Meal Delivery Programs

I did Factor for awhile and also Freshly which I don't think is around anymore. They both tasted like an airplane meal. If you're not a lazy fat whore, maybe choose a service where they give you all the ingredients and you actually cook it yourself.

I tried Hello Fresh. Too many calories and too much fat. It's too difficult to find something to order for the week if you have more than one dietary concern (e.g., vegetarian + light).

When you make a meal at home, you're not looking for restaurant-quality indulgence but something nutritious and fresh. (At least in my opinion.) They have too many little packages of fatty add-ons like creams and cheeses that anyone who ever cooks would likely have at home anyway.

Also, don't be asking me to chop onions and peppers every week when I've just paid you a ton for convenience.

R1 - I did factor dinners for a week also. Very high calorie content along with fat and salt - I recall seeing some dinners at 900 calories. That's too much.

Their vegetarian dishes were meh. It also didn't feel environmentally sound to have these meals delivered with huge ice packs and boxes every week.

I don't understand their popularity at all. Expensive for what you get and a lot of the dishes were not that difficult to prepare.

But then again, I don't understand Door dash and people willing to pay 25% item mark-ups on top of delivery fees and tips either.

It feels like a service for lazy and stupid people. Sorry - but that's my take.

I will never understand people paying extra to have someone else select their produce. Someone who doesn’t have to eat it and probably eats out of cans. You should get a discount for that.

It's cheaper to cook at home& better for you. R1, R2, R3 and R4 are all correct.

You need to check the sodium levels in some of these meal plans.

I think the most egregious was the baked salmon and vegetables - literally throw that into an air fryer for 10-12 minutes together and you're done.

Anyone try Hungry Root? It’s bowls. Ads made it look very delicious.

This is why people are broke....

Purple Carrot was good but too much prep; chopping tons of vegetables. Plus all of them over package.

For the rich and the busy people who feel this is healthy

Meals on Wheels, until Trump defunded it.

^ is that true?

My friend who is a rich, fat and not on insulin yet diabetic, swears by BistroMD.

R10 is spot on for the most part. But actually it's a lot of 20 and 30 somethings who feel that it's cheaper than Door dash. It's still expensive for what you get - but comparably, it's less for them.

Most of the people in the commercials are 20 and 30 somethings.

I've seen so many young people I worked with who would pay $25-$30 to Door dash fast food delivery for lunch. It broke my mind. I knew how much they made - barely $50K which goes thisfar in California.