Best Healthy Meal Delivery Service for 2023

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 teamed up with Weight Watchers for easy-to-cook healthy recipes like sheet pan tandoori-style chicken and tilapia in lemon-caper sauce. These recipes align with its point system, making it easy for those in the program to have a healthy diet meal plan and keep track. Blue Apron offers customers roughly eight to 12 delicious meals to choose from per week including more than one vegetarian recipe option as well as a few that were created for the Weight Watchers Freestyle program. 

Separate from Weight Watchers meals, their vegetarian options get high marks in the reviews I read, but if you are full-on vegan or vegetarian, there are likely better vegetarian specialty meal kits and meal delivery services with more daily or weekly plant-based options and ingredients. Blue Apron also has one of the most user-friendly meal plan interfaces of all the meal kit services and optional wine pairings, too. 

Pricing and subscription: Price per serving ranges from $8 to $12 with options to prepare two to four recipes per week and two or four servings per recipe. Shipping is an additional $10 per box.

Green Chef is a healthy organic meal-kit delivery service that will tailor your plan to maintain a paleo, keto, vegetarian (plant-powered) or just a steady balanced diet. Roughly 90% of the fresh ingredients included in Green Chef's meal kits are certified organic and its meats are sustainably fished, farmed and raised without hormones or antibiotics.

Like Blue Apron or Sun Basket, Green Chef provides all the organic ingredients needed for cooking a fairly simple meal -- generally in less than 30 minutes -- and thoughtful recipe cards with photos make following instructions easy, like with the simple teriyaki pork meatballs or parmesan-crusted chicken. There are some meal kit services on this list with more total options each week, but Green Chef definitely scores points for quality, healthiness and ease of use. My favorite Green Chef meal was the artichoke crab cakes with quinoa and zucchini, but everything I made was light, fresh and tasty.

Pricing and subscription: Green Chef's organic offerings start at around $12 a meal and allow you to customize or skip weeks when traveling and so on.

Of all the players, this was one of the best but its meal kits are also some of the most expensive. Sunbasket's healthy meal delivery focuses on high-quality and mostly organic ingredients, meats, fish and produce in easy-to-cook recipes, many of which are designed specifically for various diets and dietary restrictions. 

Each week this meal delivery service offers 15 to 18 dinner options on the menu. Many are interesting but not complicated to prepare, such as shrimp paella, turkey-cranberry meatballs with roasted Brussels sprouts or sweet potato taquitos with a black bean salad. My personal favorite was a light and simple pan-seared chicken thigh with Balinese spice and a cool mint-cabbage slaw. You won't be tempted by lots of mashed potatoes or thick heavy sauces in the weekly menus, though an occasional comfort food recipe is available for cheat day.

Pricing and subscription: Sunbasket moved away from the fixed price format and now charges by the meal. Prices start at around $11, though most meals are between $14 and $19 which makes it one of the pricier services we've tested.

Purple Carrot (full review here) is the original plant-based meal kit service and this healthy food delivery service has a loyal and growing customer base. The 100% vegan meal kit service scores points for its inventive and interesting fresh meat-free ingredients and meal prep options like cauliflower and quinoa kofta or sticky apricot seitan stir fry. 

Purple Carrot makes it easy to sort its offerings into high-protein or gluten-free meals that satisfy even nonvegetarians. Do be aware that some of the Purple Carrot meals take a bit of time and some skill to prepare but if quality, homemade vegan meal kits are a priority for you (and extra trips to the store are not), this is probably the best meal kit for you. 

In addition to the tasty vegan meals, you can add extras like banana chia pudding or overnight oats with apricot, goji berries and cashew butter to your weekly delivery.

Pricing and subscription: Purple Carrot meals cost between $11 and $13 per serving, which isn't exactly cheap for vegan food, but you can choose between two or four servings per meal, and either three or four meals per week. 

This is definitely the best meal delivery for ready-to-go, healthy breakfast and lunches. Splendid Spoon is hoping to entice folks who want to keep it simple, easy and nutritious for breakfast and lunch with its ready-made smoothies, soups and grain bowls delivered to your door weekly. 

Splendid Spoon puts an emphasis on nourishing ingredients but doesn't slack on taste because of it. Soups include cauliflower tikka and Mexican tomato, while smoothies come in tasty combos like almond butter and jelly, blueberry acai and a green matcha smoothie with spirulina, ginger and turmeric. Soups and smoothies are loosely categorized by their overall intended effect, like "heal," "energize" and "refresh." Splendid Spoon also offers a full-day soup cleanse add-on to "reset" your system.

As much as I loved all of Splendid Spoon's soups and smoothies, do be aware that many can be high in sugar, so if cutting back on the white stuff is a goal in 2023, you may want to look elsewhere.

Pricing and subscription: Splendid Spoon offers a few options, like a breakfast plan with seven smoothies per week (most are relatively low in sugar) or a lunch plan, which is seven days of grain bowls for $100. Or get an entire seven days' worth of smoothies and lunches (soups and grain bowls) for $147. The most expensive is the breakfast, lunch and dinner plan, which is $227 and comes with seven smoothies and grain bowls, four noodle bowls and three dishes. Splendid Spoon is a subscription, but you're free to cancel at any time, including after the first week if you want to just try it out. 

Here's my full review of Splendid Spoon.

Sakara Life is a vegan and organic meal delivery system that sends fresh (never frozen) harvest bowls, soups, salads, breakfast items and snacks to your door via messenger service so you don't have to think about cooking or preparing any meals whatsoever. 

I tried Sakara for a week and the food was quite tasty with bold flavors and fantastic sauces. It was pretty, too, with bright colors and fresh greens. The Sakara food came in two shipments a week so it was always fresh and the meals kept me interested with global dishes that included vegan moussaka, roasted peach chana masala and ginger almond noodle bowls.

The big downside with Sakara Life is the price, and the cheapest plan is still $54 a day for just two meals. For me, this vegan meal delivery service might be more practical for a shorter cleanse or to schedule for a specific week when you know you're going to be crazy busy but don't want your healthy eating habits to suffer. If you can afford it I say give it a try. The food was all great -- like upscale spa food -- and definitely healthy.

Pricing and subscription. There are two-, three- and five-day plans available that cost around $80 per day. A more affordable option is picking just lunch and dinner, which nets out to $58 a day -- still not cheap by any stretch. All of this includes shipping.

The five-day Level II Detox cleanse is a whopping $450 but includes meals, supplements, detox teas, detox water drops, snacks and more. The 20-day Bridal Cleanse is a gulp-inducing $1,680.

Read more in my full review of Sakara Life.

Pete's won me over in a week-long taste test, notching its place as one of the best healthy, organic meal delivery services I've yet to try. While it's not particularly budget-friendly at around $15 a meal, it is actually cheaper than other meal services that use organic ingredients and quality meat and the food was better than most of them. 

Pete's Real Food meals were all well-prepared too. The meats were tender, the vegetables (mostly) cooked to proper doneness and all the flavors worked. The food wasn't overly seasoned and the recipes were mild and maybe even on the safe side -- but that's nothing a few shakes of hot sauce can't fix.

If you're in training, avoiding gluten or keeping to a paleo plan and looking for lots of protein, healthy fats and nutrient-filled carbs such as sweet potatoes and beets, Pete's Real Food should hit the spot. Pete's has lots of ordering options and the meals are made to freeze so if you don't want to subscribe, you can keep an inventory on hand for those moments you need a quick fix.

Pricing and subscription: Depending on the meal plan you choose your price per meal will change a bit, but most end up being somewhere around $15 a meal. As with other meal-delivery services, the more food you order at once the lower the price per meal drop. But strangely, there's no discount for subscribing to this service. 

There are also prepared bundles of meals and a la carte options under the Eat What You Love section, so your best bet might be to peruse all the different meal plans and see if one seems like a good fit. 

I tested a week's worth of Mosaic inventive meatless meals (full review here) and for plant-based meal delivery, it doesn't get any better than this. Mosaic is new on the scene and, to date, is the best 100% plant-based meal delivery service I've tried. Of the nine Mosaic meals I tried, none were bad and I really loved nearly all of them.

Personal favorites included the tender jackfruit chili and the olive, pepper and feta ragout, but there were plenty more that hit the spot. There were also no mushy vegetables -- a plague in meal delivery -- and the meat stand-ins like jackfruit, tofu and vegan sausage were used in creative ways and cooked extremely well.

Pricing and subscription: Mosaic is also affordable when compared with other services. Most meals clock in at $9, which isn't bad for what you get, and they'll make for a nice respite on those busy days you don't want to cook, but don't want to spend $20 on takeout either. 

You choose as many meals as you'd like from a menu of about 28 lunches and dinners, six soups and six oat bowls, but there is a minimum order for any shipment of $70 (about eight meals). That said, since you can have your meals sent every four weeks, it would break down to just a few per week -- a perfect option if you're looking to just try the service out.

As of now, Mosaic meals are available for delivery to about 80% of the country, including both coasts and most of the Midwest. Before pressing on, you may want to check your ZIP code on the company's website to see if it's available where you live.

Prepped, frozen and vegetarian (meaning there's no cooking or assembly required), Veestro's meals are shipped and can be heated up in either a microwave, skillet or conventional oven (conventional oven or skillet suggested by me). Veestro has a truly massive selection of vegetarian and vegan meals, and you build a box of between eight and 15 meals per delivery.

If calorie-counting is important to your health goals, Veestro also has a selection of meals with less than 500 calories like lentil shepherd's pie and baked vegetable ziti. Veestro will also learn your preferences with each order in order to make smarter suggestions about meals you may like. 

I thought the quality of food was fairly high for what it is and Vesstro uses more interesting ingredients and flavors than some of the others I tried. I wouldn't eat them every night, but to have three or four on hand in the fridge or freezer for those busy nights is heaven when you need it most.

Pricing and subscription: Meals are $14 each and you can order between eight and 15 per delivery. 

Healthy meal kits and meal delivery services offer delicious, curated meals catered to your personal tastes and nutritional needs. One reason folks -- like me, for instance -- tend to prefer meal kits and meal delivery over classic fad diets is they take away some of the risk for those weak moments of dietary self-sabotage. 

You should check with your doctor or a health professional before making any drastic changes to your diet. That said, there are meal delivery services that cater to nutrition plans of all types including keto, paleo, Mediterranean diet, low-calorie, vegan, vegetarian and diabetes-friendly.

Mosaic Foods is one of the best prepared meal delivery services and has lots of healthy, plant-based meals that can be had for $9 a serving or as cheap as $5 a serving if you order family meals. 

For meal kits, HelloFresh and Home Chef both have loads of healthy options and meal plans that start around $7 a serving if you choose multiple meals per week. The most budget-friendly meal kits are EveryPlate and Dinnerly. Both have meals for about $5 or $6 per serving but you won't find quite as many healthy options and you can't make many changes to the meals, either.

This really depends on your nutrition goals. And know that just about every meal delivery service claims to be healthy. The options that made this list excelled among the competition, with fresher ingredients, a better selection of truly balanced and nutrition-packed meals as well as detailed guidance and information to make tracking nutrition, carbs, calories, fat and protein easier. 

Even among this list, there are meal services that are geared towards particular health and nutrition goals including plant-based meal delivery, meal delivery for paleo eaters and those for folks trying to eat a low-carb diet.

Some of the services listed here are healthy prepared meal delivery services, sending fully cooked meals -- often frozen or partially frozen -- and ready to eat when you receive them. Others include health-focused meal kits with premeasured ingredients all boxed up and ready for easy weeknight cooking. There's a stark difference between meal kits and meal delivery, but both make dinnertime easier and can translate into healthier eating choices for you in 2023. Plus, we sussed out the best healthy meal services for those on special diets like keto or paleo or for those who wish to eat organic prepared meals and meal kits.