Reviewed April 2023
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HungryRoot is more of a grocery delivery service than a meal kit program, but they do offer meal kits. You can get snacks, desserts, produce and meats in addition to receiving all of the ingredients that you need for your meals. When you sign up, you answer a questionnaire, and they automatically select foods that they think that you will like. For the meal kits, you select how many servings, and what meals you want (breakfast, lunch and dinner).
HungryRoot is great for people who don’t have time to grocery shop. With other meal kit programs, they send you the ingredients for the meals, but they don’t offer too much else. HungryRoot can bring you all the food that you need for the week.
Here are a few meals that we tried.
Chicken breast in a Thai coconut curry sauce served over seasoned Jasmine rice
Creamy alfredo sauce with sweet Italian chicken sausage and fresh baby spinach served over gluten-free elbow pasta
Four-cheese tortellini with tomato marinara and spinach garlic chicken sausage
The meals were not as good as the other meal kit programs that I’ve tried, but they were ok. The marinara sauce was quite bland. I could have bought a better sauce at the grocery store. Also, some of the recipes were so simple that I couldn’t believe that they included it in the meal kit program. For example, one was basically a ham and cheese sandwich. Another was a “cheesy burrito” that included just ground beef with taco seasoning rolled up in a flour burrito with shredded cheddar. When I saw that, I decided to use the ingredients to make something else.
The meals were super simple to make. Most of their meals take less than 15 minutes.
HungryRoot saves you lots of time by not having to plan meals or grocery shop. Since you can get a wide variety of foods from them, you don’t have to go to the grocery store at all.
The recipes are super simple. A lot of the food is partially or completely prepared already. For example, the Jasmine rice, chicken and curry sauce were already cooked and just needed to be reheated.
The recipes for HungryRoot are not on printed cards like with other meal kit programs. They are available on the website or app.
As of the writing of this article, the shipping fee is $6.99 for plans that cost less than $70 and free for plans of over $70. That’s much less than most meal kit programs.
They deliver to most places in the 48 contiguous states and Washington D.C. They deliver to Alaska or Hawaii.
Everything comes in a big cardboard box, just as it does with all meal kit programs. Some loose ingredients are stored inside of a smaller cardboard carrier inside the big box. The food is kept cold with two large ice packs and insulation.
HungryRoot uses more environmentally friendly packaging than many other meal kit programs. The Climacell insulation is curbside recyclable, and the ice block gel is biodegradable. The cardboard is also curbside recyclable.
The questionnaire that you fill out when you sign up with let them know about any dietary restrictions. The main dietary options are . . .
Besides these main categories, you can also select one or more of the following options.
HungryRoot is not really designed for weight loss, but you could keep track of your calories. The recipes list the total calories.
The main focus of HungryRoot is time-savings, not necessarily health. You could try to select recipes that sound healthier.
The sign-up process is similar to any other meal kit program. You provide your basic information such as name, address, credit card, etc. You also specify how many meals you would like a week and how many servings. In addition to this, they have a questionnaire to try to determine your food preferences. Unlike other meal kit programs, you will need to select any other foods that you want to order (snacks, desserts, veggies, etc.).
When you sign up, you register for a certain number of credits each week. Different meals and foods are worth different numbers of credits. For example, a steak is worth more than a pasta meal. If you want more bang for your buck, you could try to select less expensive meals. I registered for 54 credits a week. With this I was able to get three meals of four servings. If I selected a cheaper meal, I could even get a soup or snack.
To be honest, I felt like I could get many of the same items that they sent me at the grocery store. I don’t think you’re really saving money, but you are saving time.
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