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Home Chef Meal Delivery Review


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Home Chef is a food and beverage company that offers a variety of culinary and recipe options to its clients. The company delivers freshly portioned ingredients and step-by-step recipes that allows customers to experience quality meals right in the comfort of their own home.

About Home Chef

Home Chef aims to allow their customers experience gourmet dinner without consuming too much time preparing and shopping for ingredients. They provide a variety of chef-designed meals that can be prepared in less than 30 minutes. New meals are displayed weekly on their website that has different options available such as nut-free, vegetarian, soy-free, low carb, and gluten-free.

Chefs from Home Chef create easy-to-follow recipes with the use of fresh and locally sourced ingredients. As a customer sets their profile, Home Chef will offer weekly meal suggestions based on their preferences. The ingredients are placed in a recyclable box that is insulated to keep the contents fresh. Beginners also do not have to worry about the recipes because each dish is designed to be easily cooked by amateurs.

A flexible subscription plan is also provided for customers to enable them change their delivery date and adjust the number of meals or servings that they want to receive. Consumers can also skip a week or pause their subscription by simply logging on to their account.

Meal Subscription Services

Home Chef’s subscription service lets customers choose their favorite recipes from their weekly menus. You can select how many meals per week you wish to receive, as well as the number of servings and type of ingredients included for the preparation of your dish. Home Chef also has the following additional options to its subscription services:

1.) Oven Ready: On the core homechef.com site, the company has added an Oven Ready meal to every menu (and will be adding more Oven Ready meals soon).  This is in addition to the usual assortment of meals Home Chef serves.

Oven Ready meals are no-prep, no-mess (no dishes!).  Home Chef sends customers everything they need to make a meal including the cooking tray.  This is a very unique offering in the meal kit space.  An example of an Oven Ready meal: 

 

2.) Fresh & Easy: Recently, Home Chef launched Fresh & Easy as a sub-brand.  This plan is dedicated to Oven-Ready, Grill-Ready and Dinner Salads (it does not include traditional Home Chef meals).  

Again, the advantage here is that the prep work is really limited and there is no clean-up.  More information. 

3.) Customize It: Home Chef customers can swap or upgrade proteins in many meals now (i.e. want steak tacos instead of chicken, that's easy!). More information.

How Much Does It Cost You?

Home Chef offers simple pricing to all their meals. Meals start at $7.99 per serving, while featured premium dishes are sold at a market price. Modifying your meals beyond the base offerings may also impact your plan's pricing.

What’s Included in the Box?

  • Pre-portioned ingredients
  • Easy-to-follow instructions
  • Ready to cook meals (on select plans)

Shipping and Delivery

Home Chef gives free delivery service for orders over $40 and a $10 shipping fee for orders less than $40. The provider delivers weekly from Tuesday through Friday. Customers can choose the day which is most convenient for them to receive the package. Delivery day options also vary on the customer’s state of residence.

Support Services

  • Telephone Support (Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CST, Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST)
  • Online support via e-mail form on their website

Final Thoughts on Home Chef

Home Chef offers simple subscription plans with fixed pricing which makes it easier for clients on budget who would like to subscribe in its service for the long term. It also provides a variety of meal options which works great for customers who have distinct meal preferences.

 

 

 

 


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56 Customer Comments & Reviews

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Kathy N
11/23/2017
Can I purchase a gift certificate as a Christmas gift?


William S
4/16/2017
The packing is the key. The food is on top on the ice packs and the container is left in the sun from the delivery company. Put the food in between ice packs so that the sun does not warm the product before the customer has a chance to take it inside their home/refrigerator.


Cindy H
3/11/2017
The meals are not tasty, the vegetables are old and shriveled all the foods we have tried so far have been cooked in lots of oil. Not healthy or low calorie. I am going back to Blue Apron.


Lisa W
10/13/2016
I ordered 3 meals for 2 people. All of the veggies were fresh, herbs were fresh, meat was chicken and pork chop. I loved that all of the items were packaged together with a label telling you which veggies/spices goes with the recipe card. I only cooked one meal because I had to work over so I gave them to my sisters to try. Our meal was goo and my husband is a picky eater. Everythings was fresh.


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Del B
10/3/2016
We are new customers to Home Chef. We ordered two meals. One was a steak meal that was short all of the butter and the one and only shallot for some sauce. It included a potato that was moldy and bruised to the center so only 2/3 of the potato was usable. The second meal was a chicken breast meal. All ingredients were present but once again a potato was bruised to the center and only 2/3 of it was salvaged. Considering we have ordered only two meals from them and both meals presented problems with quality at a rather high price when compared to doing it all myself I would give them a zero if possible.


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Barbara G
9/23/2016
We've given Chef'd a try for about a month. Positives: - each meal is bagged together - garlic is pealed - large variety of meals - huge variety Negatives: - meals just aren't tasty. They really aren't. We've only had one good meal in the past month. Have tried a variety of things. - no calorie information!! - assumes you have a food processor - chicken has been awful - only thighs with tons of fat on them - some meals don't have vegetables, although they throw a salad in every box - I can't find anywhere to publish a review on their app. Could do this with Blue Apron



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