Best Healthy Meal Services, Tested and Reviewed (2024)

David Watsky

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Meal kits or prepared meals

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$110 off first 5 boxes

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Taste/results 7 Value 7 Ease of recipes 8 Recipe variety 7 Healthiness 9

Pricing Starts at $12/serving

Type Meal kits

Recipes per week 30

Good for Organic, healthy, low-calorie, pescatarian, vegetarian, keto, gluten-free, Whole30, gourmet

See at Green Chef

Best healthy meal delivery for most

Green Chef

While it's pricier than other some other services, Green Chef has a massive selection of meat- and plant-based recipes using mostly organic ingredients.

Green Chef is a healthy organic meal kit service that will tailor your plan to maintain a paleo, keto, vegetarian (plant-powered) or just a steady balanced diet. Roughly 90% of the fresh ingredients included in Green Chef's meal kits are certified organic and its meats are sustainably fished, farmed and raised without hormones or antibiotics. In addition to organic meals, you'll find lots of healthy grains, lean proteins and fresh greens making it the healthiest meal delivery service for 2024.

There are some meal kit services on this list with more total options each week, but Green Chef scores major points for quality and overall healthiness. My favorite Green Chef meal was the artichoke crab cakes with quinoa and zucchini, but everything I made was light, fresh and delicious.

Read myfull review of Green Chef.

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Freshness 9 Taste/results 9 Value 8 Recipe variety 10 Healthiness 10

Pricing Starting at $10/serving

Type Prepared meals

Meal options per week 18

Good for Keto, paleo, Whole30, gluten-free Mediterranean, vegan, vegetarian, high-protein

See at Fresh N' Lean

Best for eating keto or low-carb

Fresh N Lean

Fresh N Lean has the best prepared meals of any service we tested and caters to tons of diets including keto, plant-based, Whole30 and more.

This isn't just one of the best healthy meal delivery services, it's one of the best meal delivery services, period. I personally tested all of the leading prepared meal companies, and Fresh N Lean ran away from the pack, ticking more boxes than any other. The meals are healthy and cooked well, they taste fantastic and look appetizing too. Plus, the service is pretty affordable depending on the plan you select.

Fresh N Lean has nine meal plans to help keep folks on track with their specific nutrition goals, including low-carb, vegan, paleo and high-protein options. The prepared meals I tried were all made from simple, whole ingredients and tasted like quality home-cooked food. While I liked pretty much everything from Fresh N Lean from the tofu on down, my favorite was a tender braised beef with vegetables in coconut-cilantro sauce.

Pricing Starts at $5 a serving

Type Prepared meals

Meal options per week 100+

Good for Vegan, vegetarian, low-calorie, Whole30, gluten-free, breakfast, lunch

Shipping cost $10

See at Daily Harvest

Best meal delivery for easy lunch

Daily Harvest

Daily Harvest is one of the elders of the healthy meal delivery set, and the service has fine-tuned its recipes. We tried the latest version of the Daily Harvest and loved its new line of family-style pasta and rice dishes that clock in under $10 a serving.

While the family meals represent the best value, most Daily Harvest smoothies, soups, grain bowls and flatbreads range from $7 to $10 per serving. The food is all vegan and gluten-free and is packed with healthy superfoods such as acai, kale, spinach, flaxseed, nuts, berries and beans.

Daily Harvest meals arrive frozen and ready to be popped in the freezer then thawed quickly to serve. Food is partially prepared, meaning you'll have to add nut milk to frozen smoothie ingredients and blend, or add broth or water to soup before serving.

Your weekly order cost depends on which items you choose, but plans require a minimum of nine items per order. There's an extra $10 for shipping per box, so you'll get a better value if you order more in one shot. The subscription can be paused or canceled easily and at any time.

Read our full review of Daily Harvest here.

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Taste/results 9 Value 7 Ease of recipes 8 Recipe variety 9 Healthiness 10

Pricing Starts at $11/serving

Type Meal kits

Recipes per week 8

Good for Vegan, vegetarian, paleo, gluten-free, low-calorie

See at Purple Carrot

Best healthy vegan meal kits

Purple Carrot

Purple Carrot is easily the best meal kit service for eating plant-based. The recipes, though limited per week, are interesting, unique and use high-quality ingredients.

Purple Carrot (full review here) is the original plant-based meal kit service and this healthy food delivery service has a loyal and growing customer base. The 100% vegan meal kit service scores points for its inventive and interesting fresh meat-free ingredients and meal prep options like cauliflower and quinoa kofta or sticky apricot seitan stir fry.

Purple Carrot makes it easy to sort its offerings into high-protein or gluten-free meals that satisfy even nonvegetarians. Be aware that some of the Purple Carrot meals take a bit of time and someskill to prepare but if quality, homemade vegan meal kits are a priority for you (and extra trips to the store are not), this is probably the best meal kit for you. In addition to the tasty vegan meals, you can add extras like banana chia pudding or overnight oats with apricot, goji berries and cashew butter to your weekly delivery.

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Pricing Starting at $8/serving

Type Meal kit, grocery provider

Regional Availability Continental United States

Number of Meal Options per Week 100+

Menu Options/ Diet Types Vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, egg-free, shellfish-free, nut-free, gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free, omnivore

See at Hungryroot

Best healthy grocery delivery

Hungryroot

Hungryroot is for anyone who seeks online grocery delivery and healthy recipe suggestions with all the ingredients to make them but doesn't want to commit to the rigor of a meal kit subscription.

Hungryroot is part meal kit company and part healthy grocery delivery service. Unlike traditional meal kits, Hungryroot tailors a delivery of groceries with simple recipe suggestions that can be created from them. While services like Blue Apron andSunbasketlock you into recipes with rather specific ingredients portioned for that particular meal.

Plans start at $4 a serving or $65 a week. Hungryroot gives you the option to add more servings in increments of two to four, with a flat increase of $10. The cost per serving decreases the more you order. Shipping is free for any plan over $70 a week.

Freshness 9 Taste/results 9 Value 9 Recipe variety 9 Healthiness 10

Pricing Starts at $6/serving

Type Prepared meals

Meal options per week 80

Good for Vegan, vegetarian, paleo, gluten-free, low-calorie

See at Mosaic Foods

Best vegan meal delivery

Mosaic Foods

This is simply the best prepared plant-based meal service we've tried and it's one of the most affordable, too.

I tested a week's worth of Mosaic inventive meatless meals (full review here) and for plant-based meal delivery, it doesn't get any better than this. Mosaic is new on the scene and, to date, is the best 100%plant-based meal delivery serviceI've tried. Of the nine Mosaic meals I tried, none were bad and I really loved nearly all of them.

Personal favorites included the tender jackfruit chili and the olive, pepper and feta ragout, but there were plenty more that hit the spot. There were also no mushy vegetables -- a plague in meal delivery -- and the meat stand-ins like jackfruit, tofu and vegan sausage were used in creative ways and cooked extremely well.

$110 off first 5 boxes

Taste/results 8 Value 9 Ease of recipes 9 Recipe variety 8 Healthiness 8

Pricing Starting at $8/serving

Type Meal kit

Recipes per week 16

Good for Vegetarian, pescatarian, diabetes-friendly, low-calorie, picky eaters, quick meals

See at Blue Apron

Best meal kits for weight loss

Blue Apron

Blue Apron offers steak and healthy seafood recipes starting at $10 a serving. It's also the most sustainable meal kit service when it comes to packaging.

Probably the most recognizable of the meal kit services, Blue Apron has a lot of healthy, fresh options on the menu -- and just a lot of options, in general. Blue Apron teamed up with Weight Watchers for easy-to-cook healthy recipes like sheet pan tandoori-style chicken and tilapia in lemon caper sauce. These recipes align with its point system, making it easy for those in the program to have a healthy diet meal plan and keep track. Blue Apron offers customers roughly four to 10 delicious meals to choose from per week including more than one vegetarian recipe option as well as a few that were created for the Weight Watchers Freestyle program.

Separate from Weight Watchers meals, its vegetarian options get high marks in the reviews I read, but if you're full-on vegan or vegetarian, there are likely better vegetarian specialty meal kits and meal delivery services with more daily or weekly plant-based options and ingredients. Blue Apron also has one of the most user-friendly meal plan interfaces of all the meal kit services and optional wine pairings, too.

Pricing Starts at $10 a meal

Type Premade meals

Number of meal options per week 40+

Good for Low-Fodmap, gluten-free, low-sodium, diabetes-friendly, low-calorie

Availablility Continental United States

See at ModifyHealth

Best for those with digestive issues

ModifyHealth

With free dietician support, this meal service takes a holistic approach to better health through diet. Plus, the food is pretty tasty.

This comprehensive meal subscription includes free dietician counseling and is designed for those with food sensitivities and digestive issues. ModifyHealth uses a strategic elimination diet to help find the triggers of your adverse, The program puts a lot of focus onFODMAPS, which are fermentable carbohydrates found in many foods and are thought to be a common trigger for IBS and other gastrointestinal ailments.

ModifyHealth also offers tailored meal plans for diabetics, those with celiac disease as well as looking to improve heart health or eat fewer carbs. The food we tested was solid with lots of lean proteins, green vegetables and light, flavorful sauces. Some dishes were bland and required salt but most were good or better. The service costs a reasonable $14 per meal for dinners no matter how many or few your order. If $14 per meal doesn't seem sustainable for your long-term budget, you can use ModifyHealth for a short time to help diagnose your issues and then transition to more healthy cooking yourself.

Read my full ModifyHealth review.

Freshness 8 Taste/results 8 Value 6 Recipe variety 9 Healthiness 8

Pricing Starting at $8/meal

Type Pre-made

Regional Availability Continental United States

Number of Meal Options per Week 40+

Menu Options/ Diet Types Plant-based, gluten-free non-GMO

See at Splendid Spoon

Best for soup and smoothies

Splendid Spoon

A no-nonsense way to get your nutrients in with easy plant-based breakfast and lunch meals with no cooking required.

This is the best meal delivery for ready-to-go, healthy breakfast and light lunches. Splendid Spoon is hoping to entice folks who want to keep it simple, easy and nutritious for breakfast and lunch with its ready-made smoothies, soups and grain bowls delivered to your door weekly.

Soup options include cauliflower tikka and Mexican tomato, while smoothies come in tasty combos like almond butter and jelly, blueberry acai and a green matcha smoothie with spirulina, ginger and turmeric. Soups and smoothies are loosely categorized by their overall intended effect, like "heal," "energize" and "refresh." Splendid Spoon also offers a full-day soup cleanse add-on to "reset" your system.

One thing to note is that the smoothies can be high in sugar. If you're cutting back on the sweet stuff is a goal in 2024, you may want to look elsewhere or buy a good smoothie blender and make them at home.

Read myfull review of Splendid Spoon.

Freshness 9 Taste/results 9 Value 8 Recipe variety 9 Healthiness 10

Pricing Starts at $15/serving

Type Prepared meals

Meal options per week 25+

Good for Healthy, paleo, keto, low-calorie, diabetes-friendly, gluten-free, Whole30, high protein

See at Pete's Paleo

Best paleo meal delivery

Pete's Real Food (formerly Pete's Paleo)

Pete's may be pricey but you'll taste the difference. The tasty premade meals are perfect for athletes and those seeking high-protein and gluten-free meals for extra energy.

Pete's won me over in a week-long taste test, notching its place as one of the best healthy, organic meal delivery services I've yet to try. While it's not particularly budget-friendly at around $16 a meal, it is actually cheaper than other meal services that use organic ingredients and quality meat and the food was better than most of them.

Pete's Real Food meals were all well-prepared too. The meats were tender, the vegetables (mostly) cooked to proper doneness and all the flavors worked. The food wasn't overly seasoned and the recipes were mild and maybe even on the safe side -- but that's nothing a few shakes of hot sauce can't fix. If you're in training, avoiding gluten or keeping to a paleo plan and looking for lots of protein, healthy fats and nutrient-filled carbs such as sweet potatoes and beets, Pete's Real Food should hit the spot. Pete's has lots of ordering options and the meals are made to freeze so if you don't want to subscribe, you can keep an inventory on hand for those moments you need a quick fix.

Read my full review of Pete's Fresh Food.