Home Chef

Home Chef is a meal kit delivery service with classic, vegetarian, and family plans.

Not Recommended

Home Chef had lower quality ingredients, smaller portion sizes, and meals that tasted worse than most kits we reviewed.

About 10 recipes to choose from per week — a few more than most kits reviewed.
Includes a free recipe binder which includes helpful prep and cooking tips.
Each recipe’s ingredients come nicely separated in a plastic bag.
Requires basic prep work of chopping ingredients.
Includes options to add-on fresh fruit and smoothies to your kit.

The ingredients are separated in plastic bags by recipe.

Typically, you need basic kitchen items like a pan and cutting board.

Home Chef Summary

Ordering
Sign Up	A few step to determine your taste profile, but asks for billing information prior to showing the menu.
Recipe Selection	About 10 recipes to choose from per week. Can add-on smoothie and seasonal fruit basket.
Delivery Options	Minimum order is 2 meals per week. You can skip any week you want, but you have until Tuesday 11:59pm EST before your next shipment to do it.
Pricing	2-6 meals/week: starting at $39.80 ($9.99/serving) Each meal can be portioned for 2-6 people. Free shipping on all orders of $45+
Cancellation	Cancel by pausing your account in your profile.
Delivery
Speed	First shipment arrives 1 week after signup, but you can delay if needed. The delivery date depends on your location.
Packaging	Comes within a box of insulation and ice packs. Ingredients are sorted into labeled plastic bags Meats is kept separately at the bottom of the box.
Ingredient Quality	😢 Lower quality ingredients. We found the meat to be of poor quality and ingredients to go bad before the “cook within” date.
Recipe Prep
Ingredient Prep	You will frequently need to chop ingredients.
Kitchen Gear	You’ll want a pan, baking sheet, knife, cutting board, and other basic items like a grater.
Additional Ingredients	Have some cooking oil, salt, and pepper.
Cooking
Recipe Clarity	Recipe cards are helpful and easy to follow. They include a list of items to pull out of the pantry, as well as photos of each step.
Cook Time	Around 30-40 minutes, depending on the recipe. Some ingredients required significantly longer cook times than described.
Meal
Tastiness	👎 Bland.
Portion Size	🙁 Small (needed more food after the meal was over)
Nutrition Info	Calories, Carbs, Fat, Protein, & Sodium
Miscellaneous
Cleanup	Usually a pan, baking sheet, knife, cutting board, and bowl.
Customer Service