I received a text from a friend- look in your email we are sending you a gift.
I looked in my email and this is literally what my very first email from purple carrot was titled: 'Dinner's on Michael! Try Purple Carrot for Free!' I know these friends use purple carrot weekly so I thought it would be fun to have a free meal or two.
I created an account in which I was forced to give my credit card number, birth date, and other personal info - for a gift.
The 'gift' was for a 3-day meal plan for 2 - so 6 vegan plates of food for $73.00.
Several weeks later I still had not received the food. One night I got a text from my bank that purple carrot had charged my credit card $73.00 for my first box! I emailed purple carrot and received an email back from Sandra telling me that I didn't receive a gift I received some kind of referral and if I create an account I get the box for free (but I didn't get the box for free). I did get the box the next day with maybe 3 pounds of vegetables which included 1small butternut squash, about 3 leaves of kale, and 1 brick of squished tofu that I could cut up into 6 cubes, some sauce containers that have about 2 tablespoons of sauce in them. Each meal feeds 2 people.
I think that as a true vegan eating plant based whole food meals with no processed grain you could majorly overeat and lose weight.
From what I can see in this box if all you ate was purple carrot you would be on a starvation diet and you would be sacrificing the best part of your life to send the purple carrot kids to college, buy them fancy cars, and pay for their honey moons in places you couldn't afford to go - because you are working to buy purple carrot! I could literally buy the food in the box for $10.00 at Whole Foods. It isn't prepped except that I didn't go to the store to buy it and it was shipped to my house with 6 exploded gel packs and it is all wrapped in super heavy-duty plastic that will kill 5 sea turtles. The recipes say things like - peel and chop the butternut squash -?!
Needless to say I am not impressed. Buy a normal brick of tofu and 3 squashes and a whole jar of sauce that you can divide up or eat all at once if you choose - and save $70.00. And if you want it delivered to your house use instacart, whole foods delivery service, or join a local CSA.