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The 7 Best Plant-Based Meal Services for a Healthier 2022
Eating your veggies has never been easier—or more delicious.
Finding time to grocery shop and cook healthy, delicious meals for yourself (or your family) is no easy feat. That's often particularly true for those who follow plant-based diets, for which there are typically fewer ready-made options available at grocery stores, and which often require a bit of culinary know-how to prepare from scratch.
However, that doesn’t mean you’re stuck eating salads and frozen veggie burritos on days when you’re not up for cooking. Instead, you can opt for a plant-based meal delivery service that send you either fully prepared meals or the recipes and ingredients you'll need to craft delicious plant-based meals of your own. You can usually customize your meal plan to suit your specific needs, including any dietary restrictions or flavor preferences.
While opting for a meal kit or having prepared meals delivered to your home can be bit more expensive than going to the grocery store and cooking for yourself, for many people, the time saved meal planning, prepping, and shopping is invaluable. Since there are quite a few plant-based meal-delivery services out there, we've rounded up our favorites to help you choose.
Best Plant-Based Meal Services
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What to Consider
Not all plant-based meal services are created equal. Before you choose one, it's important to make note of what's on offer and whether or not it will fit your specific needs.
Dietary Restrictions
Not all plant-based meal services are fully vegan, so if that's a priority for you, make sure to double-check that the service you're selecting offers meals with no animal-based ingredients. Many plant-based meal services also offer meals or ingredients that accommodate other dietary restrictions, from gluten-free diets to soy-free ones to ones designed for diabetics. We've broken out what dietary restrictions each meal plan we cover can accommodate.
Make-It-Yourself Versus Fully Prepared
While some people may want fully-prepared meals sent to their doorstep, others may prefer to receive recipes and the ingredients necessary to prepare them. Some of the meal delivery services we've included below offer both options, so you can mix and match or switch between fully-prepared meals and boxes of ingredients.
How We Selected
To find the best plant-based meal services among the many options on the market, we researched the most popular services available and considered price, variety, food quality, customization options, and both prep and cooking times. We also looked at both expert reviews and customer ratings, written by people who’ve used these services, to settle on the plant-based meal services you'll find below.
Key Specs
- Food Type: Prepared and make-it-yourself meals
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, low-sugar, low-sodium, non-GMO: Half Marathon Training
Purple Carrot offers both prepared foods and the ingredients and recipes to cook for yourself. They offer selections for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even some pantry staples and plant-based snacks. It starts at $60 for three meals per week with two servings per meal, which comes out to about $10 per person, per meal.
While this is not as inexpensive as grocery shopping and cooking at home, it is reasonable for the convenience and quality ingredients, and it's certainly more affordable—and healthier—than your average take-out meal.
Daily Harvest
Daily Harvest
Key Specs
- Food Type: Prepared
- Meals: Does Ozempic Affect Athletic Performance
- Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, low-sugar, low-sodium, non-GMO: Organic, dairy-free, soy-free, gluten-free, paleo, vegetarian, vegan
If you're looking to add more fruits and veggies to your diet, Daily Harvest is the plan for you. They have everything from smoothies to grain bowls to entrees to ice cream, and all of it is plant-based and chock-full of nutritious ingredients.
Because they flash-freeze their produce, it retains all of its nutrition, and because everything is frozen, you don't have to worry about the produce going to waste before it gets eaten. Their meals and snacks are also super easy to prepare—just toss one in the microwave or blender for a quick and healthy bite.
Key Specs
- Food Type: Prepared
- Meals: Best Plant-Based Meat, smoothies
- Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, low-sugar, low-sodium, non-GMO: Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, low-sugar, low-sodium, non-GMO
Meal delivery services can get pricey, but Splendid Spoon offers some of the most affordable plant-based options out there, with meals starting at only $9. These meals come completely prepared, so you need only take them out of their packaging and warm them up to enjoy. They have options for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and smoothies, and the packaging your food comes in is 100 percent recyclable.
In a test by Good Housekeeping experts, reviewers praised Splendid Spoon's flavors and the ease with which the service's meals were prepared.
Key Specs
- Food Type: All Gear & Accessories
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, low-sugar, low-sodium, non-GMO: Vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, shellfish-free, dairy-free, nut-free, soy-free, gluten-free, egg-free
Many food delivery services can make vegan options feel like an afterthought, but at Hungryroot, vegan and plant-based foods are the star. They offer tons snacks and cooking staples, and you can choose meal recipes you want to make on the Hungryroot site, where you can also order the ingredients necessary to prepare them.
In Good Housekeeping's review of Hungryroot, testers noted that the company's make-it-yourself meals had more generous portion sizes than those offered by comparable services.
Green Chef
Green Chef
Key Specs
- Food Type: Make-it-yourself meals
- Meals: Lunch and dinner
- Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, low-sugar, low-sodium, non-GMO: Trail Running Gear
Green Chef started out as the first keto meal kit on the market, but has since evolved to include meals that cater to a wide variety of diets, and now includes many plant-based options. The meals are easy to prepare and are ready to eat within 30 minutes, plus you can pick between having ingredients for three or four meals delivered each week, and can specify if you want each meal to serve two, four, or six people.
Key Specs
- Food Type: Prepared or make-it-yourself meals
- Meals: Best Plant-Based Meat
- Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, low-sugar, low-sodium, non-GMO: Organic, paleo, vegetarian, gluten-free, pescatarian, Mediterranean, low-carb, diabetes-friendly
If you are are a dedicated vegetarian, it can be difficult to find meal plans that have enough options to satisfy your hunger week after week.
Luckily, Sunbasket's meals accommodate multiple ways of eating, including vegetarian, pescatarian, paleo, and gluten-free diets, and there are meals that cater to individuals with diabetes, as well. They use 100 percent organic products and you have the option to choose from either meal kits or fully prepared, reheatable meals.
Very Good Butchers
Very Good Butchers
Key Specs
- Food Type: Make-it-yourself meals
- Meals: Plant-based meat selection
- Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, low-sugar, low-sodium, non-GMO: High-protein, vegan
While the name may put off some vegetarians or vegans, Very Good Butchers actually offers an amazing selection of plant-based meats, including the array pictured, which includes everything from barbecue jackfruit to plant-based ribs to meat-free sausages, and more. This box is a great way to stock up on delicious, high-quality plant-based meats to add some protein to your diet and diversify your go-to meals.
Before joining Runner's World, Gabrielle Hondorp spent 6 years in running retail (she has tested top gear from shoes, to watches, to rain jackets which has expanded her expertise—and her closets); she specializes in health and wellness, and is an expert on running gear from head-to-toe. Gabi began her journalism career as a Digital Editorial Fellow for Runner’s World and Bicycling Magazine, and has since advanced to a Runner's World Editor specializing in commerce. She has a double degree in English and Media and Communication from Muhlenberg College where she also ran cross country and track.
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