There are now countless home meal delivery services. Some of them deliver fresh ingredients you need to prepare. Others will bring fully made meals, so you just need to heat and eat.

So, you do you find the best one?

For me, it was easy. To narrow it down for my readers, I weeded out every meal planning service that offers food that may contain genetically modified ingredients. This left just a handful of contenders. So, in this post, I”m including only those services that say the meals they bring to your door are free of GMOs.

Here’s why. Genetically modified feed causes cancer in laboratory animals. I wouldn’t order GMO meals for my own family. And I won’t recommend anything I wouldn’t use myself. Plus, organic home delivery meals really aren’t more expensive, compared to the others.

Also, I’m only including meal planning services that have nationwide (or near nationwide) delivery in the continental United States.

Best Home Delivery Meal Service

(This post contains affiliate links. Also, I received a box of Sun Basket food for free, in order to review it.)

The meal planning service I’m most familiar with is Sun Basket. That’s because the company graciously sent me a sample box of three meals, designed for two people. One of the meals was just enough to feed the two of us. My husband wasn’t home for dinner that evening, so my daughter and I enjoyed a delicious vegan stuffed acorn squash dinner with quinoa.

One of the other offerings was a delicious Burmese chicken stir fry. This easily could have fed more than two people. In fact, I think it could have fed four if we had added a salad and some bread. The same was true of the Thai beef stir fry, our third meal.

The cost of Sun Basket home delivered meals is comparable to other meal delivery services. So you don’t really pay much of a premium for the organic food. Plus, you can get $35 off of your first order.

Simply Easy Home Delivered Meals

Green Chef is one of the bigger home delivery meal services. I haven’t tried this one yet, but I plan to. Like Sun Basket, it offers nationwide delivery, except for Alaska, Hawaii and certain parts of Louisiana.

This meal planning service is only slightly more expensive than Sun Basket if you choose the option with meat. Similar to Sun Basket, Green Chef meals do require some prep. We found it took about 30 minutes of either preparation or cooking, before we could sit down and eat. However, it was still easier than making a meal from scratch, especially one that had a restaurant-quality taste.

Actually, I told my husband that I wouldn’t mind ordering Sun Basket home delivered meals, on occasion, instead of going to a restaurant. That’s because I have chronic nerve inflammation, and I’m striving for clean eating. This is extremely difficult to do in a restaurant. That’s why I saw Sun Basket as a good alternative to dining out.

Simply Easy Home Delivered Meals

Receiving a home delivered meal kit is infinitely easier than shopping for groceries. You do have to unpack the box and refrigerate the meals you won’t be using right away. However, each of our meals came in a separate paper bag. So we could put the entire bag in the refrigerator, until needed.

Chopping and preparing took minimal time. I do plan to try more meal delivery services in the future, just for comparison. Right now, there are only a few that offer USDA-certified, GMO-free meals. I do expect more competition in the near future.

Blue Apron Meal Planning Service

Recently, I did place an order for Blue Apron delivered meals, which I had shipped to my parents. They liked the food, but not the preparation, which sounded pretty comparable to Sun Basket. If I were to advise anyone, I’d say this shouldn’t be a problem, especially compared to the amount of work it takes to shop for food.

Many of the ingredients in Blue Apron home delivered meals are certified organic, according to its website. Recently, the company announced on its blog that all of its ingredients are now free of GMOs.

Blue Apron Food Service

Blue Apron seems to be one of the larger fresh meal delivery services in the United States. I think it’s another good option for busy working people who want to upgrade their diet, especially if they find themselves relying upon takeout.

The meat used in Blue Apron meals is not raised with hormones or unnecessary antibiotics, routinely added to the feed of conventional farm animals. At home, this is the only type of meat I’ll buy, if I can’t find organic.

I should note that neither Blue Apron nor Sun Basket claims that its meat is USDA-certified organic. This distinction means that even though the animals are not given hormones, or raised with antibiotics in their feed, they may still consume genetically modified ingredients. However, USDA-certified organic meat is pricey. So this appears to be a reasonable compromise.

Blue Apron Food Delivery

Also, Blue Apron gets its produce from family farms that use sustainable agricultural practices. This means they try raise food without stripping the soil of nutrients.

Ordering from Blue Apron does cost less than getting meals from Sun Basket. As of the time of this writing, a four-person Blue Apron meal plan breaks down to $8.74 per meal. Shipping is free. Sun Basket is a little pricier, at  $9.99 per meal for a four-person “Family Menu.” Shipping is free the first week only. After that, it’s $5.99 per order.

Home Delivery Meals Reviews

Anyway, based upon my personal experience, as well as researching these two companies, both of them seem to be good choices if you find that you don’t have time to shop and cook. There will be a little prep work involved. But I didn’t find it difficult. In fact, the Sun Basket meat was already chopped. So I all I had to do was add it to a pan for the two stir-fry dishes.

Healthy Food Home Delivery Meals

Sun Basket and Blue Apron are just a couple of the growing array of companies that will ship fresh ingredients for healthy meals, right to your door. I do expect that other organic home meal delivery services will arise. I’ll be adding them as I find them. One other option available right now is Green Chef. You can read more about it below.

Green Chef – This home delivery service promises that nearly all of its ingredients will be USDA-certified organic. Its website notes that some things, such as wild caught salmon, do not have this certification, as it doens’t apply. The lowest-priced meal plan for four people starts at $11.99 (at the time this post was published), and it looks like one of the two meals is a vegetarian entree.