yes. They are glorified tv dinners.
>>21672937I don't have to go to the store and I don't have to think about what to eatSaves countless hours overall
>grab one of the thousands of free box codes off the internet>sign up for a new account>get enough ingredients to feed a person for 5 days with good meals for $10 in shipping.>repeat each weekThe only stupid people are the ones who actually pay for them. I rotate between Hello Fresh, Green Chef, and Everyplate for 90% of my food.
It's a good gift idea but not something you should use on a regular basis
>>21672955>It's a good gift ideaHow? Who would want the sudden responsibility to make several specific meals within a week before all the ingredients go bad? People who cook already have their own ingredients that they don't want to completely ignore for a week, and people who don't cook don't want to suddenly be cooking meals every day that someone else chose for them. It's like getting someone a one week subscription to a daily yoga class.The only way to make it work is if they already want to try it, they make the account, they choose the meals, and then you pay for it, but then it's more like you've just gifted them money and they happened to spend it on a meal kit.
>>21672980>Who would want the sudden responsibility to make several specific meals within a week before all the ingredients go bad?Had one gifted to me. Spoiling wasn't a concern, the most annoying thing was how everything came in little plastic or cardboard packaging
>>21672996>the most annoying thing was how everything came in little plastic or cardboard packagingDo you not own a trash can, or is this complaint just hippy shit?
>>21672999I just don't like all the little things I have to open. I could see it becoming a real problem if I bought them regularly though, my trash would fill up fast.
>>21673054>I just don't like all the little things I have to openWould you prefer they just toss some loose garlic powder, mayonnaise, and raw chicken into the box? The fuck kind of complaint is this?
>>21673059There would be less random little things to throw away if I made the same recipe with things from the store
>>21673079Okay
akshually Hello Fresh is cheaper and less wasteful than buying all the ingredients by yourself! that's what all the foodtubers who shill this subscription service told me.well, it makes sense, when I buy a pack of something I only use a small portion of it for the recipe I'm making and then throw away the rest.
>>21673339this
>>21672937Some people who don't know how to cook want to try to start cooking and this is a lazy easy way to do so, because the shopping and recipe are done for you and mailed to your house so you don't need to acquire proper ingredients or source a recipe that's not dogshit.>are they stupid?In many cases yes, but some people need to start somewhere and if they have disposable income but no skills then they can try things out and try to learn.>but why didn't they learn when they were growing up?A lot of reasons, some that are their fault and some that are not their fault.
>>21673059kek
>>21672937yes
>>21672937Yes, they are stupid. They're manchildren who cannot find the will to deal with every little choices involved in picking somthing to cook and shopping for it, and hellofresh provides them with a choice readily made for them, and an incentive to follow through.I know a few of them, either deadbeat stoners or fatasses.
>>21672937My wife was bedridden for about a month due to medical shit so her work sent her a months worth of HelloFresh. I thought some of the food was pretty good but there's no way i would buy that stuff myself. Much too expensive for what you get. Plus i already know how to cook so i dont need my hand held throughout the process
>>21673083You're insufferable
>>21672937I was on this for about a month a few years ago, I guess because I had some deal or something. It was OK I guess, but I already knew how to cook so it wasn't any more convenient that what I was already doing, and I still needed to go to the store anyway to buy non-food items and breakfast stuff.The menus were also really limited. Some weeks didn't have anything I wanted at all, and a lot of the time the only options were hipster-y millennial Califonia slop like avocado chicken rice bowls instead of, say, a hamburger. Anything that wasn't base-level American cuisine was worse than I could make myself.For me, though, the last straw was when I opened a box to find a can of corn. Their whole business is about giving people fresh food and they sent me canned corn, which I could buy at the store for like $0.49. I stopped my subscription right after that. They kept sending me terrible vouchers for months after that, including through an entire house move. Not a great experience over all.
Every Youtube shill's framing on why you NEED HelloFresh goes something like>Hey! You're a lazy asshole, you've got important stuff to do. And who's got time to do DUMB stuff like picking out ingredients?? And cooking? What is this, the Stone Age?>Are they stupid?So then yes. They think their customers are stupid, because they ARE stupid
>>21674202That is such a nice kind employer. I just wanted to say that.I kind of think most of these subscriptions are just gifted like that...new couples...new parents..newly off to college kids...Every Door Dash I have ever done was simply not to leave the house (not cost). Out of town guests, kids in the pool, supervising workmen in the house. These are reasons to accept the cost vs homemade superiourity.
>>21674204Make a reasonable point if you want an engaging response, fag
>>21672937I think it's excellent. Yes, they've collated the ingredients for you and given clear instructions for the recipe, but what really makes them is their spice packets or something similar they give you in each recipe. They impart so much taste into the dish. I'm not an advocate for them because it is expensive and also I'm adept at cooking. But having gotten a couple of nearly free / free boxes, I'd say that it's brilliant when inexpensive
>>21674514>yfw can of corn inside
>>21672937Anyone who says it saves time is a liar. A lot of the meals take 30 minutes prep time and then even more for cooking.
>>21674514>>21674566the can of corn is a reasonable crashout to be fair. thats probably one of the easier things to send fresh for one and for two corn is just low grade food.
>>21672953>for $10 in shipping.>The only stupid people are the ones who actually pay for them.Uh, anon.....
>>21672953how many meals you get in it?
>>21672937Yes people are extremely stupid
At least it's not factor meals
>>21674940You got me there>>21674954Depends on what you consider a meal I guess. I get 5 dishes of 2 servings each, and I usually pick dishes where a serving is ~1k calories, so 10k calories total in the box.
