To ask what people think of their free Gusto boxes?

[londonmummy1966]

As lots of people were sharing codes last week I thought I'd try a box - I've had some from Hello Fresh before - to see how they compared.

Mine arrived today - I had a text yesterday giving a 2 hour delivery window and the box arrived within that - one up on Hello Fresh which only gives a 12 hour window and the couriers don't always knock so I don't know how long a box has been on the doorstep.

The contents are all there although the herbs and spinach look a little tired. THe chilled items came in a cardboard chiller box which would be good for taking things on a self catering trip/picnic or could otherwise be recycled.

Recipe cards are easy to follow and tonights meal - herby rice with basa fillet was really nice - fish portions are more generous than Hello Fresh.

The down points were that the recipes were less interesting to choose from than Hello Fresh a lot of pasta and rice dishes and not that many veggie options. Also Hello Fresh boxes divide up the ingredients between recipes so you have four bags each containing what you need for a dish with one further bag with any ingredients to be shared between recipes. Much easier to sort out and put away.

So I'm happy as they delivered what they said they would when they said they would and it tastes fine. Not sure I'd buy a full priced box though and am still pondering about 30% off or not - that might depend on whether or not I can also claim my voucher code credit.

Anyone else?

I’ve got one code left if anyone wants it - just tag me, I don’t know how to work pm’s!

@DreamingofItaly2023 we find this too! Tried a few subscriptions inc Morrison own one, green chef and HF and Gousto is hands down the best. So much choice! HF meals are often so basic...

They don’t deliver to the Scottish Highlands 😟

I have a code if anyone wants to PM me, I know there is a million floating around though.

Am loving my subscription 5 weeks in and only had a few meals I'd rather not have again, the portion sizes are enough to eek it out for 3 people and I just add more of the protein element if needed. The Chinese chicken has been my favourite with the ginger beef noodle salad a close second 😋

@NauseousNancy please could I have a discount code?

We tried both during the second lockdown. As time went in we did notice the quality of meat in the hello fresh box was not good also missing ingredients was really annoying . Out of the 2 I preferred Gousto for much better quality ingredients and meal choices .

Copied from another thread I posted on...

Chasingsquirrels · 30/07/2022 13:16

Mine arrived about an hour ago.

I'm actually surprised at how much was in there, the veg was seems good quality and the meat was still cool with the ice packs being only partially defrosted.

The bags of salad leaves were squashed flat at the bottom of the veg side, with potatoes etc on top - which is very poor packing.

I do wonder about 25% carbon savings mentioned in the booklet, given the small portions of things (spices etc) and plastics in the wrapping, plus I have almost no food waste anyway so that wouldn't be a saving for me.

I won't be continuing, my box would have cost £50.25 plus £1.99 p&p and I'd say the same food would cost me around £30 max, probably less.

But a very welcome freebie!

The bloke I'm seeing is going to have a free box on my code and I'll see if my patents want one and if I get 2 x £20 free credit I'll probably have another box before I cancel if I can combine 30% off and a £20 credit.

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We had a substution which I didn't notice before I posted the above, large tomatoes were substituted for some of the cherry tomatoes (1 had 1 box of cherry and 5 large).
They texted and emailed me about this, and gave revised cooking instructions.

We've since cooked one of the meals (see pics). DP had the whole salad bag on the pictured plate as I don't like salad, and I did some frozen peas to go with mine.
The recipe was easy to follow and pretty much took the time stated.
Food tasted good, and I liked the basil & tomato sauce and would make that again.

I ordered a 4 person box but it will mainly be DP and I eating them so thats 8 meals for each of us.
I only see him at the weekends so I froze all of the meat & the spinach.
I'll use the majority of the fresh things (eggs, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, tomatoes and carrots) as larder items as I'd always have them in anyway, then we will be make the other meals at our leisure over the coming weekends as the condiments will keep.
DP took the other salad bags and will have them as part of his lunches this week.

Thank you @NauseousNancy ❤

Have pm'd you 😁

We had one when DD sent me a code, but I wasn't overly impressed to be honest. Way too much packaging, not enough flavour and I was quite put off after eating a Basa fillet to find out where it had come from.

I'm a keen cook so have a cupboard full of ingredients and found a lot of it to be fairly low in quality in terms of stock etc. I really wanted to like it!

I’d love a free code if anyone has one please! I can’t work out how to PM those who said they have one….

I prefer gousto to Hello fresh. Found hello fresh portions small tbh.
It is nice once in a while not having to think toouch about ahopping and cooking.
Easy to follow recipes. I usually kept the cards and then sloghtly changed bits. Like using nice potatoes instead of ciabatta etc.
That said, of course DH didn't have an account so now he has free bo on a way😂

I also have a code for free box now😂

Love gousto you need to get in early to get the best range of recipes I find lots more choice and variety than hello fresh
recipes rotate regularly too which is a pain when you find a new favourite and want it again but have to wait

Same!

I must be the only person in the world to have not tried the free gousto box! I keep trying to use people's vouchers but then st the checkout it tells me the voucher code isn't valid and tried to charge me the full amount. I've tried lots of different people's vouchers so I don't think it's that. Any ideas? Thanks!

@surreygirl1987 i had the issue and had to delete ( ) at the beginning and end.

pm me for my code please

That's odd, they are clearly working for other people (and did for me, plus my DP ordered one using my link).
Have you tried a just posted one?
Happy to PM you mine if you want, but don't want to turn this thread into a promo code thread.

I am just glad to hear from various people including friends that they also found hello fresh small portions. I thought it'a my fat arse😂

Btw Gousto has their recipes online free available to all so if you like something you can find it on their website no need for cards anymore.

I had to try quite a few different codes off one of the threads till it worked, took a few god but worked in the end. That's mine if you want to try that

Your code worked! Many thanks- it must be the 5th I've tried 😂 excited to see what all the fuss is about!