My Food Bag. Real Reviews - Annie, the Foodie Mum

Dinner Persona: explorer team – the Foodie Mum

I have two kids 9 and 6 and I’m a huge foodie! I live and breathe great food and cook like a boss. I read recipe books like bedtime stories, and am addicted to foodie blogs and delicious Instagram feeds. I love healthy eating, wholefoods cooking, knowing where my meat and veg comes from and with friends in NZ, happen to already be a huge fan of Nadia Lim! For me there’s no better way to spend weekends than cooking delicious meals for friends and family. Weekdays, however, are a different story.

Even though I adore cooking, at the end of another looong work day I’m mostly too tired and thoroughly unprepared to get creative in the kitchen. A single mum, I share our home with an au pair and often prefer to feed the kids early, then cook dinner later for the both of us, though in saying that my kids eat pretty much anything I dish up so I was looking forward to giving their palates a challenge when I discovered I would be road-testing the My Gourmet Bag (4 meals for 2 people) last week.

Overall
My Food Bag, you had me at ‘Bonus Happy Father’s Day block of single origin dark chocolate’. Cooking and eating gourmet meals for two is one of the things I miss most after many years now of the monotony of weekly meal prep as a full-time single mum to two hungry mouths. Complex spice mixes, the punch of a seeded chilli, herb-heavy accompaniments, indulgent cuts of meat…. the Gourmet Bag delivered all of this and more.

Would you recommend it?
I would 100% recommend it to other families like mine - I have already ordered my next bag!

Convenience:
Our two bags of produce for the week arrived on time within my chosen 90-minute window, following a couple of clearly communicated SMS’ from the good folk at My Food Bag. The gentleman who delivered it took the time to talk me through the process. I loved the convenience of the experience, of having all these completely different meals pre-planned for me, of being able to utilise all the produce supplied across multiple recipes to avoid that half a bunch of wilted parsley decaying in the crisper all week, of the timely free delivery, and the high quality and freshness of all the ingredients. 

Quality & deliciousness of the food:
All the meals offered the variety and complexity of flavours that is such a challenge to deliver to your family night in, night out on a weekly basis. Our first night’s meal, a one-dish baked salmon fillet (probably the highlight of the week) with green beans and an incredible herb and horseradish-dressed potato salad, was the stuff dreams are made of. Swoon. The Mirrool Creek lamb backstrap, from a well-known chemical- and hormone-free NSW Riverina farm, was delicate and full of flavour. Many other products were either organic or ethically sourced, something I understand is standard across the My Food Bag range.

Value for money:
I now honestly believe you need to look beyond the ‘dollar figure’ at the overall convenience My Food Bag brings to your home. Portion sizes were generous enough to allow for both kids to have a small portion each as well (I did add a little extra to a couple of the meals – eg more chicken thighs to the laksa), and I even squeezed the next day’s lunch out of a couple of them. Though there did seem up front to be quite a bit of packaging involved, I don’t think it was any more than you’d find from a traditional grocery store, and certainly less than a supermarket. And ZERO wastage! According to the labels, some of our produce was packaged by people with disabilities which we appreciated – thumbs up, My Food Bag.

Overall when you factored in the additional meals we were able to put together from leftovers, it made the Gourmet Bag much better value for money than it originally appeared to be. At the end of the day, it is impossible to put a dollar figure on the time, energy, and hassle I was saved by the convenience of having all these meals at my fingertips.

Want to try it for yourself? You can grab 25% off your first weekly order using our code. Simply head to www.myfoodbag.com.au and enter the code ELLASLIST when you order.  
This exclusive ellaslist offer is for your first bag only. Valid until 19th October 2015. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Full details on delivery areas and T&Cs available online.