Ask HN: Healthy meal delivery services for programmers

6 points·curiousDog··9 comments

Are there any well known meal services that deliver fresh or frozen meals at reasonable prices? Between side projects, work and the gym, I find it hard to make time to cook. Today, I mainly eat a combination of Chipotle, Panda express and qdoba.

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You would almost definitely be better off getting a slow cooker and doing meal prep on the weekends for the whole week.

Barring that since you are in Seattle, you can buy fairly healthy frozen stuff at Eat Local. There is one in Capitol Hill and I believe one in SLU.

The standard delivery apps like UberEATS have a decent selection of healthy options near where I live / work. Sometimes I'll order lunch and dinner together then reheat the dinner later to save paying a second $5 delivery fee.

Is that an option where you live?

If you live in NYC check out Maple. Simple, tasty, fresh meals for about $13 (tip and delivery included!). The food leaves me full, yet not bloated and tired.

https://maple.com/

While I was visiting NYC, the food delivery itself made me want to up and move there.

Ah, that looks great. I live in Seattle unfortunately.

Munchery is in Seattle: https://munchery.com/menus/seattle/#/0/dinner

Also, Sprig if you're in SF. SpoonRocket was some approximation of the same idea but shutdown earlier this year.

I'm a big fan of Munchery. Delicious, fresh, great variety, and only a few minutes in the microwave.

I find that I waste more money going to the grocery, because by the time I get home from work, the last thing I want to do is cook.

What makes a meal "healthy"?

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