Best Low Calorie Meal Kits

Crave Healthiness offers delicious prepared meals for health-conscious Vancouverites but do they live up to their name? Find out in our detailed review.

With Fresh In Your Fridge, you get delicious, ready-made meals that are completely customized to your dietary needs, preferences, goals, and lifestyle. This service is basically like having a personal chef.

Dinnerly is a fast and affordable meal kit option that is positioned for the busy weekday warrior. They offer a wide variety of recipes that are priced below $5 and only require 30-minutes to prepare. Recipes can be picked from a rotating menu online and include no more than six ingredients and steps to prepare. Each recipe card is electronically sent to you so there is no chance of it being misplaced or damaged.

Marley Spoon is a German company that provides meal kits all around the world, including the United States, and Australia. They offer meal kits for people who like cooking, which make them not the best choice for busy beginners but will be ideal for busy cooking lovers. Marley Spoon desires to connect the growers to the cooks by offering in-season meals that include vegetarian, fish and meat.

Update: MissFresh has been acquired by Quebec meal kit company Cook It MissFresh is a Canadian meal kit company that strives to inspire people to cook at home by helping them discover delicious new recipes and flavours. Each box comes with fresh, pre-portioned ingredients that are easy to prepare and create a shareable experience for the entire family. Their meal plans are highly customizable and offer many unique dinner, breakfast and snack options that can be delivered all across Canada.  

Terra’s Kitchen is a farm-to-table meal kit service that focuses on sustainability and minimizing prep time and dishes. Sounds pretty good, right? Indeed. But does it live up to expectations? We’re digging into what the Terra’s Kitchen meal kit experience is really like. Is it actually good for the planet? How much does it cost? Are the meals tasty? We’re giving you answers to these questions and so many more.  

New York-based Plated has been dishing up “the perfect cooking experience” since 2012 with their fresh meal kit delivery service. Promising food you’ll love and the flexibility you crave, this little start-up has made it to the big time. It’s now one of the more well-recognized meal kit options on the market, holding its own with brands like HelloFresh and Blue Apron.  

Home Chef is a Chicago-based weekly subscription meal kit service. They serve 3-million customers each month, sending all the fresh ingredients needed to make restaurant-quality recipes at home. Like other meal kits, Home Chef helps you to save time by taking care of grocery shopping, finding new recipes, meal planning, and portioning for you. Instead of choosing specific meal plan options, Home Chef allows you to pick your specific recipes from a menu that rotates every five weeks.

HelloFresh is one of the largest meal-kit companies in the world and has established operations in Canada, Western Europe, and the United States. They offer three types of meal plan options that are geared towards families, vegetarians, and people just looking for quick meals. Each recipe is inspired by one of HelloFresh's expert chefs and features seasonal, farm-fresh ingredients that are pre-measured and delivered to your door. They also provide discounts to students and offer a convenient app to help manage your orders.