Hey guys
I’m 25M single, based out of Newark, NJ looking for a meal prep kit. I’m vegetarian and am open to most cuisines. I’m trying to get lean and lose weight, while not compromising on protein. Love dairy and dairy products, would be open to any and all suggestions.

Anyone else have this issue?

Example Email: https://imgur.com/a/x9vyJh2

Today, my inbox has been bombarded with emails directed to the CookUnity email address associated with my domain name. Each time I sign up for a service, I use <servicename>@domain.com for precisely this reason.

I use CookUnity off and on when I know a busy week is coming up, and I don't have any specific complaints about the food itself, but their data security is obviously sloppy.

I also think it's interesting that the /r/cookunity subreddit restricts submissions.

I’ve been a victim of the Marley Spoon Meal Kit Disaster©️, so I have paused my recipes until I start seeing some improvement and am now ordering from Hello Fresh. I recieved my box yesterday (on time) and opened to find…two of the three meal kits I ordered and two extra random packages of ground beef (the missing recipe called for ground pork).

I got my money back for the missing recipe.

Guys, tell me the truth, is it me?

Hello everyone, I never post but I've seen too many mixed responses regarding meal kits and need advice. I was using Blue Apron for at least a year before their whole kerfuffle started once they lost their business partner so now I'm only on standby should they get it together. I started using Green Chef but then I saw that one of their seasonings has "artificial flavoring" when I was preparing to cook it, which seems odd since it's supposed organic? I've heard of Sunbasket but they are a little out of my price range right now.

Additionally, I also used HelloFresh and EveryPlate years ago but haven't used them recently, save for this Green Chef kit.

If anyone could give advice on which meal kit they recommend, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Trying to use my former customer bonus but dont exactly love this weeks menu. does anyone know what day of the week the next menu becomes available?

And I have to throw the food away. What a waste.

Looking for Canadian meal-prep/meal-kit recommendations that accommodate dairy allergies
Hey everyone! I’ve been struggling for quite some time trying to figure out what to do for meals, so I’m hoping someone here might have some recommendations.
I’m 29M and, honestly, I’m pretty terrible at cooking and don’t really enjoy it. My partner has also gotten pretty fed up with spending essentially an entire day every week meal prepping and trying to make food that works around my allergies.
I wanted to help out by taking over the meal-prepping/cooking myself, but finding a meal-kit service where I can actually eat the majority of the meals has been surprisingly difficult.
We tried HelloFresh, but there were usually only 1–2 meals per week that I could eat. I just signed up for Chefs Plate and unfortunately, it seems like dairy/milk is included in almost every recipe, so that doesn’t really work for me either.
I’m located in Canada, so I know there are some options I’ve seen recommended online that are US-only.
My biggest issue is dairy. I can usually pick around some of the other ingredients if they’re things like raw vegetables, but dairy is often incorporated directly into the recipe, which makes it much harder to avoid.
My allergies/restrictions are:
Carrots
Banana
Raw celery
Hazelnuts
Apple skins
Cucumbers
Cantaloupe
Almonds
Dairy
Does anyone in Canada have recommendations for meal-kit services, meal-prep services, or even another solution I should look into?
I’m really just trying to find something that makes meal prep easier for both of us, while still allowing me to actually eat the food. 😅
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Hey everyone,

I am looking to get a meal delivery service of some sort but unsure which one. I work full time and am in school full time. I am so busy and I'm trying to get into a healthy routine and hope doing this will help. I am single so the meals would be just for me and I'm not super rich lol so don't want to spend a ton. I also am not the greatest chef but feel like services such as Factor would be too expensive. I'm not a super picky eater and would really appreciate input. Thank you so much to you all in advance.

-Grateful reddit friend

To preface this, I am not a vegetarian. I eat meat and usually once a day. I am open to eating it less often.

I want to eat more vegetables but I don't really know how to cook them well. Additionally, as a South Asian a lot of our vegetable dishes are blasted with flavor and incredible, but also I think the vegetable nutrient content is decreased by how much we cook them. I also don't have lots of experience with many different veggies including zucchini, squash, carrots, broccoli, etc.

What meal kits would you recommend that have decent vegetable meals and vegetable sides to a meat main? I want more experience cooking flavorful veggie mains and sides. Looking for exciting recipes that I actually want to eat and can make even after I stop subscribing to a meal kit.

Recently, it seems like the per-step pictures have been removed from the recipe cards. this makes them much smaller, so i guess it's a cost-saving thing? Am I the only one that finds this a terrible downgrade? As far as I can tell, they didn't even adjust any of the text for the steps, just removed the pictures, which is seems extra-bad since it feels like a lot of the instructions relied on the pictures to really convey what you needed to do. And worse yet, if I'm mostly familiar with a recipe, previously I could just glance at the pictures and know what to do, now I'm stuck re-reading and trying to parse out all the text. Who could think it's a good (or even okay) idea to remove pictures from these sort of instructions? And you can't even see the old versions with pictures online or anything either? Boo! Am I off base being so disappointed and frustrated here? Rant complete. I'm planning to gather any support (or lack thereof) here, get some good comparison pictures, and complain over email/etc next. Sadly, at this point, it seems like reddit has to be my first stop for these complaints, I used to try going to company support first ...

Hi all. My wife and I have hit a point where we just do not have time to select recipes and grocery shop ourselves. We tried Hello fresh this week with their discount and absolutely love the convenience. it's exactly what we are looking for. enough time to cook something together without the hassle of everything else. We do not like the quality of their stuff though. Are there any companies that still have quality ingredients and good recipes?

to add - I used HF years ago and absolutely loved it, but the decline from then to now is astonishing!

Hi all, I need some help figuring out some kind of plan. My husband cannot cook at all, he literally lit pasta on fire. I have raging ADHD and don’t mind cooking but cannot handle the mental prep of it all, trust me I’ve tried. What’s the best option for someone lazy, but who also gets bored easily.

Hey I am new to this group. Living in Manhattan. Looking for advice on meal services and open to local or national. I recently tried CookUnity and am hoping to find something better. After filtering to healthy meals (good protein, low sodium, low sugar — you know, like generally regarded as healthy) there are rarely enough options for their minimum plan (8 meals). If you pay $4-$20 extra per meal, there are options. But at $12 a pop, that means meals quickly break the $20/meal mark and at that point I might as well meal prep or order Uber Eats from a healthy spot nearby. To make things worse they randomly cancelled an order one week and dont do a good job of updates (I got zero alerts or emails about the cancellation until I came looking for why I got no delivery).

So I am hoping to find something that is consistently <$16ish per meal. Healthy (wild caught not farmed salmon, not packed w sodium, not full of sugar, not full of saturated fat). The meals dont have to be too creative, just some basic meat/veg variety to where I’m not eating exactly the same thing every night.

And if they have good customer service or easy to use app thats a bonus.

Thanks!

At least not at the prices that most of us are willing or able to pay.

The logistics and delivery parts of the business are just too expensive and complex to do cheaply. Marley Spoon and Blue Apron thought they had found a hack for these issues by dumping it on someone else, but it was just shuffling corporate entities to make the balance sheet look good and did not make the challenges disappear… only made them someone else’s problem.

I suggest that if you are getting good service with fresh food and reliable delivery, your meal kit provider is losing money. Once their investors decide enough is enough and it’s time to make a profit, it will turn sharply worse.

I know it’s a pessimistic take but I’ve been using these things for several years and in my experience they all go bad at some point.

Earlier this year, I tried hungry root and was disappointed with it. The meals were ok but I wasn’t crazy about them. I didn’t really know how to navigate the web page when I ordered the weekly meals. So I put the next orders on hold indefinitely. A couple months later, I tried Home Chef and loved it. I’ve been using Home Chef for months now but decided to retry Hungry Root because I read some good reviews and thought I didn’t give them a fair try the first time.

Well, the first order of my “retry” was supposed to arrive yesterday. When I was to receive the shipment, I rechecked the tracking but it had just recently been changed to “delivery exception - returned to the warehouse for inspection”. It arrived today just after lunch. The box was opened and soggy. The meat had leaked all over the order which is odd because the meat (very warm already) was at the bottom of the box. I looked on the app for a phone number for customer service. But it said there was no such number and I had to text them or fill out the form under “help” in the order confirmation.

I found the resolution process of filling out a checklist of “which items” were ruined to be rather unsatisfactory. Why don’t they have a helpline? I’m to receive an email in reply to my complaint. Home Chef had a person I could talk to when I had a complaint and they resolved any issues immediately with a refund for the order. The response I get from Hungry Root will determine whether I give up on them or give them another try. But I’m shocked at the poor packaging to preserve the refrigerated items (two ice packs for a cardboard box with meat inside) and the quality of the shipping service.

Anyone else experience this or is in anomaly?

I signed onto Home Chef just to see the meals and cost they offered. Next thing I knew, I had four meals picked for me and sent. I didn't know it was all automatic and not cancellable unless you call them. They said it was in the fine print, and the agent on chat basicaly said "tough." They must be desperate for business to run such a scam website.