Gousto is a subscription meal box that you can get delivered straight to your door every week. There are different meal options you can choose, and this obviously changes the price.
My boyfriend and I get a 4 meal box every week, and that’s £35.99. When deciding on this and looking at the cost, we figured that it was worth the money to get this variety of meals with the ease of precise ingredients and no need to plan ourselves. We still do a small food shop each week for the 3 other meals, and simple lunch meals.
If you want to try the Gousto box you can get 50% off your first box and 30% off the rest in your first month. (You can cancel after the first box if wanted though!)
#1 – Easy Meal Planning Each Week
Using a subscription service such as the Gousto box gives you an easy meal plan for the week ahead. There’s no worrying about getting all the right ingredients or dealing with food waste. Everything you need for each dish is included. (Bar some basic ingredients such as vegetable oil, pinch of sugar, water etc)
Each dish also has an advised prep/cooking time, so you can plan the meals around nights when you can maybe spend a little longer cooking or those nights you need a quick meal. Our meals have ranged from between 10 minutes to 50 minutes with the majority hitting around the half hour mark.
We get ours delivered on a Monday, so at the weekend an email come through reminding is of the box arriving and telling us which meals should be eaten by which date due to the ingredients involved.
#2 – Simple Recipes To Follow
You’ll get a recipe card for each dish showing a photo of the meal, the ingredients list, the dietary information and of course the actual instructions. You can order a free folder to keep these recipe cards stored in, and of course can go back to each dish and cook again.
I am not a confident cook, however I find these simple to follow and I feel a lot better when in charge of a dish. Having the ingredients all there are measured out makes it a whole lot easier. It means my boyfriend gets some days off from cooking because I can comfortably take over on some dishes… So I think it’s ideal for those wanting to get a little more comfortable with cooking.
#3 – Try Dishes From All Around the World
In the past few months we’ve had 44 different meals and within those we have tasted dishes from 13 different countries. That’s something we would never have done without Gousto, and it certainly helps when you can’t travel!
There have been meals that I would never even have thought about looking for, and that’s what I like about this subscription. We’ve had some very different meals compared to what would usually eat so it gives each week something to look forward to. I’m the fussier eater out of the two of us, and I’ve tried so many new foods now that I wouldn’t have before.
#4 – Eat Different Meals Every Week
I am guilty of finding a meal that I really like and then eating it again, and again, and again. And if I’m being really honest, there are a few meals we’ve had from Gousto that I would eat every week.
However, whilst Gousto does have some meals that are available every week (the pasta bake is delicious), when you’re browsing through the recipes it is quite difficult to eat similar meals every week. There’s such a wide range, and if this is your main meal source then it’s easy to constantly have something different. It means you have more variety in your meals, you’ll never get bored and there’s always something good to look forward to.
#5 – Plenty of Vegetarian & Plant Based Meals Available
There are a few different sections when choosing your meals, and these of course include meat and fish dishes, but also include vegetarian and plant based. I’ve never found issues with finding vegetarian meals on Gousto, and I’ve always felt the choices were good.
My boyfriend does eat meat, so we have occasionally chosen a meat dish and I’ve substituted whatever the meat was to something veggie friendly. It works well. There are also gluten free recipes on offer.
Have you ever tried a subscription box?
Fancy giving the Gousto box a go? You can get 50% off your first box here!
