EveryPlate Meal Kits
Last updated: April 8, 2021
Generous portion sizes and healthy options make this meal kit a great choice. The weekly meal options are less varied, but the prices are lower than many competitors. The meals are focused on the comfort food you might find at family-style restaurants.
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Key Takeaway: This service will give you fewer meal options than other services on a weekly basis, but that keeps overhead low, which also cuts your cost.
In our analysis of 177 expert reviews, the EveryPlate Meal Kits placed 19th when we looked at the top 24 products in the category. For the full ranking, see below.Expert Reviews
What reviewers liked
Prides itself on delivering affordable, delicious meals that even cooking novices could whip up by themselves. Meals on the basic plans net out to $5 per serving, and you can choose between enough to serve two or four people per meal. The goal is to make getting dinner on the table less complicated.
- Self
Another affordable option, this time from the Hello Fresh family. The kit includes recipe cards, fresh produce, meat and fish coming packaged on ice, and a brightly colored box that arrives on your doorstep for no supermarket stops along the way. For less cash than any fast food meal, the options are also healthier, and the produce that came in my box was all fresh and full-sized, overflowing out of the box.
At just $4.99 per serving and with an emphasis on delicious, hearty meal options and generous portion sizes, EveryPlate is the best plan for those whose journey into meal kit delivery is based on affordability. It keeps its overhead low by offering eight easy recipes to choose from weekly.
Comes with everything you need to make dinner right inside a box. It’s got plenty of delicious menu options (like chicken in cream Dijon sauce with mashed sweet potatoes and bacon-studded brussels sprouts or charred zucchini and tomato melts with fresh mozzarella), and an extremely competitive price point.
- Glamour
Recipe cards are concise, which helps save counter space, and there are helpful notes that offer advice or different instructions if you're doubling up a recipe.
- Wired
The weekly rotating menu resembles American favorites that you'd expect to find at a family restaurant. If you like your cheeses ooey gooey and your burgers stacked high, you'll have fun with this menu.
Every Plate helpfully posts the prep time for each meal right at the top of its recipe card, and they averaged just 5 or 10 minutes. Each recipe only required a few ingredients, which meant there was minimal chopping. And we usually needed just one skillet and a pot or a baking sheet, which made clean-up fast.
These recipes were honestly all delicious, and everyone I shared them with agreed. Nothing took more than 40 minutes, with the average prep time being about a half-hour. That’s a lot shorter than the time it takes a delivery service like Postmates to get food to my house.
When it comes time to start cooking, expect to be out of the kitchen in no time. EveryPlate’s meals are easy and typically take between 20 and 40 minutes to prepare. If you are on a tight budget, you don’t have to miss out on the convenience of meal delivery services. EveryPlate’s affordable options can fit into almost any budget.
I am happy to report that this recipe was super easy to follow. It took six simple steps to complete, and the hardest thing I had to do was melt butter in the microwave.
What reviewers didn't like
Don’t expect gourmet meals.
- Self
No options for vegans or other dietary preferences other than vegetarian and pescatarian.
Mostly excludes vegetarians and those on special diets.
Some steps require a bit of kitchen knowledge, like slicing things on a diagonal or having an idea of when a steak is done to your preference. You'll also need to supply more of your own ingredients than other services require, like butter, flour, and milk.
- Wired
If you have food allergies or are vegetarian, don't bother trying to make EveryPlate work. I looked through EveryPlates menus over the course of a few weeks, and there were hardly any vegetarian meals at all. Nothing seemed particularly health-conscious either.
One way Every Plate keeps costs down is by only offering a small selection of recipes to choose from. Each week brings just eight new options, only one of which is vegetarian. Most of the recipes are built around inexpensive proteins such as ground beef or sausage, boneless skinless chicken breasts, or pork chops. Anything with steak costs an extra $2.99 per serving.
These meals may not be as adventurous or health-conscious as some other meal kits I’ve tried.
The one qualm I had with EveryPlate was the fact that their meal selection is slim. While the meals change on a weekly basis, I would have liked a larger selection.
All your ingredients are tossed into a big box (with ice packs to keep things fresh). There’s no color-coding and no separate boxes or dividers to keep each recipe’s ingredients together. Instead, the only way to know which ingredients belong to which recipe is to read through the recipe card. Not cool, EveryPlate.
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