Chanda ranga: Healthy Meal Delivery Los Angeles

Tuesday 7 August 2012

Healthy Meal Delivery Los Angeles

I"ve researched them, and I can say that Nutrisystem had the worst tasting, least "real" looking food.

Diet to Your Door and Diet to Go, both offer real food (ie cooked from fresh and healthy ingredients, frozen, shipped, no freaky additives). Customer service is pleasant and helpful (I had some errors with Diet to Go, but always graciously and perkily attended to.) Both offer 1200 calorie plans, but Diet to Go offers there menus (low carb, low-fat, vegetarian). It's cheaper than Diet to Your Door.

What's good about both those, though, is that you can do five day a week, lunch dinner, and pay less than 100 bucks a week, then add your own more economical snacks and breakfasts. I think it's quite workable that way.

The others I've seen were more expensive (the Jorge Cruise One and..er...Ediets and..one more I forgot).

Remember what you're paying for: Calories counted, portions weighed, someone cooks, someone else cleans pots, someone delivers, and ALL YOU DO is heat and eat. You're paying for more than food, you're paying for all those services and the time saved.

I find that I spend AS MUCH if not more than I do no Diet To Go/Diet To Your Door, because just eating out in Miami can be $40 bucks for my hubby and I for one dinner out in a not that expensive place. And a trip to the grocery store is easily 100 bucks, and that doesn't include the time for shopping, storing, cooking, and cleaning. For me, it ends up coming out about even, or actually saving me a bit if I count the weeks we went 3 or 4 times out to eat.

I think you need to figure out what you'd spend on your own food a week eating diet portions, and then try to find a nice mix with a delivery plan--lunch and dinner only? lunch and dinner 5x a week versus all week? Having a high fiber cereal or instant oatmeal and milk or eggs is cheaper if you buy it yourself. And fruit and nuts for snacks or protein shakes may be more economical if you do it, rather than let the diet delivery folks do it.

Good luck finding something that works. I'm still in the trying and testing phase, but I did put a mini review in the thread on Diet to Your Door, which I just started.