If you've been following along you know that I am testing out several home delivery meal services. For the next three posts I'll be looking at
Purple Carrot. My big challenge living out in rural NC is I don't have a lot of choices for food that is good for you. Everything here is deep fried, loaded with fat and sugar or just plain bad for you. Being Vegan makes this a much more desperate situation. I literally have one restaurant I can eat at because it has a salad bar and I can choose items that normally wouldn't have animal products in them. So these home delivery deals with Vegan options are really important for me. I tried
Blue Apron originally but they didn't have a Vegan option. Next I tried
GreenChef, which I still have because they have really awesome recipes. They only deliver 3 meals and ideally I would like six different meals a week. So I added Purple Carrot to see how it was. My next three posts will review the meals they sent me on flavor, ease of preparation and quality of the ingredients.
When my box arrived from Purple Carrot I was a bit disappointed. The ingredients were a bit lacking. The herbs were wilted and the veg was brown and mushy. I contacted the company on Facebook to get some assistance with that and they asked me to send in an email. Again, a bit annoying. But I continued with the first recipe.
The Happy Pancake, is neither. It has to be one of the worse dishes I have ever had in my entire life. It the pancake was mushy and had zero flavor even after I added my own Tumeric because mine was left out of the box.
Here's the first recipe.
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When I opened the box the first thing I noticed was how poor the quality of the veg was. The herbs were wilted and my green onion was brown.
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You can see here the onion and the greens for another meal. Wet, wilty and just nasty.
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One of my spice packets was just dust. As you can see below there's really nothing in this. Luckily I had some Turmeric on hand to replace it.
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Hubby prepped the veg while I prepared the pancake batter and the dressing.
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The dressing came in four little bottles which I combined in a bowl. It was really heavy on the sesame oil. It was very similar to a Bimibap sauce.
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Hubby started the veg in the frying pan.
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The pancake batter was water, rice flour and turmeric. It said add a bit of salt and pepper which I did, but it was still very very bland.
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The salad consisted of shoots and some mixed greens. I had to toss out the greens they sent because they were so bad. I did have some salad in the frig, so I added that to the dish.
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The finished pancake was a soggy mess. It had zero flavor and was just awful. I took this photo, one bite and then tossed it in the trash.
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At this point you can probably guess that my Purple Carrot days were numbered. When I contacted support on Facebook about the pour quality of the ingredients they referred me to the website/email contact. When I emailed no one replied. Getting nervous about the next up coming meals I put my entire cart on skip mode to wait for a reply. When no reply came I went to look on how to cancel. It said you had to email or call in to cancel the service. On the Facebook page all the claims of getting sent more food after canceling really scared me so I decide to email in to cancel. I figured, well, I have that one week coming and maybe if I like those next dishes, I can just reconnect my account. The next morning I got up and I went to check on my Purple Carrot page to see if reconnecting was easy to do. I was surprised to not only see my account canceled but my next shipment canceled as well. So this review will only consist of the three meals I have currently. Based on what I have seen so far and the condition of the veg in my fridge right now, I probably will not be reordering Purple Carrot. I did decide to check out a new service called
Mama Sezz. This is a plant based meal service where the food is already preppared. Not really want I wanted but I figured why not give it a shot.
Next I'm reviewing the White Bean Ball Subs.
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