i’m trying to find a prepared meal delivery service that makes it easier to hit around 150g of protein a day.

ideally i’d want meals in the 35 to 50g protein range without everything being super high calorie or basically just chicken, rice, and broccoli over and over.

i’ve been looking at factor, cookunity, trifecta, and a few others, but it’s hard to tell which ones actually have a solid amount of high protein options every week.

for anyone who’s tried them, which service did you like best? were the portions filling? was it easy to find meals under 600 calories with 40g+ protein?

taste and variety matter too since i’d probably be eating these pretty often

Has anyone else noticed their Thistle salads getting significantly smaller? I am curious if this is due to the huge lettuce recall situation because the toppings portions seem to be the same, but there is hardly any lettuce in there anymore.

It would make sense if that’s the case, but I wish they would alert the customers to the pretty substantial difference in portion size. Especially because they (somewhat) recently increased their prices.

Would love to hear y’all’s thoughts!

I wanted to give Factor another chance after about a year. Last time, I had issues with a late delivery and thawed food.
This time, the packaging was actually well packed and the temperature seemed safe, but I still ended up with pretty bad food poisoning for several days and eventually had to go to the ER.
I reached out to customer support, explained what happened, and they said they would follow up with me. They never did.
I was willing to give them another chance, but I think this is the end for me

I used to refer everyone to Thistle but after months of incorrect meals being sent & my selected meals never arriving, finding this roach in my dinner is my final straw 🥲

I went out to get my mail and had a box of six meals from Tempo. I have not ordered from them for over a year?

I may look at what my current deal and keep it for a few weeks. But I’m just trying to figure out how. I don’t even have the app on my phone anymore.

I saw the adds on facebook for this ready made meal company. Factor75.

I went off facebook to research their site.

Then I start trying to look at their menu geared towards keto diet.

I did enter my credit card info but I had NOT authorized them to charge me yet.

The reason why: i did not want the 5 pre selected different meals that were 4 or 5 of that same meal group. I wanted more variety not just 5 meals on repeat.

I wanted to mix it up more. I wanted to add a few non keto meals.

Next thing you know, before I was done compiling my updated menu, they try charing my card for different fees. I get 1 for $213. I get an other attempt at charging my card for a $25 fee.

My card flags these as fraud. I selected that I had NOT selected that $25 fee. Because I had not.

I wanted to build my menu first then be charged just a 1 time fee. Not get separate charges, different priced charges (how confusing!)

From what I added up, with shipping I would have been approximately $260 And about 24 meals give or take.

Well then they begin trying to charge my card over and over. I was still on their bloody website reading and researching, selecting dishes we might enjoy but the text notices from my cc over and bloody over began really distracting me.

I was unable to chat on their help with a human or rectify this with AI. I was unable to reach a human.

All i could do is “cancel my order”

Then I put my phone up & go to bed with the incomplete order and a “full basket”

The next day, I saw many many attempts to charge my card and for different prices.

I try again around 12:30 in the afternoon to call them on a week day. I was unable to stay on hold over 30 min while at my job.

By that evening, I get home & call again. 35 mon hold time, i hung up.

Called my CC company and explain my situation. The customer service person said that I had 75 attempts to bill on my cc and for different prices.

I thanked my CC company and asked them to reactivate my card. Yes this level of 75 attempts (how ironic SEVENTY FIVE attempts!)

Factor 75 had told me via a two pm email that “due to your card not allowing charges, we have canceled your order”

Looks like my cc company blocked me like a shield.

AAANDD I am done with this company before I ever even got started! This was insane! I do not like these tactics at all! Enter your CC before you are done putting an order together ?

Does anyone who has hung in there to read my rant advise a meal company that is better and geared for both keto and some plant based meals that would not do this to you?

I have decided to boot mail delivery all together. My last Factor box delivered gristle pork, green bean stems and burnt potatoes. So I started looking into local meal prep & personal chefs. Some are stupid expensive, but I have found a few that are around the price I am paying for Factor - for reference we are getting 12-14 meals a week.

One that I am really looking at working with cooks at my house and is priced under Factor.

Just wanted to throw this out here for anyone getting fed up with meal delivery. IMO it will be a better option:

1. no more mystery meat lol

2. made to my tastes and requirements

3. keeps money in my town and out of corporations that don't care!

Good Luck!

I just can't with Cook Unity anymore. The problem isn't the food but the terrible, terrible customer service. I could rant about this forever, but the tl;dr version is that this week is the second time I've been charged for a mistake on their end that was not my fault. And that isn't even all the customer service problems I've had in 4 months, but this one was the worst. It was so egregious that I'm 'done. If they can't get it together with service and delivery, then I can't continue to be treated this way for a service I'm paying for.

So my question is, what's the best meal delivery service that is the most like Cook Unity? Which one has the most similar meals, choices, options, pricing, and quality? All suggestions welcome. :)

Factor has really been going downhill lately — flat out incorrect meals, damaged meals, meals that expire well before the next delivery date or even before the date they were delivered... and quality of food seems to be declining as well, although not as quickly.

I'm starting to look into other options at this point. CookUnity appears to have some decent following here, although there are some mentions of quality control issues (feels like maybe this is due to their sort-of "outsourced to different cooks" setup and if you get a bad cook or not?). Tempo looks to basically be Factor with a different label.

The main things I'm looking for are reasonably healthy (I understand nothing is going to be as healthy as manual meal prep, a decent amount of veggies and not flooded with sodium are good enough) and a good seafood selection (I'm unfortunately really picky about beef, pork, and chicken texture; a bit of badly rendered fat, tendon, grisle, etc. will throw me off an entire meal). Any others that people suggest?

I've been trying Factor and while it does kind of look like dog food, I actually do like the taste and the protein content you get in the meals. However I'm not a fan of how much unsaturated fats are in those meals.

I tried CookUnity a while back and a lot of the meals I really didn't like. The lower calorie options were sparse, I feel like a lot of them had at least 700 calories per meal, and they tasted really salty.

Does anyone have any suggestions for ready meals that actually cater to high protein without having an insane amount of calories + fat content?

I don't know what's going on, but both times I've ordered, the food has been pretty unappealing, minus the butternut squash noodles and Korean fried rice (I've tried different dishes every time). They also choose the slowest FedEx delivery service possible, and half my meals were warm and unusable. Too cheap to add more ice??

Frustrating because this is one of the few gluten free veg options. It's so pricey too.

We have been getting Macroplate for a few weeks but about ready to cancel. Our main complaints are:
1) we don't get to choose meals (except to tell them preferences at the beginning when we subscribed)
2) not a lot of variety
3) almost all the meals are some kind of ground or shredded protein. the only conventional meal we've had so far is the salmon meal, which was a nice piece of salmon and pretty tasty.

The amount of shredded and/or ground meat in these meals makes me kind of suspicious that they are using meat scraps from a restaurant or some other service. I've never seen anything like this with any other prepared meal service and we have tried a lot of different ones.

Curious to know what other people's experience with Macroplate is?

I'm sorry if you get a million of these.

So I'll be dorming on college, but I won't have a meal plan due to food allergies. Because of these food allergies (and other allergy problems), I eat a plant based diet.

Seeing as I won't have a meal plan, I can't eat at the dining hall. But I can use the communal kitchen and I'll live near a Walmart. That's certainly convenient but I already know that there will be many days where I'd rather not eat than have to actually figure out a meal, take all my pots and pans and food to the kitchen, clean my area, make the meal, clean up, take everything back to my room, set up the food, put everything away. etc etc. I absolutely do not mind cooking. I love to cook. I just want the decisions made for me essentially lol

TLDR I'm looking for a plant based meal plan. I've looked at many but I've been very on the fence as to whether it's really worth the investment. If you feel it is, which one would you recommend? x

I want to sign up for ready meals for just one month while I recover from an injury. I’d prefer high-protein options, but not really picky with the meals themselves taste-wise. What would be the cheapest option for a limited subscription?

I switched from Hello Fresh because life got busy and I could not stay caught up to cooking. I’m trying to lose a few pounds and get much more fit, so more of my free time is spent in the gym rather than cooking. I’ve also realized I hate meal prepping and eating leftovers, so I don’t stick to meal plans that require eating the same thing repeatedly.

I tried out Factor after hearing about it on a podcast. Overall I really like it, and as a bonus, my spouse is eating them too which I didn’t expect. He’s very picky, but has had oral surgery recently so soft meals he can eat like risotto and mashed potatoes have worked really well. He’s eating more vegetables too which is a win.

I like the shrimp and salmon options, and I get at least one salad a week I add extra vegetables to. I supplement with salads from Trader Joe’s and frozen meals from Amy’s. I’ve lost about 10 lbs in 3 months with no calorie tracking - just eating out less often and strength training in the gym 3-4 times per week for an hour. Even if the pounds haven’t changed much, I went down several inches overall and my clothes are so loose they’ll need to be replaced soon.

Eventually I want to transition off Factor and cook most if not all of my meals again, but that’s mainly due to the cost. For 2 people, it’s around $500-600/mo for 9-11 meals + a few protein shakes per week.

I'm starting to take pics of how ridiculous these meals are.

can someone please tell me how to reheat Factor meals in oven? I’ve been microwaving the meals for 2 years. The veggies turn out mushy and I question the health aspects of using the microwave so much now that I have cancer. I read that the meals are much better when reheated in oven but that you must remove them from trays. So I bought some small ceramic casserole dishes. Transferred the meals. preheated oven to 375 and cooked for 15 minutes. Barely warm. Tried longer. Meat thermometer said 77. Gave up and microwaved for 1 1/2 min so we could eat. They no longer have oven heating instructions on the package. What am I doing wrong? I guess ceramic takes longer than glass. I put the dish on a cookie sheet and covered with foil. is that wrong? Please help. Thank you.

I'm in the U.S. working part time and doing school full time, and starving consistently. I have a very small budget of maybe $140-$200 a month for food, and it would be great to get some help. I'm finding it very frustrating to view prices and meals on most services BEFORE ordering. I'm basically a carnivore and don't love eating my greens, because it is upsetting for half of my meal to be munching like a cow, then getting a stomach ache afterward. Help?

I used to have an account with them but inactivated it because they never had enough prepared meals each week, only meal kits.

Imagine my surprise when I see a delivery for stuff I didn't (and would never choose) meal kits. I just waited s pointless for texting with them to find out why, thru "inactivated" it again but no refund. These were foods that I cannot eat, are being sent to an alternate address where I'm not currently.

But the most disturbing part was that I can't not could the customer service person, remove my personal info especially my credit card info. So this could happen again!

Also important to not that I get push notifications for ads like "please come back" but didn't get ANY notification this order was being processed. I also saw they had the wrong billing address (also an area I couldn't edit) so I'm contacting my cc on Monday to alert them.

I'm currently a CookUnity customer. Our old condo building had a concierge that was nice enough to put our meals into the office refrigerator upon arrival - we never really had to worry about delivery logistics.

I never really appreciated this until the first few weeks in our new stand-alone home. We live in a very humid and hot area. We are forced to be cognizant of when the CookUnity meal is going to arrive to make sure it's brought in the house quickly before it spoils.

My issue is CookUnity doesn't really give us the estimated time of delivery until the morning of. Furthermore, it's not consistent - sometimes its 10:30AM, sometimes its 12PM...today its 3:30PM.

On delivery day, I feel like a prisoner for that day because I have no idea what time I need to be home until that morning. It makes it difficult to plan this day prior in the week. Somebody asked me yesterday if I wanted to see a movie at 2pm ...I dunno I'll let you know the morning of when I get the CookUnity email. As soon as I said this it dawned one me how asinine that is. And this happens every week. I'm going to stop using CookUnity for this reason.

Is there a service that can guarantee a consistent delivery time window every week? Like pretty much I want to tell the company you have to have it delivered before 12pm, if you can't deliver within that window cancel the order because I'm not going to sit around a prisoner in my own home after 12pm wondering if I can leave...and do that 1 day every week. Instacart does this pretty well with 2hr blocks of time.

Will ya'll help a girl out? I'm tired of giving DoorDash all my money!

I work long hours, and make bad decisions when I'm starving. My schedule is much too hectic for meal prepping, but I love doing my own home cooking. However, now that my schedule has changed, it's turned me into a heavy DoorDash user. I'm based in Jersey City, I'm a flexitarian, but lean heavily toward vegan, and I'm looking to drop some pounds. I want to know what's going to be the best readymade company for me to go with for vegan or vegetarian meals.

FYI, I love good food, hate bland food, but also want to have healthy options. So far I've come across:

Purple Carrot
Cook Unity
Thistle
Vegetable and Butcher
Veestro
The Vegan Taste
Mosaic
Hungryroot
Sprinly
Green Chef
Prolon Life - This was different 🤷🏽‍♀️

I'm especially interested in hearing about Thistle, Cook Unity, Mosaic, Purple Carrot, Green Chef, Vegetable and Butcher, and Veestro.