Google: quick and easy <protein> skillet with <what i have in a fridge>
> * I don't have to spend a hour in the store, we pretty much just get staples (eggs, milk, etc) these days.
In less than 6 months of cooking you would get entire pantry of all kinds of dry and canned ingredients needed by buying them in a reasonably sized containers as needed or as the opportunity presents itself
> I don't throw away near as much food. We used to throw away around 50% of food purchases due to changing schedules / spoilage. We actually saved money moving to Blue Apron.
That just means you are overbuying/overcooking. After 6 months of cooking a cost of a "complex" BA like meal without BA should be $2-3 per person even in the most expensive markets in the US.
Blue Apron's cost can never match a cost of buying protein/pantry/vegetable items on sale as neither BA has the infrastructure and volume to match grocery chains nor does it have other ways of squeezing the margins.
Now, you may decide that you do not want to have a pantry or use Google or know that $0.49-0.59 is a good price for chicken thighs and $0.99 is a good price for whole chicken in NYC or that you should not buy turmeric at Chelsea market because it is 4x the price at any other grocery store and that's why you would use BA. The problem is that there are just not enough people like you to make BA profitable, especially now with Amazon buying Whole Foods.