The Best Healthy Meal Kit Delivery Services of 2024

One of the biggest meal kit services in America, Hello Fresh has something for almost everyone. You can choose from different types of meal plans, including classic, vegetarian, pescatarian, family-friendly (with kid-tested meals), quick and easy (with recipes that take 30 minutes or less) and fit and wholesome (with lower-calorie meals).

The meals themselves are mostly crowd-pleasing staples, and this is definitely the service to choose if you’re feeding a family. If you have specific health goals or needs, you can customize your menu each week to cater to those. Hello Fresh isn’t certified gluten-free, but there are gluten-free meal options that you can choose each week. Unfortunately, there aren’t many fully plant-based options, so this service wouldn’t be a good fit for anyone following a vegan diet.

For easy, tasty, nutritious meals on a budget, you really can’t beat Every Plate’s value. You choose the number of meals per week and the number of servings per meal (either two or four), and then you have the option to choose from a rotating menu of 26 options each week.

If you want, you can choose comfort food staples like country-fried pork chops and barbecue bacon flatbreads. There’s also the option of nutrient-dense, vegetable-packed meals like a chickpea, feta and vegetable bowl, or a sweet potato and broccoli rice bowl. If you’d like Every Plate to do some of the customization for you, you can choose from five different plan types: meat and veggie, vegetarian, family faves (with kid-friendly options), quick and easy (ready in 30 minutes or less), and nutrish and delish (with lower-calorie options).

Every Plate probably isn’t the choice for you if you have specific dietary needs or you’re on a special diet, as most of their meals cater to people who eat a wide variety of foods.

If you’re looking for a meal delivery service that requires absolutely zero cooking, Factor fits the bill. The company caters to a health-conscious crowd, so you can choose from its classic menu (which contains a balance of nutrients and plenty of veggies), or its more specific options: protein plus (at least 30 grams of protein per serving), calorie smart (550 calories or less), keto (low-carb, high-fat) or vegan/vegetarian (although fully vegan options are limited).

You’ll pay more for Factor than you will for most meal kit services, but remember that you’re also paying for the convenience of getting meals that are ready to heat and eat. You’ll also get to choose your own meals every week from a rotating menu of 35 options.

Unfortunately, some of the meal delivery services out there that market to athletes don’t offer enough calories or carbohydrates to actually support performance. (Really, they’re just weight loss plans.) What we love about Meal Pro is that it’s truly customizable, which means you can choose the meals you need to reach your performance goals.

There are keto, high-protein and low-carb meals if that’s your style, but you can also opt for high-carb meals, high-calorie meals or doctor-designed meals suitable for various health conditions. The meals come fully prepared, and there are plenty to choose from each week.

Ask anyone who loves to eat: Sunbasket is the tastiest meal kit service out there. Every recipe is creative and super flavorful, and it offers both meal kits and prepared meals. Although the service is pricey and probably not suitable for kids or picky eaters, it’s a dream for anyone who wants restaurant-quality meals that are nutrient dense and cost less than actual takeout.

Sunbasket caters to a wider variety of special diets than your average meal kit service: vegetarian, paleo, carb-conscious, gluten-free friendly (although the meals aren’t certified gluten-free), diabetes-friendly, pescatarian, Mediterranean and keto-friendly. You also have the option to add certain specialty grocery items chosen by the Sunbasket team, like breakfast foods, snacks and easy packaged lunch options.

If you’re vegan and looking for a meal kit service, Purple Carrot is not just your best bet, it’s also one of your only options. (Most meal kit services cater to vegetarians but don’t have enough vegan meals to keep things interesting.) They don’t customize meal plans to particular diets other than being fully plant-based, but you can choose meals that fit certain needs, like gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, high-protein or high-fiber (although the meals aren’t suitable for those with severe food allergies).

In addition to its meal kits, Purple Carrot offers refrigerated prepared meals, frozen meals and an in-between option that still requires cooking but has much of the prep done for you. The meals are tasty and filling, and would probably satisfy meat eaters as well as vegans.

Epicured is one of the only meal kit services out there whose meals are all 100 percent gluten-free, making it a great choice for anyone who has celiac disease or who follows a gluten-free diet for another reason. They bill themselves as a healthcare company, menus designed by clinicians and meals created by chefs within certain parameters.

In addition to being gluten-free, the meals are designed for people with digestive health conditions like IBS, IBD, Crohn’s, colitis and SIBO. Meals come prepared and ready to heat-and-eat, and you can either choose all of your own meals or select a set menu based on your needs. There’s a $30 minimum for orders, which comes out to about two meals.

Although Hungryroot started as a vegan and gluten-free minimal prep meal kit service, it’s become a dynamic grocery-delivery-meal-kit hybrid that caters to all kinds of tastes and special diets.

Before signing up for Hungryroot, you’ll take a comprehensive quiz that asks about your dietary requirements, favorite cuisines, ingredient likes and dislikes, how many meals and snacks you want each week, which kitchen appliances you have and how long you’d like to spend cooking. The meals are made with few ingredients and require various amounts of cooking depending on the recipe, and the snacks and desserts are things you’d find at places like Whole Foods or Thrive Market. You can customize your meals and choose from hundreds of available recipes. And if you’d rather not cook its recipes, you can just order groceries.