The world of healthy meal delivery services (or meal prep services), popular among the wellness crowd, is burgeoning. Take it from someone whose belief that there were only couple of meal delivery brands offering doorbell dinners seven days-a-week proven wrong. Ahead of my very boring midweek dinner roster being thrown up in the air and transformed into something altogether more thrilling, I had quite the number of food delivery services to sift through in the name of deciding which are worth your time.
In case you needed persuading of their time-saving powers, here’s the lowdown: the best meal delivery services serve up the chance to tuck into a different meal made from organic ingredients every night of the week. Without having to pick up fresh ingredients on your way home, or do any forward-planning. The high-quality ingredients in our favourite, award-winning meal delivery services arrive pre-portioned so that you can reduce your food waste – and there are meal kits to suit all diets (think: low calorie, vegan meal delivery services, pescatarian, vegetarian meals and more).
If you live on your own like I do, a two-person meal plan will mean your dinner and lunch the next day are covered (portion sizes are still good), and if you don’t fancy making the most of monthly balanced meal deals, you can subscribe for as little as three days. Some even come with snacks and smoothies. From healthy frozen meals (thanks, AllPlants) to comfort food courtesy of easy-to-read recipe cards (HelloFresh, we’re looking at you), these are, officially, the meal delivery services worth investing in.
The best meal delivery services 2023 at a glance:
- Best overall: Gousto
- Best for low calorie microwave meals: Tastily
- Best for smaller portions: Mindful Chef
- Best for families: HelloFresh
- Best for “fake-away” style dinners: GreenChef
How we tested:
“Being confined to a rotation of pesto pasta and roasted salmon, I was after more meal options (without a bunch of extra effort). I tested as many of the meal delivery services in this edit over a period of at least one week, scoring on delivery, how long the ingredients lasted, how easy the recipe cards were to follow, portion size and quality of the dishes. Those that haven’t been tested personally have been tested by another member of the GLAMOUR team – or, we’ve referred to customer reviews and expert knowledge.” Sophie Cockett, Senior European Commerce Editor.