FabSwingers.com forum: Gousto, hellofresh etc.

By *obilebottom OP Man
3 days ago

All over

Anyone uses them? What's you experience? I like cooking and food as you all know but struggle with time recently and was wondering if it might be a good option for a bit. Your thoughts please. Thanks.

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By *anderer88Woman
3 days ago

essex

I've used them before, mostly when I'm in a food slump and lack inspiration or I'm time poor... they've worked well for me and there's only been a couple I didn't like.

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By *ou345Woman
3 days ago

Derby

I haven't but I'm bookmarking as I'm interested to know as well.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
3 days ago

Reading

Yes I've used both and made some tasty easy meals.

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By *midnight-Woman
3 days ago

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I've used Planthood -it is excellent and broadened my palate. Restaurant quality food that is already prepared and just needs heating/assembling. 20 mins tops

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By *ohn.Wick.Man
3 days ago

The Continental

I use Hello Fresh quite a bit.

Good when money is tight, because I can order for 4 people, which leaves enough to have lunchtime leftovers the following day.

There’s a good variety of recipes, and I’ve yet to have any I didn’t like.

Good for not leaving food waste.

I’m terrible in the supermarket for overbuying so it does save me money too.

Downsides, sometimes the ingredients arrive in a badly packed box, squashed, or. It as fresh as you’d like. But to their credit……..hello fresh do credit your account for every item you report to them.

Some might say they’re a bit pricey. I pay £13 per 4 person recipe.

For an experiment, I priced up the equivalent (or as near to) ingredients for a weekly box, and it came in at about £11 per 4 person recipe. But with the convenience of it being pre-portioned, and delivered to my door……I’ll take that.

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By *inkyycurvyyWoman
3 days ago

Manchester

I've used them but found the amount of single use plastic and packaging a downside. And getting tiny amounts of things like seasonings and stock etc a bit pointless when you can buy a huge package of it. Good for inspiration, bad for the environment and value for money imo.

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By *obilebottom OP Man
3 days ago

All over

I think the first order discounts are good to at least try and cancelling sounds as is very easy. Not sure why but gousto appeals to me more at first glance but might try both to just see. The plantfood mentioned earlier also seems to have some great dishes on the menu.

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By *onestjohn1962Man
3 days ago

Sheffield

Can’t understand why people don’t just cook. It takes as little time or as long a time as you like. It’s not difficult to stock up with the everyday stuff.

The thought of of a parcel being delivered with little packets of salt pepper herbs spices one onion 2 mushrooms etc leaves me horrified.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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3 days ago

East Sussex

We used Hellofresh once and thought it was excellent. If you're short on time it's a great way to get the ingredients to the door.

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By *usty kayCouple
3 days ago

Burnham

I use them both a lot. They are great when you're in a slump or fed up with food. They're also useful for making sure I eat when hubby is away, I deliberately pick meals I can use for lunch the next day.

We keep the recipe cards and reuse them often as well.

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By *icevicebabyWoman
3 days ago

Dublin

I also use hello fresh, and while I agree with comments about packaging, I actually find I have less food waste when I order a box. During the week if I'm particularly busy I don't want to think about what to cook. This makes it easy.

When I get sick of it I just pause it and go back to doing bigger food shops.

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By *obilebottom OP Man
3 days ago

All over

"Can’t understand why people don’t just cook. It takes as little time or as long a time as you like. It’s not difficult to stock up with the everyday stuff.

The thought of of a parcel being delivered with little packets of salt pepper herbs spices one onion 2 mushrooms etc leaves me horrified. "

Nobody said anything about not wanting to cook. It's my hobby and pkeasure to do but occasionally circumstanes ask for a different apptoach temporarily so the post was to elicit information from those who have used it till the norm is restored

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By *urves and MischiefWoman
3 days ago

Northerner

I’ve used both Gousto and Hello Fresh.

Great when you are stuck in a rut and want to try some new ideas and of course the convenience especially during the week. You can keep the recipe cards as well so when you take a break from them you can always revisit some of your favourites. I have a few on rotation now.

Out of the two I preferred Gousto. I felt they had more choice without asking you to pay supplements and also found that Hello Fresh ingredients were not always very fresh. Spoiled before I could get to use them so I personally wouldn’t go for them again. It’s hit and miss though as I know others who swear by them. 🍭

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By *obilebottom OP Man
3 days ago

All over

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By *obilebottom OP Man
3 days ago

All over

Well I took the plunge and ordered a sample discounted box from each to test them out. I already cancelled the membership for one of them and will do same for the other before the cut off point. That keeps the membership inactive and will reactivate if ever needed. Thanks for your comments everyone

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By *icecouple561Couple
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3 days ago

East Sussex

"Well I took the plunge and ordered a sample discounted box from each to test them out. I already cancelled the membership for one of them and will do same for the other before the cut off point. That keeps the membership inactive and will reactivate if ever needed. Thanks for your comments everyone"

Let us know what you think.

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By *midnight-Woman
3 days ago

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"Can’t understand why people don’t just cook. It takes as little time or as long a time as you like. It’s not difficult to stock up with the everyday stuff.

The thought of of a parcel being delivered with little packets of salt pepper herbs spices one onion 2 mushrooms etc leaves me horrified. "

If I buy it, it provides full meals for a week - lunch + dinner for me

Each meal has the ingredients in a bag that you need take a meal. It's no different to using the car to buy one onion in a supermarket, so why be horrified??

Salt+ pepper isn't included in mine, but they do give you things like a portion of kimchi which I doubt many people would have.

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By *andering Welsh GuyMan
3 days ago

All over the place

Found the meat quality to be poor and portion sizes tiny

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By *empest2KMan
3 days ago

Derby

"Anyone uses them? What's you experience? I like cooking and food as you all know but struggle with time recently and was wondering if it might be a good option for a bit. Your thoughts please. Thanks. "

I've used them and they are good when you're in a bit of a bind. I also only get them on significant discount, otherwise they are just too expensive. Most of the meals are good, plus I save the recipe card for future and try to recreate them with the usual shop-bought ingredients, which can be fun sometimes too.

The only bit that annoys me with hellofresh is that they bunch some fridge items in with the non-fridge items (in my humble opinion), so those items have gone off by the time I use them because they've not been fridged. Then again, maybe it's me being a derp or particular, but I'm not sure which one it is 🤣

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By *obilebottom OP Man
3 days ago

All over

Let us know what you think. "

Will do in due course

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