Updated On March 2024
Review HelloFresh
- Over 80 recipes and 200+ meal combinations you can choose from every week
- Fresh, pre-portioned ingredients. Cook and Enjoy your meals in under 30 minutes
- Recipes everyone will love including family friendly, meat & veggie, vegetarian, and carb & calorie smart
- Over 80 recipes and 200+ meal combinations you can choose from every week
- Fresh, pre-portioned ingredients. Cook and Enjoy your meals in under 30 minutes
- Recipes everyone will love including family friendly, meat & veggie, vegetarian, and carb & calorie smart
In a nutshell, HelloFresh offers an easy and affordable recipe box service that will deliver pre-measured ingredients for specific recipes to your doorstep. Everything arrives ready for you to assemble and cook into a delicious meal. You choose what you want to eat and when via their website or app, and they send you ingredients to make the meal — including step-by-step instructions.
There are 100+ recipes per month to choose from, including Vegetarian, Rapid, Calorie Smart, globally-inspired flavours, and more. If you have busy weeknights, some of their recipes can be made in as little as 20 minutes. And because the ingredients are measured in just the right amounts, there’s less food waste, too. You will need to subscribe with an email account and a password as well, though you can cancel or pause if you wish. You can skip a week if you are away or have other plans, but you don’t want to cancel the service completely. Just make sure you do this before the cut-off date.
Finally, select the type of meals that you would like to have delivered to your home. You can customise the delivery from here to fit your convenience and needs. You are not locked in once you sign up, either, in case you want to cancel. However, you must tell them a week or so in advance before the cutoff date, or you will have to pay for another week. Keep in mind that you will automatically be charged on a weekly basis.
You can skip a week if the cost isn’t something you want to make a part of your weekly costs, but you don’t want to cancel the service completely. Again, make sure you do this before the cutoff date - you can even plan to skip a week up to eight weeks in advance.
Is it organic?
Largely, no. Their focus is more on getting people to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables. Some of the recipes do include organic ingredients, but it is by no means standard. They do mark allergens on all their recipes, but as of yet they do not offer specific plans tailored to those with food allergies. They also mark all of the nutritional information on the recipes.
When Can You Have Meals Delivered?
HelloFresh will deliver any day of the week, and for most of their slots, they have a ‘leave safe’ policy, which means you can add instructions for the delivery drivers. All the HelloFresh boxes contain insulation and ice packs to keep ingredients fresh, but they ask that customers make sure they put the ingredients in the fridge as soon as they can.
HelloFresh has an entire page on packaging and recycling, and it even contains a few suggestions for upcycling their boxes. They also use innovative technology to minimize the amount of packaging that arrives in each order, whilst making sure that the ingredients in each recipe box stay fresh.