Their meals and dishes are familiar and not at all challenging, which makes it very appealing even for an average cook. Also, the protein option offered by them is available on almost all recipes they have in their menu. This is a very appreciative step, especially for those who prefer a high protein diet. Some of their meals are very easy to make and are very delicious in taste. In fact, some of their dishes can be prepared in just 15 minutes.

But yes, even Home Chef is not perfect and has certain flaws that I hope they look over and rectify them. For instance, the extensive use of plastic for packaging their ingredients, the meals have a higher percentage of meat in them and it is definitely not for people who do not know how to cook or are learning to cook. Also, they do not offer meal options for people with a restricted diet such as vegans, allergen free meals, keto or any other specific diet followers. Also, they charge you a little higher for their organic, antibiotic-free and wild-caught meat sources. Well, with that said, let’s take a look at their unique features and their meal plans in more details.

Cost-wise, meals offered by Home Chef are reasonable and not at all expensive, especially looking at the quantity they offer. In fact, it is going to be my perfect choice for full family dinners. The lowest price of a meal at Home Chef is $6.99 per serving, while for an average meal, the cost per serving comes somewhere in between $7.49 to $9.94. For instance, their pulled pork gyros costed me a good $8.99 for each serving.

Home Chef has been in the home meal delivery services for a long time now, precisely 7 years now. The company was established in 2013 and has been offering their high quality meal delivery services since then. The company has a number of unique features that makes them one of the top runners in the meal kit delivery services in the country. Some of these features are:

Flexible – The meals offered by Home Chef are absolutely flexible. You can customize any dish you want into a protein rich meal to suit your dietary requirements.

Variety – If you are looking for varieties, then you are in for a treat. Home Chef offers you a good variety of dishes, thus allowing you to find the perfect dishes as per your taste.

Certified – Home Chef offers you the choice to choose their organic, wild and anti-biotic free meat, but at a higher cost than their other ingredients.

Easy To Access – Accessing the services of this meal delivery company is super easy. Their signing up process is as simple as changing meals, skipping or canceling your orders.

Uses Fresh Ingredients – Almost all the ingredients used and packed by Home Chef are fresh. It is due to the freshness of these ingredients that the food cooked from the Home Chef meal kits are absolutely delicious in taste.

Uses Recyclable Packaging – Another interesting feature of Home Chef is their clean and high quality packaging. Yes, they use a little more plastic in packing their ingredients, but they make sure that they are 100% recyclable and BPA Free. Also, the card box that is used to pack the entire the meal box is recyclable and includes an insulation that helps in keeping the ingredients fresh. They also offer you reusable plastic containers with screw-tops that can be washed and reused for storing food in your refrigerator. Ingredients for each and every dish are packed in individual ziplock bags with a handle. One factor that we really appreciated was that some of the loose ingredients used in the dishes were packed loose in bags and not wrapped in plastic. In short, their packaging is very good and handy.

At Home Chef, you will be awed with their wide range of food dishes. Yes, they are not that big as Sun Basket, but Home Chef surely has more dishes than a few of their competitors. All you need to do is sign-up with Home Chef and choose a plan depending on the number of meals you wish to order per week and the number of servings you want for every meal. Or you can simply allow the company to choose meals for you based on their weekly subscription meal plans. In fact, the meal kits include almost all the ingredients needed to prepare a meal in pre-measured quantities along with the recipe card to help their customers to cook the meal perfectly.
Home Chef, like all other meal delivery services delivers their meals once a week in their insulated meal boxes. We ordered our meals and our order arrived on the scheduled day. Our meal box arrived thru FedEx sometime in the afternoon and was left on our home’s porch. We opened the box at around 6 p.m. and still the ingredients in the box were ice cold.

Picking recipes at Home Chef is very easy. It doesn’t matter which meal plan you choose or for how many people you choose, you will get a good variety of 14, absolutely delicious dinner meal options to make your choice from. Well, the company offers you a variety of meals, including their 3 Five Minute Lunch options that require absolutely no cooking.

Well, almost every meal option available in Home Chef are customizable. You can add and reduce ingredients based on your requirements. The company says that they offer 26 meal options to their customers, but I think that’s a number that they have surely stretched out a little. I think they have taken the meat customization options also into consideration. When you choose the “Customize It” option for a dish, you will be given the choice to swap the default protein option in the recipe. So, when you click on the Customize-It button, a drop down menu opens that offers you more protein choices for the recipe that the chef at Home chef thinks will taste good with the recipe. Some of these available options cost more than that in the normal menu. For instance, if you want to double your meat quantity, or upgrade the normal ingredients to the organic ones or even adding your favorite meat into your vegetarian recipe, will all add some extra cost to the original value.
Home Chef also includes some absolutely exotic recipes as well that includes luxe ingredients. For instance, their Bistro Filet and Truffle Frites cost you a good $19.95 for each serving, a price that you might be paying at a noble restaurant. With these points described, let’s now look into their wide variety of meal plans that are offered by Home Chef to their customers.

If you are a veggie at heart, you will surely love these vegetarian recipes offered to you by Home Chef. They offer you mouth-watering recipes such as Mexican corn flatbread and Lasagna Bianca. You will absolutely in awe, once you make this recipe and savor it with your family and friends at home. These also includes their variety of pastas and salads.

Looking for meal options that are 100% free of nuts? Well, you will surely find something at Home Chef for you. You can choose their coffee rubbed pork tenderloin or the crispy Dijon chicken and eat them without worrying about the presence of nuts in them.

Are you a meat lover? If so, then you are surely in for a treat. Home Chef offers you a variety of meat options right from chicken, pork, fishes, shrimp, Beef, Steak, Salmon, Lamb and cod that you can always add into your chosen recipe. In fact, the chef at Home Chef offers you a chosen variety of meat that will taste great in specific recipes.

Home chef offers you a handful of special recipes that are highly appreciated by their regular customers. These recipes are tasted and highly approved by the Home Chef customers.

Counting your calories could never have been easier with the help of Home Chef’s Calorie Conscious meals. These meals are specifically designed with low calories, but without compromising on their taste. We tried their turkey gyro meatball salad and it was exceptionally good.

If you don’t like meals rich in starch and breads, then you can always choose Home Chef’s Carb conscious recipes that are high in proteins and vegetables. Some of their most popular carb-conscious recipes include their chili chicken lettuce wraps (sweet) and French Green peppercorn pork tenderloins.

Don’t have time to cook complex meals? Well, Home Chef offers you a few simple and easy recipes that can be cooked within just 30 minutes. There are some recipes that can be cooked within 15 minutes. Some of their varieties include Sweet Pepper Butter Pork Chop sided with Asparagus and Asiago, Parmesan Ranch Sliders along with Apple Slaw.

We were not wrong when we said that Home Chef offers some absolutely easy to prepare meals that need no preparations at all. These oven ready meals are quick to assemble and come with the ready to use pan. These recipes take approximately 20 to 30 minutes to be cooked.

Under this Extra section, you will find interesting options and a variety of smoothies, breakfast meals, dessert and protein packs. You will be amazed to know that Home Chef offers you as many as 47 unique varieties of smoothies that you can sip and enjoy whenever you want. These smoothies are absolutely refreshing and delicious in taste. Some of their varieties include, Caffe Mocha Smoothie, Peanut Butter and Jelly Smoothie, Chocolate cherry Smoothie and many more. The breakfast recipes include egg recipes, churros, waffles and also buttery chicken recipes that can help you start your day with some love, a huge smile and a hearty recipe.

Meals offered at Home Chef cost around $7.49 and sometimes even $9.94 for each serving. The cost of the recipe mostly depends on the recipe you choose, the customization options you have chosen, the meat you have selected, etc. In general, if you choose a basic meal, the cost per serving would be around $8.99. IF you want to choose their organic and antibiotic free meat in your recipe, Home Chef will charge you an additional $2.29 for every serving. An additional cost of $4.49 per serving is added to your total if you choose organic ingredients. Apart from the total cost of your meals, Home Chef also charges you an additional $13.99 shipping charges.

My experience with Home chef has been good. Compared to all other meal kit delivery services, I would definitely consider choosing their services for family gatherings. But in order to understand their excellence in the market, it is best that we compare the services of Home Chef with their competitors. This will only give you a clear idea about their services, recipes and taste.

The reason why I am comparing Home Chef with Blue Apron is because they both have similar recipes. Home Chef offers you as many as 14 recipes a week while Blue apron offers you just about 6 to 8 recipes per week. Also, meals and recipes offered by Home chef are simple and easy, while the recipes offered by blue Apron include a wide variety of global ingredients that add their own special taste to the recipes. The taste of recipes offered by Home Chef appeal to the whole crowd and very accommodating for your entire family. Comparatively, the cost of the dishes is similar in both and you also have the choice to upgrade or customize your dish. Overall, Home Chef is definitely a good option to choose.