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Food Hacking - Exploiting HelloFresh + MealKits

Food Hacking - Exploiting HelloFresh + MealKits

How to get 130 dollars worth of food for only 10.99!

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Jul 28, 2024
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The cost of groceries is rising - especially in New York City. As the memes go even the cost of egg was on the rise. But what if I told you for 10.99 you could get 12 meals delivered to you! That is less than a dollar a meal!

(Below is me getting 130 dollars worth of food for 10.99. 6 meals, each meal serving 2 people.)

So I was recently bought to this revelation of what I will coin “food hacking” by this video from All The Hacks where this guy basically signs up for a lot of these discounted trials by meal-prep companies right now, and then exploits the retention offers to continue to get hugely discounted groceries. What I didn’t realize is he said something where “the first box is free” usually with HelloFresh, and that it’s the later boxes that get you to pay more - meaning the move is to usually cancel in the first box. So I wondered, how do I do this?

Step 1: Get a Referral / Start Small / Or Delay

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