Food Experiments: Mozzarella & Mushroom Hoagies | Garden Mushroom-Stuffed Ravioli
Hello my friends! I am back with week three of my food experiment with Hello Fresh. You can read about the other weeks here. Let’s get into it, shall we?
The Cost
This is going to sound like a complete repeat of last weeks breakdown. But first, I need to make a correction. I looked back over our Discover bill and discovered, haha, that I reported the wrong figures for week two. We were charged $55.37 for week two, which breaks down as: $27.68 for each of the meals and $6.92 per person. Sorry for the confusion, but I want to be crystal clear on what this is actually costing us each week. I see so many people promoting Hello Fresh, for good reason, but they never say what it actually costs. Thanks for listening. 😀
So, for our third week the two meals cost us $69.04. Divided by two meals for four people, that works out to $34.52 for each meal or $8.63 per person. Again, we can’t eat at McDonald’s for that price, so we are already winning in my book. I didn’t have to go to the grocery store for either of these meals, and the FedEx lady brought it to my front door. Even better.
However, we usually don’t eat at McDonald’s twice a week either, so you have to factor that in to the weekly cost.
Meal Number 1: Mozzarella & Mushroom Hoagies
This was our favorite meal, I believe, so far. These were delicious. I will definitely be making these again.
I need to experiment and find out what they put in their fry seasoning. It was really great on the roasted potato wedges. That’s the one downfall of just using Hello Fresh’s recipes alone. When they send you your meals, they send you everything that you would need to make it. You can always substitute veggie stock for veggie stock, but “fry seasoning” is pretty vague.
This meal was SO filling. It was almost too much for one sitting, but there were no leftovers.
Meal Number 2: Garden Mushroom-Stuffed Ravioli
The Garden Mushroom Stuffed Ravioli was another hit at our house. It was very tasty and filling. Liv loves zucchini, but wasn’t a fan of the ribbons. She would have preferred that the zucchini was chopped, but that’s just a texture issue, not a taste one. It looked very pretty even though you can’t tell from my photo.
This is another recipe that I’ll have to do a substitution with, because I’ve never seen mushroom ravioli at my grocery stores. But I definitely want to make this one again. It was delicious.
Question: Do you call scallions green onions? We do. That was a staple in my Mama and Daddy’s garden every year. Now I need to find some green onion seed or sets……
My Final Thoughts
Our third week taught us all that we now have two new recipes to add to our meal planning repertoire. The cost is still perplexing to me. I have no idea how Hello Fresh calculates what they charge. And I’m pretty certain from what I can see in the breakdown that I’m not receiving free shipping like they advertised. The price each week is still falling into what I would budget for all four of us to eat out with, so I’m looking forward to what the remaining weeks of our trial has to offer.
If you would like to try Hello Fresh for yourself, you can use this link to get $100.00 off. This will also give me $10.00 off too, so thanks in advance!
Have you tried Hello Fresh? What did you think? Did you find the value in the food or the learning experience? I need all the details, and if you have a favorite meal from them, I would love to try that too!