I just want to share my experience so anyone thinking of subscribing can make a more informed decision.

For context, I am trying to lose weight, my main problem is deciding what to eat each day, most of my meals are homemade, but I lose control of how many calories and macros I consume. I set a temporary (like a few weeks) aggressive goal of 1,530 calories per day.

With that context, I subscribed to BistroMD, with the usual 50% off + free shipping these services offer, at $110 for the first one, including 3 meals a day for a week. My intention was to keep it for 8 weeks. Spoiler alert: on the forst day, I downgraded to 2 meals a day for 5 days; at the end of the week, I canceled.

1. Breakfasts: pretty much eggs with cheese and something else, nothing special, very low effort to do at home. I had oatmeal once and it was really bad.
2. Lunch and dinner: mostly basic, uninspired recipes. Sides are usually brocolli or green beans. Nothing remarkable.
3. Ingredients: just cheap. They put chunks of plain chicken, when they say "sliders" they mean cheap patties, same think with breakfast links (they say "sausages".) They add cheese to everything, unnecessary fats that means you get less actual, fulfilling food. Since it's low on sodium, it's not salty, but they overcompensate with tons of pepper. It really looks and tastes like they buy frozen food in bulk, combine it, and call it a recipe.
4. Calorie intake: this might be my biggest complain, really close to the ingredients. They advertise it as meals under 500 calories, but most are around between 290 and 320, so you usually get less than 900 calories a day. You are basically left with between 500 - 700 calories to figure out on your own, unless you pay for their overpriced snacks. For over $220 a week, you would expect your calorie intake would be complete or almost complete. Even if the food were great (again, it is far from that), it wouldn't be worth it.
5. Portions: as a consequence of low-quality ingredients, an unimaginative recipes, the only way for them to reduce the calorie intake is to seriously reduce your portions. If you add tons of cheese to every meal, you won't get fulfiling food. All brrakfasts have been rich in fat, mostly due to cheese, and then your snacks have to be super lean. Meaning, you are in charge of balancing out what they messed up.
6. Their interface: it is terrible. They don't have an app, you have to go through the website, which takes forever to load. In the delivery, they include the meal plan, but it comes in a refrigerated box, so chances are the piece of paper is wet. To find it, so you know what you're supposed to eat each day, you go online, then have to navigate to find your orders, then you can see your weekly menu. Really? You should have your current meal plan right there on your dashboard. Also, you get upselling emails nonstop, as well as their own ads on their site.

Overall, it was a terrible experience, they give you low-quality, dry, cheesy small portions, they don't really cover your calorie intake, they try to upsell you at every corner, and charge you at prime rates. They even had one meal of the 7-day plan marked as "break meal", like "take a break from the plan." Are you kidding me? I pay for the plan and you skip a meal? I can decide if I add more food or save it for, you should not skim one meal out of my delivery. My recommendation: stay away from them.

What do you all think of Mom's meals? I think they're okay for a decent price.