My New Favorite Grocery Delivery Service-Imperfect Foods
If you’re new to my blog, thanks for reading! If you’ve been here before, welcome back! If you don’t know, my husband and I are currently awaiting the birth of our first child. I’ve been at home for almost one month on parental leave. For the past few weeks, since I’ve been home, I’ve been taking advantage of the food delivery service called Imperfect Foods.
I first started using them back in 2019 when I first moved to Northern California when I was staying in a rental house and started working in San Francisco. I didn’t have a car and had to use public transportation to go grocery shopping. At first, they were called Imperfect Produce and delivered produce that had slight bruises or was too ‘ugly’ to sell in grocery stores. I used them to buy my produce and loved getting it shipped straight to my door every week. After I got a car, I stopped using them until recently and I realized that they rebranded themselves as Imperfect Foods and sold not only produce, but also bread, dairy, pants items, meats, and meat alternatives.
The first thing I love about Imperfect Foods is that it comes with free shipping straight to your door if you meet their $60 minimum order (which is easy to do, trust me). Even if you don’t meet the minimum, shipping is under $5. You are able to choose your delivery schedule to be every week, every two weeks, or once a month. The shopping window opens up every Monday afternoon and you have until Wednesday afternoon to finalize your shopping list before your food is delivered to your house on Friday between 12 pm to 9 pm.
The second thing I love about the service is the fact that you are buying products that would have otherwise been wasted and thrown away. I often find myself laughing at the ‘ugly’ produce that gets shipped to my door. It doesn’t look very ugly to me and it made me realize why the US has such a huge problem with food waste. Grocery stores have made consumers so used to our produce looking uniform and beautiful that any piece of fruit or vegetable that doesn’t meet that high standard is tossed to the side. I definitely back the mission of Impossible Foods and love that I’m helping to ‘save’ food from going to the garbage.
The third thing I love about the service is the fact that I am able to buy specific items that I want or need without the risk of impulse shopping. Impulse shopping are those extra purchases that can be made when you physically walk through a grocery store and walk past a candy bar or a ‘big sale’ and end up buying items that were never even on your list. It can be detrimental to your bank account. Using Imperfect Foods prevents me from doing this. I still buy some items from the grocery store that are cheaper, but when I go to the grocery store, I’m in and out within five minutes and never have to use a grocery cart.
I’ve been trying to keep our grocery bill around $300 per month and have been doing quite well so far. I’m looking forward to seeing if continuing to use this service helps me stay within my food budget, or makes me deviate from it. Either way, I’m enjoying the convenience of food showing up to my door that would have otherwise gone to waste.
If you’re interested in checking out Imperfect Foods for yourself, feel free to use my referral code that gives you $25 + free shipping off your first order, and $25 off your second order).
