Chefs Plate - Meal Ingredients delivered to your door

[ExtraSlow]

Maybe the portions are just right and we are just habitually overeating? Seems more likely. Although I do feel I've earned a big meal when I'm doing IF in the morning.

I'd still prefer to just cook my own recipes, and I think my kids would like that better too, but I don't want to cook 7 nights a week, so if the wife wants her meals to come this way, I'm fine with it. There's about the same ratio of hits and misses as everything else she cooks.

[adam c]

I did HelloFresh, I feel it's not worth it at all, perhaps if you're single and grab a bunch of servings, sure but not for a family of 3+

[killramos]

I think most of the recipes are gross, the portion sizes are too small, and it’s really not THAT cheap.

No cheaper than a 50/50 regimen of eating out and making a few big meals at home with leftovers.

I don’t really get what’s so compelling. Those guys must be cleaning up.

[Buster]

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I think most of the recipes are gross, the portion sizes are too small, and it’s really not THAT cheap.

No cheaper than a 50/50 regimen of eating out and making a few big meals at home with leftovers.

I don’t really get what’s so compelling. Those guys must be cleaning up.

I dont mind the food (so far). But we've only maybe done 5 or 6?

Our nanny came back at the beginning of Oct, so she's cooking now. But that's a lot more expensive than a meal service, lol

[killramos]

I think it makes sense for people are are afraid of the kitchen. It’s just not for me.

My wife has done it a bunch of times in waves over the last couple years. I’m not one to complain about someone making me a meal, but that doesn’t mean I like it.

[Buster]

My wife can't cook for shit....so I'll take what I can get.

[arcticcat522]

Wife gets them frequently. I like them. Always something different. Plus they hand out coupons like it's their job, making it not to bad for price.

[killramos]

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My wife can't cook for shit....so I'll take what I can get.

Same boat. Haha

[pheoxs]

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Anyone still using these meal kits? My wife gets one delivered most weeks. She hates meal planning, so this takes care of that nicely. I feel like the portions have gotten smaller, because we have fewer leftovers now. Or maybe I'm eating more. Hard to say.

I have a couple coupon codes for goodfood if anyone wants.

I got more and more disappointed with them and eventually stopped. At the beginning it felt like 90% of them were really good and we enjoyed them / plenty full but then gradually we found more and more let downs.

[Aleks]

We did it for a couple of years, but then recipes start to repeat and it's mostly same flavours after a while. We really liked it, 0 waste, was around $10-$11/meal back then which is cheap imo for a meal with half decent ingredients.

[ExtraSlow]

Once you start eating 2 portions per person, or no eating the leftovers, or anything like that, the price gets a little high. Our current plan is $90 for 8 portions. But if you aren't eating it all....

[Disoblige]

I find Chef's Plate has a good portion, so eating 2 is too much.

I tried 3 different ones and here is my rating:
HelloFresh is the best quality and recipes but regular portion, Chef's Plate is bigger portions but ingredients just average, and GoodFood is the worst (in an ingredient, recipe, and instructions standpoint).

I would never pay regular price for any of these by the way. It was just good to try something new and maybe inspire you on some new flavors in our own dishes in the future.

[pheoxs]

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We did it for a couple of years, but then recipes start to repeat and it's mostly same flavours after a while. We really liked it, 0 waste, was around $10-$11/meal back then which is cheap imo for a meal with half decent ingredients.

Unless they changed the packaging I wouldn't say its 0 waste at all ... sure there is less food waste but holy fuck there's so much packaging waste for one meal.

[dj_rice]

I've tried them all. MissFresh, HelloFresh, Chefs Plate and GoodFood. I liked GoodFood and HelloFresh the best. MissFresh being the worst for portion size and quality of ingredients. GoodFood would be my top choice. I keep receiving expired produce in boxes and they keep giving me next box free credits.

Speaking of, I have 3 GoodFood free boxes to give out for new customer sign ups only if anyone wants one. Lemme know

[Xamim]

Friend of mine sent me an invite code for Chef's Plate so we gave it a try. We got 4 recipes with two portions for each one and paid about $11 for all of it. I wouldn't get this regularly if you have to pay full price as I like cooking. We found the portions to be alright, eating leftovers from last night's dinner for lunch today. From the 8 portions we had (4 meals x 2 people) we ended up having 3 lunches. As mention earlier, so much waste as everything is packaged in plastic. I see the convenience in these and understand why people go for them, but for us it would only make sense on the rare occasion. It was nice not having to go grocery shopping after being out of town for a few days and having everything right there to make food the first night we were back.

Now I have remember to log in every few weeks to make sure we skip the meals, otherwise they'll pick four random recipes and send them to you.

[CompletelyNumb]

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My wife can't cook for shit....so I'll take what I can get.

My wife is a white Canadian millennial. So I know that feel.

We've been on GoodFood for a year now. It's not cheaper than groceries, I don't think they ever claimed to be. It is good food though, and it comes with pictures and instructions to make it easy for people like my wife to cook.

Portions are ridiculous. Salads are the worst offenders. Generally you get something like cabbage, green onion, and apple cider vinegar. Enough cabbage to feed an army. "Cabbage salad". Wash, rinse, repeat with any 1 leafy green, any one green addon like herbs or onions, and some lackluster dressing. Flavorless, and way too much. Then mix that with a protein like 2 5oz steaks or 4 chicken thighs.

It's a little wierd that way.

[ercchry]

5oz steak? Do I look like a bird to you? Passssss

...did just discover Costco’s premium online meats though... the wagyu/angus “Kobe classic” steaks seem suspicious... but just ordered their Argentinian beef; rib, strip, and Picanha, ~14.5lbs for $275.. now that’s some mail order meals I can endorse

[killramos]

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5oz steak? Do I look like a bird to you? Passssss

...did just discover Costco’s premium online meats though... the wagyu/angus “Kobe classic” steaks seem suspicious... but just ordered their Argentinian beef; rib, strip, and pichana, ~14.5lbs for $275.. now that’s some mail order meals I can endorse

I see it’s all ungraded. Any good?

[ercchry]

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I see it’s all ungraded. Any good?

Just ordered... will see. If the images are accurate I’m expecting pretty decent. Should all be dry aged, grass fed based on region alone. But of course being Costco, that’s foolish to expect sight unseen

[killramos]

I’m sure it’s fine. But it strikes me as very odd that their online vac pack meat is completely different than in store.

If they would sell the in warehouse vac pack AAA’s for delivery, that would nearly eliminate my need to get actually go into Costco.