11 Meal Delivery Services You'll Wish You'd Learned About Sooner

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1. Every Plate also helps eliminate the stress of meal planning by offering an assortment of 13 different recipes for you to choose from, week after week.

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Each box comes with a recipe card and all of the ingredients you need to make three to five tasty, filling dinners depending on the plan you choose.

Start your subscription for Every Plate starting at $4.99+/serving.

2. Blue Apron is a guaranteed way to keep your dinners interesting, delicious, and above all, simple. Their balanced meal kits offer chef-created recipes that'll make your tastebuds sizzle and leave your belly feeling happy after every bite.

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Meal kits are available in servings for two or four people and offer up to four meals per week. Choose between their "signature" recipes (which include a rotation of meat, fish, and Beyond Meat) or their "wellness" and "vegetarian" options. 

Start your subscription for Blue Apron for $7.49+/serving.

3. Purple Carrot — ahem, all my vegans out there? Rejoice! The meals in this service are 100% plant-based. And there are plenty more options than the veggie side salad it feels like you always have to order when you're out to dinner with friends.

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When you sign up, you'll be prompted to choose between meals for two or four people. Then, each week, you'll be able to choose which three dinner meals you'd like, plus anything extra you want to tack on, like breakfast, dinner, or dessert. You'll have the option to customize your meals to be gluten-free, high protein, or "quick and easy." There are also pre-made meal options if cooking isn't quite your forte or, you know, you'll be short on time.

Start your subscription for Purple Carrot for $71.94+/week.

4. Home Chef is a unique meal kit service in that you can select meals based on how much time they take to prepare — which means there's something for the people who despise cooking as well as the budding ~home chef~ (lol, get it?).

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You can choose from the OG Home Chef box (meals that take 30+ minutes), the Fresh and Easy box (which requires little to no prep at all), and the Fresh Start box (carb- and calorie-conscious options approved by a dietician). Before placing your order, you can also check off if there are any meats you don't eat or anything you're allergic to. After that, you'll have 30+ meals to choose from every week from things like garlic parmesan-crusted filet mignon with roasted parsnips to cauliflower, kale, and chickpea skillet with Pomodoro sauce and garlic bread.

Start your subscription for Home Chef for $8.99+/serving.

5. Daily Harvest will have you believing fruits and veggies are actually WAY more delicious than you ever thought. Packed into creations like smoothies, harvest bowls, soups, chia bowls, and more, they're all quick, easy to make, and aesthetically pleasing, too!!

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When you sign up, you'll choose if you want your meals delivered weekly or monthly and in quantities of nine, 12, or 24 at once. You'll always have more than 80 options to choose from and you can swap your selections, skip a week, or cancel your subscription at any time — no hoops to jump through here!

Start your subscription for Daily Harvest for $5.99+/item.

6. Splendid Spoon is another plant-based service that offers up ready-to-eat meals made with whole foods and unprocessed ingredients. Each recipe is expertly developed in tandem with chefs and nutritionists, each doing their part to create meals that are extremely delicious and packed with nutrients to leave you extra satisfied.

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Not liking what you're seeing above? Don't fret — there are 50+ meals to try *every week* including everything from smoothies to soup to grain bowls and more. After signing up you can choose from four different plans: Breakfast; Breakfast + Lunch; Breakfast, Lunch + Reset; and Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner + Reset.  

Start your subscription for Splendid Spoon for $65+/week.

7. Freshly is essentially a new take on frozen dinners. If you are one of the many people who simply cannot be bothered to cook, this is the meal service for you. Why's that, you ask? Wellllll, all you have to do is heat 👏 them👏 up 👏. Oh, and it only takes three minutes or less.

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Chose from 30+ meals, every week. Options include dairy-free, gluten-free, plant-based, and low-calorie meals. They also contain *no* artificial preservatives or added refined sugars. You can opt for anywhere from 4–12 meals a week.

Start your subscription for Freshly for $8.99+/serving.

8. Sakara offers up meals for the clean eating connoisseur OR the person who wants to start incorporating more of it into their diet in a simple, easy way. These meals require *no prep* or cooking, and all of them are organic, plant-based, gluten-free, dairy-free, and non-GMO.

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You can choose one of several different meal programs from Sakara, including their Signature Nutrition Program (two, three, or five-day plans), 30-Day Reset, 10-Day Reset, Level II: Detox, and Bridal Meal Program. They also offer snacks and supplements in addition to their meals!!

Start your subscription for Sakara for $53+/week.

9. Dinnerly creates, well, dinners that *wait for it* are less than $5 per serving!! They call themselves an "affordable meal kit," and they certainly aren't kidding. Every recipe also only takes five steps to assemble, which means you and your wallet are about to enjoy dinner for a lot more than just how it tastes.

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How does Dinnerly offer a high-quality meal kit at such an affordable price? Easy. They use fewer ingredients and swap printed recipe cards for digital ones instead. You even have options!! Choose from 28 different recipes every week, including gluten-free, dairy-free, and under 30-minute choices in a two-person box or a family box, with 3-6 meals per week. Veg-friendly boxes are also available.

Start your subscription for Dinnerly for $4.69/serving.

10. Mosaic is a meal kit that you can feel just as good about buying as the meals themselves taste. For every box sold, the nonprofit City Harvest distributes two pounds of food to New Yorkers in need! As far as the meals go, Mosaic emphasizes whole-food ingredients that have been sourced from farms and distributors around New York’s Hudson Valley.

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From veggie bowls to family meals, soups, Mosaic+ (chef-created meals), and oat bowls, there's literally something for everyone. The meals are cooked by chefs AND shipped frozen to your door in recyclable packaging (!!).

Start your subscription for Mosaic for $4.99+/item.

11. Omaha Steaks sells, you guessed it, delicious steaks. But they also offer delicious meal kits that incorporate said steaks for whatever flavor combo you're craving!

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These are your options: Comfort Food, Single Serve Meals, Slow Cooker Meals, and Skillet Meals (cooked in under 15 minutes). You can order everything individually, or you can stock up with a box of different meats (steaks, chicken, pork, and more) as well as starters, sides, and desserts to keep in your freezer. All products are shipped frozen.

Get it from Omaha Steaks for $9.99+/serving.

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