Nurturing Deliveries To Your Door : Top Picks for Meal + Cuisine Subscriptions
Chop, sauté, braise, macerate — it’s all doable, but not usually negotiable in a modern-day work schedule. Instead, leave the slicing and dicing to professional chefs and nutritionists, and enjoy balanced, prepared meals requiring only minutes of cook time.
Tuesday Foods
The Carbondale, Colorado-based meal delivery service is a standout for its all-natural, vegan and gluten-free food preparation. Co-owners Lisa Cohen and Kelly Hollins launched the Roaring Fork Valley culinary adventure over five years ago, and have only been expanding with with additional Colorado locations in Boulder, Denver and Vail. The service offers a set weekly menu, and customers can purchase a week package, a month package or 12-week package, and all of these packages are amenable for dietary requirements. Cohen, a nutritionist and health coach, and Hollins, a trained veg an cook and also a health coach, create the menus weeks in advance so customers can opt in and out of additional items.
Tuesday Foods, aptly named for its Tuesday delivery service, whips up cult favorites such as Better Than Bolognese over Polenta, Creole Style Jack Cakes, Sesame Carrot Buddha Bowl and Puttanesca Pasta with LuLu Wilson Style Kale Salad that are also available in lunch portions. Smoothies and seasonal cleanses are also available.
Hellofresh + Home Chef
Both meal platforms are similar and are available to customers nationwide, a perk for more remote areas like mountain towns. There are numerous choices with both companies, and the option to customize meal kits for allergens and dietary restrictions. While not as environmentally-friendly as Tuesday Foods and Spade & Spoon, these services are reliable and have hundreds of options. These two delivery services consistently rank in the top five healthy meal deliveries nationwide. Meals that require 10 minutes or less to prepare, and yet are packed with nutrition at a reasonable price have become even more valuable with limited produce in some areas during the year. The services are able to offer even more variety as they prepare for the masses and can buy in quantity.
Get Creative with Salty Seattle
Colorful pasta company, Salty Seattle, has the world’s first rainbow croissant-shaped gnocchi that can be delivered to your door. This is not a subscription service, rather a creative gift or fun evening cooking with Linda Miller Nicholson’s brilliant and tasty homemade pasta dishes. Linda is an internationally-recognized pasta pro and every handmade, rainbow-colored package of gnocchi comes with six colors, all made with vegetables, herbs and superfoods. Plus, Linda offers classes online and other pastas for purchase that can be shipped. Pick-up is available in the Seattle area.
Play The Bean Lottery
Put your name on Rancho Gordo’s ridiculously popular bean club. Sure, there might be a 35,000-person waitlist for the already 11,000-member club, but it’s worth a try. Each quarter, owner of the bean emporium, Steve Sando, selects from his dozens of accessible dried beans and ships to customers all over the world. Rancho Gordo’s beans have gained worldwide popularity for their colors and sizes. And, a bonus, the dried beans can stay good for up to two years. The California outlet has a retail store and website where any of the beans can be purchased.
Spade & Spoon 
Spade & Spoon, a Colorado-based meal delivery service, collaborates with local farmers, ranchers and artisans to curate seasonally inspired meal kits, while ensuring a light environmental footprint. Orders are due every Thursday evening for delivery the following Wednesday. Customers can choose between pre-selected boxes — vegan, vegetarian, family classics, turf box, gluten and dairy-free, Mediterranean, all produce — and select a one-time purchase or a recurring delivery. There are numerous build your-own-boxes that always allow for dietary and allergy adjustments. Delivery is available in the greater Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins areas. There’s also an online marketplace to add goodies such as proteins, dairy, dessert and more.
Launched in 2022, Spade & Spoon stands out for its partnership with 60 Colorado farmers, improved packaging/ sustainability and flavor.
Julie Bielenberg
Writer
@juliebielenberg
Originally published in Winter/Spring 2024-25 issue of Well.
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