One attribute of Blue Apron is no leftover ingredients. I swear, I’m a slave to my ingredient ends & pieces that I can’t bear to toss to the wildlife, but am uninspired to deal with once they wilt, so the fauna get them, anyway.
Really a rotten trap to be in, if one can’t man a back-burner all-day soup that gets the leftover bits.
Compost? Freezing for stock?
I think things like Blue Apron are great for some people - and I’ll probably try it eventually, just to see what the recipes are like. But you don’t really have to waste. Every leftover fresh veg, or odd-end of a veg that you’ve chopped, can just be put in the freezer until you have time to make stock. We do that with bones, too, - they never get thrown away. Stuff stays in the freezer very well, for a long time; and then you just have to pick a day to make stock - and then freeze the stock, too, until you’re ready to make soup.