All about a Mummy
  • Blog
    • About This Blog
    • Arts & Crafts
    • Baby Stuff
    • Book Club
    • Competitions
    • Family
    • Health & Wellbeing
    • House & Home
    • Kids
    • Kitchen Creations
    • Mum Stuff
    • Out & About
    • Photography
    • Reviews
    • Seasonal
  • About Me
  • Work with me
  • Contact
  • Small Print
  • Privacy Notice

Hello Fresh: Meal 3

22/10/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
Tonight was the last meal from our Hello Fresh box - Sichuan Chicken with orange peppers and roasted peanuts. I was really looking forward to this recipe so there were high expectations.

First things first. How did the ingredients look. Well the chicken still had three days left on it's use by date and looked really fresh and succulent but the veggies were another story. The spring onions were black at the ends and the skin on the orange pepper was shriveled and wrinkled. I was not impressed. I had some yellow peppers in the fridge bought from the supermarket the day before my Hello Fresh delivery had arrived and it was in a much better shape so i decided to salvage what I could of the orange pepper and add the yellow pepper to it. The spring onions I chopped down low so there wasn't much green stems to add when the recipe asked but they did the job.

This recipe was super easy to make but unfortunately it didn't live up to my expectations. I had to cook it for much longer than the 30 minutes stated as the brown rice just wouldn't cook. I ended up serving it after 40 minutes cooking time but the rice was still crunchy. The chicken was moist and tasty but there was no sauce to the dish so overall it was very dry. Husband summed it up stating it was like eating cardboard. Oh dear.

Picture
The colour was also unappetising - the veggies lost their colour and became camouflaged with the chicken and sauce plus no spring onion tails meant we did not have the green kick to lift the dish. They say you eat with your eyes and lets face it husband's cardboard description isn't far off... Plates were not clean at the end of this meal which is hugely unusual in our house.

So to recap we enjoyed two out of the three Hello Fresh meals and we would repeat one of the recipes again. So a mixed bag but we will be trying the service for another week to give it a proper test. I admit this is in part because I didn't realise how far in advance you have to cancel/amend your box. You must do this the Wednesday the week BEFORE your box is delivered. That is 8 days before. A very long lead time and involves some quite serious planning in advance. An email from Hello Fresh reminding you of the cut of to amend your order would be handy but I guess busy, forgetful people like me is how they sell more boxes! We are paying the full £39 this week so we'll be even more critical.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Welcome!

    Artist, Baker and Blogger. Mum to my two beautiful, cheeky girls. Muddling my way through parenthood with equally cheeky Husband. 

    Picture
    Enter my competitions!
    Follow

      Newsletter

    Subscribe

    Categories

    All
    About This Blog
    Arts And Crafts
    Baby Stuff
    Book Club
    Competitions
    Family
    Health And Wellbeing
    House And Home
    Interviews
    Kids
    Kitchen Creations
    Mum Stuff
    Out And About
    Photography
    Pregnancy Diary
    Reviews
    Seasonal

    Instagram

    Twitter

    Tweets by allaboutamummy

    Pinterest

    mumsnet bloggers network
    TOTS100 - UK Parent Blogs
    TOTS100
    mumsnet bloggers network
    BritMums - Leading the Conversation
    mumsnet
    dealspotr coupon codes
    Best Booster Car Seats
    Picture

    Archives

    August 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013

    mumsnet bloggers network
All images and content on this site are copyright allaboutamummy.co.uk 2013-2020. All rights reserved.
Please do not use images without permission. Thank you.