If one of your resolutions this year is to eat healthy, but you hate grocery shopping, cooking, and endless meal prep, then it might make sense for you to purchase a meal subscription service. While some of these services do require you to cook, they come with carefully proportioned ingredients and an idiot-proof recipe that cuts your cooking and prep time right in half. What you essentially get with a meal subscription box is a home-cooked meal made with fresh seasonal ingredients but with bare minimum effort. It feels like takeout but it’s so much better for you. We’ve rounded up four super healthy meal subscription services that will help stay on track with your fitness goals this year.
eMeals
eMeals cuts down all the stress that goes into eating a healthy home-cooked meal. All you need to do is pick a diet plan, (Quick & Healthy, Paleo, Classic, Gluten-Free, Vegetarian) and eMeals gives you 7 different recipes for seven meals along with a corresponding shopping list. Record scratch! You don’t get out of grocery shopping? Actually, you kind of do! eMeals has tied up with chain grocery stores like Aldi, Kroger, Publix, Walmart, and Whole Foods, so all you have to do is pick up your subscription box. With eMeals, you don’t ever have to ask the question, “What’s for dinner?” again.
Cost: $5 a month for a 12-month subscription; $10 a month for a 3-month subscription.
Freshly
No prep, no cooking, and no cleanup – it almost sounds too good to be true. Freshly delivers ready to eat, chef-prepared recipes and ingredients that are all gluten-free. This flexible subscription service delivers five days a week and is perfect for those of you who work long hours – meals can arrive as late as 10 pm. The meals are all nutritionally dense, filling but light on your stomach and digestion and they’re delicious to boot. Though a little more pricey than others like it on the market, Freshly helps you be the fittest version of yourself without any effort from you.
Cost: $69-$229 per meal
Graze
If you’re generally a healthy eater but have a weakness for snacks then Graze, a snack subscription service, is just the thing for you. All the snacks in this subscription service are free from artificial colors, preservatives, and sweeteners. Snacks also contain plant protein, fiber or necessary vitamins and minerals. The company has over 100 great snack recipes so you get a wide variety with the money you put down. Rate each snack so that the subscription sees your food preferences and choices and nudges you toward even more snacks you like.
Cost: The Subscription service starts at $5.12 per box; Individual snack product purchases from the Graze shop start at $2.84.
Green Chef
If you want to start cooking your own meals eventually, then Green Chef is a step in the right direction. This flexible meal subscription service designs healthy, chef-crafted meals (3 recipes for either 2,4 or 6 servings per week) and delivers easy to follow recipes and pre-measured and prepped ingredients right to your doorstep.
Cost: $10.49 per meal to $14.99.
