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Home Chef offers a weekly dinner meal delivery service of pre-portioned ingredients for healthy recipes that allow you to prepare home cooked meals in about 30 minutes. Every week Home Chef creates 13 new recipes that fit a number of different lifestyles. This includes vegetarian, gluten-free, low-carb and nut-free meals (among others). All ingredients are fresh and you will receive 2 to 7 meals for either 2 or 4 people depending on the subscription you choose. Meals sent to you are automatically selected based on your dietary preferences and profile settings. The automated meal selections can be changed or weeks skipped at anytime before the weekly deadline.

HomeChef.com was started in 2013 and since then has grown to over 300 employees. They now delivers to about 90% of the United States and in 2015 they delivered over 1 million meals.

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Plated.com launched in 2012 and since then has been delivering dinner kits all over the United States. Every day Plated has at least 14,000 customers in the kitchen using their delivered pre-portion fresh ingredients to make healthy home cooked meals. Plated's fast growth is thanks in part to the publicity of Shark Tanks Kevin O'Leary's investment in the company.

Plated is known for the quality of their ingredients, the fruits, vegetables, meats and seafood that go into the meal boxes. Meats from Plated are from animals raised without antibiotics and no added hormones. All fruits and vegetables are fresh and seasonal, and are organic when possible. To keep ingredients fresh, Plated packs up produce and meat that arrived at their facilities on the same day. In a grocery store, on average, produce sits on the shelf for over 5 days, and this does not include the time spent at a wholesaler. Plated has multiple fulfillment and distribution centers across the country which not only helps defray shipping costs but allows delivery of ingredients from regional farmers. Because of Plateds packing and delivery system, they claim food waste is reduced to less than 2 percent. Some grocery stores see waste levels as high as 40% for their perishables.

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HelloFresh is a meal service which delivers fresh ingredients and healthy recipes straight to your doorstep every week. The ingredients are already pre-measured so there is no waste. Hello Fresh delivers for free across the continental United States and in Canada (Southern, Central, and Eastern Ontario only, as far North as Sudbury). Weekly flexible subscriptions are available where you can select from the Veggie, Classic, or Family recipe box. Depending on the box, between 2 and 5 meals can be ordered for 2 or 4 people. Singles also benefit from the ordering options since they can select a 2 meal, 2 person a week box which will give them 4 meals in total for the week. Once your subscription is active, HelloFresh will send you new and exciting recipes and ingredients weekly for you to prepare home cooked meals. With the Classic box subscription you can even swap out meals and choose your own recipes you want to receive so you can plan ahead with your other meals. Every week new meals are planned which can be viewed in advanced on the HelloFresh website or their iPhone and Android apps.

Hello Fresh was started in 2011 and shipped their first box of food in 2012. Since then they have grown in leaps and bounds. HelloFresh now serve 7.2 million meals a month to over 787 thousand regular subscribers not only in North America, but Australia and countries in Europe as well. HelloFresh.com recipe database is ever growing and now contains over 7,500 healthy and delicious recipes. As of 2017 HelloFresh launched their monthly Wine Club.

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Blue Apron started in the summer of 2012 and quickly has become one of the premier meal kit delivery services nationwide. Every month they deliver more than 3 million meals across the United States. Blue Apron ensures with the ingredients they provide for their meals, that they are of the highest quality and from farmers who practise responsible farming and ranching. Regenerative practises of the food suppliers are important to Blue Apron. They want the best quality produce from farmers who minimize the use of fertilizers, pesticides and carbon emissions.

So why is this service called Blue Apron? When chefs are learning to cook they wear blue aprons. This is a tradition that is followed around the world and the people at Blue Apron hope to inspire their community in a lifelong journey of learning to cook (and love doing it).

Along with the regular Blue Apron meal kit delivery service, this company also offer a similar service called Blue Apron Wine, and a online store called Blue Apron Market which sells prep tools, cookware, and cookbooks.