HelloFresh,
I have seen the lime green, lime pretty much everywhere are I kind of relate it
to someone giving me a discount as I always see HelloFresh at Waterloo and on
the odd occasion a discount code will fall out of a parcel filled with clothes I
have purchased.
When
thinking about New Year resolutions two were high on my agenda:
1.
Get healthy / Lose a few pounds stone
for my wedding
2.
Sort out my partners finances (he is poo at
managing money) / Stop spending so much money on food.
Even before
I got home HelloFresh was at the back of my mind and then they emailed me
asking if I would like to take part in a trial….my prayers had been answered…yes
please.
After
trawling through the website and looking at some previous recipes I was
starting to get excited and spoke to some colleagues about it all who knew
someone who was using HelloFresh and one colleague was about to embark on the
same journey as she heard that it could cut down your shopping bill.
My main
issue with food is that I live such a busy lifestyle I don’t have the time to
think or create an amazing healthy meal every evening, so what do I do, I just
grab a pizza. HelloFresh must of read my mind as they are actually championing
their new launch the Rapid Box – meals in 20 minutes, I can vouch that they
really do only take 20 minutes, from getting the ingredients out until it
reaches your dinner table.
Monday was
my set delivery day and at the moment you can only get three meals which is
actually perfect, at the end of the three week trial Adam said maybe we should
go for 5 days I pointed out that every Monday we still had our last meal to eat
so three a week was more than enough for us.
Monday was
an exciting day I am out most of the day so when I got an email with a photo of
my HelloFresh box on my porch I was excited to get home…don’t I live an
exciting life.
Anyway
opening the box was exciting, who doesn’t like parcels being delivered with ingredients
measured out exactly. For the three recipes you get an individual bag with all
the dry ingredients which I just pop above my fridge until I need it and you
get a weird furry bag filled with icepacks with all the items for your fridge.
I figured
out in the third week you could actually pick your recipes if you choose before
Wednesday. So over the three weeks the recipes I had were:
RECIPES:
- Beef
Feijoada
- Seared
Turkey Steak with Cream Lentils and Sweet potato
- Chicken Chow Mein
- Superquick Mexican
Chilli
- Chicken Laksa
- Lemon and Rosemary
Turkey with Creamy Pasta and Broccoli
- Chermoula Grilled
Chicken with Chickpeas and Couscous
- Spaghetti Puttanesca with
Avocado and Rocket Salad
- Sticky Sesame Chicken
I think one of the issues I come
up against with my meals during the week is variety I don’t really have time to
think about what I am going to cook and when I do want to cook a new recipe it
costs me a fortune on new ingredients. On the website you can also save your
favourite recipes, I think out of the above I didn’t not like any of them and
the variety was great my favourites were the Sticky Sesame Chicken, Spaghetti
Puttanesca and the Seared Turkey Steak with creamy lentils and sweet potato – I
didn’t even think I liked lentils.
Ingredients
Moving on to the actual ingredients they were
really fresh and lasted the entire week which is another issue with buying a weeks’
worth of ingredients, half way through the week I have to throw half the
vegtables in the bin – money just down the drain. Everything was so easy if the
meal required the chicken or turkey to be cut up, this job had already been
done, if you needed honey or peanut butter you got a little sachet no mess and
the packet was finished with. I think these are some of the things that ensure
that you prep and cooking time is kept to 20 minutes from opening the box to
getting to the table.
OUTCOMES
So after my three week trial on #TheRapidChallege
how did I think it went?! Well see the results for yourself:
WEIGHT
Even though there is spaghetti and white rice the
recipes are all really healthy and with my target weight reduction of 3lbs per
month to hit my target wedding weight I managed to lost 4 lbs in three weeks,
now I am sure that is not just down to HelloFresh I think I ran two times as
well HA but the fact I wasn’t popping into Tesco’s on a daily basis and I was
having the leftovers for my lunch meant I was not tempted to pick up the odd
red bull or the essential dairy milk bar. Also there was not a huge amount of
leftovers so it meant I had a small lunch not a huge mac and cheese microwave
meal from Waitrose.
SAVINGS
Well in comparison to November (December doesn’t count
as I was out of the country and my parents brought all the groceries) November
spend was £206 this month was £106 so paying for HelloFresh would have been £102
so that is a £4 saving but does that really matter the point is I have not
spent any additional money on food…no loss and tasty meals!!
TIME
My time is so previous that is why I would always
revert to a pizza. I think I have saved around 30 minutes a day during the week
in total – which is actually a lot of time and energy.
SLEEP
Now I am not sure if this has anything to do with HelloFresh but i have noticed I have been sleepy like a BABY.
I see this as a lifestyle change and I hope to keep
my evenings free and hopefully lose a few more pounds. S
HelloFreshRapidbox is from £4.92 per serving, with produce selected from only the finest
suppliers and delivered straight to your door.
