Blue Apron: The $20 mashed potatoes

[thistlechaser]

Swedish Meatballs & Braised Kale
with Lingonberry Jam & Creamy Mashed Potatoes

Recipe here.
Time: 20-25 minutes (I left the kitchen for a few minutes in the middle of things)

Almost as if Blue Apron could go back in time and react to me canceling their service, this meal was a disaster.

1) The flour was missing.
2) The container of lingonberry jam came open in the bag and made a mess.
3) The pork had gone bad.

I had been looking forward to this meal for a while. I wanted to try making meatballs, I like Swedish Meatballs, and this looked like one of the simpler things to make -- only three things to chop up!

I got the potatoes going, no problem. Then I opened the pork. It smelled off. At first I didn't trust my nose, so I continued on with the recipe. But the longer I smelled it, the more sure I was that something was wrong with it. I wish I had trusted myself off the bat, since then I could have saved the spices and breadcrumbs and tried again some other time with my own meat.

I didn't bother trying to make the kale, becasue without the meatballs there was no meal, and kale isn't a new food for me to try.

$60 for three meals = $20 per meal = I paid $20 for two small potatoes, a pat of butter, and a splash of milk. Go team me. The mashed potatoes were good, but not $20 good, plus that's a lot of potato for one person.

I don't want to tell them about it and try to get my money back, since they'd likely think I was doing it just because I canceled and was trying to get more out of them. My time with them is done, I don't want to continue to deal with them.

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Meatballs are not simple.

This entire thing, like your soda thing, seems to prove a rip off, yaniwattahmean?

Cooking, mealmaking, doesn't work like that.

You gotta shop, alas, and you gotta do stuff, and you gotta have thing on hand, you gotta learn what works with what-- this service for making real food - meals, from what you tell us, is bs.

Love, C.

P.S. Making good healthy nutritious tasty meals takes a lot of work -- ingredients, knowing how they work together, etc. Alas, I grew up this way, so it's hard for me to understand how people don't understand how food works -- from digging the garden to killing the chickens to butchering etc., and the what goes on in the grain fields etc.

So don't pay attention to me!

Love, C.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Or maybe pay more attention to you! :)

I'm not sure if it was a ripoff or not, I think for some people it might work (people who want to try lots of new stuff, eat exotic, but don't have time to shop?). I'm not one of those people though. :/

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you should pay attention to the fact that you deserve to treat yourself at least good as you treat others, and that comes to your breakfasts and dinners as much as anything else! :)

Love, C,