Home Delivery Meal Kits

Have you ever felt curious about the many home delivery meal kit services that are available to make meal planning, prepping, and cooking easier at home?

I’ve had a unique opportunity to try a number of different home delivery meal kits.  My son works for a distribution service, and when pallets of boxes arrive damaged and undeliverable, they are discarded.  Staff can take them home, and sometimes they are donated if there is time and opportunity to do so.  The urgent nature of getting the discarded food to someone who can use it quickly enough can be challenging, because the boxes are only packed on ice and melt fast in the TX heat!  In any case, my family has been blessed with boxes from a variety of home delivery sources, and I’ve had the pleasure of sharing them with some families in need, as well.

         

In the process, I’ve gotten to try meal kits from companies like Home Chef, Green Chef, Martha Stewart’s Marley Spoon, and Dinnerly.  These services have a broad range of prices and definitely have their differences.  Some offer organic produce and sustainably sourced meats, some offer vegetarian meals, and some offer more customizable options like swapping out the protein for a variety of other options.  Some offer add-on foods like desserts, breads, salads, etc.  Some even offer kits to make a whole dessert from scratch!  Some offer 15-minute meal kits, some offer ready-made/heat-and-eat meals, and some offer oven-ready meals with no prep work required. 

Whatever you’re looking for, one of these services surely has the option that is right for you.  The question is whether or not you are willing to pay for the convenience of having it all pre-planned, delivered to your door, and ready for you to prepare and enjoy at home.

In the coming weeks, I plan to post a series featuring some of my experiences and thoughts on the kits, the meals themselves, the packaging, the recipes, and the whole experience (minus the ordering and delivery process, since I haven’t experienced those parts of the process).

Stay tuned!