Blue Apron is a service that sends you all of the fresh ingredients you need to make three delicious meals a week for $9.99 per person per meal (with free shipping). All ingredients are delivered right to your doorstep in a refrigerated box and come with three chef-designed recipes that are easy to follow thanks to beautiful pictures of each step of the recipe. An added bonus? All meals can be prepared in 40 minutes or less!
Merri signed up for Blue Apron to improve her cooking skills and she raved about how much she and her husband loved every single meal they made. After trying my first Blue Apron meal with Merri, I signed up for one week of Blue Apron meals myself because I loved the idea of skipping out on some grocery shopping and meal planning. Plus, I wanted to get out of my cooking rut and experiment with different cuisines and ingredients I might otherwise never try!
Ryan actually surprised me with a few weeks of Blue Apron meals for Christmas and I decided to opt for the vegetarian meals to try to help me expand my meatless meal ideas. As many of you already know, I loved this gift and raved about the Blue Apron meals I made on this blog more than a few times! (The white chili with rainbow chard and tri-color quinoa recipe was probably my all-time favorite!)
When Blue Apron reached out to me this month to host a giveaway and try another batch of meals, I was 100 percent on board! From the comments I received on past Blue Apron posts, I know the service interests a bunch of you, so I figured a giveaway would be a great opportunity for someone to try the service for free. (Blue Apron currently delivers ingredients for meals for two, four or six people.)
In the vegetarian box I received last week, I received ingredients for the following three recipes:
- Three Pea Salad with Farro and Goat Cheese
- Trofie Pasta with Golden Garlic
- Roasted Poblano and Quinoa Sopes
Blue Apron ingredients are fresh and sourced from quality local suppliers and artisans and come packaged with labels so you can easily identify which ingredient you need for each recipe. The preparation, cooking and eating is up to you!
The three meals I made this week were all absolutely fantastic. I truly have not made one Blue Apron meal I haven’t adored. The only downer is that sometimes the recipes call for the use of a lot of bowls, pots and pans, so the plethora dishes that are leftover after cooking can be a bit of a pain to clean.
But when you sit down to a fresh and flavorful dinner that was basically planned for you, it’s hard to complain!
I really like the way Blue Apron incorporates cuisines from various cultures (like the Bangaladumpa Upma Koora I made in the past <— so good!) so I feel like I am truly learning about different spices and flavor combinations as I cook. And let me reiterate one more time how delicious these meals taste!
Okay, enough from me! Now it’s your turn to give Blue Apron a try. One PBF reader will win a free week of Blue Apron meals for two!
To enter this giveaway, please pop over to Blue Apron and check out what’s on the menu for this week and leave a comment below telling me which recipe you’d be most excited to create! Please note: This giveaway includes a week of meals for two people. Blue Apron delivers to 80 percent of the United States. In order to win this giveaway, you must live in one of the delivery zones. (A map of the delivery zones may be seen here.) I will randomly select a winner on Friday.
And please don’t worry if you don’t win! The first 250 readers who try Blue Apron will receive two free meals on their first order! To receive this promo, please click here to order.
Good luck!!!
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Disclaimer: While this post is sponsored by Blue Apron, affiliate links are not included and I am not receiving any compensation for orders placed with Blue Apron. Thank you for your support!
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The salmon burgers look delicious!
Parmesan Basil chicken patties! I love chicken and am always looking for new things to do with it.
The Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata looks amazing, and is the perfect summer recipe! 🙂
The salmon burgers sound delicious!
I would love to try the parm crusted chicken patties. I usually make parm crusted cutlets and I have a feeling BA uses ground chicken for the patties. I would be very curios to try it this way!!
Salmon burgers look SO good!
Hangar steak and roasted potatoes! I was just looking at the Blue Apron website and allllllmost pulled the trigger on my first box of meals the other day. I’d love to try out this service. I’m thinking it would be a great time saver if my hubs and kids like the recipes
Also, I hope you are loving Charlotte. It is our hometown and we have been loving it for the last 10 years.
The Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata!!!! That looks delicious!!!!
Hi Julie! The salmon burgers look AMAZING. I always say I want to incorporate more fish into my diet, but I feel like it can be tricky. This would be great since I’d just be following the recipe!
Hanger steak
They all look amazing – but I would especially love to try the Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata!
The salmon burger and corn on the cob looks amazing!!
Definitely the crostata!!
Oh Yum! I am not normally a soup girl, but the Golden Beet Borscht looks incredible!
I’d love to try the salmon burgers!
I cannot decide between the Salmon Burgers and the Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata. I’d be more than happy to make/eat either one of those dishes!!
Salmon burger and corn looks delicious
Everything looks amazing, but I think I would love the Salmon Burgers. They look so good.
The caramelized onion crostata looks amazing!
Hanger steaks. Hands down.
Blue Apron sounds like an amazing idea! The parmesan basil chicken patties sound delicious.
I’m always too scared to cook steak with out help…. it’s just so intimidating! But, with the help of their handy directions, I would be SUPER excited to try the Hanger Steak and Potatoes!
Camelized onion & heirloom tomato crostata! Umm, yumm!!!!
The King Trumpet Mushroom Steam Buns sound amazing and look even more amazing…I don’t consider myself much of a cook, so If I could put that on a plate I would be proud!
The parmesan basil chicken patties look great!
The salmon burgers look delishhhhhh!
I haven’t got into cooking seafood as it intimidates me-I’d love to try out the salmon burger!
The caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata sounds delicious!
Would love to try the salmon burgers and corn!
The Parmesan Basil Patties would be awesome
The Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata looks amazing!!!
I would love to try the Roasted Vegetable Salad over Israeli Couscous – delicious!
salmon burgers sound wonderful!
I would love to try the salmon burger
I would want to try the roasted vegetable salad
would have to try the hanger steaks and roasted potatoes!
The caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata looks delicious! I’d really go for anything with feta cheese 🙂
Parm-Basil Chicken patties sound great.
My fiance and I have been going out of our comfort zones by making a different pizza every week; the caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata sounds devine!
I’ve actually never had couscous so I’d love to learn how to make it. The roasted vegetable salad over Israeli couscous sounds delicious!
They all look fabulous but I am training for a marathon and trying the Hansons method so I am very focused on protein and carb balance in my meals. The Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties would be my pick! I love this post because I have been curious about Blue Apron and now I am super eager to give them a try!
I would like to try the the chicken patties!
Wow, everything looks delicious! I would love to try the hanger steak with roasted potatoes. This is a great idea!
Oh I practically started salivating as soon as I saw the Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties! YUM!
I’d love to try the Carmelized Onion and Heirloom Tomato Crostata! Yum!
The golden beet borscht looks intersting…I love beets so this would be a new and exciting dish to try.
Oh wow! All of those meals sound amazing for this week… I guess my first choice would be Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata – however that Salmon Burger & the Basil Chicken Patties – yum!! 🙂
the Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties sound delicious and a different way to have chicken. we already get in a chicken rut
I would love to try the Parmesan Basil Chicken Patties!
I would love to try the salmon burgers!