{"id":11784,"date":"2020-01-13T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T14:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?p=11784"},"modified":"2020-01-13T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T14:37:38","slug":"freshdirect-vs-amazon-fresh-veggie-and-salad-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/freshdirect-vs-amazon-fresh-veggie-and-salad-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"FreshDirect vs Amazon Fresh: Veggie and Salad Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Today we follow up on our comparison of grocery deliveries<\/a> throughout New York City<\/a>. Grocery delivery services promise fresh, healthy foods with minimum effort and reasonable prices. Therefore, the most important comparison should be vegetables and salads (we know, fruits are important too, but not for today).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Maximizing Convenience and Price<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It’s hard to do an apples to apples comparison – literally, on fresh produce. But young professionals rarely have the time for slicing, dicing, skinning, and peeling. Let’s focus on vegetable intake methods requiring under six minutes of preparation prior to eating!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Salad Kits – Winner Amazon Fresh<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

FreshDirect offers a Kale Caesar salad kit from Earthbound for $4.99, 8.5oz. Interestingly, they have no romaine lettuce kit, only a private label option for $5.99 and 8oz.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Amazon Fresh and Amazon Prime Now have tried and true Caesar salad kit for only $2.99, and it clocks in at 10oz. To be clear, all of these kits save you the labor of peeling your own romaine (or peeling from a head of iceberg). They also have pre-shredded cheese, a packet of Caesar salad dressing, and a packet of croutons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Ditch the Kits?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

For those who want to be even more healthy or economical, you easily downgrade to the $1.99 romaine lettuce salad bag, which does not come with the cheese, dressing, or croutons. Arguably, you should ditch those anyway, or at least use only half of what they give you! Let’s check the pricing on crafting your own salad.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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If you really want to rough it and start from the lettuce head, you can buy a romaine head for $2.49 at FreshDirect. Amazon still takes the lead at $1.99.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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