Blue Apron Subscription Box Review & Coupon – March 2016

Blue Apron is a subscription box for making great meals at home.  If you’re like me, you periodically find yourself in a serious cooking rut.  You make the same things every week, but the thought of researching a recipe and acquiring all of the ingredients is just too much work.  Blue Apron is the solution!  Each week, Blue Apron sends you a refrigerated box with all the fresh ingredients you need to make the included recipes.  You can select the 2-person plan–3 meals a week of 2 portions each–or the family plan–2 to 4 meals a week of 4 portions each.  The menus are set, but you can ask Blue Apron to avoid ingredients you don’t eat–shellfish and lamb, in my case.

We got the Family Plan for 2 meals.  I set the delivery date and it arrived right on time, securely packaged in a heavy-duty box.  All of the ingredients are wrapped in an adorable insulated blanket and cooled with ice packs.  Mine took a day to arrive and sat on my porch for 3 hours, and everything was perfectly cool inside.

It smells SO GOOD in this box.  Yes, I stuck my head right into it.  It’s like you walked into a high-end restaurant with a gorgeous open kitchen and fabulous air conditioning from a hot sidewalk.  Seriously, so good.  As you can see, the ingredients are packed intelligently, so your fragile items aren’t crushed.

The meat is at the bottom, surrounded by still-frozen gel ice packs.  I didn’t worry for one second about the temperature of the food.  It was cold to the touch when I pulled it out.  All of the packing materials (and there are a lot) are recyclable or reusable.

Obviously, you’ll want to move everything to the refrigerator promptly.  I could not WAIT until dinnertime.

The first recipe in our box was the Hoisin-Mayo Salmon Burgers.  As you can see from the ingredients list, this has a lot of little doodads that would totally have prevented me from actually trying this recipe on my own.  But everything was included!!  This could not have been easier.

All of the ingredients are super fresh and in great condition.  Blue Apron does a great job of sending you just the amount you need for the recipe, so you don’t waste anything; nor do you have to think about how much to add to the recipe.  Easy peasy.

Each recipe comes with these easy-to-follow instructions.  Even if you are new to knife skills, you will be able to do everything on this list.

Putting together the meal was a snap.  The instructions were foolproof and the ingredients were perfect.  This was a lot of fun for my husband and me to do together on a Friday night.  As you can see, we actually got five patties out of our four-patty recipe, so I had bonus lunch the next day.

Look at this beautiful meal we made!  Seriously, this recipe was DELICIOUS.  I want to eat it again right now.  We couldn’t wait to make the other recipe in the box.

Yes, I had to look up what za’atar was.  (It’s a Middle-eastern spice mix).  From the packet of spice, to the cup of yogurt, to the single cucumber, everything we needed was ready to go.

Blue Apron partners with farmers who practice sustainable agriculture and treat their animals humanely.  It’s great to know that the chicken for this recipe comes from a clean source.  Like the salmon burgers, the recipe card had straightforward instructions that were easy to follow.

This recipe wasn’t as mind-blowingly awesome as the salmon burgers, but it was solid, tasty, and kept us from ordering pizza on a Sunday night.  We had plenty for leftovers the next day, which is great way to start the week.

Who doesn’t like beautiful spiced chicken and delicious fresh veggies and grains on a rainy Sunday night?  Yum.

So, overall, we were SUPER happy with this box from Blue Apron.  It was really fun, and got us out of our boring dinner routine.  Honestly, you can forget how fun cooking can be, and we were reminded of that this week.  Interesting ingredients, easy recipes, and delicious food.  What more could you want?  We can’t wait to see what we get next time!

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