THIS MAN TESTED HELLO FRESH... || Pro Home Cooks React
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- fair assessment in the end honestly
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It is normally cheaper to cook for yourself. The upfront cost is higher, often from bottles of sauces, but you use them for many dishes. You also get multiple servings from the same recipe. Where the price starts to equal out is on larger amounts of proteins. For instance a catering platter of fried chicken from Raising Cains cost just slight more than doing it yourself and you save time.
Alana thanks for acknowledging the existence of behind the scenes nightshift workers 😭😭
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I am way too lazy and picky to order from hello fresh. Also for 60$ I can eat for a week instead of just 4 meals.
Yeah it's not cheap.
Fr, anything more than $10 a day would bankrupt me.
i used it for a bit but it was more of a way for me to try out recipes i wouldnt normally have instead of a replacement for grocery shopping. Found a lot of good recipes from it, unfortunately their recipe cards suck if they involve their spice blends or any special ingredients, but the internet can help with that
"I'd rather eat my own shoe" - SmugAlana
I'd pay to see that.
As someone who has used hello fresh off and on for the better part of 6 years. It is a little more expensive than shopping on your own but is substantially cheaper and healthier than eating out. As someone who was intimidated by the thought of cooking for himself, it was a lifesaver when it came to learning to cook at home.
Besides, the smart way to use the service is to use it for a few months while you try different recipes and KEEP the recipe instructions for the meals you like. Then you can simply save money by buying the groceries for the dish online whenever you want to make it again in the future. I keep coming back to hello fresh whenever they have new dishes to expand my recipe collection.
Ah yes, "Organic", That wonderful word thats totally not just a made up term for marketing to upcharge for nothing.
In other news. 100% orange juice must contain at least 10% juice specifically from fresh oranges to qualify as 100% Orange juice.
I did Hello Fresh for about a year. It was actually pretty nice. Yes it is more expensive than what you can do just buying from a store. But it is nice to just have everything laid out for you with a nice little instruction card. If you cook regularly then this is probably a waist, if you think Walmart is a fancy store then it's to expensive. If you don't cook a lot and want something to help you start or stay on track it was decent.
it's to be expected of it to cost a bit more though, those guys at hello fresh are supposed to make a profit, it doesn't seem to be too much more expensive either, the guy in the video got about 6 portions as opposed to the 4 he got for the same money out of HF
Considering the cost of living crisis Hello Expensive gets a big fat pennyless no from me.
60 bucks for 2 meals of 2 portions, that you still have to cook yourself.
Thats easily double of how much that should cost you.
You are paying for delivery and a recipe yiu could find online for free.
That overcooked pasta, and the "noodles", really make my ancestors cry Ahyah. Also, if you are rich, you don't even touch the kitchen, but you pay someone else instead.
I ordered Hello Fresh from a sponsor to help out a channel, though I can cook perfectly well. Almost immediately everything went to shit. They didn't give me the sponsor price, so I assume it didn't count as a purchase from the sponsor. When I talked to customer service, they basically said "Tough shit." By the time I found out and cancelled, the first box had already shipped. All the veggies in my box were old, and I had to straight up toss the moldy tomatoes.
The recipes were solid though. I really enjoyed the end product, replaced with my own ingredients.
5:37 started working at Walmart post-no no virus as Overnight Stocker and last night it was mentioned that 24/7 may be coming back and I'm dreading it... 💀
In the end it is a matter of time investment VS money spent.
Door Dash is definitely more expensive than Hello Fresh while just buying and cooking your own groceries is even cheaper but each come at the cost of time and effort. I'd say for people who have higher paying job it could be worth it so it isn't a complete scam like some garbage game or raycon but definitely still more expensive than the average people can afford.
Big issue with organic vegetables is that it's not sustainable. There is a lot more waste during production, since there's more plants that can't be sold. Further more it tends to have a shorter shelf life, which also turns to more food waste in stores.
Organic veggies still use pesticides, they just don't use synthetic pesticides. The problem with that is that all modern pesticides are synthetic, meaning they have to use much older ones that are generally more dangerous.
Also, pesticides aproved for organic farming most of the time require higher quantities of it. The issue there is also that while synthetic pesticides focus on active ingredient and the efficient delivery of it, pesticides aproved for organic farming don't do that (because more procesing is bad mentality) and the result is that alot of the toxicity to non target organisms (humans) comes from other compounds that suround the active engridient. And because of less efficient delivery mechanism, alot of those pesticides gets washed off and absorbed into the soil.
And lets not get into more water and fuel usage to farm the same sized field and to top it off for a lower yield. The organic food is not more expensive because it is better quality, it is more expensive, because it is less efficient to produce. The reason people pay more for organic is because they were marketed misinformation and believe they are making healthier choices which in peoples minds means it should cost more.
Supermarket's in Japan are mostly never 24/7, 7-11 is, and its fairly okay and fresh, I'd buy cut fruit from 7-11 and be fine.
The most important seasonings you should have in your kitchen are kosher salt and black pepper.
I work from 10pm to 6am. Thanks for making my struggles feel acknowledged.
And God do I wish stores opened before 7am...
mind you(where i live) the price is relative to the amount of meal you take per week
so if you take 3 meal for 1 person it go to 12€ per meal/person (which is 3 portion)
but if you take the max, which is 6 meal for 6 peoples, it go to 4,14 € per meal/person (which is 36 portion)
so if you only take for a single person and not that often, yeah its kind of a scam, akin to go to a cheap restorant, but if you go for every single day for a big familly then id argue its cheaper than grossies...maybe
so yeah for the smallest which he took to the biggest, you can cut the price by 3
I’ve used it to get recipe ideas. I haven’t used it in ages. It IS cheaper if you’re like my mom and overbuy groceries that rot and get thrown out. It is NOT cheaper by a long shot if you are able to make your own bread, and mostly live off rice dishes and know how to properly meal prep. I can easily make fried rice for less than $1 a serving which makes up most of my lunches and breakfasts. So considering my daily expense only breaks $10 if I get a pint of icecream it’s a rip for me. It Is also cheaper than fast food eat out types who never ever cook. 25:10 with low maintenance veggies it’s better to grow it at home than buy it. Like herb kits are dirt cheap and make a ton
I dont think that's too expensive. 15 bucks per meal is about on average with what they are charging for a meal at most fast food joints. At least nowadays
Once you can cook just from TH-cam videos and it tastes as in or even better than mid-tier restaurant while being cheaper, it is OVER. You can literally follow guides on TH-cam and just go/order ingredients!
it's always strange to hear about someone who is self employed and chooses their own schedule say they dont have time for menial chores.
15 a person ...o look that can easily be reached in a drive thru or restaurant ...omg ...funny how its only expensive if you cant do math
I get Hello fresh occasionally in the UK. Seems better value here, but the trick to it is to just use the deals. When you cancel, without fail they will be sending you offers for 50% off your first week then 40% off the next two, which makes them a great deal. Then you cancel and by the next week they'll be offering you the same deal again.
much respect for not taking any promo and only ones you believe in yourself
i think she misunderstood the dude in the original video when he was talking about the portioned spices, i assume what he meant was that people don't have to worry about under or overseasoning their food, she took it as "spices are expensive", which, at least where i live (a not particularly wealthy eastern european country), spices are quite cheap
Rigatoni...Is that when you rig a wire on a guy named Tony?
Those portions at 15:00 are WAY larger than the ones I had gotten when I tried hello fresh a few years ago. IMO hello fresh is not a scam but it is 10000% not a good way to try and save money by "eliminating food waste" and the price skyrockets after the first discounted meals.
Go to your Goodwill/Arc/Salvation army a few times and get a vacuum sealer (or just buy one new they're really cheap), that way you can either re pack the extra meat/etc from the larger packages OR seal portions of what you make for tossing in the freezer for later.
I have worked a few years in a grochery store and yeah at night shift those people are constantly stocking and putting out produce for the next day. Before things changed I only went to the store after 11.
Where I live it costs 0.5$-1.5$ per meal.
The pricing might be different depending on where you are it seems, if I go to the hello fresh website I can order 10 portions, or 5 different meals for 2 people for just under 50$ with no delivery cost, which is not bad at all.
JUST MAKE BULK FOOD and put in freezer, like when I make Bolognese I make 24 portions, then reheat from freezer with dry pasta it comes to 1.5 USD PER MEAL
What I learn today. This first world problems go crazy
its not something i would stay on, but using home chef helped me learn some fundamentals and confidence in cooking and what goes good together. I'm definitely a better cook now, even though i stopped using it. and i still make some of the recipes they gave me. they also keep their recipes online with a button to add the required ingredients to your cart from your local grocery store. glad i did it but it was definitely more expensive than just getting groceries normally
I like hello fresh, we have gotten a LOT of really good meals and recipes.
Around $40 nzd is my groceries for the week (1 person), includes brekkie/lunch and other kitchen/home items. 60 American seems crazy just for these few meals :s
Steaks reheat well just throw it right back on the pan.
I liked some of HelloFresh's recipes, but it was too expensive for a weekly subscription service.
Never tried hello fresh tbh, seeing most ads in EU from NA creators usually makes me question how well they would even work for me
So youre saying, i can just go and get people their groceries and its like yard work
I've done HelloFresh twice and BlueApron once way back in the day. Same experience each time. Theres mostly pretty meh dishes, but usually theres one standout thats worth making again. The prices however. Are absolutely insane. Blows just getting restaurant delivery out of the water. On top of that, there is a ton of packaging, every portion has to be individually packed, which you wouldnt think much about if you were buying these ingredients from the store, but they also pack more ingredients per dish than most of what you would normally use if you made it yourself, as well as dedicated spice blends, sauces, garnishes, all need their own packaging. It fills up trash very quickly and is frankly, not very environmentally friendly.
I wouldn't even call it a scam for what they're offering at the price. It does make sense logistically.
But its way more expensive than virtually any other form of getting food. And you dont nearly have enough choices in the kinds of dishes you want to eat. It will likely get you something new to eat, but often only by virtue of not having anything else you would want.
Its honestly a good way to acclimate people who have never used their kitchen for anything but the microwave before, And thats A GOOD THING.
But its completely unsustainable for anyone outside of making 6 figures. I would recommend it til you get used to cooking the ingredients together. Then find a dish you like. But from there, you NEED to branch off. One week of Hellofresh is about my grocery budget for the entire month! And I cook all my meals at home.
Its worth getting once, But its absolutely not a viable substitute for grocery shopping on your own and cooking.
Learn how to cook lazy, Learn how to buy the right ingredients to "Mac & cheese" everything you make, as in: Cook starch, cook meat at the same time, make or prep sauce, combine, profit.
$15 per person per meal is cheaper than most restaurants in my area, I can easily eat $20 of taco bell.
However, I think the strength of HelloFresh is to get from someone that's made pasta before up to a moderate level of cooking ability. it's a great way to experiment with a number of cooking techniques and flavors, you end up with a stack of recipes you know the taste and difficulty of...
I did it for about 3 months. I wouldn't do it to save money, but it was definitely a good experience.
Obviously this guy well outranks the difficulty levels of the recipes because most of us can't just go "hmm, yes, I'll make a yogurt sauce with what I have in the fridge"
Zhucchini tastes like sad cucumber.
I used to like cooking a lot, until I realized the time it took me to make food, plating it vs 5 minutes eating it and be done with it. Then I turned into a lazy cook.
I make risotto, because you just need 1 frying pan and 1 spoon to cook it, as well as eat it. straight from the pan. some scallops, and the seafood taste got all absorbed by the rice.
The other thing just prep 10 steaks in a vacuum bag, froze it, and just sous vide it anytime.
other lazy things I make, buy some instant food seasoning, mix it with the water while cooking the rice in the rice cooker, with some minced meat.
stocked minced meat, because it's really flexible what you can make with it too.
Don't know what to eat? put some meat on a pan with teriyaki sauce. Or boil some meatballs, crack an egg, and put in ramen noodle. Minced meat, egg, chicken breast, chicken katsu, steamed egg, hamburg steak. just stock enough variety of seasonings.
I used it for a while, the quality was really good i just got bored with the food choices.
what do spices cost in alanaland? its almost a non factor for me...I mainly use black pepper, marjoram, all spice and karaway...sometimes oregano, sweet paprika, basil and turmeric...all of them are really inexpensive
14:03 this man is cooked out of his mind
hello fresh is good if you can afford it but its exspensive
Zuccini is ok if they small... and crazy spices added
Ain't no 1 gunna eat a raw zucchini
That's some noise
To that guy who said "I just walk to the store"
What about people without legs? What about baby's? What about people with ankle monitors? What about any other person who is unable to walk? And why not run?
Wont someone think of the children?
Skill issue
Gotta say, there are super specific people these are good for but frankly those are limited to ones that have meals premade, basically freezer food at a higher quality then you would get at the store, the ones where the food isnt pre cooked just seem dumb af
Just get the recipes, buy the ingredients, and cook it. Its literally the same thing, except Hellow Fresh is a lot more expensive overall. We have the internet in this modern age, you can easily find recipes and figure out if you could afford them, before changing your search to something you are more comfortable with making. If you cant cook, then you will most likely not use Hello Fresh anyway.
Honestly, buying produce from Walmart is fine. It's never bad quality and cheap, and walmart is a franchise instead of a corporate owned, so spending money there goes to the franchise owners more than the company. The franchise owners are corporate walmart's customers, not you. Don't worry about ethics or shopping at walmart; it's really the cleanliness since a lot of poor people are just disrespectfully dirty, sad to say.
Buying from a local co-op or farmers market will be better quality, better for your economy, and potentially cheaper (depending on where you live). But it's produce. Even with synthetic pesticides and a wax coating (on citrus and apples), it's significantly better for you than most stuff people eat.
Also, night shift and graveyard shift workers aren't shopping overnight. That's when they are working. The hours they shop are the 6-8 am hours. I have worked overnight in store renovation, and would grocery shop on my way home at 6 or 7 am. Very convenient hours (no one in the stores, and you're going in the opposite direction of traffic). So there is so little demand at the overnight hours that it is very unlikely you'll make a profit keeping overnight hours, except for very light load businesses like a single-manned convenience store with gas pumps. But at like 2 am, the demand is nearly zero. But the old 7-11 hours (7 am to 11 pm) are the most you can generally squeeze profit from.
I was gifted a 3month plan once. I was honestly surprised by the quality of the ingredients and the food was anywhere between allright and very good. Nothing outstanding, but when you come back from work they are easy to make, taste good and the portion sizes are decent. I didn't renew, but I was positively surprised by it.
as an aside: dafuq is up with those Steroid sprouts!?
Best tomatoes are from Mexico.
its like telling ppl to just be pc gammers ...ya buy in is high but dont calculate that ...even he didnt
thanks for the video! :)
Grow your own tomatoes, its way better then what you can get in the store
23:36 20$ a meal, for 2 people... restaurant prices sure, but home... let me break down something I make.
130g shredded chicken (about 25 grams of protein)
2 servings of jasmine rice, totaling around 400-500 calories.
slow cook the about 4-5lb of chicken in broth/bullion, whichever you have, the chicken when it comes out in about 2 hours falls apart, this will end up making between 15 and 20 servings. for the chicken, about 10-20$ worth of chicken depending on where you buy it from, we can get bulk chicken breasts for 3.50 per lb, I can also get non pretty cuts of meat for far cheaper while its still good, just doesn't look good in packaging (protip, bacon ends and cut offs, its all bacon but because its not pretty it goes from 12$ a lb to about 3)
you can freeze these in portion, and thaw in the fridge for when you want to eat
now, with the rice, put it in a cheap rice cooker, I use something that's I think 60$ but should work cheaper, portion out rice, rince if you want but its not needed, add in 1/2 teaspoon salt, italian spices ground up a bit more it you can but can just go in as is, about 1 teaspoon, and about 1-5 grams of olive oil, mix that shit up till the salt dissolves, and then put the chicken in, and space it out, cook, come back 30 minutes later (or in my dumb ass an hour 45 later) and eat, is the chicken a little dry, kinda, out the slow cooking it is among the moistest chicken I have eaten (beaten only by me actually cooking chicken to temp and that's an I have to actually pay attention meal, this is a fuck it, this cooks itself meal)
you can also steam some veggies at the final 3-5 if you want some more filler food too, but this is a sub 2$ meal that's actually filling.
Stews are really the kings of economical food. One recipe I have if you want something a bit more exotic albeit a bit more expensive. Pound of chicken (any meat will do), 2 pounds of potatoes, onion, 2 pound of carrots, curry flavoring from world market of which I like Japanese golden curry bc it doesn’t stink. Cook meat in large pot till outside looks browned, chop rest into cubes and add, poor water in till it covers the top then boil till potatoes are soft. After boil let it simmer 20-30 min then add curry and stir then wait for it to permeate the broth. Add Cream or milk at end is optional for texture and appearance. Rice as a side. Overall, price without rice last time I made it was about 22$ to feed 5 large college men without using any rice to stretch it. Also you don’t need a rice cooker and can use a pot or even a large bowl in a microwave to make rice but gotta actually watch it. If you don’t own a large pot you can make smaller portions by keeping the ratio and if you want it more luxurious then I highly recommend adding an extra pound of meat.
It’s not really a scam per se, but it is not worth the cost. I’d rather get the recipes and buy ingredients myself at a local farmer’s market. It’s cheaper, cleaner, and I can trust the ingredient quality instead.
at least someone here appreciates italian tomatoes. went to school for this stuff and organic stuff is very relative to the country you are in. in Italy for example, organic, known as "BIO"(biologico) means that everything with that definition must meet the law about Biological Agricolture, which is currently updated to the LAW 9th march 2022, n. 23.
so in our case it's not an arbitrary thing and the food police can drop on your ass to check your products anytime, anywhere, with any food you claim to be BIO
italy wins again🖕
(nice video, sadly don't have time to watch streams)
I pay about 50euros for 5 meals for 2 people using hello fresh and the recipes and quality is quite good. It's not really much more expensive than groceries in my opinion if you play it well
when you say "5 meals for 2 people" i assume that means 10 meals total (5 per person), that seems to mean that it's quite a bit cheaper wherever in europe you live, compared to the prices we were shown in the american version
he picked the worst option. The price per meal goes down a lot if you get more per box and I normally get coupons for 4 cheaper weeks if I quit for a month @@hehexd5317
Tf? Couscous is fine, best thing out of Africa
Thank you for saying that about our delicacy
However, my boy, my homie, consider trying bouremach or Trid (go for Trid made in the Beni Mellal region in Morocco if possible), and you will forget about couscous. I say this as a Friday couscous enjoyer
@@ThanatosStyx my bad, biltong is also fuckin awesome, I’ll look into your suggestion too
I don't quite like it, i dont know, just not my thing.
@@Tyler-kt6jr I had to look up what that is and yea I love it so much too, its so good especially with couscous. We call it Gedid here
Just buy 1$ spices…
Imagine how much he would've saved by not ordering groceries online and paying the additional fees.
Edit: Never mind, this guy clearly has obscene amounts of money if he's renting an apartment just to use the kitchen. He's one of those "how much does a single banana cost? $5?" kind of people. Gotta love his "i can't figure out recipes or instructions, so everyone else can't either" mentality.
it's so weird to me that people call food organic... wtf would be unorganic food ? Saw dust ? pills ? ofc your food is organic, it's such a marketing term, US really needs to pass more law for their foods, copy eu, AOP, biological agriculture without pesticides etc... like proper things with restrictions and not just buzzwords.
There are standards for calling food organic in US.
15:35 i cook it good thought , also home grown . you would like my zuchini
Meat
Eggs
Butter
Why yall make this so complicated
I can eat a steak every day for what ever this bs cost
Or 12 eggs with cheese and butter
Take ur zucchini and
... u know the rest
Alana, this is a bad take as he paid the same price for the same amount of meals. So you can't shit on hello fresh for cost. And this is coming from someone that tried their service.
If you're buying produce at a mid tier grocery store like Kroger it's literally the exact same suppliers as Walmart. Alana getting a little defensive of the possibility of being perceived as poor.
look at all that waist ...you must rilly like what you get from the store because if not its trash...o look hello box meal of no waist and lock into the same thing all week...yall call it a scam ..but i see the reality and sounds reasonable
what's walmart
who else tried clicking the pdf link ?
18:12 didnt he order 3 kinds of meals ?
No, he did 2 meals. But it's like 70$ for 3 meals, which is what most people get.
IMO HelloFresh is only good when you have the money and you have 0 experience in cooking.
5:31
That set would cost me 1709 roubles to be delivered, so something around 18 bucks, give or take. Mostly expensive because of beef stock and cheese, take out the stock and check plummets to less than 10-12 bucks. I can make it even cheaper by actually going to the grocery and buying whatever is on sale right now, tomatoes for example are constantly on sale. Thats also something like 1 buck for 1kg of onions because delivery doesnt deliver 1-2 heads for some reason, recipe needs much, much less than that. Enough to make 2 portions with these ingredients, btw.
Honestly wasting so much money, 10 bucks per portion, AND cooking it yourself - nah, i might as well go and eat full course in restraunt for 930 roubles per person, lmao.
Vtuber lies straight face saying she goes outside smh
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noodles are asian, pasta is italian, why can't AMERICANS get that right? the rest of the entire world can