I used Blue Apron for about a year after my son was born (not immediately after, but after 4-5 months when he started sleeping). DH and I both work full-time and often have to continue working when we get home, and until recently we alternated days off to minimize childcare expenses. We like cooking, but meal-planning was difficult and tiresome and often resulted in arguments. We also had a hard time knowing how many nights we're going to be home each week, so we often had wasted ingredients. In general, I thought Blue Apron was great. The food always arrived fresh (and they gave us a full refund for the meal the one time it didn't), the meals were consistently tasty. Obviously, it's not Mustachian, and the only way to justify it financially is to believe that you otherwise would have picked up takeout or ordered pizza, not planned and prepared a low-cost meal yourself. Now that we've made some major changes to our schedules, with resulting major changes to our budgets, we've stopped ordering Blue Apron and are doing the meal planning and shopping ourselves.
It definitely has its place, but I'm all for incremental changes. Some times in your life you can go "all out", with a newborn is generally not one of them.
My up the street friends do a local version 1x a week, it's a nice fancy date night meal that the family of 4 cooks together.
I cook a lot from scratch. Full time job, kids are 10 and 4. But sometimes...this weekend I added it up. I cooked or prepped 13 separate "things" for the week and weekend. That's a lot of cooking, dishes, and PLANNING. (spanish rice, mixed dried beans, salsa chicken, tomato/spinach/feta frittata, cracked wheat and sunflower bread, nutty citrus cole slaw, cheddar cheese biscuits, baked teriyaki chicken, homemade hummus, mixed raw veg, salad (wash/spin lettuce), guacamole, and I'm forgetting a few.
I used to get a CSA for my veggies, but because of the drought they aren't running. My friend found another one - pick up day is Tuesday, a few locations...but none are particularly convenient. Instead I signed up for a delivery service. Like a CSA but they deliver. My gosh I love it. Yes, I am paying for delivery. It's a fair bit more money, but it saves my brain and my car.