A few months ago after hearing about some new Meal Kit services, I decided to spend some time at home cooking and using a few different meal services. Fresh Prep is a local company that has been around for a couple of years, they have created a selection of their own recipes to make it easy for home cooks to make the dishes in approx. 30 mins.
The idea for most of the meal kit services is that they shop, chop, and deliver fresh recipe ingredients directly to your home or office each week. In a cooler box, you’ll receive just the right amount of every ingredient along with simple instructions to cook a meal you’ll love in under 30 minutes. Prepared ingredients mean zero prep required and fewer dishes to clean up.
The process is fairly easy, you set up an account with Fresh Prep online while setting up for your first delivery, you choose the number of meals you want and for 2 person or 4 person. You then get all the pre-portioned ingredients along with the recipes delivered to your home. I made a selection of four dishes during the week I used their service.
My favourite dishes in order of preference are here.
Mediterranean Lentil Bowl featuring organic French lentils, eggplant, butternut squash, red onions, garlic and topped with zesty lemon yogurt.
On to the next favourite meal:
Spicy Red Thai Tofu Curry with cilantro and lime speckled coconut rice
On to the next favourite meal:
Garlic Shrimp with lemon rosemary smashed butter beans and tossed salad
The last dish:
Sheet Pan Chicken with garlic herb butter and roasted vegetables
Likes: Proteins arrived frozen which meant you could skip a day or two if you needed to when cooking each of the meals.
Dislikes: would have liked to see the menu cards for each recipe in a colour, 6 step process like the other services.
Prices:
$62 for 3 meals, 2 person per week
$115 for 3 meals, 4 person per week
Instagram @freshprepvan
I enjoyed making these meals and thought Fresh Prep makes it easy for the average home cook to make meals in under an hour.
By: Richad Wolak
Disclosure: I received a complimentary media package, however, all opinions are my own.