Need even faster meals? GoodFood offers 15- and 20-minute meal options, making meal prep more accessible to the busiest of families, or you can also order from its ready-made meals too if you know you won’t have any time to cook on certain days.įavourite Recipe: Spice-Crusted Tuna Steaks with Charred Scallion Sauce Most meals require about 25-30 minutes of prep, with much of the chopping already done. Lastly, GoodFood is rolling out an On Demand Delivery service, which minimizes the time from order to delivery to as little as 30 minutes (this service is now available in Montreal and Toronto, with plans to roll out over the country in the next year and beyond).Ĭonvenience: The ability to mix and match meal kit types and groceries, and order any day of the week make this service a standout option for families in need of flexibility and efficiency. Its GoodFood house brand offers up delicious varieties, but you can also find other brands on the site. If you’re in a pinch, you can find staples and as well as many other ingredients (we test-ordered ice cream and shrimp, and both arrived still frozen, within a 24-hour turnaround from order to delivery).
You can also select from a range of affordable, high-yield options (see their Slow Cooker Recipes), and other more gourmet meals for special occasions.Īdditionally, GoodFood offers ready-to-blend smoothie mixes to kickstart your mornings the right way, and even a grocery selection with over 1,000 products to choose from (GoodFood will continue adding to this offering). You can choose from meal offerings that include Classic, Easy Prep, Clean15/Carb-Wise, Vegetarian, Brunch, Pizza Bar, Sheet Pan, Slow Cooker, Dinner + Lunch combos, and already-prepared dishes. The groceries were kept cool with a cooling pack, and all were fresh and some still frozen.ĭietary Variety: GoodFood had one of the most versatile kit and delivery options of the four meal kits we tested at this time. Packaging: The kits arrived in paper bags that contained recyclable plastic bags with the ingredients we’d need – many of which were pre-chopped for us. Related: Time-Saving Kitchen Gadgets and Must-Haves for FoodiesĪvailability: Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Maritimes.Īverage price per person: As low as $5.49/serving for the Pizza Bar and as low as $8.99/serving for other meals. Here is what we found in our experience testing GoodFood, Chefs Plate, HelloFresh, and Plant Prepped. This is where many of the similarities for these Canadian companies end. (Note: pantry and other staples, such as olive oil, salt and pepper, are not included.) This does lead to a lot of packaging, but each of the services now available have sought to find recyclable and more environmentally-friendly solutions. The best part? In an effort to reduce food waste, most of the ingredients come in pre-measured amounts. Related: How to Properly Dispose of Cooking Oil They can be delivered and left at your doorstep or at the concierge, and include ice packs to keep perishable ingredients as fresh as possible. If you’re unfamiliar with them, they all share a few things in common: they come in prepackaged boxes or bags of mostly-raw ingredients with easy-to-follow recipe cards and nutritional information for dinner meals, typically feeding two to four people (GoodFood, Chefs Plate, and HelloFresh tell you to double up on ingredients in each step if you’re cooking for four). We tested GoodFood, Chefs Plate, HelloFresh, and Plant Prepped. I was curious if this would still be the case in 2022. The service provided us with a quick, simple and delicious solutions to weekly meal prep when we needed it most. You should know, this wasn’t our first foray into the service when I went back to university full-time in 2016, we spent a good portion of those two years ordering from the still nascent meal delivery kit services setting up shop in Toronto (we have two binders-worth of recipe cards to show for it). Seeking a bit more balance in the kitchen (and some variety), we opted to test out four Canadian meal delivery kits.