A Hello Fresh trial and review might seem a misplaced article on a fashion website. But we here at myfashionwants.com believe that Food and fashion are very much connected. After all, what you put in your body has a great impact on what you put on your body.
When you’re buying clothes one of the first things you have to consider is the size of the clothes you’re buying. And that’s only the most trivial aspect of the connection between food and fashion. Our state of mind also affects our fashion choices. And the foods we eat impact our state of mind. It might sound farfetched to suggest, but how we feel about ourselves plays into the way we dress. Our dress style is in part controlled by how we feel about our bodies, how we feel in our own skin, whether we feel good or bad about our self and our life. Beyond that, the activity of cooking can be argued to play a role in improving our state of mind for the better. And when we’re in a positive state of mind we tend to take greater care in making choices for how we present ourselves to the world. That includes taking a greater interest in our appearance and how we dress. So, from this perspective, we think that a hello fresh trial and review article does have a place on a fashion website.
Our Hello Fresh Trial review
A couple of weeks ago our editor in chief signed up for Hello Fresh after receiving a discount coupon in the mail. She’d been wanting to try out a service like Hello Fresh for a while to see if these types of services can make cooking for her family more convenient and fun.
Her first box arrived on Tuesday of this week. Below is her review of her Hello Fresh Trial.
Editor’s Review
My Hello Fresh Trial got off to a bad start due to the fact that the box contained shrimp and I’m allergic to shrimp and never bring it into my home in any capacity.
Even though I wasn’t planning to consume any of the meals myself, having shrimp in one of the recipes was a no-no. Since I was going to be the one cooking the meals, this meant I would have to handle shrimp. And as anyone with a shrimp allergy that manifests itself in the form of anaphylactic shock knows, you also cannot handle shrimp. For that matter you’re advised not to be in an area where shrimp is present.
How did I get sent shrimp in the first place?
It actually didn’t occur to me when I first signed up for Hello Fresh that I might get sent a recipe containing shrimp. It was only when I went to check to see what the first dishes were going to be, that I saw that one of the dishes included shrimp. I got on the phone right away to call Hello Fresh to request that they send something else instead, and that they put a note on my account to block shellfish and all other seafood. The person that I spoke to assured me that the first box wouldn’t contain any shellfish or other seafood. And she said that she would make a note on my account so that all my future boxes would be shellfish ad seafood free. So when the box arrived I started taking the things out without any concern about shrimp.
You can imagine that it was a little worrisome when I took the container out of the box, looked at it and saw that is was shrimp. I had to immediately take medication in order to safeguard against a possible reaction just from touching the product container. So that wasn’t a good way to get my Hello Fresh Trial off to a start.
Word to the wise: if you’re reading this and thinking about trying Hello Fresh, if you happen to be allergic to certain foods, make sure you get your account adjusted to reflect your food allergies before you place your first order. But even then, you might want to keep in mind that human error is possible. After all, our editor in chief was told she would not receive any shrimp, yet she received shrimp in her first box from Hello Fresh. People make mistakes so keep that in mind.
What was in the box other than the shrimp?
My first box contained ingredients for the following 3 dishes:
1. Butter Basted Chicken
2. Thai Beef Skewers
3. Spanish Style Spaghetti
I made the Butter Basted chicken on Wednesday and the Thai Beef Skewers on Thursday. As of the writing of this post I had not attempted the Spanish Style Spaghetti. Maybe I’ll try it with Italian Sausage tonight or tomorrow night.
The Hello Fresh cooking experience
Meal 1: The Butter Basted chicken
