Meals are $9.99 per person, so for our box of 3 meals it was $60.

What it costs: Let’s talk about this right up front. You choose your meal type (vegetarian in our case) and food preferences on their website and sit back and wait for your insulated 16 lb. How it works: Blue Apron is a once-a-week subscription service that provides recipes and ingredients to make 3 meals for the number of people you specify for us that’s 2. The delivery day is the same each week, based on your location. Today I’m talking about my experience with Blue Apron, but watch for posts on the other two options to follow. I recently signed up for discount offers to trial three of these services: Blue Apron, Plated, and my local option, ACME Farms + Kitchen. Virtually all the measuring is done, you just have to do a little chopping and cooking and dinner’s on the table. But, since most people consider these time-consuming, unfun chores, a handful of new companies have found a market: they’ll deliver a box to your door with everything you need to make a meal.

I love to meal plan, but I think I’m in the minority on that one. And most of the time I enjoy strolling through the store loading my cart with groceries for the week.

Blue apron calories this week