Best healthy food delivery services - San Francisco Chronicle

Blue Apron

This the best choice for calorie-counting. 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 recently teamed up with Weight Watchers for easy-to-cook healthy recipes that align with its point system, making it easy for those in the program to plan meals and keep track. Blue Apron offers customers roughly eight to 12 delicious meals to choose from per week, including a few vegetarian options as well as those created for the Weight Watchers Freestyle program.

Pricing and subscription: Price per serving ranges from $7.49 to $9.99, with options for two to four recipes per week and two or four servings per recipe. Keep an eye out for special offers.

Sun Basket

This is the best choice for families. Sun Basket focuses on fresh, healthy ingredients with easy-to-cook recipes, many designed specifically for various diets and dietary restrictions, including low-carb, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, keto, paleo and more. Each week starts with 18 dinner options on the menu — like shrimp paella or turkey meatballs with cashew crema — of which you pick two, three or four to be delivered the following week.

Pricing and subscription: Each serving runs about $12, so three dishes per week (six total servings) will run you about $72. The family plan offers better value but less selection, with just six meals to choose from per week; however, the portions serve four adults (with leftovers). For the family plan, three meals (12 total servings) costs about $132.

Green Chef

This is the best organic meal kit. Green Chef will tailor your plan to maintain a paleo, keto, vegetarian (plant-powered) or just a steady, balanced diet. Roughly 90% of the ingredients included in Green Chef’s meal kits are certified organic, and meats are sustainably fished, farmed and raised without hormones or antibiotics. Like Blue Apron or Sun Basket, Green Chef provides all the ingredients needed to cook a fairly simple meal — generally in less than 30 minutes — and thoughtful recipe cards with photos make following instructions easy.

Pricing and subscription: Green Chef’s organic meals start at around $8 per serving and allow you to customize or skip weeks when traveling, etc.

The following people contributed to this report: David Watsky, Jim Hoffman and Laura K. Cucullu. For more reviews of personal technology products, visit www.cnet.com.

Let's block ads! (Why?)