Green Chef Review

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Green Chef is a meal delivery service that focuses on healthy eating. Top-quality, locally sourced and organic ingredients are used wherever possible while the meal plans focus on healthy eating regimes like the gluten-free, keto, or paleo diets. Meal plans are available for both couples and families, and fresh ingredients are delivered to your door on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis, depending on your needs. Alongside your fresh ingredients, you’ll also receive recipe cards for each menu, giving you easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to create your gourmet, gluten-free dish. A convenient service that delivers all over the USA, Green Chef gives thousands of people a helping hand as they introduce new flavors and healthy meals into their lives.

If the kitchen has always been a bit of a no-go zone for you, then Green Chef can help you break down those barriers and start creating a diversity of delicious dishes that will keep you on the straight and narrow but also make you happy to be there.

With a user-friendly website and an intuitive interface, Green Chef has made everything from meal selection to account cancellation as streamlined as possible. All you need to get started is your zip code and email address. You’re also free to explore the service website without signing up, so you can assess the pros and cons before making a commitment.

Green Chef makes sticking to even the most limited of diets, like the low-carb keto or a gluten-free eating regime, a breeze. Simply select the plan of your choice and choose from the weekly meals suited to your needs. With six plans to choose from, you’re bound to find something to suit your fancy and, should you change your mind, you’ll find changing your plan and preferences is just as easy.

While most meal delivery services take a lot of the stress out of food prep, Green Chef goes one step further, pre-chopping ingredients so you don’t have to. This is great for those who find this side of meal preparation difficult or simply tedious. Having said that, some meals do take longer to prepare than those from other meal delivery services so, if you’re looking for a quick fix solution, you might want to consider an alternative.

Nevertheless, with clear, illustrated recipe cards and pre-prepared and pre-portioned ingredients, conjuring up a Togarashi Chicken Stir-fry is easier than you might imagine and you’ll be tucking into a meal of Asian-inspired flavors just 35 minutes after unpacking the ingredients.

You can order meals on a weekly basis with Green Chef and, when your box arrives, you’ll find it full of deliciously fresh ingredients, packaged in recyclable containers and wrappers. The website also gives clear instructions on how to recycle everything from the cooling gel packs to the box itself.

All in all, compared to trying to come up with new and interesting ways to enjoy a keto diet or stick to a vegan regime, Green Chef offers a reliable that’s easy to use and makes sticking to a restricted diet while enjoying a wide range of flavors, simple and straightforward.

If you’re looking for a two-person meal plan then the variety Green Chef has available is truly impressive. Six different meal plans, each with six new dishes to choose from each week, means you can keep munching your way through the Green Chef menu for months without repeating a meal.

Things are a  little more limited when opting for the family plan as you can only choose between an omnivore or carnivore meal plan. Furthermore, you only get two meals to choose from each week which, if you’re ordering two meals per week, means you have very little choice. Fortunately, you could opt to order two two-person meal plans instead and embrace the diversity.

If you opt for the Paleo plan, you may find the variety of vegetables used in the recipes is more limited than you might have hoped but it is, nonetheless, one of the few meal delivery services around that caters for Paleo, Keto, and Vegan diets. The only drawback is that you don’t get much choice, as Green Chef gives you a “personalized menu of curated meals based on your preferences above”. Of course, you can always change those preferences if you want to explore some new flavors or a wider range of choice for a week or two.

Earlier this year, Green Chef expanded its selection of meals even further, taking customer feedback on board and responding with a variety of meals designed to give, according to the company’s executive chef, Dana Murrell, “home cooks the ability to expand their taste buds in a modern, customizable way and allows them to always feel great about dinner time”.

As anyone who’s attempted sticking to a keto diet for any length of time, coming up with new recipes and different flavors can be pretty challenging so the variety that’s available with Green Chef, especially within these more restrictive meal plans, is impressive.

In one week on Green Chef’s keto meal plan you could find yourself savoring prime organic steak one day and cajun cod cakes the next. Not only will that mean you’re getting the variety of flavors you desire, but also that you’re getting the diversity of ingredients that your body needs to function at an

As Green Chef uses a high proportion of organic ingredients purchased from local farms and craft economies, there can be little doubt about the quality of the meals you receive. However, good-quality ingredients don’t always guarantee a tasty outcome. After all, duck in blood sauce (Canard à la Rouennaise) is a gourmet specialty but probably not one we’d all enjoy, even if the duck had lived its life in the lap of luxury eating only organic grapes!

Thankfully, you’ll be unlikely to find anything quite as unappetizing as duck in blood sauce on Green Chef’s menu while the quality of the ingredients certainly won’t disappoint. The family meal plan tends to stick to more conventional recipes than the two-person meal plan, ensuring the final product will be as appealing to a fussy five-year-old as a father who ‘s so much of a carnivore, he believes chicken is a type of vegetable!

The two-person meal plan tends to incorporate a wider range of more exotic flavors, introducing customers to Indian spices and Asian aromas. If you’re worried that a feta-stuffed chicken is too complicated, rest assured that, with half the work done for you, you’ll be enjoying a meal full of delicious essences in just over half an hour.

If you are a bit more of a conservative eater who doesn’t particularly like being taken out of their taste comfort zone, Green Chef might not be the best option, although, as we mentioned earlier, the family plan is designed to appeal to more traditional tastes. While customers on a two-person omnivore diet may find themselves exposed to dishes like Cuban Steaks with Mojo Sauce, customers eating off the family omnivore diet will be greeted with more traditional delights, like Rosemary-stuffed Chicken with Kale Salad (although how you get a five-year-old to eat kale salad is anyone’s guess!).

In addition to its organic, ethically sourced ingredients, Green Chef prides itself on delivering restaurant-quality meals, which it does. In comparison to other popular meal delivery services, like HelloFresh or HomeChef, however, it does incorporate more unusual ingredients and international flavors which may be off-putting for those with a more traditional approach to their evening meals.

If your family mealtimes are a constant battle of numbers as a result of endless extra-curricular activities and last-minute deals that take your husband overseas for days at a time, you may be unwilling to commit to a meal delivery service. Don’t despair, though! With Green Chef you can either embrace the convenience of deliveries on a weekly basis or create a more flexible subscription that fits into your lifestyle more easily. There is no minimum commitment so you can skip orders or change your subscription as often as you like.

With much of the chopping done for you, Green Chef offers a much more convenient and time-effective approach to meal kits than some which simply deliver a whole raw potato and leave the rest up to you. Although the ingredients for each meal aren’t packaged separately, they are color-coded so you know exactly what you need for each dish. While some may find the services that package all the ingredients for each meal in a separate box more convenient, it’s certainly not rocket science and will only take you a couple of deliveries to get to grips with.

Once you’ve decided what meals you want for the week and placed your order accordingly, you can specify what day you would like your order to arrive. You don’t need to be at home to receive your delivery, however, as the insulation and packaging will keep your ingredients fresh until the end of the day. Alternatively, you can have your box delivered to your work address and receive it in person.

As with most meal delivery services, Green Chef will deliver almost anywhere in the United States, with the exception of Hawaii and Alaska. Although your state will dictate which days you can receive your order, you’ll also get a certain amount of flexibility, with boxes delivered between 8am and 9pm each day from Monday to Saturday.

Green Chef enables customers to create an automated schedule where they can change their subscription from weekly, to bi-weekly or even monthly. You can also skip deliveries if you’re going on vacation or simply want to take a break for a week. Canceling your subscription altogether is a little more complex, requiring you to follow various prompts or contact the customer support team directly. Payment is simple enough, with Green Chef accepting all major credit and debit cards.

Another benefit of Green Chef is that you won’t need any over-priced or complicated kitchen gadgets in order to complete the meals. Just a couple of saucepans and stove top is sufficient in many cases!

Deliveries are reliable, although a little pricier than most similar services, we’ll take a closer look at that in the next section. In terms of convenience, you’d be hard-pressed to find a meal delivery service that’s any more user-friendly or expedient than Green Chef.

Green Chef is definitely at the upper end when it comes to price, but that’s mainly a reflection of its high-quality ingredients, as anyone who’s ever bought a wild salmon at the local supermarket or a piece of organic cheese from the deli well knows. Nevertheless, Green Chef is still pricier than Sun Basket, which also focuses on ethical and organic ingredients.

In fairness, given the quality of the meals you’ll enjoy with Green Chef, the price is very reasonable. If you dined at a restaurant, you’d not only be paying somewhere in the region of $25 for a meal of the same quality, in most instances, you’d also struggle to find a meal that was 100% in keeping with your keto diet.

Green Chef charges a flat shipping rate of $6.99 on each box which bumps the price up even further. While most meal delivery companies charge something for shipping it often varies depending on how big your weekly spend is. Home Chef, for example, charges a whopping $10 for delivery, but only if the customer’s order is less than $40. Given that two meals for two people on the keto or paleo plans will set you back over $50, you would imagine that Green Chef would run a similar offer. Hopefully, this is something it will consider introducing in the future, making the service both more attractive and more affordable.

At the end of the day, if the quality is what you’re after and you find you’re wasting vast quantities of fresh produce trying to squeeze a paleo diet into your already jam-packed life, then Green Chef offers great value for money and might even save you a dollar or two.

With top-quality, organic ingredients, culinary inspiration from around the world, and easy-to-follow recipes, Green Chef offers one of the best gourmet meal delivery services around. Although you will have to pay a little bit more than you would with a service like HelloFresh, you’ll be rewarded by knowing most of the ingredients are locally sourced and organic.

If you want to introduce a new eating regime into your life and focus on eating right for your heart, for example, Green Chef is a great way to get you started, doing the hard work of sourcing and preparing the ingredients for you. Green Chef even pre-chop certain vegetables to save you both the time and the effort.

While the meal preparation times are quite long compared to rival services, the end product is well worth the effort and you’ll find yourself feasting on international flavors prepared to restaurant standard. You may think your culinary skills just aren’t up to it, but with Green Chef onhand giving you recipes, tips, and advice along the way, you’ll be surprised at what you and your kitchen can conjure up.

Green Chef is slightly more expensive than other similar services, but it still provides good value for money. We would like to see free delivery introduced for orders over a certain amount but, overall, the price reflects the quality and standard of service.

If you’re looking for a meal delivery service that is primarily for convenience, then there are cheaper alternatives out there. If, however, you’re looking for a helping hand as you pursue a healthier lifestyle and a more specific diet, then Green Chef is definitely for you.