I recently noticed that a lot of the meals have over a thousand mg of sodium and a lot of fat. When eating two portions of HelloFresh every day, sometimes I’d consume close to 200% of daily intake for fat and sodium.
The screenshot below is just an example, but I’ve seen some meals close to 2000mg of sodium.
Is there something I’m missing?
by Guilty_Extent3743
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I never had the impression that hello fresh was healthy
i use less than half the instructed salt on every recipe. i also think they think you’re using a lot more oil than you can get away with.
Some of their meals are very healthy, some are not. It’s mostly common sense. A chicken, veggie starch dish is relatively healthy. A pasta dish with cream sauce is going to rock you in fat, an Asian inspired dish is going to have your daily intake in sodium, etc.
You can always adjust the butter, cream, and salt the recipe calls for as well.
I’ve noticed HF has way more meals id consider high calorie lately. Like 900-1300 cals for one serving. That’s just too many calories in one meal for me.
I gained a bunch of weight with hello fresh lol but I think it was mostly stress and hormones. It depends on the amount of salt you’d add too, I’d usually cut the butter/salt and cream cheese type heavy add ins to lighten it.
Use less salt, drink more water. The macros are fine.
They seem to have plenty of recipes that are lower calorie and more macro friendly, I actually think that finding one that is over 1k calories is pretty rare unless it’s a premium meal.
It’s 1100 calories. What gave you the impression it’s healthy?
This is why I canceled, too much sodium and cholesterol.
factor is healthier
What gave you the impression that Hello Fresh was a health food service?
Without paying attention to the nutritional facts when selecting, the vast majority of the meals I choose are below 750 calories. But again, it’s not pretending to be a health food subscription.
Healthy means different things for different people. There is no baseline “healthy”. I pick meals that are fairly low calorie and fit them in my plan. I don’t track macros, but if you do, make sure to read them before you buy that meal. They all heavily differ.
Plus I don’t really think hello fresh is meant to be seen as healthy. You have to make judgements on what you put in your body because anyone can just say something is healthy and not back it up. It’s up to you to make sure you’re doing the right thing for your own health.
Where does sodium come from? Is it from salt you add (which you don’t have to)?