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 those parmesan basil chicken patties!
Ah! I desperately need help getting out of my food rut! Those salmon burgers look amazing 🙂
Darn! Not in the delivery zone. 🙁 One thing I dislike about living in the Midwest!
Hanger steak and roasted potatoes!
The Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata with Feta Cheese & Arugula sounds amazing!!!
Love this concept! I would want to try the salmon burgers since my boyfriend is a salmon fanatic!
The Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata looks sooo good and summery!
The parmesan-basil chicken patties look unique and delicious!
Hanger Steak and roasted potatoes! yum!
Would definitely go for that caramelized onion & heirloom tomato crostata! looks delicious!
The caramelized veggie crostata looks great and that’s not something I would normally make on my own! I’ve heard great things from many people about Blue Apron…excited to try it!
The salmon burgers look pretty good. I like that you can get their recipes even if you don’t order their meals.
Definitely the hanger steaks and roasted potatoes. YUM!!!
Salmon Burgers & Corn on the Cobb! My husband and I eat a ton of chicken, so salmon cooked in a different way would be a win win! We had a baby 3 months ago, so the idea of having fresh ingredients along with recipes shipped directly to us seems incredible! I would love to not have to think about what we’re having for dinner…
The Parmesan Basil Chicken Patties look DIVINE! YUMMY!
I would absolutely make the Caramelized Onion & Heirloom Tomato Crostata. I’m not even sure what a crostata is but it looks absolutely amazing and we love trying new things. Thanks for this awesome post!!
The crostata looks to die for! What a lovely service!
I would absolutely love to try the caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata because it is so outside of my comfort zone and looks delicious!
I’d love to try the salmon burgers and corn on the cob! They all look delicious though 🙂
The Parm basil chicken patties look delish!
The salmon burgers look amazing! My fiance loves salmon and this sounds like a great summer dish. Thanks for the give-a-way opportunity!
I’ve heard so many grew things about Blue Apron – I’d totally love to try this out! The Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties sound interesting, and the Onion and Tomato Crostada! YUM!
The Roasted Veggie Salad over Couscous sounds amazing!
I’ve been wanting to try blue apron for a while now after seeing your posts! I’d love to try the salmon burgers.
Roasted Vegetable Salad over Israeli Couscous!!! I love couscous, but would like to try preparing a more authentic version of it!
Love this idea! It all looks fantastic but I’m dying to try the parmesan basil chicken patties. Yum!
I’d order the roasted vegetable salad over couscous. I’m a vegetarian, but it really in need of new ways to cook veggies! 🙂
I’ve heard so much about Blue Apron – I’d love to try it! The Parmesan Basil Chicken Patty and the Crostada look awesome!
I would love to try either the Hanger Steak or the Salmon burgers. My bf has been on a huge cooking kick and is loving making all these fancy recipes that come out delicious. Its been fun for me because it takes the cooking off of me sometimes and then other times we cook together. I could see him really enjoying trying make the salmon burgers because they are something different!!
Most definitely the Potatoes Parmesan-Basil Chicken Patties with Braised Romano Beans & Barley. So different from what I normally cook but it looks light enough for the a hot summer night.
The Parmesan Basil Chicken Patties sound to die for!
Roasted veg salad over couscous!
The caramelized veggie crostata looks sooo good!!
Roasted Vegetable Salad over Israeli Couscous sounds delicious!
They all look so good! I can bake like there’s no tomorrow, but I need to start learning how to cook for my boyfriends sake! The chickpea veggie burger and the roasted sweet potato & caramelized onion pizza sound AMAZING!
I would love to try the parmesan-chicken patties! Those sound so great!
Roasted vegetables over Israeli couscous! Oh my word.
roasted vegetable salad!
The salmon burger & corn on the cob look divine! I regularly grill frozen trader joe’s salmon burgers over my salad, so a chance to make the real deal would be an amazing improvement!
Parmesan-basil chicken patties!
I would love to try the caramelized onion and heirloom tomato crostata! I’ve never made this before and I would love to give it a try.
Definitely the Parmesan Basil Chicken Patties…I love parmesan!
The Parmesan Basil Chicken Patties look and sound delicious!! Nom nom nom!
the salmon burgers & corn on the cob meal looks delicious!
Salmon burgers or the chili with chard you had! Mmm!
Yum! The crostata looks amazing!
I love this meal planning idea!! We both work and go to school full time so this would be a great service to try new things. That heirloom tomato crostata has SO many things I love. That would be my pick…yum yum yum!!
I would probably make the parmesan basil chicken patties
I really like the idea of Blue Apron. I do the majority of the cooking/shopping in my house, but I think this would be a great way to get my husband more involved. When he cooks dinner its usually eggs or tuna sandwiches so it would be great for him to expand his cooking skills! I think the Caramelized Onion and Heirloom Tomato Crostada sounds delicious!
The Salmon burgers look Great!!!