Feed Me! - My Diet Food Delivery Journey

There are a lot of players out there, and although the variation in price is not quite as large as I had expected, there is a lot of variation in the condition the food is when it arrives.  I don’t mean fresh or spoiled, they all seem to get the food to you in fairly good shape for the most part.  But the food runs the gamut from Never Fresh foods like Nutrisystem and Medifast (freeze dried or dehydrated which you must reconstitute) to “Kinda Fresh” foods from E-diet which when fresh are placed in “special packaging” that can keep them fresh for up to 15 days, to Frozen like Diet to Go and Home Bistro (supposedly flash-frozen while fresh, yes this is confusing),  and finally Really Fresh foods  that are deliverd daily by Nutropia and Chefs Diet.   To confuse the issue even more, Diet to Go also has a “fresh” version in certain areas and Chefs Diet has a “frozen” weekly or biweekly delivery option.  Packaging varies too - both Diet to Go and Bistro MD are frozen, but Diet to Go is in trays which take a lot of room in the freezer while Bistro MD is in “boil-in bags” which are much easier to store.

 All of the big players offer “introductory” offers.  I decided to try Bistro MD, Diet to Go, E-diets and Nutropia and then decide which one was the best fit.  Bistro MD and E-diets are shipped frozen.  E-diets are ”Kinda Fresh”  they are not frozen, but is placed in packaging that will supposedly keep the food “fresh” for 10-15 days.  Nutropia is a “fresh” delivery plan.  The food for each day is freshly prepared and then placed in a cooler which is delivered to your front door by 6 a.m.