Delivery of healthy ready-made food. A guide to healthy food delivery services. Eat & Train. The most dietary food
Every woman, and every man, dreams and wants to look good, but not many succeed. Everyone wants to achieve their cherished shape, but how can you return your body to its previous state and not only lose excess weight, but also maintain it for many years? Are you still looking for a suitable grueling diet or are you trying to limit yourself in everything? You shouldn't do this, because your body won't thank you. What to do if you want lose weight quickly, but not just lose weight, but also maintain the results for a long time? There is a way out of this situation, namely dietary nutrition. On our website you can order diet food with inexpensive home delivery.
How is ready-made food better than regular food?
Ordering dietary food with delivery from the Health Kitchen, you receive nutrition that includes all the necessary vitamins and microelements for the body, you will not feel hungry and you will not have to rack your brains about what to cook and how, because in order to lose excess weight, you will have to count everything calories, which should not exceed the permissible limit. Diet food delivered to your home is the same as a regular diet, but only in a ready-made form and you will have to adhere to everything that you would with a regular diet, namely:
- You need to eat little, but often, and the portion should not exceed 300 grams. All our dishes are in the range of 200-300 grams.
- Drink about two liters of water per day.
- You will have to give up all bad habits, alcohol and carbonated water.
- Avoid fast food.
- Our meals do not exceed 1200 calories and this is neither too much nor too little. This calculation helps us not to feel hungry and at the same time lose cherished centimeters. There are also options for 1800 and 2400 kcal for maintaining and gaining muscle mass.
With the help of dietary meals delivered to your home in Moscow from the Health Kitchen, you will not only receive tasty and healthy food, but will also be able to cleanse your body of harmful toxins. By eating right, you will bring your intestines to work, and your body will start working faster. If at first it will be very difficult for you to get used to not eating as much as before, then you should not give up, because everything is ahead.
Ordering delivery dietary nutrition With us, you get only the best products and a ready-made menu, which will not only reduce your costs, but also help you eat healthy and tasty. You no longer need to rack your brains about what to cook and what products to use. Go shopping, and even wash the dishes! Order a ready-made menu from us, and you will soon find not only your cherished shape, but also the health of your body. Delivery of healthy food for weight loss in Moscow occurs immediately after your order. We always use only fresh products and take your choice very seriously, because our nutritionists understand perfectly well that health should come first. Call right now and within a week you will see the first results. Symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, drowsiness are not scary for you with our dietary nutrition, but the feeling of hunger is even more so.
Julia fulfilled her dream: not to cook - and at the same time eat five times a day, and everything is only healthy. But is everything so rosy?
I have already admitted on this blog that cooking is boring as hell for me. In contrast to its absorption, it should be noted that I love to eat. But I really don’t like planning a menu for the week, running around looking for the right products, wasting time in lines at the supermarket, and then standing at the stove for at least an hour. And all in order to eat what was cooked in 20 minutes - and reset, again finding yourself at the starting position. What a waste of time!
At the same time, I have nothing against someone doing all this for me, and I just devoured the food -)). At first I hoped that they would save me. But no - although this is a good time saver, it does not solve the problem. Firstly, because mostly these are only dinners - and I need breakfast, lunch, and snacks. Secondly, you end up cooking even more often than before - every day! Thirdly, no one here thinks about how healthy and balanced this food is - they are simply trying to feed you tasty food (often fatty).
Then I decided that I wanted a cook who would come a couple of times a week. Well, this is how Qlean sends cleaners - why hasn’t anyone thought of sending cooks yet? -)) But I found out the prices and decided against it.
And then it turned out that a price revolution had finally occurred in the market for ready-to-eat food delivery services. If previously they were positioned exclusively as dietary products and cost as much as a cast-iron bridge, now there is a choice of quite affordable options. I'll tell you which ones I tried -).
Growfood
What is it: balanced ready-made food for athletes with delivery.
Types of programs: two - Power for 2400 kcal and Fit for 1200 kcal.
Healthy food delivery to your home: two to three times a week.
Price: from 3500 rub. during the week. My option is 4200 rubles. for five days for five meals a day.
Growfood is a St. Petersburg service that recently came to Moscow and which I was told about by chance, in comments on Facebook. I was immediately interested! Five meals a day for 4200 for five weekdays? I like it! Actually, my immersion into the world of such services began with Growfood.
Photo from Instagram GrowFood
True, I didn’t initially take into account that it was aimed at athletes (so what if it’s written in big letters on the main page, and on the packaging - jocks -)) - and because of this, more than once my expectations did not coincide with reality. For example, there are only two programs - Power for those who are gaining weight (and need to eat A LOT), and Fit - who, on the contrary, are “cutting”. Choosing between them left me stumped. I wanted 1800-2000 kcal - but there was no such option. I consulted with the service itself on Facebook - and for the first time I ordered the option not of five Power meals a day, but of three meals a day - according to the representative, it was exactly the 1800-2000 that I needed.
However, there was a fakap - it turned out that three meals a day included... three lunches! No breakfast, no dinner - three lunches, guys! -) Natural “buckwheat + chicken” lunch. I couldn’t imagine that someone might need three lunches a day - but I’m just not a jock -) It turned out that the concept assumes that if you’re a jock, you have breakfast and dinner at home, and take these three meals with with me to work so that I can eat buckwheat and chicken there by the hour -))).
In general, in the middle of the first week, I switched to Power meals five times a day, deciding that, after all, I could give the extra food to my husband. How right I was! -)) In the end, this five meals a day was enough for us for two (taking into account that he has lunch at work). I was amazed by the sheer amount of side dish. Honestly, it never even occurred to me that you could eat such a pot of buckwheat or pasta in one sitting! We shared it between two (although my husband is also a muscleman).
At some point, we realized that we did not have time to throw away this half-eaten food, despite the fact that I only ordered it on weekdays. But I was already hooked on the convenience of “all the food is ready and with you” and decided to change the approach: I switched to the Fit menu, thinking that it would not be so difficult to “fill up” the missing calories with something from the refrigerator.
In total, I ordered Growfood for about two months. Because it’s really VERY convenient - you don’t even have to think about bread, you don’t need it. I was just going through a difficult nervous period and the opportunity to take something ready-made from the refrigerator and simply heat it up really brightened my life. I praised the service to all my friends and they started ordering it too.
However, in the end I was so tired of Growfood that I simply have no words. Firstly, they have practically no vegetables on the menu - I cut salads for lunch and dinner myself (because how can you live without fiber? Where is the balance?-). Secondly, you essentially have no snacks - you have breakfast, three lunches and dinner - even on the Fit version. I quickly realized that I did not perceive, for example, meatballs with fusilli as a snack. Thirdly, the food tastes dry and unsaturated. If you're going to have a steamed chicken breast today, don't expect it to be cut up and simmered in something flavorful. At most, it will not have a particularly expressive sauce on its own. Fourthly, breakfasts. All the pleasure from breakfast was gone, because about 80% of them were something sweet: carrot cake, pancakes, cheesecakes... It sounds attractive - but, as it turned out, the combination of different tastes is important to me: both salty and sweet. There was something completely sweet here. But it’s also pseudo-sweet. Because fifthly, all the sweetness in Growfood comes from sweeteners. And if I can somehow forgive everything else, then this kills the taste so much - as if you were chewing cardboard, honestly, and not pancakes.
Before sitting down to write this article, I tried Growfood again, as representatives promised that the menu had changed. There really are changes: there are now options for salads or vegetable appetizers (tomatoes with mozzarella, Pan-Asian salad), cream soups have appeared (quite edible), breakfast has always become double (omelet + something sweet). But so far this hasn’t changed my general mood: unfortunately, it’s not very tasty. Plus, the packaging has changed, not for the better: now the film is “welded” to the container on top and you can’t tear it off with your hands, just cut it with a knife (does everyone in office kitchens have a normal knife?), and sauces for dishes are in a separate container and they are not labeled in any way (signatures are generally their weak point; if you throw away the printed menu, you may not be able to guess what’s inside).
However, I talked with a representative of the service and they say that they came up with Growfood to help jocks, who really don’t care so much about taste, but it is important to gain KBJU in a day - and without unnecessary headaches. And when the guys went to Moscow, they realized that they were being ordered here because of something else: people like me, who work a lot and just don’t want to cook. And what is important to us is not the KBZHU, but the taste, aroma, and a more varied menu. With their low price, they have done well in a new segment for which they were not quite ready. They promise to reformat in the near future. I'm waiting - I'll definitely give them a chance, after everything that happened between us -).
Eat&Train
What it is: five balanced meals a day delivered with a focus on athletes.
Types of programs: six types with different calorie content (1400, 1700, 2000, 2300, 2500, 3000 kcal).
Healthy food delivery: every day.
Price: from 1000 rub. in a day. My option: 1100 rub. per day for 1700 kcal. (5500 rubles for five days).
I also found this service by accident, on someone’s advice (it was only later that I discovered that these services were growing like mushrooms - there really were a lot of them). Taught by experience, I looked carefully at the menu. I was somewhat intimidated by the delivery every evening (I have training and a swimming pool). But the experiment “I’d rather eat sausages and pasta than Growfood” quickly failed, since I have problems with the gastrointestinal tract and it does not forgive this. So I went and ordered.
From Eat&Train you immediately get the feeling that this is still a better service (although the difference in price is not so significant). The list of dishes for the day is printed with tips on what to eat and when. There are vegetables! The menu is not so monotonous - here the chef is aware that there is food in the world other than buckwheat and chicken -) There is no feeling that all the dishes are somehow dry - because they are quite normal, in sauces or gravies. And even if there are sweeteners in the composition, they don’t feel that way. Breakfasts are more varied (oh, muesli with fermented baked milk, you are a thing!). Fruit is often offered for lunch. And one of the three main meals is light.
Taking into account my past experience, Eat&Train delighted me, and I carried this food in a canvas bag literally throughout the city and all my business (it’s very funny when at the beginning of the day all the food hangs on your shoulder, and in the evening it moves inside you -) ). I even ate my food in the back room of our fitness club, where the trainer let me warm it up.
However, I realized that any ready-made food, even if there are no special questions about its taste, gets boring. By the end of the second week on Eat&Train, I started craving the damned chips. And this pasta with cheese, which my husband greedily ate while I stuck to my cod ceviche! By the end of the third, I realized that an internal rebellion had matured in me “give me pizza, give me pasta, give me bread” - against the ready-made menu, invented by someone who hardly took into account what I wanted exactly today. It's like eating in a restaurant where they don't ask you what you order -).
On the other hand, five meals a day, balanced according to the KBJU, had a very, well, very good effect on both my general well-being and my sore stomach. In January, I once again took all the tests from a gastroenterologist - and, in my opinion, they have never been so wonderful! At least, I don't remember them like that.
For myself, I decided that I would simply order Eat&Train not constantly, every week, but would take breaks when I felt like I was getting bored. And I’ll look for some other similar service so that the menu is still varied.
Performance Food
What is it: healthy balanced meals delivered. Targeting both athletes and those losing weight, vegetarians, and people with diseases.
Types of programs: several dozen, divided by type (weight loss, sports nutrition, balanced nutrition, nutrition for illnesses, Dukan diet, etc.). Including individual ones, which are developed for you.
Delivery: every two days.
Price: from 1300 rub. per day (if ordered for a month). My option: Silver 2000 - 1750 rubles. per trial day, cheaper when ordering for several days.
This service came to me with an offer to try them. Could I resist when ready-made food is offered just like that? -)) It was immediately clear to me that this option was more expensive than I could afford myself, but it was interesting to compare them with their competitors (plus, I once had a similar-priced service - and I didn’t like it, so the price is not here determines everything).
Here a nutritionist calls you in advance to help you choose a program. Judging by the voice, it was a young girl. Which, it seemed to me, was just sitting in some online program, entering my answers into it. I was asked about my current weight, activity and my goal (“mmm... it would be nice to lose a little weight... although no, don’t, just give me 2000 kcal!”). “If you want to lose weight, our 1200 kcal program is for you!” — she cheerfully gave the result. “What another 1200 kcal! This is my basic metabolism - and I also swim, go to the gym and think a lot with my big head,” I thought to myself. She asked out loud to give me my 2000 kcal per day, on which I have proven to feel good.
This conversation was the only, in my opinion, fakap from this service. Because everything else was just VERY GOOD. A very polite and intelligent courier brought food in thermal bags, which we had to give back to him next time. There were not five meals - but all ten, because Performance Food believes that lunch is first, second and third. And here's a snack for you. Here's a separate compote for breakfast. I was tired even of putting all the food in the refrigerator -) The festival of the stomach was soups (uhhh, I want more), all the salads, mousses. And breakfasts! What breakfasts are there! Buckwheat porridge with milk and walnuts (the last time I ate buckwheat with milk was when I was a child). Millet porridge with pumpkin. The most delicious muesli of my life. Why, even banal slices of red apples for a snack are served here with some kind of delicious sauce that you already feel like you’re in a restaurant, although these are just chopped apple slices. I opened each container in anticipation of the next delicious surprise and, it seems, I was never disappointed! Festival of the stomach, rialli. In comparison with Eat&Train, it’s like getting into a restaurant with a Michelin star after eating good fast food. Both there and there are delicious, but very differently -))).
The body, however, still rebelled and asked for some “carbohydrate” food such as buns and chips. She consoled him with toasted toast to go with some salad - and she calmed down.
Honestly, I would love to continue on Performance Food. Their menu is very extensive and is repeated much less frequently than those of Growfood and Eat&Train - and this seems to be the key to both increasing prices, but also to success in my case (for example, I may not finish some dish, even if hungry - simply because I'm tired of its specific taste). The cooking is divine.
But the price, unfortunately, is beyond my capabilities (their top level is just Eat&Train). However, no one bothers you to please yourself at least sometimes. Well, as usual, we will strive to #earnmore -). And if you already do, I highly recommend trying them.
From all this bacchanalia with five meals a day, I came to some interesting conclusions about nutrition:
- Still It’s very difficult for an unsystematic person like me to think through five meals a day for a week. independently - so that it doesn’t get boring to the point of “it won’t get into your throat.” I'm not sure I'll ever cope with this myself. I admire those who are capable of this!
- These services are not a panacea for losing weight. if you don't have willpower: I haven't lost an ounce. Because in this world, unfortunately, there is too much affordable food -)). But from the constant supply of food to the body, at its slightest request, metabolism accelerates.
- I need and value different tastes and textures in food.- so that it is salty, and sweet, and bitter, and sour, and starchy, and fatty, and crunchy. When tastes are limited, I get sad and start wanting chips -).
...or pancakes! :)
- When you always have healthy food options at hand, you stop craving unhealthy foods. I realized that I eat chips, sausage sandwiches, chocolates, curd rings and other nasty things not because I specifically want chocolate right now (thanks to this six-month experiment, it turned out that I don’t like it at all! It’s pure fat!). But simply because there is nothing else at hand right now - and the body wants calories. The brain needs glucose to keep going! And I know that fast carbohydrates satisfy his desire instantly - but then I will feel so-so. And when you have a choice - for example, bean salad with corn or a cookie? I choose salad -). But I’m not going to make this salad myself. It is important to ensure diversity up front in any way possible (this is what we were taught at Sekta, but it never took root in me).
- When you switch to five meals a day, you find that you are essentially chewing something all the time! And it turns out that it’s normal to eat almost every two hours. The body, when it understands that food will be on demand every time, demands and demands -).
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A team of professionals from the Healthy Nutrition Laboratory based at the Wheel of Time restaurant has developed several complete healthy food menus for the day, designed for 5 meals. A variety of programs are based on the principles of proper nutrition. Our service offers home delivery of ready-made healthy food rations in containers. The menu for the day, week, month is completely balanced in terms of nutritional value and calorie content. You can choose and order a diet that matches your daily calorie intake. All dishes are prepared by our chefs from high-quality ingredients, taking into account the principles of preparing healthy dishes and healthy eating.
You can use ready-made balanced food in boxes as dietary food for weight loss (the calorie content of such a weight loss diet ranges from 900 to 1500 kilocalories), healthy food for weight maintenance (we suggest ordering a daily ration of healthy food with a calorie content of 1800 or 2100 kilocalories), our freshly squeezed natural juices and smoothies will help organize a detox program for cleansing the body. Ready-made food for the week delivered to your home will save you from having to go shopping in search of the right dietary food and free up a lot of time for life!
If you adhere to the principles of a healthy lifestyle, want to maintain high vitality, lose or stabilize weight, but you do not have enough time or opportunity to prepare healthy meals, our offer is for you!
Effective weight loss and maintenance programs from the Healthy Nutrition Laboratory:
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We offer several types of healthy diets to order:
- Healthy food for every day
Delivery of healthy food in containers for 5 meals (a full menu of ready-made meals for a day, a week or half a month) to your home is carried out from 6-00 to 11-00 daily.
- Office sets
Office sets are designed for 3 full meals (delivery from 10-14). You receive a set of meals in a sealed package containing lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. You just need to order proper food to the office at your place of work, and not worry about food for the rest of the day, don’t waste time going to stores, cafes, and don’t worry about preparing dinner when you return home. - Body cleansing program using natural juices and smoothies
The program is recommended for use for a period of 1 to 2 days and is necessary when switching to a healthy diet or as preparation for switching to a diet.
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The basis of the diet is: porridge, cereals, grains, vegetables, fruits, salads and other healthy and easily digestible foods. Delicious desserts are also available to order.
Advantages of ordering ready-made meal kits
The main advantage of ordering food at home is the good savings in time and effort spent on finding healthy products and preparing them. In addition, material resources are also saved, since ready-made kits are cheaper than their individual components.Advantages of nutrition with ready-made sets:
- Mobility and convenience. All dishes are packaged in compact plastic containers, which are convenient to take with you anywhere.
- Fresh and quality food. Only fresh and high-quality products are used to prepare dishes, which are always carefully selected.
- Fast delivery at any convenient time. Having agreed with the manager, you can order delivery at any time convenient for you, regardless of what area you live in.
- Affordable price. All sets are reasonably priced.
- There is no need to create your own diet. The kits contain all the necessary supplies of nutrients that fully satisfy the body’s daily needs.
How it works?
- Services that deliver healthy nutrition in Moscow provide a high level of service. First of all, you need to place an order. To do this, simply select the sets you like and add them to your cart.
- After filling out the electronic fields in the cart, the manager will call you to clarify the contents of the order and a convenient delivery time.
- The courier will deliver your order directly to your door! All you have to do is pay for it. Both cash and non-cash payments are available.
Our regular author Susanna Aghababyan tested six popular services, and an independent nutritionist - MD, professor, leading researcher at the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Biotechnology" Alla Pogozheva - assessed the calorie content and macronutrient content in diets.
Performance Food. The most interesting diet
Performance Food has 6 programs:
- Detox;
- for weight loss;
- sports;
- vegetarian;
- lean;
- individual.
Each program has several calorie options. Before an order is placed, each client, regardless of how confident he is in his choice, is offered a free conversation with a nutritionist. Based on the parameters (weight, height, level of activity) and the request, the specialist recommends the best program. However, the last word still always belongs to the customer. I do boxing and don’t set a goal for myself to lose weight, so I chose a sports one for 1500 kcal.
Pros. Very varied diet. The menu includes meat, several types of fish (cod, halibut), seafood, and a lot of vegetables. It feels like the food came from a good restaurant: salad with crayfish tails and cocktail sauce, halibut lasagna with vegetables and cheese, beef fillet in cream and grainy mustard. The diet even includes molecular cuisine - in my case it was smoked salmon mousse - an innovation this year.
Minuses. There is none of them.
Sample menu for the day
Sports nutrition, 1500 kcal:
- breakfast: pear-apple drink with lemongrass and cinnamon, cheesecakes with creamy nut butter, quinoa porridge with skim milk with goji berries and blueberry jam;
- snack: waffle cone with smoked salmon mousse;
- lunch: salad with crayfish tails and cocktail sauce, mushroom soup with potatoes and celery, beef fillet in cream and grainy mustard with vegetable ratatouille;
- afternoon snack: halibut lasagna with vegetables and cheese, udon noodles with vegetables;
- dinner: steamed cod fillet with shrimp, vegetable tartare and lemon.
Nutritionist analysis
- kcal: 1562;
- proteins: 83 g (21% of total calories);
- fat: 56 g (32% of total calories);
- carbohydrates: 183 g (47% of total calories);
- ratio B:F:U – 1:0.7:2.2.
Delivery time: in the evening from 18 to 24 or in the morning from 6 to 12
Price: from 1150 rub./day
Price of a sports diet for 1500 kcal: from 1800 rub./day
Where he works: Moscow
Eat & Train. The most dietary food
Eat & Train offers four programs:
- balanced nutrition (you can choose calorie content XS (1400 kcal), S (1700 kcal), M (2000 kcal), L (2300 kcal), Xl (2500 kcal) or XXL (3000 kcal));
- lean (without fish, meat, eggs and dairy products, calorie content XS);
- low-carbohydrate diet (calorie diet XS and S available);
- vegetarian (without poultry and red meat, calorie diets XS and S are available).
The company’s immediate plans include a “Premium” diet and a designer that will allow you to create your own menu, but for now you have to be content with ready-made sets. I chose a balanced diet.
Pros. The service has about 300 dishes in its arsenal, so when ordering food for 1 or 2 weeks, you don’t have to worry about possible repetitions. Every season the menu is completely renewed. The food is delivered in the morning or evening, but in any case, as the manager assures, everything is prepared on the day of delivery and reaches the customer exclusively fresh.
Minuses. One of the main principles of cooking is not to use oil when frying, and also not to add sugar and salt. Although this is done with the best intentions, it is quite difficult to eat bland dishes - I had to add extra salt to everything.
Sample menu for the day
Balanced diet, 1700 kcal:
- breakfast: granola with yogurt, omelette with feta and tomatoes;
- lunch: Pinacolada smoothie;
- lunch No. 1: steamed cod with vegetables with blue cheese sauce with a mix of brown and black rice;
- lunch #2: grilled chicken tabbouleh with harissa sauce;
- dinner: salad with egg.
Nutritionist analysis
Average daily calorie content and BZHU content:
- kcal: 1390;
- proteins: 97 g (27% of total calories);
- fat: 51 g (33% of total calories);
- carbohydrates: 136 g (40% of total calories);
- ratio B:F:U – 1:0.5:1.4.
Delivery time: in the evening from 18 to 23 or in the morning from 9 to 11
Price: from 1000 rub./day
Price of a balanced diet S: 1100 rub./day
Minimum order period: 1 day
Where he works: Moscow
Just Food. The most adequate amount of food
Just Food programs are based not on food types, but on different calorie content:
- 1200 kcal;
- 1500 kcal;
- 2000 kcal;
- 2500 kcal.
Pros. All the food is very tasty, but things are especially good with meat (the service chef, Kirill Klimov, worked for many years at the Goodman meat restaurant). Thus, the cooks managed to avoid drying out one of the most capricious products, turkey, and make it truly tender and juicy. Another favorite of mine was the sweet paprika chicken with lentils and tomatoes.
Minuses. The service will not be suitable for those who do not like meat, as well as for anyone who adheres to a special diet: there are no special programs for food types.
Sample menu for the day
Diet 1500 kcal:
- breakfast: lazy oatmeal and cottage cheese pancakes with berry sauce;
- lunch No. 1: cabbage salad with apple and celery and beef roll;
- lunch No. 2: chicken in sweet paprika and lentils with tomatoes;
- afternoon snack: turkey baked with apple;
- dinner: cottage cheese with baked pear.
Nutritionist analysis
Average daily calorie content and BZHU content:
- kcal: 1530;
- proteins: 120 g (31% of total calories);
- fat: 58 g (34% of total calories);
- carbohydrates: 132 g (35% of total calories);
- ratio B:F:U – 1:0.48:1.1.
Delivery time: in the morning from 6 to 12 (hourly interval selected)
Price: from 1640 rub./day
Price of ration 1500 kcal: from 1120 rub./day
Minimum order period: 1 day
Free consultation with a nutritionist: no
Where he works: Moscow
Grow Food. The most satisfying diet
Initially, Grow Food was created to meet the demands and needs of athletes, so there were only two programs to choose from: “For drying” and “For gaining weight.” Now the list has been significantly expanded. Now the service has 5 diets:
- Power (balanced nutrition for athletes);
- Daily (healthy eating for every day);
- Superfit (for quick weight loss and keeping fit);
- Fit (for weight loss and keeping fit);
- Balance (balanced nutrition for every day).
The last three are the most popular. I chose Balance.
Pros: convenient notification system: the menu is not given on paper, as in other services, but is sent via SMS message; in addition, in chats on VKontakte and Telegram you can ask all the questions you have about your diet. Unlike other services, Grow Food does not hide its suppliers and readily provides a list. It includes Miratorg, Romaxfood, Apoca, Integrita and ProdGreen. When creating menus, nutritionists do not use highly allergenic foods such as nuts and honey.
Minuses: If you are allergic to specific ingredients, you will not be able to adjust the menu - the service, unfortunately, cannot boast of an individual approach. The food itself is cafeteria-style, so don't expect too much from the lasagna, poached eggs and other "delights" on the menu. In addition, the diet contains too much meat and very few vegetables and fruits.
Sample menu for the day
Balance diet,2000 kcal:
- reception No. 1: signature muffin, poached egg with herbs;
- Reception No. 2: rice with herbs and garlic, cheese sauce, turkey cutlet;
- reception number 3: lasagna with beef and chicken;
- reception No. 4: chocolate-coconut cheesecakes;
- reception number 5: peach smoothie with banana.
Nutritionist analysis
- kcal: 2030;
- proteins: 96 g (19% of total calories);
- fat: 82 g (36% of total calories);
- carbohydrates: 228 g (45% of total calories);
- ratio B:F:U – 1:0.85:2.4.
Delivery time: in the evening from 20 to 23 or in the morning from 7 to 12
Price: from 720 rub./day
Balance menu price: from 885 rub./day
Minimum order period: 5 days
Free consultation with a nutritionist: no
Where it works: Moscow and St. Petersburg
Easy Meal. The most thoughtful set of programs
The creators of Easy Meal have provided a menu for literally everyone:
- “Balance” (familiar dishes in a healthy version);
- "Vegetarianism";
- "Weight loss";
- “Healthy eating and stress control” (to control stress levels and normalize the functioning of the nervous system);
- "Sports nutrition";
- “Easy menu for people with gastrointestinal diseases” (developed on the basis of dietary tables No. 1, No. 2 and No. 5, as well as recommendations for people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, gastritis and cholecystitis of the UK Ministry of Health (NHS));
- “Half normal” (menu without one meal).
There is also an option to order lunch only. I chose "Balance".
Pros. All programs can be adjusted and any products excluded. A nutritionist will help you create an individual diet - his consultation is absolutely free. But the standard menu is also very harmonious. In life, I eat approximately the same way: soup and salad for lunch, and in the evening - meat or fish with a vegetable side dish.
Before ordering a full meal, you can try the dishes at the Easy Meal cafe - they prepare everything that is delivered to your home.
Minuses. Desserts, from curd cream and fruit balls to oatmeal smoothies, are absolutely tasteless. This is one of the few services that offers a sweet option, but does not handle this theme as well as we would like.
Sample menu for the day
Diet “Balance”, 1500 kcal:
- breakfast: curd cream with banana;
- second breakfast: fruit balls and oat smoothie;
- lunch: Caesar salad with shrimp, minestrone soup with meatballs;
- afternoon snack: sandwich wrap with steamed chicken fillet;
- dinner: steamed salmon with broccoli and cauliflower.
Nutritionist analysis
Average daily calorie content and BZHU content in the weekly diet:
- kcal: 1540;
- proteins: 104 g (27% of total calories);
- fat: 44 g (26% of total calories);
- carbohydrates: 182 g (47% of total calories);
- ratio B:F:U – 1:0.4:1.7.
Delivery time: in the evening until 23:00, in the morning until 12:00
Price: from 1500 rub./day
Price of the “Balance” diet: from 1880 rubles/day
Minimum order period: 1 day
Free consultation with a nutritionist: yes
Where he works: Moscow
General Food. The most delicious food
General Food is another service with a large selection of programs. There are seven options:
- Vegan;
- "Balance";
- “Mass” (for proper muscle mass gain);
- "Weight XL";
- Cyber-Food (menu for training cybersportsmen, developed with the participation of experts from the Russian Computer Sports Federation);
- "Weight loss";
- “Designer” (allows you to create your own menu based on individual needs and taste preferences).
Pros. Very tasty and nutritious food, perfectly satiating. The service relies on an individual approach: if desired, any products can be excluded from ready-made diets. There are about 15 different dish options for each meal, and if you have any doubts, you can safely contact a nutritionist who will help you make the right choice.
The preparation time is as close as possible to the time of delivery to the client - for this purpose, production operates around the clock. All food is vacuum packed to keep it fresh for as long as possible.
The optimum ratio of price and quality.
Minuses. There is none of them.
Sample menu for the day
Diet "Balance"1400 kcal:
- breakfast No. 1: omelet with chicken breast, tomatoes and creamy mustard sauce;
- breakfast No. 2: curd and strawberry mousse;
- lunch: turkey salad with rice noodles, vegetables and creamy mushroom sauce, venison kebab with baked potatoes and lingonberry sauce;
- dinner: grilled chicken breast with mixed rice and green beans.
Nutritionist analysis
Average daily calorie content and BZHU content in the weekly diet:
- kcal: 1319;
- proteins: 77 g (23% of total calories);
- fat: 55 g (37% of total calories);
- carbohydrates: 132 g (40% of total calories);
- ratio B:F:U – 1:0.7:1.7.
Delivery time: in the evening from 18 to 24, in the morning from 8 to 14
Price: from 550 rub./day
Price of the “Balance” diet: from 1010 rubles/day
Minimum order period: 2 days
Free consultation with a nutritionist: yes
Where he works: Moscow
Nutritionist's opinion
“A diet can be considered balanced if the ratio of proteins, fats and carbohydrates in it is 1:1:4. 12% of total calories should come from proteins, no more than 30% from fats, and the share of carbohydrates should be 58%.
The calculations show that none of the diets is balanced. The caloric fat content in all diets except Easy Meal is more than 30%. And the amount of protein in terms of caloric content everywhere is almost 2 times higher than the recommended norms.
Such diets (all except Grow Food, Balance, 2000 calories) can be effective for weight loss, but you should not stick to them for more than two weeks. It is known that long-term use of diets high in protein and fat (these include the Atkins, Dukan, Kremlin diets, etc.) increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, liver diseases, kidney diseases, gout, contributes to lipid metabolism disorders, and increased blood clotting . At the end of your stay on such diets, you need to return to a truly healthy diet - balance your diet by increasing its carbohydrate content with low-calorie vegetables and fruits.”
