Vegetarian Zen

VZ 300: Meal Subscription Boxes with Danielle Fried


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Danielle Fried (who we affectionately call “Listener Zero”) has been a friend of ours for almost as long as we’ve been podcasting. She became a vegetarian very close to the same time we did (about 6 years ago) and was one of the first people to reach out to us commenting on the podcast.  
Very similar to us, Danielle became decided to give vegetarianism a try after watching Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead and Veducated along with a couple of other documentaries. Danielle is a very active member of our Peas and Carrots Society offering friendly advice to fellow members.
Meal Kit Review
In this very special episode of our podcast, we talk to Danielle to get to know her a little more and to hear her recent experience with meal kit delivery services  and their plant-based options.
Danielle tried 4 meal subscription boxes:

Hello Fresh
Green Chef
Purple Carrot
Marley Spoon (Martha Stewart)

High-Level Summary:

Of the 4 boxes tried, Daniellle states that she would probably order Marley Spoon and Hello Fresh in the future. Both used high quality ingredients and the meals were crowd-pleassing.
Marley Spoon meals typically took about 30 minute to cook but did require quite a bit of cooking tools.
Ingredients and recipes were fairly easy.
All kits seemed to have more packing than was needed (not exactly eco-friendly).
Green Chef didn’t have many choices and had a longer lead time to cancel (7 days).
Purple Carrot is completely plantbased.

Listen to our interview with Danielle for more details!
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