I tried Purple Carrot, the vegan version of Blue Apron, a prepared-meal delivery service. Unfortunately, I had to cancel immediately after my first package. This is what I wrote when cancelling:
Holy bananas, the packaging is far too much for me.
To be fair, I probably could have predicted this - so I am not necessarily trying to drag the company, but there is no way I can keep a subscription when the packaging is this unsustainable.
For a vegan company, I expected more environmentally-friendly packaging.
In fact, scrap packaging. Give me a reusable box that you will pick up and drop off every week like the milkman days of old.I don't want to pour into my trash four bags of refrigerant and recycle the thin plastic shell. That is not ~recyclable packaging~. As well, 2 square yards of jute fiber is a bit too much for me to want to compost every week.
I could live with the single-use plastic for wrapping the vegetables (though I would rather go without), and I could probably live with the cardboard box every week. The packaging needed to keep food "fresh" is just too much.
Please fix this, as I would have loved to keep this service. The meals were very good.