There various services out there and I get so many questions about the differences that I decided to order a different service each week over the course of a month so I could compare.  In full disclosure, these all were boxes I paid for-this is NOT one of those reviews in exchange for free items.

Hello Fresh

Meal Selection- You are able to choose from 5 meal choices.  User friendly to select and somewhat varied selection.  I do wish there were a few more choices. I also wish you could preview the recipes.  My husband and I like white meat chicken but there was no way to make sure we were getting white meat in our recipes.  I selected 2 chicken meals and one was dark meat, which neither of us particularly like.

Organization- I LOVE the way Hello Fresh organizes!! You get 3 small boxes with all ingredients in them with the exception of meat.  They stack so nicely in the fridge and have labels on the outside so it is easy to grab and get started!

Recipe- All 4 services have very similarly laid out recipe cards. I found Hello Fresh’s recipes to be fairly easy to follow although a couple recipes seemed as though they had left out steps in between.  The recipe card was the smallest, which I wasn’t a fan of.

Food: Yum!  Meals were easy to assemble with a different twist on them.  I don’t think I would necessarily pick out the meals that we made but I was glad we had a chance to try them.  We were definitely taken out of our comfort zone. Ingredients were fresh and we liked that we had a Jamie Oliver guest chef recipe!

Green Chef

Meal Selection- Um, there was none.  You selected your dietary preferences and they selected your menu for you.  Not a fan of this.  At all.

Organization- Items came loose but color coded by stickers on each item.  I suppose I could have organized it better when unpacking but I did not.  I ended up spending a bit of time searching for things before I started cooking.

Recipe: 
Recipe was easy to follow and pictures were really helpful.  I liked that the ingredients were bolded so I knew just what to get for each step and didn’t miss anything.

Food: We LOVED that the ingredients were all organic.  Everything was very fresh and the recipes were very out of our comfort zone.  That being said, a couple were waaaaay out of our comfort zone and not something I would have selected had I had a choice.

Blue Apron

Meal Selection– I was not impressed with how Blue Apron structures meal selection.  While you have a choice, they make it so that certain combinations of meals are unavailable. For example, I did not want the fish meal but did want a certain beef meal.  If I selected the beef, I had to choose the fish.  If I unselected the fish, my option for the beef went away.  Very annoying.

Organization- My least favorite of the 4.  All ingredients came loose with a sticker on it.  Nothing was color coded or organized otherwise. I ended up spending (wasting) time searching for ingredients before making each meal.

Recipe- I found Blue Apron’s recipes the least user friendly.  While other services bolded all ingredients (so you knew which items to grab) BA only did this for some steps.  Some directions were unclear and I would have to re-read.

Food- Meh.  One recipe was ok, one was not very good and one was terrible.  You know it is not good when your husband eats half his meal then elects to pour himself a bowl of cereal after.

Home Chef

Meal Selection- The best!  So.many.choices.  11 meals, a smoothie option and a fruit add on!  This is by far the best meal selection.  None of the others even compare because you get so many choices with Home Chef.

Food- LOVE!!! Home Chef was the only one that I was legitimately sad when I took my last bite because I didn’t want the meal to be over.  Spoiler: I have gotten Home Chef a few times since the one I did for this review and my husband always says things like “this is the best thing you have ever made” or “this is just as good as going to a restaurant.” SOLD!