

For that reason, omnivorous couples will probably get the most value from Blue Apron's service. There are half as many choices for four-serving kits, and fewer still for the bundles and add-ons. With 16 different choices each week, two-serving meal kits form the largest category on Blue Apron's menu. Breakfast recipes include creamy spinach and egg sandwiches with Parmesan cheese, and sourdough French toast with cherry-maple syrup and almonds. Blue Apron also offers breakfast dishes that take 15 minutes or less to make. For example, you might substitute salmon for chicken in the Spanish chicken with zucchini and romesco rice, or cauliflower for white rice to go with your miso ginger chicken. Fewer than half the kits offer modifications-and that typically involves a simple protein or starch swap. That said, customization is not Blue Apron's forte. Go to the Upcoming tab, select the week you wish to modify, click Change Recipes, and go from there. If you prefer to take control, that's easy to do. You could find yourself cooking mushroom tempura bowls, cheesy pork chorizo enchiladas, pan-seared duck, or Thai-style glazed tilapia. The menu is well-curated, with a thoughtful mix of flavors, styles, and ingredients. You can simply set your general preferences and allow your weekly box to surprise you. With Blue Apron, you don't have to choose meals if you don't want to. This is not difficult to do it's just a matter of how engaged you want to be.Ĭhoosing Meals: Lunch and Dinner for Omnivorous Couples Oddly, only the meal kits are available for subscription, so if you want weekly Butcher Bundles, for example, you'll have to manually order them each week.

Blue Apron's menu is divided into five categories: two-serving meal kits, four-serving meal kits, Meal Prep Bundles (eight-serving lunch prep kits), Butcher Bundles (12-serving boxes of mixed proteins), and Add-ons like dessert, wine, and appetizers. Your subscription can run on autopilot or you can take the reins yourself, filling each week's box with your handpicked selections. You can change these preferences at any time.

Don't worry too much about your initial selections they aren't set in stone.

The minimum recurring order is a pair of two-serving meal kits, and the max is four, four-serving meal kits, but there's significant flexibility beyond this basic setup. Since auto-delivery is the default, you must first set up the basic parameters of your weekly box-the number of meal kits per week, the number of servings, and your preferred proteins-and Blue Apron will take care of the rest. Our testers wrote in-depth reviews and filled out detailed surveys about each company, which we used to assign an overall score to each one. We spent months researching, ordering, testing, eating, and writing about 40 different meal delivery services.
