Anyone Else Use a Meal/Grocery Delivery Service?

[Steve Kroll]

I tried Wild Alaskan Seafood for a while, but it was always the same 4 fish - salmon, cod, rockfish, and halibut. They had other species available at times, but you had to accept a basic mix of the above 4 before you could add on anything else. I just got tired of the same fish all the time. If I could have chosen my own mix (especially black cod), I probably would have continued it longer.

I like fish, but I live on the Gulf Coast, so I get plenty of grouper, snapper, mahi, shrimp, etc.

With Sitka Seafood, I get two different varieties delivered every month. One is usually a salmon species (coho, sockeye, keta, or king) and the other is something else. Rock fish, sablefish, shrimp, lingcod, crab, and tuna are other varieties they offer. They almost always let you swap for other varieties in any given month (sometimes for a small surcharge).

The one down side (for me) is that each delivery is 8-12 portions and it can be overwhelming to eat that much in a month. Fortunately, I can skip months.

 

[taxlady]

I have looked at ordering meat at various small places, but the minimum orders are not convenient for me, living by myself. Heck, those minimum orders would have been a bit big even when my husband was alive.

 

[Linda0818]

Who remembers Amazon's Prime Pantry? Covid killed that.

I heard they stopped doing the Prime Pantry in order to "simplify" deliveries. Although I'm not positive what the real reason was, I imagine it was easier (and maybe cheaper) for them to just allow pantry items to be included in Amazon Fresh. Then, a couple of years later, they implemented the delivery fees for Fresh, unless you purchase $150 or more of items. Which is ridiculous. I think that number should be lowered to at least $75, if they absolutely must charge for delivery.

I personally don't feel that people who already pay for a Prime membership should be charged delivery fees at all. I get charging those who don't pay for a membership, but I still think the $150 limit is too high.

 

[pseudotsuga]

I did HelloFresh for a couple of weeks last month, mainly because my friend who really loves it "gifted" me some free boxes. The meals were OK: ingredients were fresh enough and the portions were big enough to feed all four of us. And my teenaged kids had fun cooking them for us.

I cancelled it for a couple of reasons. The little plastic packets of eg. mayonnaise and mustard seemed wasteful to me. I'm not sure if I could tell them "I have mustard, please don't include a plastic pouch of mustard" but that would have been nice. Also it was a bit expensive compared to what I spend on groceries. It was like $11 or $12 per plate (this is Canadian dollars). I know that I don't spend anything near that when buying groceries.

At the beginning of the summer I started having groceries (minus fresh produce, which I get at a local store that I walk to) delivered from one of the big grocery chains here. I still do that weekly. It started as a way to participate in the Loblaws grocery boycott that was (is?) going on up here in Canada. But now I like being able to go through my past purchases on the app and re-order the things that I am running low on.