Fresh Prep

What's in the box: Your choice of ready-to-cook meal kits, ready-to-eat meals and salads, plus optional grocery add-ons like produce, snacks and desserts, delivered in a reusable insulated cooler bag.

Fresh Prep is a Canadian-owned meal delivery service that offers more than the classic meal kit. Each week you choose from 35+ meals. You can mix ready-to-cook kits with ready-to-eat meals and salads, then add from a Marketplace of 150+ grocery items such as produce, snacks and desserts. The menu has vegetarian, meat, fish and family-friendly options, so households with mixed tastes should find enough to work with. Its biggest strength is packaging. Orders come in reusable, insulated cooler bags instead of cardboard boxes. The company is a Certified B Corporation and plans its menus around seasonal ingredients. If meal kit waste has put you off before, this makes a real difference. The plans are flexible too. You can add servings, skip weeks, pause or cancel at any time from your account, and there is no long-term commitment. New customers get a discount on their first order. The site does not say clearly up front where it delivers, so check your postal code before you get attached to the menu. Plan costs are on a separate pricing page. As with any meal kit, expect to pay more per serving than you would if you shopped and cooked from scratch.