Flash sale: Save $45 on a Home Chef meal kit delivery subscription

Who actually wants to venture into a grocery store anymore? With the lack of social distancing, people taking off their face mask to sneeze (yes, I saw that happen), and the general crowds and lack of inventory, I'd rather just have my meal ingredients delivered to my door. That's the idea behind meal-kit delivery services, and man, has their time ever come. Right now, Home Chef wants to make picking one a little easier. Now through Tuesday, May 26, Home Chef is having a flash sale -- save $45 on a new subscription.

That's $15 off on each of your first three boxes, which is like getting two free servings in each box (meals run about $8 per serving). With 38 weekly menu options and lots of customization, Home Chef stands out in a field crowded with meal-kit delivery services. For example, with some recipes, you can double the protein without doubling the portions. Or you can specify antibiotic-free meat instead of the standard fare.

And the meals themselves are very enticing -- with options like cotija and jalapeno-crusted chicken with Cajun zucchini and corn, or salmon with hazelnut brown butter sauce and garlic asparagus orzo, I am genuinely getting hungry just writing about this.

For more details about Home Chef -- and eight other meal-kit services -- check out the best meal kit delivery services of 2020. And see what Cheapskate Rick has to say about meal-kit services in his roundup of five great meal-kit delivery deals you can get right now.

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