The Best Meal Kit Delivery Services

Picture your kitchen as a farm-to-table restaurant. One with a famous chef. Sunbasket delivers on that dream. With recipes that are chef-crafted and dietician-approved, Sunbasket is for foodies seeking clean, personalized meals.

Sunbasket starts with quality ingredients that are sustainably sourced and non-GMO. The produce is organic, the meat is antibiotic-free and hormone-free, and the seafood is wild-caught or sustainably raised. Plus, the meals are flavorful and delicious. Sun Basket’s kitchen is overseen by James Beard Award-winning chef Justine Kelly.

Menu choices include Paleo, Carb-Conscious, Gluten-Free, and Mediterranean, among many others. Sun Basket also offers prepared, heat-and-serve meals—ready in only six minutes. Optional add-ons include breakfast, lunch, snacks, and even wine.

The only downside? You pay the price for this level of quality. In our minds, it’s worth it. The Sunbasket experience brings you as close to fine dining as you can get at home.

A popular and early player in meal kits, Blue Apron is loved for its quick and easy one-pan dinners, healthy Mediterranean meals filled with veggies and proteins, and customer-favorites that devotees order week after week.

Select from meals in a wide array of dietary categories, such as meat, fish, carb-conscious, WW (Weight Watchers) approved, diabetes-friendly, and sub-500 calories. Blue Apron also offers Beyond Meat™ and other vegetarian options. And as a fun add-on, pair your meals with a matching wine.

Stretch your palate with dishes that include unique, specialty ingredients. And the box itself is insulated. It includes educational info about the ingredients, plus instructions for recycling.

If you’re ready to cook at home more often but just don’t know where to start, say hi to HelloFresh. With simple recipes and four meal plan choices, HelloFresh delivers something for everyone.

A full range of recipes appear on the HelloFresh menu, with a whopping 20 to choose from in a given week. Recipes are also clearly marked for food allergies, including gluten, dairy, soy, nuts, and more. At $10/serving, HelloFresh has a slightly higher cost than some of the other kits, but you get generously sized portions for the price. We’ve also noticed periodic sales, bringing the price down further, at least for an introductory box.

HelloFresh cares about the environment too. Look for your kit to arrive in sustainable packaging that’s easy to recycle.

Plan options include Meat & Veggies, Veggie, Family Friendly, and Low Calorie. BONUS: HelloFresh offers a “dinner to lunch” upgrade. Recipes labeled “dinner to lunch” come with everything you need to turn them into a new lunch for tomorrow.

Purple Carrot is our top pick for home chefs who choose daikon over drumsticks—and beets over baby backs. With recipes not as simple as most of the other meal kits, this kit is for kitchen-savvy eaters who are excited about unique vegan ingredients—think cashew cheese and kibbled nori.

Further specify your meal choices with gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free, high-protein, and less-than-600-calorie designations. You might also love it if you’re trying to expand your veggie-powered dining into more than just meatless Mondays.

EXTRAS: Purple Carrot offers lunches and breakfasts. And you can choose from several plant-based snacks and treats to add to your box.