Meal Kit Delivery Services That Make the Most of Eating at Home

Meal Delivery Services That Make the Most of Eating at Home, a yellow table with cooking tools, ingredients, and vegetables.

You already know about meal kit delivery services—that quick and easy way to make tasty and nutritious meals at home—but did you know you can add these services to your wedding registry? Believe it! Here, our top picks to get you started.

We’ve all been spending more time than usual at home.

There have been bright spots: sleeping a little later in the morning, rediscovering a hobby we haven’t had time for in years, virtually connecting with distant friends and family.

On the other hand: Some couples who used to rely on take-out and restaurant dinners have learned that planning and shopping for all their own meals at home can feel like a part-time job. A part-time job that’s time-consuming and also unpaid.

But as life has slowed waaay down, some folks have also discovered the simple joy of cooking at home and expanding their culinary skills. They’d just like someone else to do the prep work (please and thank you).

That’s where pre-planned meal-delivery services come in. We’re all familiar with at-home meal subscriptions, where you get the satisfaction of creating a camera-worthy meal with your own two hands (or four hands) after someone else has taken care of all the preliminaries—from perfectly portioned ingredients and step-by-step recipes to prep-time expectations.

What you may not know is that you can add a meal-delivery subscription to your wedding registry. It’s true: Register now and have easy, healthy dinners-for-two in your future, whenever you choose to cash in on the goodness. Quarantine or not, that’s what we call a win-win.

Read on for our favorite meal-kit subscriptions, and then register for a wedding gift that will truly keep on giving.

Blue Apron

Blue Apron is all about helping you make good choices for your meals. The company partners with farmers and sustainability experts to grow and raise the highest-quality ingredients and, by doing so, invests in the environment, the farmers themselves, and those local communities. Just knowing that makes it a perfect substitute for the guesswork of shopping at your local grocery store, something we can certainly get behind!

Choose the Blue Apron meals you want from the menu options for the week, including meat and fish dishes, vegetarian, Mediterranean meals, one-pan dinners, diabetes-friendly options, and “600 calories or less per serving.” Fresh ingredients are delivered to your door in an insulated box, along with step-by-step instructions that include each meal’s prep time, so you know just what you’re getting into before you start.

Good to know: For those wine lovers creating their registry, Blue Apron also offers wine delivery, with bottles specially chosen to complement their meals.

Home Chef

Home Chef’s approach to the meal kit is simple and straightforward: Save time, reduce food waste, and eat better at home. Dietary preferences include adventurous, quick and simple, carb-conscious, calorie-conscious, and vegetarian. Meal options are adapted to different skill and comfort levels, even schedules that vary from day to day, with some options that can be prepared in five minutes, others that take a full half hour (which still seems quite reasonable). If your available cooking time changes by the day, this is the plan for you, and the service also offers the flexibility to add meals, edit servings, even take a week off as needed.

Good to know: Home Chef meals can be customized as you go by adding, swapping, or doubling up on proteins for select meals.

Splendid Spoon

Meal Delivery Services That Make the Most of Eating at Home, Splendid Spoon Meal Delivery Service Gift Card
Splendid Spoon Meal Delivery Service Gift Card | Splendid Spoon
Starting from $65.00/week

For the vegetarians and vegans out there, Splendid Spoon skips the cooking altogether and delivers ready-to-eat vegan, gluten-free, GMO-free meals that are pre-portioned, calorie controlled, and made with only whole ingredients. The founder of Splendid Spoon, a then-soon-to-be first-time mom who wanted to change her own troubled relationship with food, chose to focus on “spoon foods”—a spoon being a symbol of lifting and cradling what we eat.

Splendid Spoon sticks to breakfast and lunch, with bottled smoothies in the morning (flavors include orange-hibiscus and mint chip) and soups and grain bowls for midday. Optional “reset” soups are designed to do just that, get you and your body back on track in a single day. Oh, there are immune-boosting wellness shots too. Plan options include breakfast only, breakfast plus lunch, or breakfast, lunch, and a reset meal. If you’re not the everyday type, know that bowls will keep in the fridge for a week, and the freezer for a month.

Good to know: If you’re all about the eco-friendly lifestyle, know that Splendid Spoon packaging is 100% recyclable. Bowls, bottles, boxes, and packing insulation can be dropped in your recycling bin.

Chefs Plate

Calling all Canadians! Chefs Plate, a division of HelloFresh in Canada, delivers a box of fresh ingredients and accompanying recipes to your home each week. Chefs Plate sources its meat and poultry from local and national farmers, so users are getting the freshest ingredients from the most local sources while also supporting Canada’s food community and economy.

Fifteen recipes are offered every week—choose two, three, or four meals for the week, from meat-and-vegetable, vegetarian, and family-friendly categories. Self-described as a flexible subscription service, Chefs Plate gives customers the option to skip weeks when their schedule changes.

Good to know: Each recipe lists all the ingredients right on the website, along with the approximate calorie count, so customers can see whether a meal suits their dietary or taste preferences before choosing it. Customers can also edit their taste preferences in advance to screen out specific ingredients they’d like to avoid, such as pork or shellfish.

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