#Blue Apron

[betterbemeta]

I have said it before and i don't care how many youtubers advertise hello fresh or hungryroot to make a living

meal subscription services are not worth it.

Not a single one of them is actually cheaper in the long term than planning and buying your own groceries.

many of them have initial discounts to sell you the service and then hope you are just too busy or too tired to unsubscribe. almost ALL people who sign up for a meal plan will unsubscribe within the first year because they were only there to access those early discounts BECAUSE THEY NEEDED CHEAPER FOOD IMMEDIATELY.

Your normal grocery store probably does have a few dark patterns but not nearly as many as even the 'nicest' meal subscription service.

There are articles out there like "I did the math and the groceries and meal services are the same price mostly!" but if you pay attention, there are massive holes in their thinking:

the meals or plans that track closest to grocery store prices are ones that adhere to special diets. Eating vegan, keto, etc. can be more pricey to shop for. This is a known part of the strategy for meal kits and delivery services-- they can't compete with the price of typical groceries, but just like some people will shop at an expensive Health Food store, others will be willing to pay a premium for luxury or diet-specific products. And chances are if you're a regular person keeping a special diet with a limited amount of disposable income you probably have already made compromises for your budget and don't need a for-profit service to pry away that money you're trying to save.

These articles frame, 'you don't have to buy oil, seasonings, vinegar, or staple ingredients' as a cost saving or even food waste saving measure... but that's also true if you just eat regular TV dinners from the grocery store freezer aisle, many of which offer the same or better prices per serving. But really, is this not just a grocery shopping version of 'Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness'? Exploitation of those who can't invest in the cost of things upfront results in poor people spending more money for worse outcomes?

If I can't make a restaurant's exact same fish sandwich for the same price, I can just make a chicken sandwich or a grilled portobello. Or buy a box of frozen dumplings. Saving money on Grilled Trout Over Wild Rice shipped to my door makes no sense when I simply wouldn't choose to cook something like that without a special reason.

if these meal kits and delivery plan services really WERE cheaper than groceries, grocery stores would be losing money to them and they're mostly losing money to people buying less food in general.

[collageofnudes]

Ekaterina Enokaeva (Katya Enokaeva , Екатерина Енокаева)

[alice-wonderland]

Last weekend's Faire garb 💙 I loved the way the blue apron fell over my hips

[geekysteven]

[confusedgoldenflower]

No one’s saying it, so I fucking am.

I’ve never heard any mention about how blueapron and hellofresh and careof etc is accessible as in very useful for the disabled community. None. It’s always just “oh, it’s so useful if you’re busy blah blah blah.” And sure, I don’t know the first thing about how being sponsored works and what you’re allowed to say, but I can gather that they’ve been given guidelines by the company with some leeway to say it in their own style. Maybe I’ve heard one or two mention their adhd and sure, yeah, that counts—sorta. What I’m saying is no one’s mentioned anything like:

“With it all coming to my door, that means I don’t have to go through the stress of getting out in my wheelchair, through public transportation and the store and back with my groceries, especially since I don’t have anyone to help me. It just really helps with my stress levels and keeps me nourished without all those interactions with ablists.”

“If the meal’s already put together in my fridge, that means it’s like a frozen dinner without all the bad stuff, and that I don’t have to expend all that mental energy trying to figure out what I can cook or even handle eating. It’s all right there, like I’ve just gotten home from a fancy store without the physical exhaustion.”

“The vitamins all together in a packet mean I don’t have to spend the energy to open and close all those pill bottles or hurt my hands in doing so.”

Ablists, DNI

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode, Pl. 216, 17 mars 1832, Paris. Chapeau de gaze des magasins de Mme. Larochelle. Robe de gaze en tablier garnie de rouleaux de satin et de nœuds. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

The woman on the left is wearing a blue dress with long, white gigot sleeves. She is wearing white gloves and earrings. In her right hand is a fan and handkerchief, and in her left hand is a small bouquet of flowers. She is wearing a blue hat decorated with feathers. The woman on the right is wearing a yellow dress of similar design. She is wearing earrings and a pink hat decorated with feathers.

[oldfarmhouse]

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[the-only-nonracist-balkan-catboy]

Youtubers will be like:

"TODAY'S SPONSOR IS HELLO FRESH/FACTOR/BLUE APRON/WHATEVER OTHER MEAL KIT"

and condescend to you for 5 minutes about how "easy" it is to pay 47 trillion dollors a week for single portion meals that you have to cook everyday in stead of just making a big pot of stew and eating from it for the whole week and how it "prevents food waste"

ok motherfucker first of all

I AM NOT INCOMPETENT ENOUGH TO NOT BE ABLE TO DO MY OWN SHOPPING

and second

THE LEFTOVER INGREDIENTS ARE NOT FOOD WASTE THAT'S FOOD I'M GONNA EAT LATER

[fefe91]

Well that spoon is very lucky 😩

[compositionrmknight]

Hoison Garlic Chicken. Yum.

[thefrugalcouponlady]

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[emily-gray839]

How much does it cost to develop a meal kit app like Blue Apron?

Just when we thought that the food delivery app sector had hit a stage of no growth, a new innovation was born. After being a sector with limited growth in terms of new players and unique features since the past some years, the food delivery market is witnessing a new entrant – meal kit delivery apps. The idea behind this domain is to make it easy for users to order pre-made meal kits and prepare recipes at home, which otherwise would take up a lot of effort. Now the first question that they have when looking to enter the industry is the meal kit delivery app development cost. The cost to develop a meal kit app like Blue Apron, which generally ranges from $150k to $200k is dependent on a number of factors. Know what they are. cost to develop a meal kit app like Blue Apron

[shannonsaves]

Guys this is a steal!!!!!!!

2 meals for 2 people for under $10 Shipped!!!!

https://theblogcm.com/5JI/eJbV

[emilymcg23]

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[dejablonde]

So we cooked some duck last night (first time getting one of the premium options with Blue Apron)

Anyway, the whole apartment still smells like duck this morning and it's made me realize that duck just smells like a chicken that is actually a fish

[strawberryscare]

can’t stop thinking abt the only time we see carmy wear a The Beef tshirt is when he cooks dinner for claire. you know, the piece of clothing he refused for all of season 1 (when their restaurant was Actually called that) and asked everyone else to switch OUT of (to white shirts and blue aprons).

something something claire fundamentally does not allow carmy to grow as a person + represents carmy’s backsliding into his past something