8 Meal Subscription Services That Will Fuel Your Rides—and Save You Time in the Kitchen
With meal delivery services you can cook a healthy dinner (or lunch) without having to plan or think, and that’s the hardest part, right?
Whether you want a vegetarian meal or a dinner prepared by a professional chef, there is a service that fits the bill. And if you need to find the perfect gift for someone who has everything, you can’t go wrong with the gift of food.
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Blue Apron
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One of the OG meal subscription services, Blue Apron has unique recipes with quality ingredients and recyclable ice packs and packaging. The ingredients are pre-portioned, making it easy to start cooking.
Many of the recipes are labeled as “easy cleanup” for those hectic nights when you want to eat a good meal but not deal with the aftermath of cooking. Plus, Blue Apron has a wine subscription service.
Pricing: 3 recipes per week for 2 people, $9.99 per serving
Hello Fresh
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Like Blue Apron, Hello Fresh will send you fresh, pre-portioned ingredients for healthy meals. Earlier this year, Hello Fresh acquired Green Chef, a certified organic and gluten-free meal service, which will give customers more variety in their meal selection.
Pricing: 3 recipes per week for 2 people, $8.99 per serving, plus $5.99 shipping
Veestro
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If you don’t have time to cook your own vegetarian meals, Veestro will get healthy plant-based dinners on the table in no time. Veestro offers flexibility when it comes to choosing meals: a la carte, meal packs, weight loss, and more.
Pricing: A la carte, $10 per meal
Home Chef
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Channel your inner chef with the Home Chef meal service, which offers mouth-watering recipes-Huli-Huli salmon sowl with charred pineapple and jasmine rice or umami burger with Parmesan fries, anyone?-and pre-packaged, high-quality ingredients for a five-star home-cooked meal.
Pricing: $9.95 per serving
Freshly
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Meals from Freshly are like having your own personal chef without him or her taking up space in your kitchen. Freshly meals are cooked, well, fresh, and all you need to do is heat the meal (never frozen!) when it arrives. Freshly also doesn’t use refined sugar in its recipes.
Pricing: 6 meals per week, $9.99 per meal
Yumble
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Recently featured on ABC’s Shark Tank, Yumble is a subscription service that promises quality ingredients for all of the meals and snacks you feed your kids. The concept is simple: You choose your meals (breakfast, lunch dinner, snacks), Yumble makes the foods and ships it your way, and you heat and serve your hungry kids in no time. You and your children will love the healthy spins on kiddo favorites like chicken nuggets and oatmeal.
Pricing: 6 meals per week for one kid is $7.99, or $47.94 a week
Snack Sack
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Okay, this one isn’t a meal prep service, but everyone loves a good, healthy snack. Snack Sack will send you 12 snacks a month that are either USDA organic, non-GMO project verified, certified vegan, fair-trade, or gluten-free. The best part is Snack Sack’s products aren’t the everyday items you’ll see at the grocery store, so you’ll be able to try something new.
Pricing: 3 months (36 snacks), $67.50 with auto-renewal
Sun Basket
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If you’re looking for an organic meal and have one or many dietary restrictions, Sun Basket has you covered. You’ll have 10 meal plans to choose from, including vegetarian, gluten-free, and paleo. Ingredients are 99 percent organic and non-GMO, and seafood and meat are responsibly sourced.
One of Sun Basket’s best features is the ability to mix and match its menu across your meal plan so you’re not tied to one type of meal every week.
Pricing: 3 recipes per week for 2 or 4 people, $11.99 per serving
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