Happy Meals: Blue Apron delivers everything needed for creating healthy, affordable dishes

By Parker Strauss on October 20, 2017

Extending the cooking skills of students beyond Hot Pockets and pizza rolls, Blue Apron is a delivery service for gourmet ingredients and recipes, perfectly portioned to be cooked.

Part 1

Blue apron is catered to cooks of all levels and is ideal for a student wanting to cook fine meals for cheap, with meals affordable at per person per person person meal.

Part 2

They use local farms and businesses around the country to source their quality ingredients, which taste delicious and authentic. All of these quality ingredients compiled together in the right proportions with detailed cooking instructions will guarantee a good meal and learning experience every time.

Part 3

Blue Apron has hundreds of meals to choose from with a large variety which change based on the season. An example of one of the meals would be creamy polenta and mushrooms, with a soft boiled egg and padano cheese. This is an Italian grain-based dish.

Part 4

The Blue Apron website includes the recipe as well as in depth tips such as how to peel garlic and recommended kitchen tools.

Part 5

Nothing is precooked, so customers get the opportunity to prepare the entire meal from scratch. In the case of the polenta, customers would cook and peel soft boiled eggs and prepare the polenta part of the dish with water and salt. After this, they would prepare and season the garlic, spinach and mushroom sauce before assembling it into the final dish.

Part 6

The opportunity to get clear instructions on how to cook something really sophisticated at a reasonable price for a beginner cook is really special, and especially with the caliber of ingredients Blue apron offers.