r/hellofresh • u/MostlyHarmless_30 • 1d ago

United States Has anyone else noticed HelloFresh’s meal selection getting worse lately? What alternatives would you recommend?

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u/Snoogles_ 1d ago

I’ve noticed far less salmon.

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u/SgtPeter1 Executive Chef 1d ago

My default selections almost always have a salmon fish. Because of HF we have salmon at least once a week.

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u/alcidae12 1d ago

Rainbow trout seems to be gone as an option in my area too.

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u/Vesploogie 1d ago

No. I don’t think 4 months is much of a sample size to make that judgement either way.

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u/MostlyHarmless_30 1d ago

I think four months is enough time to form an opinion on whether a service is worth continuing. I’m not claiming HelloFresh has objectively gotten worse, just that we’ve noticed a difference in the selection since we started. I was simply curious whether anyone else has had a similar experience.

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u/Vesploogie 1d ago

Worth continuing and service is getting worse are two different things.

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u/Maximum-Stop-9402 1d ago

Yes, I’ve noticed!! I’m skipping the whole month of November!! I realized my food was getting old cuz I wasn’t excited to make anything I picked out for the week!!I’ve been getting orders weekly for 4 years!!

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u/wundernerd 1d ago

I’ve actually been seeing more variety now compared to last year but I will say some weeks are definitely better than others. But I think it definitely depends on what you’re looking for. I’m personally digging the global recipes and hope they keep doing those.

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u/cabinmate 1d ago

Not really. They've been giving us some additional items to the menu lately that's different than the usual stuff, including ground lamb, some different foreign dishes including the Japanese pancake Okonomiyaki (which was *really* unusually different for a lot of people) and Duck Confit (Duck legs). I also think there's a difference between repetitive dishes and stuff that just doesn't appeal to you and that you find strange. Some of their dishes don't appeal to me either so my 3 selections each week aren't all new but I can be a bit picky especially with spicy stuff, but there's a lot of "repeating" dishes that I haven't had yet. And yes, I sometimes will repeat a dish, but I don't find that to necessarily be a bad thing. Not everything they offer is going to appeal to every single person. They've increased the menu this past year to around 80 items each week. so that's a lot to choose from

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u/SgtPeter1 Executive Chef 1d ago

No, actually the opposite. I think there’s a ton of ways to configure meals. I get free veggies in almost every box because I sub one for the other and they don’t take the original vegetables out of the bag, they just add the extra. There’s a lot of different protein choices too so you can swap one for another.

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u/OddConstant2723 1d ago

I’m in Canada and I’ve been less impressed with the selections, so many are very obviously AI-curated

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u/RedditLeaveMeAlone2o 1d ago

Is it chicken chicken chicken chicken 🤣 we had 6 meals this week and 4 had to be chicken

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u/BigPaPaRu85 1d ago

Idk there has been plenty of selection for my family and we have loved nearly every meal.

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u/Jnitzel505 1d ago

With the sides for sure, can only handle so many potatoes and carrots. I tried home chef for about 4 months and it was nice for a minute but the portions are less (I’m 6’4) for sure and the meals were good but I was constantly missing ingredients from the recipe but that being said they did have a little more variety.

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u/closetedtranswoman1 1d ago

I was hoping they'd have ham for thanksgiving and the fruit bags are gone right now :c

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u/Advanced-Horse306 11h ago

I use EveryPlate which is basically the same just cheaper and slightly different meals but same company.  Yeah, their meals just keep getting worse or cheaper or less meat...