Comparison of ready-to-cook meal delivery services
Companies such as Market GoodFood™, Cook it™, MissFresh™, Chefs Plate™ and HelloFresh™ that offer ready-to-cook meal delivery deliver at home all the ingredients and recipe cards needed for your chosen meals . Delivery is by box or bag with a chilled section allowing the ingredients to stay fresh during transport.
Why meal kits?
Eat healthy
Ready-to-cook is a healthy alternative to ready-to-eat because it allows you to cook fresh foods and to dose yourself the amounts of fat and salt. In addition, the proposed recipes are generally balanced and complete. In addition, the recipes offered are generally balanced, often created with a nutritionist, and are perfect for your dinners.
Save times
The menu of the week is done in a few clicks and the ingredients are delivered once a week. Ready-to-cook companies aim to help people eat a varied, healthy, tasty and local diet while eliminating the planning time this can involve. No more headache and back and forth to the grocery store. In addition, most companies strive to create quick and simple recipes to reduce the time spent in the kitchen. Goodfood and Chefs plate offer specific plans for 15-minute recipes, while Cook it includes them on its regular menu and offers Express Dishes recipes. To make your life even easier, Cook it also offers you the possibility of receiving ready-to-eat meals (to be reheated in the microwave) for busy evenings.
Cooking is fun
The fact that you have all the ingredients in exact quantities as well as recipe and clear recipe cards make meal preparation easy and pleasant, even novices can make dishes worthy of restaurants. The discovery of new ingredients, methods and dishes completes the experience.
Origin
The first meal kit delivery was made in 2007 by Middagsfrid (meaning “peace of the dinner”) in Sweden. But the concept has been taken over and popularized worldwide by the German company HelloFresh, which has since offered the service on 3 continents. In the United States, Blue Apron and Plated made the concept known. Internationally, the meal box sector is booming.
Comparison of meal kits services in Canada
To be included in this comparison, businesses must deliver at home throughout Quebec and have been in service for at least 1 year. Companies meeting these criteria are: Cook It™, GoodFood™, Chefs plate™, MissFresh™ and HelloFresh™. If you notice an error, please contact us as soon as possible using the form at the bottom of this page. Only plans with recipe choices are considered. Other companies such as Evoilà5 offer similar services but on a local basis and without delivery service.
| Cook itTM | Chefs PlateTM | GoodFood TM | MissFreshTM | HelloFreshMC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Website |
www.chefcookit.com | www.chefsplate.com | www.makegoodfood.ca | www.missfresh.com | www.hellofresh.ca |
| More Info | More info | More info | More info | More info | |
Headquater located in
|
Montreal | Toronto | Montreal | Monteal | Toronto |
Delivery zones |
Quebec and Ontario | Everywhere in Canada | Everywhere in Canada | Everywhere in Canada | Everywhere in Canada |
Collect boxes and icepacks
|
Yes | No | No | No | No |
Offer ready-to-eat meals |
Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Offers add-on products |
Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Gluten-free options |
Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Price for 3 meals for 2 persons |
$71.00 | $59.94 | $68.88 | $65.94 | $78.93 |
Price for 3 meals for 3 persons |
$92.00 | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. |
Price for 3 meals for 4 persons |
$116.00 | $107.88 | $123,60 | $119.88 | $139.99 |
Price for 3 meals for 6 persons |
$159.00 | n.d. | n.d. | $170.82 | n.d. |
|
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Can change the number of recipes and portion anytime
|
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
New menu every week |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Offers a rewards program |
Star Chef program | No | No | No | No |
Smallest box (recipes) |
1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Biggest box (recipes) |
7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
Number of recipes offered per week (regular subscription)
|
14 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 15 |
100% Meat without added hormones |
Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
Latest news |
Cook it acquires Locaal | Chefs Plate acquired by HelloFresh | Goodfood launches reusable box | Metro sells MissFesh to Cook it | Chefs Plate acquired by HelloFresh |
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This site is a Cook It ™ initiative to provide a comparison of the various ready-to-cook services. All data compiled in the table comes directly from government registers and COOK IT ™, GOODFOOD ™, CHEF’S PLATE ™, MISSFRESH ™ and HELLOFRESH ™ business registers. In order to allow a detailed analysis, we selected 19 criteria of 100% quantitative comparison, that is to say based on data that can be verified at any time. The package of 3 selected recipes, being the best-selling product in the industry, was chosen for price comparison. Companies are ranked, from left to right, in order of foundation, then alphabetical in case of equality. If you notice an error, or wish to add a comparison criterion, please contact us as soon as possible at info@comparemealkit.ca