Recipe & Food Subscription Boxes

If you find yourself Googling 'What should I make for dinner tonight?' all too often, perhaps you should consider signing up to a recipe box. A recipe box includes a recipe of what to make for dinner, as well as the ingredients to make it, including pre-measured spices, and a step-by-step guide on how to prepare it. 

Recipes boxes are especially useful if you want to try out something new but don't want to buy an entire bottle of, say, white wine vinegar, when you only need a tablespoon. It's also a great, healthy way to eat, as the ingredients come fresh straight to your door. Options are endless, as well, depending on how many people are in your household, whether you're a meat eater or a vegetarian, and the number of meals you'd like to receive for the week.

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Which Companies Offer Recipe & Food Boxes?

There are three main companies that offer recipe box subscriptions, with each promising something slightly different from the other. Hello Fresh, Gousto and Riverford have really taken the world of recipe boxes to another level, delivering top quality ingredients, as well as simple to follow instructions about what to do with them.

Hello Fresh has a number of options available, promising healthy meals for between two and four people for three, four or five of your weekly meal times. Gousto is a company that wants you to push your culinary boundaries, sending you everything you need in already measured out quantities to make life simple. Riverford, meanwhile, are all about the organic options available on the market.

As for gourmet food boxes, the main contenders aren't quite as well known as their recipe box counterparts. BoroughBox Discovery Club and Bonjour French Food offer great gourmet box options, allowing you to try interesting artisan foods from independent products within the UK. The kind of stuff you receive tends to be what you'd expect to receive in a fancy food hamper. Degustabox offers more standard food products that you can usually find in your local market. Their main aim, however, is to get you to try newer products on the market all whilst saving you a fair few quid, as the retail value of the boxes amounts to much more than what they charge monthly. 

What Comes Included?

The content of recipe boxes can vary wildly depending on the company you opt to place your order with. One thing that tends to be the same across all of the boxes, however, is the way that the content is measured out. What these companies are about almost above all else is waste, so you’ll get perfectly chosen amounts of food, spices and everything else you need to make a perfect meal.

There are vegetarian recipe boxes available from every company, so don’t worry if you’re not a meat eater. If you are, though, then you’ll get well-sourced meat and the in-season vegetables that complement them perfectly. The most important thing you’ll find in your box is, of course, the recipe booklet. This explains in a step-by-step process everything you need to know in order to turn your box full of raw materials into a delicious and healthy meal.

With the food boxes, you'll receive an array of mystery food items with some boxes offering more gourmet options, like chutneys, nuts, cured meats, and others offering a selection of standard goods you might be able to source in the market. At the moment, none of the top mystery food subscription boxes listed here allow you to choose what you receive, so these are, perhaps, not recommended for people with food allergies.