HelloFresh Vegan Options 2022: Menu Options, Pricing, and More

HelloFresh is a popular meal kit delivery service that provides weekly recipes and all the ingredients needed to cook.

Although the company offers plant-based options, it’s not strictly vegan.

If you’re interested in adapting it to your vegan diet, you can – although it might be a little difficult.

In this article, you’ll learn how to adapt HelloFresh plant-based meals to your vegan diet.

How to adapt HelloFresh to a vegan diet

To turn your HelloFresh box into a vegan-friendly meal, be sure to select the vegan option when personalizing your plan. You can choose between 3 to 5 recipes per week for two or 2 to 4 recipes per week for 4 people.

When choosing a meal, you can choose from all the plant-based recipes available for the week.

HelloFresh’s website has a recipe archive where you can view all the ingredients and instructions for the entire recipe catalog. You can filter by dietary preference to see all vegetarian recipes.

Use this tool to choose the most vegan-friendly menu options from the recipes available in a given week. Some tips for choosing the best vegan-friendly option are:

• Avoid dishes with creamy or cheese sauces.
• Avoid dishes where eggs are an important source of protein.

Once you receive the box, you can discard the non-vegan ingredients, or omit them from the recipe, or replace them with vegan alternatives. Common non-vegetarian ingredients in HelloFresh vegetarian meals are sour cream and cheese.

Sometimes certain breads may contain milk. You have to check the ingredient label to verify this. It’s a good idea to have vegan substitutes for sour cream and cheese on hand, as well as some vegan bread.

Summary

Choose a vegetarian plan on HelloFresh, then choose the easiest vegetarian meal to prepare from the weekly menu. Have vegan sour cream, cheese, and bread ready for easy replacement.

Vegan on HelloFresh

HelloFresh offers a variety of vegan ingredients in its recipes. Here are some examples, taken directly from plant recipes in their recipe archive:

• Protein: Black beans, chickpeas, peanut butter, sesame seeds, peanuts, pistachios
• Fats: Guacamole, Sesame Oil
• Grains/Carbohydrates:Rice, Couscous, Pasta, Crumbs, Flour, Potatoes, French Bread, Spelt
• Vegetables: shallots, peppers, onions, zucchini, carrots, yellow squash, broccoli, arugula, butternut squash
• Fruits:Tomatoes, limes, lemons
• Spice and spices: Chili flakes, thyme, balsamic vinegar, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, white wine vinegar, basil, garlic powder, parsley

Summary

While HelloFresh does not offer vegan options, many of its ingredients are vegan-friendly.

Menu combinations

Some of HelloFresh’s plant-based recipes that can be easily made vegan are:

• Brown butter twins with asparagus, walnuts and lemon ricotta. Remove cheese and cook with oil instead of butter.
• Vegetable Burrito Bowl with Charred Corn and Tomato Salsa. Do not add sour cream or cheese to the bowl.
• Sesame Peanut Noodles with Chili and Shredded Carrots. This recipe is vegan.
• Couscous based on chickpea, zucchini and grape tomatoes. No feta cheese.
• Charred corn husks with farro, spiced peppers and chipotle sauce. Use oil instead of butter to make the recipe, and don’t add sour cream or cheese.
• Avocado Green Goddess Bowl with Farro, Crispy Chickpeas and Roasted Sweet Potatoes. Substitute vegan alternatives for sour cream.
• Smoky Black Bean Enchiladas with Bico De Gallo and Lime Cream. Don’t add cheese, use a vegan alternative instead of sour cream.

Summary

You can easily make many plant-based HelloFresh recipes vegan by omitting the cheese and sour cream and cooking with oil instead of butter.

Nutritional Quality

One of the concerns you may have when using the HelloFresh box for vegetarian meals is whether you are getting enough nutrients from these foods.

Many of HelloFresh’s vegan recipes seem to rely heavily on dairy (and to a lesser extent eggs) for protein content.

To address this, you should have a variety of high-protein vegan milk alternatives on hand, such as using vegan yogurt or sour cream for creamy sauces or dressings, and using dairy-free cheese to sprinkle on in dishes or sandwiches.

You may also want to have some tofu or vegan egg substitutes on hand to replace the eggs if needed.

Meals also include a wide variety of vegetables, plant-based protein sources, whole grains, and nutrient-dense herbs and spices.

Summary

Many plant-based HelloFresh meals have a large portion of their protein from dairy. Get some high-protein vegan milk substitutes on hand so you can be sure that these foods still contain enough protein after you become vegan.

Cost and comparison with competitors

HelloFresh is one of the most affordable food delivery services. The table below compares HelloFresh’s prices to some of its competitors.

	HelloFresh	Purple radish	Green Chef	Sun Basket	Blue Apron	Each plate	Home Cook
cost per serving	$7.49 to $8.99	$9.99 to $11.99	$10.49 – $11.99	$10.99 – $12.99	$9.99	$4.99	$8.99
Shipping	$8.99/box	Free	$7.99 per box	$7.99 per box	$7.99 per box or free depending on order size	$8.99/box	$6.99
Vegetarian options available	No (some foods may be vegan)	Vegan	No (some foods may be vegan)	No (some foods may be vegan)	No (some foods may be vegan)	none	No (some foods may be vegan)

Summary

HelloFresh is an inexpensive meal service, and its only major competitor with an exclusive vegetarian option – Purple Carrot – costs a lot more per serving.

Final result

HelloFresh is a meal bag delivery service that offers a vegan option, but you can customize it at home to make it vegan-friendly by substituting certain ingredients like dairy and eggs.

However, some meals may be low in protein if these products are removed. You can compensate by adding extra vegan protein to these meals.

HelloFresh is one of the most affordable meal kit delivery services, and if you make their plant-based recipes vegan, you might save some money compared to a vegan meal kit delivery service.