Hi Friends —
What’s the most dreaded part of your daily routine? The part of your day you would love to delegate or remove entirely?
For me, it’s easy — dinner time. Ugh.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about gathering around the table with family, sharing our daily highs and lows and catching up with one another. BUT making meals night after night, month after month, year after year has worn me right out. It’s my least favorite thing to do.
I’ve tried meal planning and Pinterest recipes and crock pot ideas and freezer cooking, but for this season of my life, I just do not find joy in figuring out a new way to make chicken. Again.
What’s a mom to do?
A couple of months ago, in response to a plea on FB for help—as I frantically drove to the grocery store in a Michigan blizzard to find something to make for dinner—a friend asked me if I had heard of Hello Fresh.
I hadn’t.
When she told me they sent everything you need for three meals a week, I was curious. When she gave me a coupon for $40 off, I was intrigued. We tried our first Hello Fresh family box, and now I am hooked.
Hello Fresh is my new favorite mom hack.
Let me reassure you, I have not been asked by Hello Fresh to blog about their services, nor am I receiving any benefit from doing so. Our family has just been so blessed by this meal service, I feel like I wouldn’t be serving you well if I didn’t tell you about it.
Here are the Top 3 things I love about Hello Fresh:
- You receive 3 full meals to prepare with all of the ingredients you need. Except for olive oil and salt and pepper, they send you everything. No need to run out at the last minute for the balsamic vinaigrette or red onion or fresh garlic. It’s all included.
- We are trying foods I would never purchase on my own, but the kids like. Personally, I don’t like brussel sprouts, asparagus, cauliflower, or turnips—therefore, I never buy them. (#dontjudge) With Hello Fresh, we have received them with our delivery, and my kids have tried them and even liked them. My daughter now says oven roasted green beans are better than french fries. Who knew?
- My tweens are learning new cooking skills. Since we receive three meals a week and I have three tweens, our new rule is everyone “gets to” make one meal a week. Each meal comes with a detailed recipe for the kids to follow. They are learning new cooking skills—zesting, chopping, etc. Brilliant! And they are proud of their work. Here are two pics taken off my kids’ Instagrams.
Benj’s Before & After
Sarah & her friend making meatloaf
Sarah’s friends text her now to see if they can come over and help make our Hello Fresh meals. Awesome!
Currently Hello Fresh gives you the opportunity to give complete boxes to your friends to try, once you’ve purchased a box or two. When I was thinking about who I could share my latest free box with, I thought of YOU, my beloved blog friend.
Would you like to win a FREE Hello Fresh one week delivery?
To Win a Hello Fresh meal box: Leave a comment and share with me why you would like to win this giveaway.
Extra Entries:
•Share this giveaway on FB
•Tweet about this giveaway including a link to this post
Please be sure to leave me a comment to let me know your extra entries.
Check Hello Fresh’s delivery areas here to be eligible to win. Currently they serve all US states, except Hawaii and Alaska.
RULES: Starts today, Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 and ends Monday, February 29th at 9 PM. Winners will be contacted by email during the week of March 1st.
If your email address is not connected to your ID, please leave your email address with your comment or email it to me at cindy@cindybultema.com with the subject “Giveaway.”
For everyone – if you’d like to give Hello Fresh a try, here is a coupon code for 40% off your first meal box.
Coupon Code: 335S8Y
What’s your favorite Mom Hack, friend? Do you have a favorite recipe? (I still need ideas for the other four days of the week) I would love to hear from you!
Thanks for stopping by *She Sparkles*. Have a wonderful, joy-filled day!
Cindy, I would love to win a weeks worth of meals. but not for me. My husband and I have a ministry for Single Mom’s, and each of them are working moms, and work very hard to provide for their families, so any of them would be blessed with the meals, BUT, I have 1 mom, who not only works full-time, but also has gone back to school, to complete her college degree. Both of her kids are involved with activities, and her weekend is full of studying for her classes, and running her kids to activities, and 2 nights a week, she is in classes. Her kids stay with us one of the evenings, and she takes her dinner home from here. The other nights, she rushes home from work, and gets dinner on the table- Just one week, I would love for her kids to bless her, as your kids are blessing you, with cooking dinner for her. I want her to know how proud we are of her, and the sacrifices she is making for her family. Her kids are in 5th and 7th grade, and I know they would love to bless her in this way.
I love to cook! But need inspiration and with everyone in after school activities I need quick! Often thought of trying this type of service- sounds interesting.
I would love to win because their meals look so yummy and fun to make! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
Erin
ErinLoves2Run at gmail dot com
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I’ve been wanting to try this service! Glad to hear it is working well for you and your family. 😀
Cindy I would love to love the box of Hello Fresh. It would would a great way to not only teach my boys about healthy eating but to help me. I have rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure and many other heath problems. What a wonderful way to start me on the right path.
Blessings,
Cheryl Baranski
CherylB1987 AT hotmail DOT com
Okay–this MUST be a sign! We just recently discovered the show Master Chef-Junior, and my 10-year-old suddenly developed an interest in cooking. The launching of our local grocer’s shop online program has been the only thing that has kept me in the game this winter because I struggle so badly with the cold. So adding something to our “to-do” list that would surely require more time running out to the grocery store was honestly not very exciting to me–#dontjudgemeeither! Sounds like Hello Fresh may be just the thing for us…..jumping on their site to take a look….Thanks, Cindy!
I would love to try this and try some new things I wouldn’t have other wise. I have a list of super simple meal ideas made from things I most likely will have in the freezer or pantry. Tonight was mini BBQ hot dogs and fried potatoes. I’ve also learned that I can over complicate things and some of my families favorite meals are like the one we had tonight!
I would love to have everything pre-prepped for me 3x a week for sure! My oldest cooks one meal a week, and I think a box from Hello Fresh would spark some creativity in all of us over here. 🙂
So many reasons, I’m sick of figuring out what we’re going to eat, someone not liking it, all of us not liking it. Oh yeah and my 14 year old says he wants to be a chef but never asks to cook, maybe he’ll get handed a meal to cook each week with this! 😀
Wow! This would be so helpful for my family! I am disabled and homebound due to a chronic illness, so my husband has a LOT of work to do to keep our household running smoothly. He works full-time, plus does all of the cooking, cleaning, shopping, and laundry. This would be a great help for him! I would love to try a box to make meals and shopping just a bit easier for him for a week.
I get stuck in a rut and this sounds wonderful!
Hello Fresh would be a big change for me. This past week I prepared a big pot of vegetable soup by using canned tomatoes and frozen vegetables. It was supper every night until it was all gone. I need help and I think Hello Fresh can help me.
I’d love to win this as I’m always looking for new recipes. This looks so fun and convenient, and the kids would have fun helping me out in the kitchen!
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