Life can get pretty chaotic and busy at times. The usual routine is to wake up, go to work, get home from work, go to bed, and the routine repeats in a cycle. Sometimes work hours will get progressively longer, and the amount of time you have to yourself will get lesser and lesser. Often times because of people’s fast-paced lives, they tend to stray towards fast and unhealthy food in order to compensate for their lack of time in the day. This is not to say that hard-working people don’t want to cook or eat healthy, but after a long day of work most people do not find themselves wanting to cook a meal at home. Especially if they are commuting, picking food up on the way home is easiest.
As a result of this fast-paced living in America, meal plans and meal subscriptions has become pretty popular. For not much hassle and not a lot of time, people can eat healthy and nutritious meals with little effort. There are a few different companies specifically that push for this new movement: Freshly, Blue Apron, and HelloFresh.
Freshly
Prospective Freshly customers are encouraged to chat online with members of their company using their user-friendly website. As mentioned, Freshly offers their subscribers with fully-cooked meals that are prepared by chefs. Then, they are delivered daily to your front door. After that, you’ll just have to microwave the meal—and it’s as simple as that!
Freshly customers can choose from over 30 different gluten-free prepared meals which rotate every week. Upon joining, you can get $40 off your first order, and you can continue on to get more discounts for every friend you refer that signs up with your code. Another perk to Freshly is that the shipping is free, and you have plenty of options to choose from. You can get between 4, 6, 9, or 12 meals a week depending on what type of meal plan you’re looking for. These plans range from $50 to $107.99 per week.
Blue Apron
Blue Apron is probably the most well-known of the meal plan subscription services which provides customers with both the ingredients and the tools to make delicious and healthy meals. First, customers pick out the recipes that appear to be most appetizing to them, and then from there they are given a chef-designed tutorial that includes step-by-step instructions on how to cook the meals in your own home.
Some of the potential meal options you could choose includes farm-fresh produce, meat without any added hormones, and sustainably-sourced seafood. A popular question most people have when signing up for these services is if they can cancel memberships and if there is a huge hassle to do so. With Blue Apron, customers can cancel their memberships at any time, and are also given the possibility to earn more discounts over their time as a subscriber.
HelloFresh
HelloFresh is known for having a lot of options for their customers. For example, there are over 2,500 different recipes that customers can choose from and there’s different plans that they can go with as well. There are vegetable-centered ones for those who are vegetarian, there are classic plans, and there are plans more geared towards families.
Each different recipe offers customers an estimate on cooking time so they can plan their meals accordingly. This is nice for those looking to budget their time better, whether that is around their families schedules, work schedules, or their commuting schedules.
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