Food box meal reviews

[BucksBugsy]

Having tried gousto (and were very happy with the meals but ran out of discount) we are trying our first hello fresh tonight- sweet and sour. Looking forward to it!

[Anne]

Originally Posted by lovedisney

Trying hello fresh for the first time delivery should be today, can’t say I’m impressed so far followed a link to get a discount for the first month it only worked on the first week and not on any further weeks (and they won’t honour the discount) already had two emails this morning one saying they have had to make a substitute in one of the recipes and the other saying they couldn’t pack one of the ingredients in another, going back to gousto next week😳
UPDATE! Waited in all day and have just had an email to say they can not deliver my box at all this week and have credited my account to use against my next full priced box ! 😡 have had to phone them to get them to refund my card.

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That's not good!

[Anne]

We've had the gusto 10 minute chicken tikka naan. This was chosen by DH. I marinated the chicken for a while as wasn't in a rush. Was tasty.

[Posiesmum]

I made the Gousto chicken jalfrezi with jeera rice tonight with my own ingredients. It was just as nice. I do like Gousto’s recipe cards.

[LLamb]

Originally Posted by Posiesmum

I made the Gousto chicken jalfrezi with jeera rice tonight with my own ingredients. It was just as nice. I do like Gousto’s recipe cards.

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Ha ha that’s my thought, I’ll do it while they have all the discounts and I can get loads of recipe cards!

We are four dishes down, next box arrives today. On the whole the dishes have been nice but we have’t been amazed.

Definitely need to tweak the recipes a bit for our preferences. For example the sweet and sticky pork used pork mince. I found this a bit too greasy and a bit odd with mince. Would prefer a pork loin or beef strips.

The miso chicken was nice, but again I found it a bit greasy. So I would use less butter and make more of a sauce from stock or the noodle water.

I really like the ease of it though.

[caj]

Originally Posted by LLamb

Ha ha that’s my thought, I’ll do it while they have all the discounts and I can get loads of recipe cards!

We are four dishes down, next box arrives today. On the whole the dishes have been nice but we have’t been amazed.

Definitely need to tweak the recipes a bit for our preferences. For example the sweet and sticky pork used pork mince. I found this a bit too greasy and a bit odd with mince. Would prefer a pork loin or beef strips.

The miso chicken was nice, but again I found it a bit greasy. So I would use less butter and make more of a sauce from stock or the noodle water.

I really like the ease of it though.

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I wonder if they tasted nicer simply because they were different to my usual recipes and because I used salt each time they say to ... and I rarely add salt to anything usually.

Weve run out of gousto discounts. So are trying hello fresh this week. Last night was sweet and sour chicken ... pretty meh for me. Except the win was DH liked the Bulgar wheat. Big Win!

[Anne]

Originally Posted by LLamb

Ha ha that’s my thought, I’ll do it while they have all the discounts and I can get loads of recipe cards!

We are four dishes down, next box arrives today. On the whole the dishes have been nice but we have’t been amazed.

Definitely need to tweak the recipes a bit for our preferences. For example the sweet and sticky pork used pork mince. I found this a bit too greasy and a bit odd with mince. Would prefer a pork loin or beef strips.

The miso chicken was nice, but again I found it a bit greasy. So I would use less butter and make more of a sauce from stock or the noodle water.

I really like the ease of it though.

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I've never used the amount of oil the recipes say but normally don't do that with other recipes. Also, if I've used mince I will dry fry it, drain off any fat then add onions etc to cook.

[lovedisney]

Originally Posted by Anne

We've had the gusto 10 minute chicken tikka naan. This was chosen by DH. I marinated the chicken for a while as wasn't in a rush. Was tasty.

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We have got this for dinner tonight, looking forward to it, had the sticky chilli chicken with salt and pepper chips last night which was lovely

[LLamb]

Originally Posted by Anne

I've never used the amount of oil the recipes say but normally don't do that with other recipes. Also, if I've used mince I will dry fry it, drain off any fat then add onions etc to cook.

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Yes I think that’s what I should of done. I just usually buy lean beef mince so never thought. I didn’t add any of the oil they stated.

Will read everything properly this week, thank you

[LLamb]

Sticky chilli chicken with salt and pepper chips last night.
This was absolutely lovely, dh commented that it was the best dish so far. Kids loved it too, minus the chilli sauce.

Our box was missing the onions for two recipes. I went on the app and entered these as missing and was given a £2.40 credit. Thought that was pretty good really. I know there is the inconvenience of having to get onions, but I always have onions in the fridge so no bother.