Most diet food-delivery services are designed for weight loss programs, although people also use them for convenience. Diet delivery services make it easy to follow a certain type of meal plan, such as a vegetarian diet. The services are also perfect for people with busy lifestyles who don't have much time for grocery shopping or cooking.
Features
With diet food delivery, you receive all your meals delivered directly to your home. Companies typically deliver once a week by 5 a.m. for the frozen food option, or daily first thing in the morning with the fresh option. The services charge a weekly or monthly fee. Meal plans commonly include breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Vegetarian menus usually are designed for people who eat dairy products and eggs.
Types
ChefsDiet, previously ZoneChefs, bases its meal plans on the Zone Diet, and includes a vegetarian option. Daily delivery is offered in Southern California and the New York tri-state region, and weekly delivery is offered nationwide. Another nationwide service with a vegetarian plan is Diet-to-Go, which has two levels of low-calorie menus. NutriSystem has a customized vegetarian program that it delivers nationwide and to Canada, with over 50 different meals and a wide variety of snacks and desserts. Sunfare Vegetarian is a weight-loss program delivering in the Los Angeles and Phoenix areas.
A More Unusual Service
People wanting to try something really different can order from Rawvolution (rawvolution.com), a vegan diet delivery service advocating the raw food lifestyle. This service offers organic meals and snacks featuring both variety and nutrition. The food can be delivered to many locations around the United States.
Benefits
Vegetarian diet food delivery services are very convenient. For weight loss goals, they help you modify your lifestyle so that the weight loss is permanent. You don't have to worry about nutrition, because the service does all the work for you. Too many busy vegetarians use the convenience of highly processed foods such as boxed macaroni and cheese, but a diet delivery service helps you avoid that.
Considerations
The main drawback to vegetarian diet food delivery services, and others, is the expense. As of 2009, weekly frozen service typically ran about $25 a day, and the fresh daily service about $40 a day. Be sure the service you choose has an easy cancellation policy, so you are not locked in for an entire month if delivery time is not reliable or you do not care for the program.
