Review of Gobble Green Vegan Frozen Meals, Day 2-3

The saga continues!
For the second day we had tofu scramble and hash browns again. This time Sarah added enough other ingredients to the tofu scramble for her to be able to choke it down, and again the hash brown was pretty good.

Lunch:
We did better than the previous day, w/ Sesame Tofu & Vegetables and Baked Cauliflower and Broccoli:

The sesame tofu and vegetables (on left) was actually pretty good (no complaints), although it was odd that although the instructions said to serve it over rice, we didn't receive any rice in the package. Fortunately we already had some prepared to eat it with.

Sadly yet again the cauliflower / broccoli dish tasted like vinegar and in general off-tasting, so presumably it too was somewhat spoiled.

For dessert we had the "carrot coconut scamble" but it was just shredded carrots, coconut, and agave nectar. So not really gross, but not really dessert either. Just OK and odd.

Lunch, Day 2:
I had the Lentil / Cauliflower Curry and the Coriander Courgettes:

Surprise! They tasted of vinegar! Otherwise they were both actually sort of good, but by the time I was almost to the end I had a stomachache again and couldn't finish it (not due to quantity, I'm a big eater).

Sarah had half of a Texas Caviar (good, too salty but otherwise had good flavors) and the Paella (good, sort of peppery flavored, not gross but if we had made it we wouldn't make it again). Fortunately they weren't vinegary tasting at all so presumably they were frozen more quickly after being made.

Once again for dinner we had to eat normal food. We're almost done!

Review of Gobble Green Vegan Frozen Meals, Day 1

We saw one of those group buy deals for 50% off a week of frozen homemade vegan meals delivered to your house (from Gobble Green), and since we knew Sarah would be extremely busy in the week before her final project for school was due we thought it would be fun to try.

The first wrinkle was that when we ordered our food, it was scheduled to arrive a month later. They indicated that you can get it next week instead by ordered $25 of extra food, so we did so thinking it would arrive on Monday or Tuesday. After a week of not being able to get in touch with them by phone and having a few cryptic and unhelpful email exchanges it finally arrived on Saturday, without the extra food we ordered (hopefully we don't get charged).

Anyway, aside from the customer service issues (perhaps they are overwhelmed by the response to their group buy offer), here's the rundown on day one of the food.

Breakfast
"Hash Browns" & Mushroom Tofu Scramble w/ Cheese (not pictured: strawberry oatmeal and peanut butter cookie):

The hash browns were really tasty (although not crispy like hash browns usually are), but the tofu scramble was inedible (it tasted like plain tofu with vinegar, and adding salt did not help). Definitely the worst tofu scramble either of us had ever had; I really hate wasting food but couldn't finish it. Perhaps the tofu had gone bad?

We also ate a strawberry steel cut oatmeal (which Sarah liked, but I thought was too sweet and funny tasting, although the texture was good) and a delicious peanut butter cookie (it looked like fake meat when it arrived, but was quite good nonetheless).

Lunch:
Tortilla Soup, Southwestern Salad, Signature Vegetable Soup

I thought that the Southwestern Salad was OK, but bland and too sour (so I added some agave, salt, and Sriracha). Sarah thought it tasted vinegary and "indescribably wrong" and "chemically."
The Signature Vegetable Soup tasted to me like it had spoiled a bit, although to Sarah it just tasted like soup made from canned vegetables.
The tortilla soup was definitely the best of the three, but was (yet again) too sour / vinegary for our tastes, and pretty salty as well. I still sort of enjoyed eating it, but by the end I was ready to quit and couldn't handle another bite.


So lunch was definitely not a winning meal.I got a solid stomachache afterwards, so we ate normal food for dinner instead. It seems likely that several of these dishes were left out too long before being frozen since they mostly tasted "off."