Download their online recipes and do a rand on them.
It's 100% about convenience. They offer nothing more than you picking up your own food. Plus they ship as much packaging as food so it's probably far from being the most ecological solution.
The problem with that approach is that often they include ingredients in very small quantities that most people won't have, and buying the ingredient yourself requires getting a container with 1000x the amount you need. Even if it's cheap, people balk at that.
But yes, the packaging is insanely wasteful, not to mention the ecological cost of shipping itself.
I definitely cooked more often when I had a HelloFresh subscription. And when I do cook now, the variety of things I make is much smaller.
>The problem with that approach is that often they include ingredients in very small quantities that most people won't have, and buying the ingredient yourself requires getting a container with 1000x the amount you need. Even if it's cheap, people balk at that.
This is more of a problem with how fucked American supermarkets are and how much food wasted is generated not just by too much being packaged.
I go out of my way to shop at Asian supermarkets because at least I can buy alot of produce individually and not massive bags of shit that'll spoil before I can eat it like American supermarkets push.
It's 100% about convenience. They offer nothing more than you picking up your own food. Plus they ship as much packaging as food so it's probably far from being the most ecological solution.