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I actually still use Blue Apron. It's not that much more expensive than grocery shopping (I live in New York so groceries are expensive) and you never end up wi

I actually still use Blue Apron. It's not that much more expensive than grocery shopping (I live in New York so groceries are expensive) and you never end up with wasted food. The recipes are generally very quick to make and far better than anything I could make on my own in a comparable amount of time. While the business may not have worked out so well their service is still pretty good.

quaquaqua1 7y ago
Glad you like it and hope the price continues to be reasonable as they continue to cut expenses while trying to maintain food quality :) For me I eat a very peculiar diet so I usually just pick up yogurt and fresh bread from the grocery store on my way home from work, and when I'm feeling particularly lazy I will order steamed chicken and steamed broccoli from the local Chinese shop who really have this amazing technique of steaming that I seem unable to grasp!!
- TylerE 7y ago
  Sometimes I feel for a company like that that at least 60% of their spend is on podcast advertising.
rosybox 7y ago
Blue Apron just seems so unnecessary. You still have to do all the work! Just go to the grocery store and buy stuff there? You can get recipes online for free. I do all my shopping on Saturday at Trader Joe's and spend very little for lots of food which I then cook. There's so much wasted materials and trash with Blue Apron. I don't get it, but then I don't have any trouble cooking for myself and my family. I didn't grow up learning how to cook. I spent a little bit of time figuring it out and then it became easy and didn't require a subscription to some sketchy company. There's also no way that you're coming close to the prices at a supermarket when you're buying individual meal's worth ingredients instead of bulk, a bag of potatoes, or a bottle of seasoning instead of one potato and one pinch of whatever inside some single serving plastic wrapping.
- csallen 7y ago
  With services like Blue Apron and HelloFresh, you're paying for convenience. Perhaps you don't want to go to the grocery store, look up recipes, etc.
  - wolco 7y ago
    It's a valid first choice. Once you order and see what you get and understand how it's made reordering would be a challenge. The problem is the product teaches you how you don't need the product.
  - zik 7y ago
    As a terrible cook I love that they do all the work of finding an achievable recipe and shopping for all the (sometimes obscure) ingredients. I've improved my cooking skills significantly as a result and I'm almost ready to move on from them now.
    - okmokmz 7y ago
      Agreed, I've tried blue apron, home chef, and green chef and it has been an overall positive experience
- smallgovt 7y ago
  Everything you said is accurate, but that doesn't mean there isn't a place in the market for Blue Apron. People are paying for convenience. Think of it like a house cleaning service. You don't NEED to hire someone to clean your house, but it makes your life a little easier and for some, that's worth it.
  - Crusoe123 7y ago
    Except this is like buying a small package of cleaning utilities for one cleaning and then cleaning the house with it yourself. In your analogy, the cleaning service would be ordering food from a restaurant. The utility here is very marginal, and there are alternatives that make your life even easier.
dreamcompiler 7y ago
The introductory pricing was a reasonable deal for two people. We learned some new recipes (always nicely-printed and savable) and the meals were always tasty. But once the introductory pricing was over, and once we got tired of the obscene amount of packaging we had to throw away, we stopped it. Chalk up another churned customer.

quaquaqua1 7y ago

Glad you like it and hope the price continues to be reasonable as they continue to cut expenses while trying to maintain food quality :) For me I eat a very peculiar diet so I usually just pick up yogurt and fresh bread from the grocery store on my way home from work, and when I'm feeling particularly lazy I will order steamed chicken and steamed broccoli from the local Chinese shop who really have this amazing technique of steaming that I seem unable to grasp!!

TylerE 7y ago
Sometimes I feel for a company like that that at least 60% of their spend is on podcast advertising.

rosybox 7y ago

Blue Apron just seems so unnecessary. You still have to do all the work! Just go to the grocery store and buy stuff there? You can get recipes online for free. I do all my shopping on Saturday at Trader Joe's and spend very little for lots of food which I then cook. There's so much wasted materials and trash with Blue Apron. I don't get it, but then I don't have any trouble cooking for myself and my family. I didn't grow up learning how to cook. I spent a little bit of time figuring it out and then it became easy and didn't require a subscription to some sketchy company. There's also no way that you're coming close to the prices at a supermarket when you're buying individual meal's worth ingredients instead of bulk, a bag of potatoes, or a bottle of seasoning instead of one potato and one pinch of whatever inside some single serving plastic wrapping.

csallen 7y ago
With services like Blue Apron and HelloFresh, you're paying for convenience. Perhaps you don't want to go to the grocery store, look up recipes, etc.
- wolco 7y ago
  It's a valid first choice. Once you order and see what you get and understand how it's made reordering would be a challenge. The problem is the product teaches you how you don't need the product.
- zik 7y ago
  As a terrible cook I love that they do all the work of finding an achievable recipe and shopping for all the (sometimes obscure) ingredients. I've improved my cooking skills significantly as a result and I'm almost ready to move on from them now.
  - okmokmz 7y ago
    Agreed, I've tried blue apron, home chef, and green chef and it has been an overall positive experience
smallgovt 7y ago
Everything you said is accurate, but that doesn't mean there isn't a place in the market for Blue Apron. People are paying for convenience. Think of it like a house cleaning service. You don't NEED to hire someone to clean your house, but it makes your life a little easier and for some, that's worth it.
- Crusoe123 7y ago
  Except this is like buying a small package of cleaning utilities for one cleaning and then cleaning the house with it yourself. In your analogy, the cleaning service would be ordering food from a restaurant. The utility here is very marginal, and there are alternatives that make your life even easier.

dreamcompiler 7y ago

The introductory pricing was a reasonable deal for two people. We learned some new recipes (always nicely-printed and savable) and the meals were always tasty. But once the introductory pricing was over, and once we got tired of the obscene amount of packaging we had to throw away, we stopped it. Chalk up another churned customer.