I've made meals that taste like meals I would have at a very expensive restaurant
I'm just saying their meals are quite delicious
hello and welcome to another video on my channel my name is Busi and this is a space where I talk
all things immigration as a South African living in Canada career as well as lifestyle.
On today's video I want to tell you about a meal kit service that i've been trying
out for a couple of months now called Hello Fresh and it's the holiday season we bought
the holiday box which is something they offer for different occasions throughout the year and
for me personally I tried hello fresh out for the first time because i was tired of trying to
figure out what was for dinner every single day we just had a long day at work both my husband and I
worked from home and a lot of times we just didn't know what to make for dinner so then we finally
signed up for Hello Fresh and we've had their meal kits being delivered not every single week
we pause on some weeks and that's one of the features that i like about their service
but what it is is a meal kit service where they give you meals that you can pick from every single
week you can look through a long list of meals that they have on their app and then you pick
the ones that you want you pick the number of meals that you wanna get every um week so maybe
you could have four meals for the week and you'll pick for how many people you want to have those
meals for we're a family of four so we pick four meals and we usually pick the four day a week meal
plan and we've tried it out and we've liked that weekly meal service and so we thought for
the holidays instead of trying to figure out what we're making for the holidays let's see
if this work and this is an unsponsored video so I'm just somebody who's tried it out and I
do honestly like the service but one of the things that I will say with the weekly services
that we found doesn't quite work for us and is one of the biggest reasons why we pause
the meals on some weeks is because the time that is sometimes put on the meal maybe they
say it will take you 25 minutes or it will take you 30 minutes to finish making a meal
it takes us longer sometimes i used to think at some point maybe it's because i'm super slow but
even when my husband makes the meals it just takes us longer than that 30 minutes so on some weeks
when we're just like okay we maybe we'll rather just order something out we opt for that anyone
who's watching who has tried Hello Fresh or any other meal kit service do you generally take that
amount of time that they write on the recipe where they say it's going to take you 30 minutes to make
this thing does it actually take you 30 minutes and we're just the special people who take way
longer than that one of the biggest things that i like about them is that they include nutritional
information so there's nutrition facts that they give you for every single meal that you buy when
you're buying the weekly service it's going to be on every single one of the packs for the day that
you're going to have the meals packed in and then for the holiday box because it's literally like a
meal with seven different dishes in it or maybe it's a bit more they give a booklet so it tells
you how long it's gonna take you to prepare this entire meal what you should ideally start with and
i made the dessert the night before which is something that they had suggested make the dessert
the night before or make it the morning of the day whenever you're going to be having this meal
and then you just follow through with this whole thing until you are complete
and they have the different meals where you have a picture like my stuff didn't quite turn out
looking as perfect as their pictures looked but it it was quite delicious and then they'll have
instructions at the back of what you do and what you have to do before you start making the meal
and the ingredients that you need and how much of each of the ingredients you're going to need
and then step by step instructions so dessert was this black forest truffle which was really
really delicious and then we had roasted rolled turkey we had homemade cranberry sauce
we had roasted veggie medley we had garlic and thyme infused mash we had brussel sprouts
we had savoury turkey gravy and we had holiday dinner rolls so now one of the things that I
saw they added in here that I liked if you do have people coming over to your place they have
place cards that you could cut out and then you write somebody's name on there and then you can
give them a portion way or a pen where they can also write what their favorite holiday memory is
so i thought that was a very cool touch um that they added on there and one of the things that
i also want to note about the hello kits nails is that they come directly to your door so you
order on their website or the app i use the app on my phone and then the mail is going to come
at the day or on the day that you have selected and it will be delivered directly to your door
so it's very convenient it's been very convenient for us over the months that we've been using it
so if you are a person whether you're a single person or you're a family who is busy and you
want to have really delicious meals that are very easy to follow I won't say super quick because
from our experience it just hasn't been like the 30 minutes or 25 minutes from the day-to-day uh
weekly meals that we've had they've definitely taken much longer to make but then that could be
something that's just our thing maybe we're slower in terms of cooking but with the holiday meal I
will say it did take the three hours that they said it would take on yeah both my husband and
I were cooking together he made some stuff and I made certain things but it did take us three hours
to make let me know in the comment section if you have a meal kit service where you live let me know
which country you're watching from do you have a meal kit service if you do have one have you tried
it out yet if you haven't why haven't you tried it out yet is it something that you will try out and
if you do I'd like to know how it goes for you from a cost perspective it works out much much
much cheaper than buying takeaway every single day maybe not every single day but buying take out
most days of the week because if you don't have time to cook you're very likely going to end up
going to a restaurant even if you are looking for a meal instead of something that's just fast food
so it definitely works out much cheaper and I am loving the service I enjoy it if you follow me on
instagram I'm pretty sure you've seen a lot of the posts that I share every time not every time like
I don't post every single time I make a meal with my Hello Fresh like sometimes I really
outdo myself with how I was able to match from a a presentation perspective so I sometimes will
snap a pic and then share it on instagram when I made a meal using Hello Fresh but I really really
do love the service I find it very convenient and it's very helpful if you're a busy person
busy family but you wanna know that your meals are gonna be taken care of and you don't have to guess
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