Green Chef UK | Keto Plan Review #ketouk | low carb foodie UK ??
okay guys so it’s a saturday i’ve just got
back i’ve been around my family all day with
imogen we’ve been out shopping all these sort
of good things and my green chef kit actually
came today so just behind me it’s quite a big
box um dan mister picked up i wasn’t here so i
assume they just left out the front but i’ve
got my four meals in here two people so um i
won’t actually start eating them until monday
and then i’ll show you guys what they look like
what’s in there how it tastes how it looks how
easy it is to cook so i just wanted to show you
guys the box that came today it’s quite a big
one um i need to obviously open it and make
sure the meat and things are stored away like any
normal food shop i actually got this with the 40
discount from uh the company cheeses so that’s
why i also wanted to try it as well because they
normally are quite expensive not just this one but
any sort of subscription where they send you meals
and with all the food and ingredients and stuff in
so um we’ll see what’s inside okay guys i’ve just
i’m so excited to have a look um and because i use
the cheese’s code i assume that’s why i’ve got
a packet of cheeses so cheddar ones super nice
i love these i do need to order some more i am
trying to fill up my snack drawer in the kitchen
but you’ve obviously got like the packet
of herbs and spices that are in the meals
you’ve obviously got some fresh stuff so it’s all
you know um measured out for two people so there’s
gonna be no waste which i absolutely love i hate
wasting food and then in here i assume is meek
so yeah this looks pretty good guys okay i’ve just
opened the box and obviously taken some stuff out
so these are all the veggies you can see it’s a
mix of broccoli we’ve got lemon pepper courgettes
we’ve got coconut cream here i thought it was
tuna but then i thought i have an older tuna
so take a cream and then obviously the herbs and
spices and things in there such as we have here
nutty smooth oh peanut butter that must be an
extra guys that wasn’t supposed to be in there
but i’ll take it very nice um this would be part
of the recipe so you’ve got like mayonnaise and
whatever and then this is like the fridge
bit so you can see the little chill pack
i’ve just opened it so we’ve got in here
cavallo nero soaked up cabbage then we’ve got
two of these greek salad cheeses so obviously
this is all keto friendly we’ve got a double cream
we’ve got chicken breast fillets
with skin off we’ve got card skin off
we’ve got pork mints we’ve got ramp steaks
we’ve got two packets of the parmigiano reggiano
which is obviously like a hard cheese and we’ve
got the tiniest cutest ever little cheddar
cheese which should that is cheddar cheese so
that focuses there we go chili cheese and that’s
oh and we’ve got a garlic as well that was
what was in the like fridge bag which they
insulated with this stuff and the ice pack
still has some icing so i’m confident that
it’s actually been chilled pretty well
i’m gonna chop this all in the fridge
and can’t wait to cook it all on monday
okay so i packed everything away and you get all
of these little leaflets in so they’ve got the
recipe cards they won’t show yet shave on the day
and then they’ve got little um like vouchers in
so you can have a free meal or your friend
can have a free meal and i guess it’s just
got a booklet in there telling you about green
chef so i’m excited to give these a little read
before i tell you guys more about it on the monday
okay it’s finally tea time and i’m having this one
first of the paprika and oregano bun less pork
burgers and obviously tells you the macros here
because this is keto box or keto friendly and it
says in the bottom left what plan we have here
and then on the back it tells you obviously how
to make it and how to portion up if you want two
or four people but i’ve got it set for two people
so i’ve got all the ingredients here so you’ve got
your spices and dressings cheese another bit of
cheese obviously the salt and pepper is mine and
the olive oil then you get your like your mixed
bag of uh salad your pork mince and then courgette
so i just prep this now guys so you
might hear imogen’s programs in the
background i’ve got the oven on ready to
have to heat up ready for the courgettes
which i’ll probably put in this little pan here
it’s like a chip pan but we kind of use it for
everything so it’s just kind of a generic family
just chuck anything on there unless it’s something
that’s going to drip through that’s something
that’s got to fill in so this thing negative thing
i will say about this box is that obviously i had
this delivery on saturday and already i’ve got
mold on this courgette so i don’t know if
you can see that but i wasn’t really too
happy about it but generally i mean these don’t
feel soft or anything so i’m not really sure why
that one was moldy to be honest with you so i’m
gonna be making two portions one for me and dan
um dan will have his later when he comes home
because he’s doing afternoon shifts this week
and he wants to give this one a
try so he’s not going to give all
of them a try which means there’s more
recipes from me which is always good
but you know at least trying it so i mean this
came pretty quickly as i said i got this on
discount through cheeses it was like 40 discount
if i’m completely honest i probably wouldn’t buy
this normally just because it is quite a
lot just for you know meals for two people
even with the larger portion sizes so if we’re not
larger portion sizes but the extra portion size is
for family um is it as cheap as some of the other
subscription services such as hellofresh and gusto
and i think this one is probably on par with
the marks and spencer’s box that you can get
i think it’s called mindful chef and
they have a box and it’s probably
around the same price as this um which i
thought competitors was quite expensive
but nonetheless i want to try this out so i
you know want to just give this a go especially
the keto one they do lower carb as well and
just see what it tasted like how easy it is
and just go from there really and to be honest
i’ve had a good day today apart from the evening
i’ve had a little tough evening with imogen she’s
just been really difficult just trying to wean her
and she’s just like throwing food everywhere
refusing to eat but of course she’s teething
and i think she’s probably going through a
developmental stage at the moment so she’s about
like nine and a half months old now so i’m
sure they have one around that time so right
now i am not really in the mood for cooking i
normally love cooking i do love cooking but i
don’t really have much time anymore and it’s quite
nice to already have these ingredients pre-prepped
which is really nice because everything is
just all portioned out so i don’t have to
do too much prep and this particular meal is
just basically meat and salad isn’t it with a
couple of vegetables so i am happy about that so
i just prep these cut these in the oven and then
we’ll start on burgers okay so i’m just putting
the pork mince in i just put some salt on and
then it says to use the smoked pica and dried
oregano so it says to pour the whole sachets in
which is nice and easy and then you just gotta
mix it up to make like one big patty and then you
split it into four like you would any burger and
then you put them on the frying pan so i’m just
using a frying pan from this morning all it’s
had in there is bacon and eggs so um there’s a
bit of egg in there but i’m just going to use
that to fry the burgers when i split them up
i’ve got to say as well it did say to add pepper
in so i have mixed that in well i think mix it
in i’ve just added it in and then obviously you
just carry on mints in your burger and then once
the burgers are done uh we’re mostly done we then
have to grate this for the little teeniest tiniest
block of cheese to put on top and then cover
with the lid so the cheese mouths which would
be super nice i’ve put a bit of oil on the pan as
it says heat up and then after this and once the
courgettes are cooked all we have to do is chuck
the salad together which is actually pretty simple
and to be honest it’s taken a lot of stress out of
me having like a proper meal at tea time because
you know especially when you have kids it is quite
time consuming as well so it’s really nice um
the idea of this actually in the idea of this kind
of meal box where they give you they basically
do the shopping for you you pick the meals
you want they meal prep for you and you just
you just kind of cook it and put it together
okay so i’ve grated my cheese burgers are cooking
so they make two little burgers or i think you
could just put them together and make two burgers
rather than the four little ones would be two big
ones those things are just cooking away because
it’s pork obviously you want it cooked completely
through um all i need to do is just chuck this
um and all this together apart from the mayo
so maybe you leave out as like a little side
sauce i’ll just chuck it all together
and show you guys what it looks like
my courgettes are done um so it’s just waiting for
the burgers and then it’s just plating up and i’ll
show you what that looks like okay guys so here we
have the paprika and oregano bun less pork burgers
and i think i’ve done a pretty good job i’m
chuffed with that i did use the whole sachet of
mayo because we do have mayo in the fridge um and
i didn’t drizzle the stuff on i just mixed all the
salad stuff together so that would be one portion
and it was really quick simple easy and i’m
looking forward to trying it so just finished my
meal that was actually really nice really really
filling probably because all the fats in there
from the pork burgers and obviously the cheese
while the two cheeses i really like the combo
flavors there’s a lot of strong flavors so you had
like your goat’s cheese and you had your cheddar
cheese i would never have thought of pairing
those two together i like them individually but
i wouldn’t have thought they’d be gone together
but they do so that was really nice it was
so easy simple everything’s like pre-weighed
you just got to open things and either
chop something or chuck it together
cook it so i really appreciate that i enjoyed
it and i enjoyed less stress in the kitchen when
you’re trying to cook and watch a baby and all
that sort of thing so that was really nice guys so
let’s see what tomorrow’s menu is like so it’s day
two using green chef i’m gonna be making this one
the chicken breast in a peanut and lime sauce
looks really nice so all the ingredients are out
here so got my broccoli lime chili chicken breast
peanuts garlic it’s like a spice mix and then i’ve
got the kale or might be cabbage i think and then
cooking oil which wasn’t included and then we did
have a peanut butter sachet but i’m going to
just use this one i’ve got in the cupboard
i actually ate it because i thought it was like
an extra thing they added in there because they
added the cheesies um cheese in there but never
mind i can just sub it for that so i’m just going
to get stuff prepped the first thing will be
the chicken and the broccoli going into the
oven and then prepping the rest okay i’ve got my
pan ready and lightly oiled it and just covered
everything in oil i’ve seared off the chicken
as it says but the only thing i’m not too happy
about is the size difference in the chicken so
this is supposed to be two portions worth right
um and then you’ve got like a normal chicken
breast and you’ve got like a really small
bit of chicken so for two people this isn’t really
quite equal i would want it to be roughly equal
it doesn’t have to be two big breasts
but you want at least medium-sized ones
this is like the smallest bit of breast ever so i
was gonna do this for me and dan but instead i’m
gonna have my portion tonight which would be the
bigger breast and the small breasts i’ll just take
to work tomorrow it’s like a lighter lunch so
um that’s what we’re gonna have to do okay i’ve
just taken out the oven the last seven minutes
you’ve gotta add the chili and the cabbage um
which we’re gonna add in so i’m just gonna chop
that up and add it in and then we can work on
the sauce okay so the chili and the cabbage is
on um drizzled with oil salt and pepper so i
should have put this back in now for seven minutes
and then we should go to work on the sauce which
is just this remainder selection of ingredients
here okay guys i’ve just put the garlic lime oil
peanut butter and the packet of sauce and it’s
coming into like a kind of paste i want to say
which i think it’s fine i’m just going to
add the coconut milk in now and then the last
bit is the lime juice you probably hear imogen
chatting away in the background she’s watching
that time programs before birth and bedtime so
let’s add this in make it all nice and saucy
it smells really nice guys like i’m really
looking forward to the sauce actually
and then all that’s left to do
is just to crush up my peanuts
sieve the chicken and the vegetables plate the
sauce and then just crumble use the crumbled
peanuts to just lay across the chicken to just
make it look a bit nice and it’s supposed to give
it that crunch okay it’s all done it looks so good
just like the card and you can see i’ve got this
lovely sauce it’s really nice and thick as well
so i guess you cook it to the consistency you want
i did add salt and pepper which was optional
but it definitely needed i think so let’s plate
it up and see how well i do against the card
okay here we go guys the last finishing touch
which is the peanuts it says to take them out the
packet and chop them but the obvious thing was to
just bash them up in the packet and then just cut
off it seems like the obvious thing to do there
maybe that’s the suggestion perhaps for green
chef there you go how delicious does that look
i mean my sauce is completely covering
the chicken but i even cut it the same way
or sliced it should i say the same way
that they do but in terms of a comparison
not bad pretty much identical i think it’s just
theirs is served a bit nicer with less sauce
so there you go i am going to go and enjoy
this now and let you know what i think of it
okay just finished my meal that was so so good the
sauce was like similar to having like a thai green
curry kind of sauce because you had the lime and
you had the spices and stuff in that spice mix it
was so nice obviously the chicken is all tender
and then obviously chicken and broccoli always
goes together it’s just a match made in heaven and
it was just really nice with the cabbage as well i
would never thought of putting um chilli in there
as well but that was nice too because it was fresh
it wasn’t like super hot and it just had the nice
heat to it it was just such a lovely dish i would
definitely eat that one again i really really
enjoyed it my only negative thing i could say was
that the fillets they gave me weren’t very equal
in proportion so one’s quite big one’s quite small
that is my only criticism otherwise that dish
delicious i couldn’t fault any of it really nice
okay it’s the third meal guys it’s steak
for dinner tonight which is really nice
i’m so tired i did a longer day at work imogen’s
all fed in the pajamas and she’s just playing in
a walker now watching some nighttime programs um
but it’s gonna be this tonight so it’s rump steak
and pumpkin seed pesto it looks really delicious
something that you might get in a restaurant
well at least the way it’s plated it does and then
i’ll just switch the camera and just show you what
ingredients it is so these are the ingredients
my kitchen’s a little bit of a mess but i’m too
tired to care right now so olive oil for the
dressing and cooking obviously bell peppers
can be cut up into strips with the courgette
shiny cup into batons so that we can bake those
first and then when the steak is cooking we’ve
got this stuff here so pumpkin seeds garlic lemon
um some hard cheese and some fresh herbs to be
mixed up i don’t think is it the parsley um to be
mixed up into a pesto and then we have our rocket
salad and then obviously the cheese that gets
crumbled on top and this is for two people so my
veggies are prepped these can go in the oven now
for about 16 minutes and then they’ll be all nice
and soft and crunchy and then we’ll move on to
the pesto okay that’s the pesto i had to add a
bit more oil in than what it said just to get it
to go um into more of a paste rather than a dry
paste but it looks really nice smells refreshed
too i’ve never made pesto from scratch i love
pesto but i’ve just never made it from scratch
so it was nice that i had all the ingredients
ready to be honest just to throw in and just
whizz away as it kind of says on here and then all
that’s left just to wait for the vegetables to be
done cook my steak and just prep the salad and all
that’s in the salad is you toss the bag of rocket
um so this bag here in some olive oil you can add
some pepper if you want and then i should have
crumbled the goat cheese in mix it up oh what’s
that i don’t know what that is on the back i
think that’s from one of the herb packets and then
serve my steak on there however i like it cooked
okay this is my finished result adventure that’s
crying in the background so i just put her down
um it doesn’t look exactly the same but i
don’t think it’s far off i didn’t cut my
steak up i just kept it whole and it kind of
fell apart a little bit so those two pieces
and then they’ve made the courgette and pepper
look a bit nicer than what i’ve got in mind but
i think it looks really nice so i i’m gonna
love everything in this i’m gonna enjoy this
um hopefully if i can entertain him again and
then i’ll let you guys know what it tastes like
okay i finished my tea it was really delicious i
could eat that every day as well that’s so nice
it was almost crying her eyes out because i
was eating and she’s tired and i can’t do both
and i’m still hungry um but the combination
of the flavors are really nice it was like
a really strong punchy pesto because you
had that raw garlic mushed up in there
and then you had obviously the strong flavor of
the goat’s cheese and the rocket salad because
that’s quite strong i think and peppery but the
combinations of the two big flavors was really
nice and then obviously had your nice red meat say
our rump steak and then obviously the courgette
and peppers which was just a nice compliment with
steak anyway i think but it was just really really
nice i just really love and appreciate that i
came back home from work it’s been a long day
because i commute as well because i spent an
extra i spent an extra couple of hours there
and the food is already proportioned so i
just got to check it together or cook it so
prep time was minimal um and cook
time it probably took longer to um
well it took longer to wait for the vegetables
to be cooked than anything else to be honest
and i just love how easy that is when you know
you’re really busy working parent and stuff so
um that was really nice to come home and
just have tea already sorted and such
and just do it and eat it was just so much
quicker than my normal weeknights so that
was really nice i would definitely have that
again and i would totally recommend that as well
really really good good recipe okay so it’s the
last recipe today so day four and it’s going to be
the fish recipe now this one uh dan didn’t really
want he’s not a big fish fan um in terms of well
just any fish really i don’t think he likes fish
in general to be honest so what i’m going to do
where it says to use seasoning like salt and
pepper i’m not going to put it in because i’m
going to make both portions and i’m going to blend
the other portion for imogen to have the food
because she’s only a baby she’s not going to
have added salt and all that sort of thing so
i’m going to make it all and then i’ll just
have a bit extra vegetables and stuff and just
put a little bit of the meal in the blender blend
it up and then give it to her for tea tonight
and see she likes it so for tonight’s meal is the
parmesan baked cod so it looks quite nice on there
and i noticed this one is half the calories of the
other meals i’ve been having so it’s pretty much
it’s like 500 calories if you round up the
others have been like 850 i think around that
and then obviously shows in here how to cook it
now mainly criticism looking at the ingredients
is for two people luckily dan doesn’t want it but
for two people it says two leeks and i’ve got one
normal size big fat leak and then i’ve got one
like really skinny leak and it says to cut these
in quarters there is no way you were cutting this
into quarters this would just be halved because it
is just i mean look at it size comparison um a bit
like when we had the chicken meal and we had one
normal sized breast and one absolute tiny breast
but anyway this is the ingredients for this so
this is just some dill to mix with the sauce later
and this little thing here is just veggie stock
which you get in the packet so i just need to prep
the vegetables first lay on a tray prep the fish
but i’m not going to bother seasoning one of them
and well i’m not going to bother seasoning any of
it so it’s okay for the baby and then i’ve got
to bake this for 15 minutes and then it’s just
doing the sauce checking all this in
a pan and then that’s it done really
so this would be quite simple again tonight
i think which would be really really nice
and great for you know on the go or if you have
families so i’m looking forward to trying this
okay i didn’t have a big pan so i’ve kind
of just chucked the veggies in this pan and
just chucked some garlic oil on and then i
just put the two fish in separate pans um
i use this oil which actually came in one of my
crave kits flavored with garlic so i think that’d
be really nice and then i haven’t seasoned it
normally i would but i haven’t seasoned it because
i’m gonna be giving some this to the baby so um
can’t have salt i could have pepper i suppose
but i’ve run out of pepper so i’m a bit sad about
that i need to go get some pepper tomorrow but um
yeah so i’m gonna just leave the seasons out
and just use what i have in the kit okay and
then it’s just making the sauce whilst that
cooks i forgot to add actually that it uses
garlic so all i’m gonna do now is just fry
some garlic for like a minute and then i gotta
just chuck everything else in i do need to chop
the dill which i will do once the garlic is in
and then add the paste and the hard cheese and
cream everything and just and just stir it until
you get to obviously a thickness that you like
and then i should wait for the food to just beep
when it’s done which should be like 15 minutes
so it’s pretty quick um quick thing yesterday’s
hopefully it’s gonna be nice and tasty and
uh i think that’s pretty good to be honest
especially since emily’s been napping a lot as
well i think she’s going through a growth spurt
but she’s been like delaying her morning now and
just sleeping really late in the afternoon and
then i’m having a second sleep so i’ll just
do the sauce and show you what it looks like
i just realized i’ve made a mistake in the
recipe it says that you’re supposed to use
the hard cheese on top of the fish press
it down bake it not put it in the sauce
so it might ruin the meal i don’t actually
know i mean the sauce looks okay but
i don’t know if that’s gonna affect the taste
because it’s obviously supposed to be like a fish
garlicky fish sauce now it’s like a cheesy
garlicky dill sauce so i guess we’ll see
how this turns out but i obviously didn’t
read every single detail in that packet
okay this is the end result so you can see on
the photo it looks all nice and plated i’ve just
chucked mine in sections and i’ve got two portions
of the sauce so you actually have less than that
on your card and then imogens i didn’t bother
actually blending the fish i’ve just blended the
broccoli and the leeks and then obviously it’s got
that garlic oil in there as well so it’s quite a
lot of flavors going on already so i don’t want
to add the fish to the mix so see if she likes
that and i’ve blended it up and that’s the meal
it looks quite nice actually um the sauce doesn’t
smell too bad even i mix the cheese in and the
cheese suppose is supposed to go on the cod but
then when you look on the photo it’s kind of like
you’ve got the cheesy cod and then you’ve got the
sauce on top so it’s going to be all mixed anyway
isn’t it so i’m thinking it’s not going to be too
bad so i’m going to give this go and tell you guys
what i think so i didn’t really eat tea tonight
i think i spoiled it with the sauce by putting
that cheese in it just felt like there was too
many bowl flavors in one like sauce and it just it
really just put me off the hole didn’t it it was
just too strong it was too much um so i didn’t
actually eat dinner tonight which is a shame
i think if i made the sauce properly uh and what
followed the instructions i think i would have
liked it do you think i would have loved it but
i think i would have um actually eat my dinner so
i wouldn’t personally get that recipe again um
as i would have with the other three as they
were super nice i didn’t give imagine the fish
obviously and i didn’t give well i did try to
give her the mushed up vegetables that i made
but she didn’t like it either i think probably
the garlic was quite strong so she ended
up having a vegetable biryani in the end
which was from the yellow brand pouch so she
had that for her tea now she’s all full of
energy so to end the video here i liked three out
of the four meals i ordered it was for two people
for four meals and i think if i’m completely
honest would i buy it after this you know discount
that i used probably not just because um to feed
me myself and my baby it would cost i think it’s
70 pound for four people for four portions so i
would have obviously saved those and frozen them
um but if it was just for two people or one person
who’s doing keto and i didn’t have a family to
look after and obviously money-wise everything’s
good and quite busy then yeah i probably would do
it i would take the keto one and the low-carb ones
and it just makes it easier for you in the week
because what i did enjoy about it was the fact
that it’s all prepared for you they basically
do the shopping for you your meal is pretty much
prepared in the week um you’ve just got to cook it
and it gives you the macros and things and tells
you how to cook it so in terms of the pros i would
consider trying some of the other boxes probably
but the main reason why i wouldn’t choose green
chef is just because of the pricing so i think
it’s 50 pound for two people for four meals
and that’s obviously if you like them in terms of
the variety as well there’s not as much variety in
terms of the amount of meals you can pick from
for all the different meal types you have more
selection on the other brands like gusto the one
is mindful chef or something like that but you
have all these other boxes that you can choose
from so i wouldn’t say it had as much variety
as those but definitely you know if you don’t
have a family consider it if you do then price
wise personally for me it wouldn’t work as i’m
part-time and we just couldn’t justify that cost
but nonetheless the meals are really nice i did
enjoy them apart from the one at the end the fish
one it was already tasty really easy really simple
i’m quite good at cooking anyway so i didn’t feel
like it was you know hard for me to cook i think
for someone who doesn’t have as much cooking
experience as skill i think it’s still pretty easy
to do as well so um all round it’s worth checking
out so check the link in the description below
i’m going to end it here hope you guys enjoyed
it let me know if there’s anything you want
to see on the channel let me know um if you’ve
tried this subscription service or any others
and then i will see you guys in the next video
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