Yeah I would call and see what happened. I've used them for a year now and everything is always good quality. Plated and Hello Fresh are also good. The fish I've received is always mostly thawed so I just put it in the fridge and make that dish first. Also you can choose which meals to get so there's no reason to order one that you don't like.

You absolutely should call them and ask for a replacement or a refund.

Could it have been delivered to the wrong address? Then that person wasn't home, and the box sat on their doorstep until today when they dropped it off at your house? It happens all the time.

Yeah, call and complain.

sushipup1-do you mean that BA dropped it off at another address where it sat for a day until BA retrieved it and drove it to bob's house?

I just can't see that happening, but I might be reading your post wrong.

I can't imagine that BA does their own deliveries. Probably FedEx, UPS, USPS. I get neighbors' mail often enough, have had my things delivered to other houses.

My wife already e-mailed them late Friday evening. They responded Saturday morning apologizing and saying they would be sending another box, and that if the original box did show up to not use it.

That's great, bob. Here's a thread that discusses some of our experiences, with pics!

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3698739/first-blue-apron-delivery

You get a choice of what dishes you want them to send you. So, not sure why you got one with eggplant that you don't like.

My daughter used to get Blue Apron and the food was always fresh and or frozen solid. What I didn't like was disposing of those heavy ice packs. Have to agree with you about the eggplant. Gross stuff.

My daughter also uses Blue Apron, quite a bit and has never had a problem with any of the food...She had also gotten it for me but it's just too much food....But, for sure, you have to call and tell them...Whether it was left next door or not, they have to know......

We decided to try making one of the recipes from that box, since the ingredients for it were probably fine. The recipe was the one involving eggplant. With oven roasted slices of eggplant placed on pita bread with a few other ingredients to make eggplant pita sandwiches. Plus a side dish of cooked "faro" with tomatoes and diced cucumbers. The recipe was fairly easy to follow, and fairly logically organized, and in the end the result was actually edible :-)

I did peel the purple skin off of the eggplant, even though the recipe did not specify to do so. I find the peel can be tough and bitter and mostly I don't like the color.

The second weeks box arrived as scheduled, and this week three meals were all quite good even though in reading them I had doubts how their elements would work together.

I chose to make Chinese five-spice chicken over rice noodles first since we had a guest, and I already had a third chicken breast filet. I also subbed wide rice noodles for the rice vermicelli they included since I had more of them. My only complaint is I didn't cook my rice noodles long enough, and many stuck together.

The next meal was Beef and "Shishito" pepper open faces sandwiches. The sandwiches were really tasty, but were too tall to actually eat like a sandwich. Their salad accompaniment was mediocre. After a summer of home-grown, picked-ripe, heirloom tomatoes, their tomato which crunched like a cucumber when you bit into a piece was laughable.

Tonight I made the third one, Pan cooked Catfish, with Kale-Farro Salad. I was most skeptical of this one since my efforts with Catfish in the past have been so-so, plus this one called for a topping of cooked grapes and rosemary. I couldn't picture how all the tastes would come together, but I have to give this recipe a thumbs up as well.