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Pinterent    Juli 15, 2023    Comment   

When shopping for a meal delivery service, experts recommend considering the price, how much time you’re willing to dedicate to each meal and your level of cooking expertise.Purple Carrot; Sunbasket

Half the battle of making dinner is deciding what to make. Or perhaps you're more enthusiastic and have your heart set on a chicken piccata recipe only to realize you tossed the last of your capers on a bagel this weekend. If this is you, you might benefit from a meal delivery service, which either offers a variety of pre-made meals that you can heat up in minutes or the exact ingredients needed for recipes of your choosing, all delivered right to your doorstep. And outside of the overall convenience of these services, experts told us meal delivery kits can help you explore new foods, refine your cooking skills, save money on groceries and cater to dietary needs like gluten-free or vegetarian.

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To determine the best service for you, we spoke to chefs, nutritionists and recipe developers about what to look for in a meal delivery service and highlighted their recommendations for the best ones to try out.

We talked to our experts about important features to consider when shopping for meal kit delivery services. Here are the most important ones to keep in mind when making your decision:

With these above features in mind, the chefs and nutritionists we spoke to gave us their specific recommendations for the best meal kit delivery services to try across a variety of budgets, tastes and diets. We separated them into two categories: meal kit services that send out individual ingredients and pre-made meal delivery services.

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Home Chef features a rotating weekly menu with more than 30 meals to choose from. You can also select from a variety of menu options catered to your preferences, including 15-minute meal kits, grill- and oven-ready kits and special occasion meals. Before ordering, you’ll be prompted to take a quiz that personalizes your menu based on your tastes, serving size and delivery preferences. When looking at individual menu options, each meal shows the estimated time it takes to make. The customizability made this a standout service for our experts, who emphasized that you can easily choose the amount and type of protein in each meal. Ben Leonard, a chef and food educator with more than 15 years of experience, says the service is best for “families, kids or people with any dietary restrictions” due to its variety of meal selections and customizable features.

Cost: Starting at $10 per serving, with a minimum weekly order value of $51 | Serving size: 2, 4, 6 or 8 servings | Number of meals: 2 to 6 recipes per week

Blue Apron offers a number of weekly menu items based on your selected meal plan. Meal plan options include a signature plan that comes with the service’s top chef-favorite recipes, a vegetarian plan and a wellness plan that offers nutritionist-approved, carb-conscious recipes. The prices will also depend on the plan you choose. While Blue Apron does require some cooking chops based on the difficulty level of its recipes, Leonard recommends the service because it’s a good option for beginner cooks that hope to “learn from the beginning and hone their basic skills.”

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Cost: Starting at $8 per serving, with an additional $10 for shipping | Serving size: 2 to 4 servings | Number of meals: 2 to 4 recipes per week

Technically, Hungryroot isn’t a meal kit service. Instead, the Select editor-favorite service is a grocery delivery method that offers a lot of the same benefits and customizations as other meal kits on this list — you take an initial quiz on your preferences and dietary needs, and Hungryroot creates a personalized grocery plan. In addition to delivering fresh food for the week, it also sends you specific recipes based on the groceries you order. You can also edit your delivery every week in case you want a specific ingredient or food item.

With the ability to choose the type of meal you want (breakfast, lunch or dinner) and to customize the groceries you get, Hungryroot essentially “allows you to be a bit more adventurous and cook from the hip, or also follow the recipes exactly, ” Leonard says. Former Select editor Morgan Greenwald, who has tried several meal delivery services in the past, says Hungryroot is a perfect fit for her pescatarian diet and was sold on the subscription after trying out several delicious recipes from the service.

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Cost: Starting at $65 for three two-serving meals (about $11 per serving) — shipping is an additional $7 for plans under $70 | Serving size: 2 or 4 servings | Number of meals: 2 to 8 recipes per week

Sunbasket offers both ingredient-based meal kits and pre-made meals, all of which consist of high-quality ingredients and organic produce, according to Sunbasket. You can choose from 10 meal plans, including chef’s choice recipes and pre-made Fresh & Ready meals, as well as paleo, gluten-free, vegetarian and diabetes-friendly options. The Fresh & Ready option lets you receive single-serve meals to heat in the oven or microwave in just a few minutes. If you don’t feel like committing to a single plan, the service lets you mix and match with over a dozen meals from its weekly rotating menu.

Both Lisa Moskovitz, a registered dietitian and CEO of NY Nutrition Group, and Ariane Resnick, a special diet chef and certified nutritionist, recommend Sunbasket as their top choice for healthy meal kits. “It has a variety of options that can be modified for carnivores and strictly plant-based eaters alike, ” Moskovitz says. Most of Sunbasket’s packaging is also recyclable or compostable, using sustainable material like recycled and virgin craft paper and 100% shredded recycled paper filling, according to the brand.

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Cost: Starting at $12 for meal kits and $10 for the Fresh & Ready meals, with an additional $6 for shipping | Serving size: 2 or 4 servings for meal kits, single-serve for Fresh & Ready meals | Number of meals: 2 to 5 recipes per week

Resnick calls Purple Carrot’s meal kits a “wonderful blend of familiar and innovative.” Because the meals are fully plant-based, it can be an easy way for people to “add more plant foods into their diets without having to fully convert to veganism, ” she says. Purple Carrot offers both prepared meals and meal kits, so you can choose whether you want to cook, or simply heat up your dinner or lunch. In addition to plant-based meals, Purple Carrot provides several gluten-free recipes to choose from, as well as gluten-free pre-prepared meals. After selecting whether you want meal kits or pre-made meals, you can customize the number of dinners you get per week — these range from two to four meal kits and six to 10 pre-made meals. Deliveries take place on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays depending on your shipping location, and you can choose to skip a delivery on any given week.

Cost: Starting at $11 per serving for meal kits and $13 per serving for pre-made meals with free shipping | Serving size: 2 to 4 servings for meal kits and single-serve for pre-made meals | Number of meals: 2 to 3 for meal kits or 6 to 10 prepared meals per week

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These expert-recommended meal delivery services are pre-made and ready to eat — experts told us you can simply heat them up for an easy meal during the week.

CookUnity lets you choose from multiple plans depending on how many meals you want to receive per week, with subscriptions ranging from four to 16 meals. The service provides a rotating menu of ready-made options each week, or you can let CookUnity pick them out for you based on your preferences (like your choice of protein) or any dietary restrictions like vegetarian, vegan, low-carb and gluten-free. You can also flag any allergies or foods you don’t like, and the service will notify you if they appear in any meals on the menu.

“I started using CookUnity because I felt like I was spending so much money on groceries but still eating boring food everyday like sandwiches and salads, ” says Select’s social commerce editor Sadhana Daruvuri. “I loved that I could enjoy a variety of delicious meals while still spending about the same amount I’d spent on groceries before — there are options for almost every kind of diet, and there are so many meals to choose from that I never got bored of eating it.” It’s also one of Resnick’s favorites: “I appreciate that they provide full ingredient lists, down to the individual ingredients in cheeses, ” she says. The meals come fresh and have a refrigerated shelf life of about four to seven days.

Plant Based Recipe Kits

Cost: Starting at $10 per meal with free shipping | Serving size: Single-serve | Number of meals: 4 to 16 meals per week

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