7 Healthy Meal Delivery Services That Make Your Life Easier
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been too tired to grocery shop and cook, so you reverted to ordering pizza, pad thai, or Chinese food delivery for dinner. Same. Luckily, healthy meal delivery services do exist– and there are a lot of them. With these well-rounded meal options, food delivery doesn’t need to be synonymous with junk food. The healthy subscription services below provide either prepped or pre-made hearty recipes and meals that can be delivered to your doorstep. With nationwide delivery, affordable prices and a plethora of delicious options, you might never have to rethink dinner again. Ready to make dinner time easier? Read on to learn how.
1. Blue Apron
Blue Apron is the OG healthy meal delivery service. Since 2012, it has worked to ensure that customers have delightful cooking experiences while staying committed to sustainability and reducing food waste. Blue Apron delivers fresh, seasonal ingredients nationwide (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Every ingredient is measured, portioned, and packaged, with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. You can even add your dietary preferences for personalized menus. Delivery starts at $7.49 per serving or you can select from the 2-Person or Family plans starting at $60. Best part? You can add a wine pairing to your order.
2. Takeout Kit
With Takeout Kit, you never have to stress about cooking before your food expires. By creating meals that all have a two-month shelf life, dinner time just became that much easier. The company strives to have customers learn and cook global cuisines at home in just 25-45 minutes with prepped and portioned non-perishable ingredients. Takeout Kit, which ships for free nationwide, is best for adventurous eaters who are willing to try unique and authentic recipes. Each meal kit, starting at just $7 per serving, feeds three to four people.
3. Freshly
Freshly is basically made for extremely busy people. In three minutes or less, you can have a nutritious, convenient, sustainable, and delicious meal (and it’s not even frozen). Every meal is 100 percent all natural and gluten free with nutritional stats listed on the website. Even better– you can look good while doing good with Freshly. Meals are kept insulated in biodegradable, recycled denim totes to reduce styrofoam use and leftover food is given to local food banks and shelters. So far, Freshly delivers in 27 states – but it is growing everyday. Plans start at $50 for four meals per week for one person.
4. Sakara Life
This may not be your most affordable delivery service, but it is certainly one of the best. Sakara strives to provide life-changing nutrition with organic, plant-based, dairy free, gluten free, no refined sugar, and non-GMO meals. You can eat Sakara meals cold or hot– anytime and anywhere. Packages begin at $99 per person per day for a five-day plan with delivery across the country. If you decide to order Sakara, don’t forget to ‘gram it– it’s colorful ingredients make beautiful dishes that are bound to rack up the likes.
5. Home Chef
Home Chef is the key to making life easier with meal delivery on a budget. You decide between 13 easy-to-follow recipes to make in about 30 minutes. Plan ahead as Home Chef allows you to order meals up to five weeks ahead of time with menus that are released in advance. Meals start at just $7.99 per serving with shipping nationwide (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).
6. Veestro
Attention all picky eaters! Veestro is the meal delivery service that will make your life easier. You can opt for the à la carte option, so you can customize your ideal menu with whichever plant-based, organic, preservative-free meal you want to enjoy. Veestro fully cooks each meal and sends it frozen, so just heat the meal and eat it. Packages start at $8 per meal and $10 per à la carte meal.
7. Chef’d
Chef’d is a delivery service for everyone. There are various different meal plans including the Atkins plan, the Campbell’s Kitchen plan and the American Diabetes Association plan – or you can even customize your own plan. One meal can take as few as 10 minutes to cook. Even without a subscription, you can receive fresh, pre-portioned ingredients to cook tasty recipes delivered nationwide (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Although there is not a flat fee associated with ordering, meal plans start at just $9 for two people. If you are interested in saving a bit of cash, you can enroll in a recurring meal plan subscription and save up to 10 percent (plus free shipping).
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