To check every meal supply service, I attempted at the very least 5 and typically as many as 10 meals from any given service. I attempted to decide on a spread of meals from the assorted menu and meal plan choices. As an illustration, I all the time combined up the meal sorts to incorporate pasta, rice bowls, soups, salads or another numerous types provided by the model. Additional, I made positive to check quite a lot of cuisines — Italian, Indian, Thai, Mexican — in the event that they had been provided.
I took cautious word of every meal supply service’s web site, together with what info was supplied (substances, dietary data), how clearly the menu was organized and the way easy it was to select a meal plan and order meals. Once they arrived, I famous how effectively they had been packaged and checked whether or not every meal was nonetheless chilled or frozen.
To reheat every ready meal, I took a twofold method. For some meals, I meticulously adopted the heating directions on the label. However since these are merely ideas, I reheated different meals the way in which I’d if left to my very own units. Typically that meant warming gently in a nonstick skillet or reheating in my air fryer
Testing meal kits requires cooking, in fact, and thus totally different practices and procedures for analysis. Here is extra on how we check meal kits at CNET.
Plant-based meal supply in contrast
Service | Plant-based choices per week | Subscription solely | Value per serving (entree) | Delivery | CNET ranking (out of 10) |
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Mosaic Meals (ready) | 50+ | Sure | $10 | $8 | 9.2 |
Purple Carrot | 8 | Sure | $12 | Free | 8.6 |
Recent N Lean (ready) | 12 | Sure | $9-$13 | Free | 9.2 |
Splendid Spoon (ready) | 48 | Sure | $12 | Free | 7.8 |
HelloFresh | 6 | Sure | $9 | $9 | 8 |
Sunbasket | 4 | Sure | $14 | $8 | 9 |
Sakara Life (ready) | 15 | No | N/A | Free | 7.6 |
Inexperienced Chef | 9 | Sure | $13 | $10 | 7.6 |
Day by day Harvest (ready) | 50+ | No | $9 | Free | 8.8 |
Veestro (ready) | 50+ | No | $14 | Free for subscribers | N/A |