eating fresh with HelloFresh + Freshpet

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If you’ve been following The Dainty Squid for some time you may recall how over the past three years I’ve shed my title of ‘picky eater’. I was previously someone who literally only ate because they had to. I didn’t enjoy food, and I certainly didn’t like cooking. Jeff changed me. He learned all the things I did like and slowly introduced me to other things he thought we similar enough that I might like. His patience showed me that maybe I wasn’t actually a picky eater after all.

These days I am all about trying new foods. I don’t really think there is anything I wouldn’t try, at least a few times. This new-found love of food meant I tried really, really hard to like cooking. The thing is I’m not good at it. Let me rephrase that, I’m decent at cooking but I’m bad at grocery shopping, and I have a really hard time choosing what to make. I excel at browsing food blogs but can never actually decide on what to make. This leads to us, more often than not, going out to eat or just eating a freezer pizza.

Jeff and I both really love to cook though. Before we moved in together we talked all the time about how living together would change our eating habits but alas, they might be even worse. Enter HelloFresh! When this opportunity arose I couldn’t jump fast enough…

HelloFresh delivers step-by-step recipes and all the fresh ingredients you need to make them. They offer plans for families of two or four and have vegetarian based meals as well as ones with meat and fish. HelloFresh covering the shopping, planning and delivery for you means you can actually take the time to enjoy cooking.

We are currently two and a half weeks in to a month long journey of eating better thanks to HelloFresh, and honestly, couldn’t be happier. After Jeff gets home from work in the evening the last thing either of us wants to do is head into the kitchen but knowing that there is fresh food waiting to be cooked up has been an awesome motivation. Each one of their recipes take just around a half hour so there are basically no excuses. We have been having such a blast spending time in the kitchen together. One of my favorite things about this whole experience so far is that the recipes have been things we probably wouldn’t have chosen on our own. (You guys, I ate shrimp and it was AMAZING.)

Klaus is also embarking on this month long journey to eat better along with us. I’ve switched out his old food for Freshpet. My first impression? This stuff smells amazing. It’s kind of amazing to be able to feed him something that I honestly wouldn’t mind eating myself. It smells that tasty! His first impression? Well, it was gone in a matter of seconds. That boy is always excited about food but I’ve never seen him enjoy it this much.

Freshpet is real, all-natural pet food. They don’t use any additives or preservatives. It just needs to be refrigerated. They don’t use pre-processed meat powders, ‘chicken meals’ or by-products – just real meat as the #1 ingredient. I feel really good feeding this to him.

The kitties were also super interested in his new food. You spotted Squid in the photo below, right? Hehe! Freshpet makes a few different cats foods as well so I’m thinking we’ll have to check those out for them! I will definitely update you in part two of this series if the kitties try out some Freshpet.

So now for the part I’m sure you’ve been waiting for –  a giveaway! Between now and October 16th, you have a shot to win one of ten free HelloFresh boxes and $39 worth of Freshpet manufacturer coupons! Winners will be randomly selected and notified by CLEVER by October 17, 2017. Good luck!!

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I was selected for this opportunity as a member of CLEVER and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.