What to Expect from Meal Prep Boxes

Home food delivery services will provide you with weekly, bi-weekly or monthly meal prep boxes that contain everything you need to make a meal (or two, or three). The concept is basic and incredibly convenient, but there are still questions many have about the increasingly popular service.

How often do meal prep boxes come? What types of meals get sent to me? Do I get instructions? How does this all work? These questions are all valid and deserve an answer. It’s hard to want to invest in a service when you don’t quite know what to expect.

When it comes to home food delivery services, you’ll want to invest. Here’s what you can expect when you sign up for a home meal prep box.

You Cook it Yourself

Don’t confuse meal prep boxes with takeout food. Meal prep boxes provide fresh ingredients, whereas takeout like fast food is packed with sugar, salt, fats, and processed preservatives, according to Medical News Today.

Home food delivery services deliver food to your door, but it’s up to you to cook the meal. This is actually one of the best parts of this service.

When you subscribe to a meal prep box, you get both the convenience of getting the food right to you, and the gratification of knowing your meal is freshly cooked. This also ensures that when you do eat your meal, it’s hot, and you know what went into it.

Customization Options

The beauty of home meal prep boxes is that you can customize your subscription based on a few different factors:

• Frequency: A lot of the time, you can customize the frequency of your meal prep box. This way, you can control how often you receive deliveries in the case you require more or less.
  
  
• Quantity: This allows you to take into account the volume of the box. Fortunately, most subscription boxes are available in various sizes to account for various lifestyles. Meal prep boxes can be purchased to suit a family of 4, a couple, or an individual.

• Dietary Restrictions: Are you vegetarian or vegan? Gluten-free? Most meal prep boxes allow you to indicate your restrictions to ensure that you receive recipes that suit your dietary needs.

Fresh & Measured Ingredients

One of the best things about home meal prep boxes is that they come with fresh ingredients – this means you get the convenience of take out, with the freshness and health benefits of a freshly cooked meal. Boxes come complete with fresh ingredients that are ready for you to cook up.

Not only do meal prep boxes deliver fresh ingredients to your doorstep – they deliver them prepared, and in the exact quantity that the enclosed recipe requires. This way, you only get the amount of ingredients you need; no more and no less. There is no denying the convenience of home food delivery services.  

Meal prep boxes completely remove the need to measure out your ingredients, waste excess food, or have to run to the grocery store for last-minute ingredients. Meal prep boxes ensure that you have everything on hand that you need to cook your meal from beginning to end and create the perfect sized portion.

Recipe Instructions & Photo Guides

Many meal prep boxes come with a recipe card that includes step by step instructions and a photo of the meal you are to make. The best part? The instructions will typically also include the estimated time it will take to cook the meal from beginning to end so that you can plan accordingly.