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Eliminate stress and eat well with the 10 best meal prep kit subscriptions
Best Meal Prep Kit Subscription Box (2023)
Americans seem more pressed for time than ever, and a host of meal prep kits are at the ready to help save time, money, and hassle. There are meal kits for cooks of all skill levels and for different kinds of diets — paleo, keto, vegetarian, vegan — that cut out the need to go to the grocery store and spend hours planning meals.
These 10 meal prep kit subscription boxes have been nominated by an expert panel and voted as the best by readers for delivering fresh ingredients and easy-to-follow recipes directly to your door. Some even offer nutritious ready-to-eat meals, totally eliminating the need to cook.
- Sunbasket
- Gobble
- Blue Apron
- EatClean
- Hungryroot
- Home Chef
- Green Chef
- EveryPlate
- Factor
- HelloFresh
No. 10:
Sunbasket is a certified organic meal delivery service offering a plethora of weekly recipes to choose from. Meals are designed to be prepared quickly and easily, thanks to pre-measured ingredients, and plans include carb-conscious, paleo, Mediterranean, vegetarian, and diabetes-friendly options.
No. 9:
Gobble offers an intermediary service where foods aren’t pre-cooked, but much of the prep work (peeling, chopping, marinating, etc.) is taken care of before the weekly box arrives at your doorstep. That means dinner can be on the table in 15 minutes.
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No. 8:
Each Blue Apron box contains step-by-step recipes designed by professional chefs, as well as responsibly sourced ingredients in just the amounts you need so that nothing goes to waste. Customers can personalize plans based on dietary preferences and prep time.
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No. 7:
This fresh meal delivery service is focused on providing healthy, pre-cooked meals. EatClean can cater to specific diets, including paleo, plant-based, and keto, and meals are delivered pre-cooked.
No. 6:
Each subscription box from Hungryroot provides "good-for-you groceries" and simple recipes recommended just for the subscriber and their particular lifestyle. Vegan? Omnivore? Dairy-, soy-, or gluten-free? Hungryroot combines grocery service and meal kits to provide healthy, 10-minute recipes and easier meal prep and planning.
No. 5:
Home Chef offers one of the most customizable meal kit subscriptions on the market. Both novice and advanced home chefs can mix and match more than 30 weekly options while swapping, upgrading, or doubling the protein in each recipe. They also make it easy to skip weeks to better suit customer schedules.
Photo courtesy of Green Chef
No. 4:
Green Chef specializes in delivering organic pre-measured and prepped ingredients to help subscribers cook easy and flavorful meals. Subscription options can be tailored to two, four, or six people, and they offer a flexible menu of 80-plus choices that changes each week and takes Mediterranean, vegan, keto, and gluten-free preferences into account.
Photo courtesy of EveryPlate
No. 3:
Each week, EveryPlate dishes up a new menu of 26 delicious chef-created recipes for subscribers to peruse, and they can select up to six per delivery. Their affordable plan also makes cooking easy, with recipes comprised of no more than six simple steps that take around 30 minutes to complete.
Photo courtesy of Factor
No. 2:
To take the guesswork out of healthy eating, Factor specializes in chef-prepared meals designed by dieticians. A flexible menu of 30-plus gourmet meals is rolled out weekly, and the meal service offers plan sizes of six, eight, ten, 12, 14, or 18 meals per week.
Photo courtesy of HelloFresh
No. 1:
HelloFresh boxes come with easy-to-follow recipes and ingredients sourced directly from farms and producers, all packed in meal kits that slide right into the fridge. This company wins with menu variety — a combination of plant-based eats, one-pot wonders, kid-approved meals, and gourmet options.
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The Experts
Allison Tibaldi
Allison Tibaldi is a travel and food writer based... Read More
Allison Tibaldi is a travel and food writer based in New York City. She has lived in Rome, Tuscany, Melbourne Australia, Toronto and Los Angeles. She studied early childhood development in graduate school and firmly believes that travel is the best education. She writes for numerous publications including CNN, Travel Channel, HGTV, am New York, Emirates Open Skies, Family Traveller and Travel Weekly.
Allison Tibaldi
Allison Tibaldi is a travel and food writer based in New York City. She has lived in Rome, Tuscany, Melbourne Australia, Toronto and Los Angeles. She studied early childhood development in graduate school and firmly believes that travel is the best education. She writes for numerous publications including CNN, Travel Channel, HGTV, am New York, Emirates Open Skies, Family Traveller and Travel Weekly.
Erin Hamm
Erin Hamm is the founder of Subscription Box Mom... Read More
Erin Hamm is the founder of Subscription Box Mom where she reviews and shares her love of subscription boxes with others through a website and a YouTube channel with over 42k subscribers. Her site features a list of free subscription boxes to explore. In addition to her subscription box business, she co-owns an online clothing store, Obsessions Clothing Co. When she is not working, she loves spending time with her husband and two boys. You can connect with her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Erin Hamm
Erin Hamm is the founder of Subscription Box Mom where she reviews and shares her love of subscription boxes with others through a website and a YouTube channel with over 42k subscribers. Her site features a list of free subscription boxes to explore. In addition to her subscription box business, she co-owns an online clothing store, Obsessions Clothing Co. When she is not working, she loves spending time with her husband and two boys. You can connect with her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Jacky Runice
Born in Bucktown (Chicago) when bulletproof was a... Read More
Born in Bucktown (Chicago) when bulletproof was a home safety choice and not a coffee order, Jacky Runice has been knocking around Chicago as a professional print, online and broadcast journalist and editor specializing in separating the riff from the raff in culture, entertainment, food, travel and pure unadulterated fun. Jacky is a member of the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA) and relies on her vast experience and gray matter to produce informative, entertaining content.
Jacky Runice
Born in Bucktown (Chicago) when bulletproof was a home safety choice and not a coffee order, Jacky Runice has been knocking around Chicago as a professional print, online and broadcast journalist and editor specializing in separating the riff from the raff in culture, entertainment, food, travel and pure unadulterated fun. Jacky is a member of the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA) and relies on her vast experience and gray matter to produce informative, entertaining content.
Meg St-Esprit
Meg St-Esprit is a journalist based in Pittsburgh... Read More
Meg St-Esprit is a journalist based in Pittsburgh who covers family travel, lifestyle, education, and parenting. With their four kids in tow, she and her husband love to travel anywhere and everywhere — but have a soft spot for camping and outdoor adventures. In fact, her kids are well on their way to achieving their goal of visiting all 124 state parks in Pennsylvania. Meg believes travel doesn’t need to be luxurious or costly to be valuable, and aims to share that with her audience. Meg’s work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Thrillist, The Washington Post, Fodor’s, Yahoo, Good Housekeeping, Romper, and more. Follow Meg on Instagram and Twitter at @megstesprit or check out her work on https://megstesprit.com/
Meg St-Esprit
Meg St-Esprit is a journalist based in Pittsburgh who covers family travel, lifestyle, education, and parenting. With their four kids in tow, she and her husband love to travel anywhere and everywhere — but have a soft spot for camping and outdoor adventures. In fact, her kids are well on their way to achieving their goal of visiting all 124 state parks in Pennsylvania. Meg believes travel doesn’t need to be luxurious or costly to be valuable, and aims to share that with her audience. Meg’s work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Thrillist, The Washington Post, Fodor’s, Yahoo, Good Housekeeping, Romper, and more. Follow Meg on Instagram and Twitter at @megstesprit or check out her work on https://megstesprit.com/
Michelle Oliver
Michelle Oliver is the COO of Hello Subscription.... Read More
Michelle Oliver is the COO of Hello Subscription. Michelle has expertise in accounting but jumped careers and joined the Hello Subscription team in November of 2021. Michelle has extensive knowledge of the ins and outs of subscription boxes and loves partnering with brands to increase their reach. In her spare time, Michelle enjoys spending time with her two amazing kids, traveling to new places, and yoga.
Michelle Oliver
Michelle Oliver is the COO of Hello Subscription. Michelle has expertise in accounting but jumped careers and joined the Hello Subscription team in November of 2021. Michelle has extensive knowledge of the ins and outs of subscription boxes and loves partnering with brands to increase their reach. In her spare time, Michelle enjoys spending time with her two amazing kids, traveling to new places, and yoga.
Nicky Omohundro
Nicky Omohundro is the founder and editor of Read More
Nicky Omohundro is the founder and editor of LittleFamilyAdventure.com, the popular family travel & lifestyle website that inspires families to leave no child left inside. Since 2013 LFA has been providing inspiration to get families outdoors, eat well, and travel everywhere from their own backyard to around the world. Always up for a family adventure, she has traveled to 37 states and 6 countries to zip-line through a Costa Rican rainforest, see Finland’s Northern Lights, and go camping throughout the US. Nicky is the co-founder of Tourism WorX a travel consultancy group. Connect with her Twitter and Instagram.
Nicky Omohundro
Nicky Omohundro is the founder and editor of LittleFamilyAdventure.com, the popular family travel & lifestyle website that inspires families to leave no child left inside. Since 2013 LFA has been providing inspiration to get families outdoors, eat well, and travel everywhere from their own backyard to around the world. Always up for a family adventure, she has traveled to 37 states and 6 countries to zip-line through a Costa Rican rainforest, see Finland’s Northern Lights, and go camping throughout the US. Nicky is the co-founder of Tourism WorX a travel consultancy group. Connect with her Twitter and Instagram.
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