Considering a Food Delivery Service

I'm trying to decide if I want to try something like HomeChef or Blue Apron. I think it would be great to expand the variety of foods that we eat in this house but...I keep looking at the price and balking.

I know that it's not terribly expensive. However, I can buy food for a week for us for about $50, on average. That means that I tend to buy cheap meat and freeze it, then thaw and cook it over the week. We also eat a lot of rice and potatoes as side dishes. But, that gets pretty damn boring after awhile.

Looking at HomeChef, two meals for two people twice a week will cost me $40. And, that doesn't cover food for the rest of the week, including all the lunches I pack for my son. So, I think that it will ultimately be more expensive than me just shopping.

But, maybe it's something that I could do for a week out of every month, as a treat.