Are you looking for a convenient way to enjoy freshly cooked meals without having to do all the work? Look no further than cooked meal delivery services! These services provide pre-assembled meals that are ready to be cooked, so you can enjoy a delicious, healthy meal without the hassle of preparation. In this article, we'll take a look at the best cooked meal delivery services and what they have to offer. Fresh N Lean is the best cooked meal delivery service for most people. Their oven-ready meal plans are raw but pre-assembled, so all you have to do is bake, toast, sauté, or put them in the slow cooker.
Think of simple dishes like roasted chicken breast with pre-cut vegetables and a savory sauce. Home Chef even includes the cooking tray in many of their food kits, so there's no need to clean it afterwards. After testing all the major prepared meal delivery services, Fresh N Lean came out on top and met more requirements than any other. The food is healthy, carefully prepared, tastes fantastic, looks appetizing, and is quite affordable depending on the plan you choose.
Fresh N Lean has five meal plans to help keep people up to date with their specific nutritional goals, including low-carb, vegan, paleo and protein options. The food I tried was made exceptionally well, made with simple, wholegrain ingredients. Except for a dried chicken breast, everything I ate was at least good and more than good - some foods even bordered on restaurant quality. My favorite was a tender braised beef with vegetables and coconut and coriander sauce.Home Chef is a popular meal delivery company and recently launched a line of oven-ready meals, such as Cajun chicken with rice and beans, aimed at eliminating almost all the work out of dinner.
But they still offer home-cooked food technically speaking. If you're looking for oven-ready meal options, you'll want to choose Home Chef's Fresh %26 Easy meals which focus on easy-to-prepare options for the oven. In addition, this meal delivery service offers prepared grilled meals for the summer, 15-minute starter salads for those who want lighter meals or meals in a slow cooker that also require minimal preparation and cleaning.This new Home Chef category is designed to offer little technical knowledge and is a good option if you want a home-cooked meal delivery plan but aren't interested in enrolling in a culinary institute to prepare a delicious meal. CookUnity offers several plans depending on the number of meals you want to receive, with subscriptions ranging from four meals to 16 meals per week.
You can personally choose your meals from a rotating menu of ready-to-eat meals each week or have them chosen based on your preferences including your protein choices and any dietary restrictions such as vegetarian vegan low carb or gluten free.Sunbasket offers ready meals (in addition to meal kits) which according to the brand consist of high-quality ingredients and organic products. The Fresh %26 Ready plan includes single-serving meals to be heated in the oven or microwave according to Sunbasket. These foods don't come frozen but you can freeze most of them to cook later (those that can be frozen have specific cooking instructions). Daily Harvest offers prefabricated harvest bowls flat breads soups and more all gluten-free dairy-free vegan and made with plant-based ingredients depending on the service.Resick describes them as having vibrant colors - a big step forward compared to the “beis” (healthy food) of yesteryear.
You can also choose gluten-free and dairy-free desserts such as ice cream and chocolate snacks. Daily Harvest offers a variety of shakes although they require a little more preparation than your other meal options they are delivered as pre-cut frozen fruits and vegetables that are covered with a liquid of your choice and mixed together.Factor offers a weekly rotating menu with more than 27 pre-prepared meals (designed by dieticians depending on the brand) to be placed directly in the fridge when unpacked. The service meets a number of diets and dietary needs including ketogenic paleo low-carb vegetarian plant-based and high-protein diets. The select writer Justin Redman called Factor a “godsend” and loves its comfort.Freshly offers four to 12 prepared meals per week all of which depending on the brand are single-serving (with some side dishes and proteins to share) and prepared by a chef.
You can choose from more than 30 dishes on the menu that adapt to various dietary restrictions such as gluten-free dairy-free plant-based and carbohydrate-conscious diets. Moskovitz praised Freshly's flexible plans and easy reliable meals which “score highly in the flavor department”.Splendid Spoon offers more than 50 healthy meals and snacks prepared gluten-free ranging from smoothies and soups to cereal bowls and noodles. You can choose from several meal plans including a breakfast plan that includes five smoothies a lunch option that includes five soups and cereal bowls or a combination of the two. The service recommends freezing food when unpacking which they say lasts one to three months.Home Chef is best known for delivering meal kits but it also offers a Fresh %26 Easy plan with multiple oven-ready and grill-ready meals designed with minimal preparation and cleaning in mind depending on the service.
As part of its rotating weekly menu of more than 30 meals to choose from Home Chef will offer about 10 pre-made options. Before placing the order you will be asked to complete a questionnaire to customize your menu according to your tastes serving size and delivery preferences.By analyzing individual menu options each meal shows the estimated time it takes to warm up. Since Home Chef is one of the most customizable options with a variety of selections it's probably best for “families children or people with dietary restrictions” according to Ben Leonard. That said it may not be the best for people who are hesitant or not as demanding with their options according to Leonardo.You might have noticed Daily Harvest's beautiful milkshakes in an Instagram ad (or four) but the service offers much more than delicious smoothies packed with fruits and vegetables.
Consider their Harvest Bowls which can be heated in the microwave or prepared on a stove their Harvest Bakes that you put in the oven (and are big enough to share) their....