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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I would love to try the Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties!
I would love to try the Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata. Sounds great!
Mhmmm definitely the Hanger Steaks & Roasted Potatoes! I’m a sucker for red meat!
Ooooh I’d be so excited to try the caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata! This service looks super fun!
Those chicken patties sound awesome!!!
The picture of hangar steak and potatoes has me drooling! It’s 8:30 in the morning, and I’m already dreaming of dinner.
I would love to try the Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties…they sound amazing!
My husband would want me to say the hangar steak but that heirloom tomato and carmelized onion crostata looks yummy!!
The Parmesan basil chicken sounds incredible. Yum!
I would love to try the caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata… yum
I’m trying to expand my tastes with vegetarian meals too – would love to take a stab at the roasted vegetable salad with couscous. That sounds like such an upscale dinner to cook all on my own!
The salmon burgers and corn on the cob sound so delicious!
Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata looks so delicious!
Wow…it’s a toss up between to hat crostata and the veggies and couscous. I love your idea about using this service to expand your meatless meal ideas – I love experimenting with new and different veggies, but I don’t always know what to do with them!
Definitely the Parmesan Basil Chicken!
Oh my gosh, every recipe sounded amazing! I think I would have to go for the caramelized onion crostata because it’s something totally outside of my comfort zone when it comes to cooking but I love every ingredient in it!
It all sounds amazing, but the caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata w/ Feta Cheese & Arugula had me drooling this morning and wanting to have that with a glass of red wine! 😉
Hanger steak with those potatoes!!!
I would love to try Blue Apron! Making the Salmon Burgers would be outside my normal cooking comfort zone, so I would be excited to try that dish!
the salmon burgers look awesome! my husband and i have been wanting to try Blue Apron
We’re trying to incorporate more protein and veges in to our diet, so I’d pick the Hanger Steaks & Roasted Potatoes!
The crostata looks incredible!
The Parmesan basic chicken looks delicious!
I would love to try the Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata!
The Parmesan basil chicken sounds delicious!! I need to give this a try!
That crostata looks delicious!!
The Roasted Vegetable Salad over Israeli Couscous sounds amazing!!
I would love to try this service. The salmon burgers and corn on the cob sound delicious.
Definitely the Roasted Vegetable Salad over Israeli Couscous!!
The salmon burgers looks amazing!
Salmon burgers – the picture just says summer to me
The roasted vegetables over couscous looks great!
I’ve always wanted to try salmon burgers!
My mouth started watering when I saw the caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata picture – so that would be my pick!! It looks like a great summertime meal… Let’s hope my cooking skills could manage to make it turn out looking like the picture!
oh my gosh, the Hanger Steaks & Roasted Potatoes would be perfect! Or the Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties, they both look so delicious and fresh!
My boyfriend was just talking about getting me a cooking class because I need to learn how to combine different spices more adequately and I think that Blue Apron would really help.
Those parmesan-basil chicken patties look delicious!
I have been in a bit of a food rut lately and would love a chance to expand my food horizons! 🙂
My boyfriend and I would LOVE to try the salmon burgers with corn on the cob… YUM!
Yum! I would be excited to try the Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties!
Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata for sure!
Yum!! I would choose the Hanger Steak with Roasted Potatoes!! Thanks!!
The caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata looks delish!
The onion and tomato crostata sounds delish!
The chicken patties look so interesting. I’d love to try that one!
The carmelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata looks fantastic! Downloading recipe!
Caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata… yum!
I’d love to try the parmesan chicken basil patties!
the Salmon burgers look AMAZING! having just moved into a new city and seven, yes SEVEN weddings this summer back in our home town we’re very busy in our household! So grocery shopping comes at a premium! I’ve been eyeing up blue apron for a few months now, and at $20 it will probably be cheaper than going to the store!
I have two kids under two (my daughter turns two in a month – where does the time go?!?) so this would be a great service to cut down on some grocery shopping while also getting some new meal ideas!! The Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties sounds sound wonderful!
Roasted vegetables and cous cous! I’m a full time student, so this would save so much time!