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Hello Fresh Groceries<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dinner time! <\/em> Planning a meal, healthy or just filling, every night takes time and energy.  Especially, when you want to be frugal and healthy or even if you just want an easy meal that is tasty without breaking the bank.  With so many folks cooped up at home many of us either had to learn to cook or at least break out of our normal routine.  Well that was me, I was getting very tired of my normal routine and yet, it was hard to look at recipes, shop for all these items and then spend an hour learning to make it.   Sooooo\u2026. I decided to try Hello Fresh!  This post is about sharing my experience with this food service.  (full disclaimer \u2013 this is truly all based upon my experiences.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Hello Cooking Instructions!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Let me preface this review with one of my life philosophies:  Cook once and eat twice!<\/em><\/strong>  If you are going to cook and have to do the dishes, try to make enough to have another meal or two (or at least lunch the next day).  During COVID, shopping was also a bit trying so I was already looking at some of the various services to try.   Christmas came around and I was ordering some flowers as a gift and they provided me a coupon for Hello Fresh<\/em><\/strong> which made it very affordable to try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tasty Pasta!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I signed up for the 3 meals for two people per week.  It\u2019s a very easy service to use \u2013 their website will show you the pictures of the meals and tell you the descriptions.  Based upon your choices, of regular type meals (meat\/potatoes or pastas) or vegetarian or gluten-free, you will be given a selection for the week.  It\u2019s easy to change and save for that week as long as you do it before cut-off date\/time.  The boxes arrive on the day you select in a box with ice packs.  Meats under the veggies\/other items.   It doesn\u2019t take much time to unpack \u2013 it\u2019s good to put the instruction sheets in a specific place for reference.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unpacked the box<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Opening one of the small bags<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Here is what I learned:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n