I switched to grocery delivery instead – here’s how I made it less mental overhead

Like the title says, I recently I switched back to grocery delivery instead.

So far it’s been saving me a lot of money, even with the delivery fees. (We're a household of 2 people who tend to eat large portions, which meant we were often supplementing meals with other food anyway, so YMMV.)

One big thing I do to make cooking still be easy is to get things that are partially premade from the grocery store, like pre-cut veggies, cooked rotisserie chicken, etc. That way it's a good balance of lower cost and still easy.

Of course the main downside is the mental overhead of deciding what to eat and building up the grocery order.

To solve that, I ended up making myself an app where I can store recipes that I like, including ones that originally came from hello fresh recipe cards. Then, the app makes a shopping list for me automatically and builds my whole grocery cart for me.

So now it feels a lot like getting hello fresh still, but it's way cheaper, I can add other recipes that I like (I was getting sick of the ones they were sending me), and I don't have endless boxes to recycle anymore.

I’m sharing it here because I mentioned it in a comment earlier this week, and several people have reached out saying it was useful for them. So thought it might help others here, too! It’s free if you want to try it out.