What’s a hearty meal without a nice glass of wine? Enjoy a mixed half dozen bottles of free wine valued at $129 from Get Wines Direct with any Simple & Fresh meal box received.
We'll email your link to claim your free wine within 2 days of delivery of your Simple & Fresh Meal Box.
Enter code WINE at checkout.
Smooth :)
haven't used a service like this but $10-20 per serve seems a bit exxy
it works out to be around $12-$13 for the cheapest box ($79)….and then take into account the free wine :)
@jason22b: Not sure. But curious to hear from people who have used something like this. (But TBH I doubt they would be lurking around on ozbargain)
Yes absolutely would love to hear from people!
It would be remiss of me not to share an offer involving free wine :)
@Gimli:
I use Marley Spoon Hello Fresh and Aussie Farmers
Aussie Farmers is slightly more expensive, but has become my staple weekly vendor
AFD does require a small list of common household items (Salt Flour Oil) and some the meals are slightly more basic Australian.
I use Marley Spoon Hello Fresh alternating months to mix it up.
Marley Spoon; Very nice very high grade recipes akin to an expensive restaurant; Complex meals 1 hour preparation time is not unheard of. Clear easy instructions in plain English.
Hello Fresh; Fairly quick and Easy nice meals sometime though they under estimate the time taken 15-20 minutes however very rare this is correct. Very confusing language on the cards, seems like translated twice.
AFD; Preparation time and cooking time more accurate on the card usually 15-45 minutes, steps are clear English free of chef's slang.
With AFD I feel I am learning to cook but Marley Spoon Hello Fresh I
feel I am building an Ikea Meal
AFD will always refer to grams, litres etc,
Marley Spoon Hello Fresh keep you at arms length from the recipes with One Serve, one pouch,
Additionally what I dislike about Marley Spoon Hello Fresh is the unnecessary excessive packaging. and the very mechanical feel of cooking.
For example All three will have a recipe requiring 4 eggs,
Marley Spoon Hello Fresh will give you 4 eggs in 4 plastic sauce tubs
Aussie Farmers provides a quality retail half dozen packet.
Same with veggies Aussie farmers gives me a small bunch of fresh herbs,
but the others will give little single use seal bags with the herbs.
Lastly there is Recipe cards of the week for (2 4 or 5 meals), However Aussie also give basic recipe overviews ideas to use left over vegetables and egg(s).
Whatever the Aussie meal number is add 1-3 meals which changes the perceived per meal value
Example AFD Box
What do you do with your left over Veggies?
First, cook chopped garlic and onion in a pan. Stir in diced tomatoes and tomato paste. Then add the vegetables and cook until cooked through. Toss with cooked pasta and serve with some grated parmesan or crumbled feta.
I bought a groupon for a box with four meals - food was really fresh and tasted great but didn't continue with the box due to price. I do buy some items ad hoc though (free delivery over $25).
They need to somehow drop the price but that is difficult with the business model given you have to pack the box, deliver it etc.
Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback, I'll definitely pass that onto the relevant team members. I'm glad you enjoyed your first Simple & Fresh Dinner Box!
originally I took that line too,
however I stuck it out buying box once a month
the 3 meals for 2 people lasts my wife and I almost always a full 5 days.
because I stopped buying food at the supermarket I actually ended up spending less each week on food and those impulse purchases.
Most of all , less stress about what to cook and how much to buy.
I bought the groupon Hello Fresh family box, gotta say, enjoyed the experience, had fun cooking and definitely worth the money in the first week (but cancelled later due to cost).
Now back to this deal, I must say the value is not quite as good as this Hello Fresh deal. I did look up the bonus wine, they were thoughtful enough to have red/white and mixed for you to choose from, unfortunately comparable wines seem to sell for about $30/half dozen on the same website, not to mention the description is a little misleading (for example, "HARDYS WINES HAVE BEEN RATED UP TO 98 POINTS"). So in effect you are paying (at least) $49 for the most basic package (6 meals), which doesn't compare favourably to the current groupon deal. It may still be a deal to some, good luck to the OP.
It's not lying to a customer to compare the best Hardys ever made to their cheapest, it's just misleading.
Like comparing a $750 bottle of Penfolds Grange to their $13 bottles that are obviously the same quality…….
This is why I bought one lot of wine from GWD and never anymore, all of their products are average/good compared to goon but sold at far more than they're worth (even when the price has been 'slashed')
since when is the price of wine representative of the quality, some changes justify higher prices, some simply don't
It is simple in many cases a market manipulation by producers with many origins
year nostalgia, fruit selection, bin sizes, collector editions, ignorance and brand recognition.
Lets face it
I personally see nothing better in the $100 bottles I have bought not present in some $5 bottles.
aside from scenarios of personal preference, some prefer wines from dryer regions SA, others cooler France or New Zealand.
Remember ALDI an $5 bottle won the national prize recently in a blind study against bottles with significantly higher price tags?
Can I just get the 129 as a voucher to spend on a wine of my choosing? Not interested in 9.99 wines, especially when many of the labels are getwinesdirect exclusively sold ones. Don't need that much "cooking" wine… ;)
Is there a shipping cost for the wines?
I bought the Groupon deal, was pretty happy with it. Can I still get this deal?
people are gonna whine about this deal