I am new and first wanted to say that I absolutely love your site and your board! You guys are so real and honest and have probably helped countless people out there (and Noodlebean you are adorable)! I love reading your blogs!
I have spent hours researching the various meal delivery plans because I want a good one that I can somehow afford (no small task considering these companies want your first born to sign up). I've been on Jenny Craig, but to be honest I am beyond bored with that food and just can't bring myself to go back. Every time I have ever gained a few pounds I go back to Jenny Craig and spend my life savings, but the food hardly changes and it's difficult to eat the same 8 favorites over and over again (I'm also not thrilled with all the sugars and preservatives). I don't want to just lose weight. I would also like to feel that I am eating healthy if I can swing it.
After looking at Pur Foods, Deliciously Yours, Chefs Diet, Bistro MD, Nutrisystem, The Seattle one (can't think of the name now) and revisiting Jenny Crag, I am thisclose to ordering from E-Diets for their Deliciously Yours program (or maybe Pur Foods). Chefs Diet has the most mouth watering selection I have ever seen in my life and caters to a huge celebrity clientele but they want over $1000.00 a month (that's what it works out to). If I have done my math right, Bistro MD works out to be $800.00 a month if you want 7 days with snacks which I do. That was disappointing to learn so I went to have a look at the Pur Foods and Deliciously Yours. They would be about what I paid for Jenny Craig (which is still a lot, but at least workable).
My question is this. I noticed that Noodelbean spoke of the food spoiling and that is what scares me most. I am a little paranoid about things like food poisoning as have had breast cancer so my immune system is not the greatest (I have noticed that I do not fight things off like I used to). This was my fear about any fresh food diet that is delivered to your door. At least with frozen you can pretty much know if you have a problem when it comes defrosted. Do the side dishes regularly spoil still? When you are hungry and want to have everything prepared, you don't want to have to buy and make side dishes. The other thing that freaked me out is that they do not vacuum pack (they tell you this like that's a good thing, but vacuum packing makes things stay fresher longer). If they do not vacuum pack and they use no preservatives, how on earth can the food last past a week like that let alone two weeks?
Is Pur better than Deliciously Yours in this respect (I read that they come from the same company, but I wondered if one was less likely to spoil than the other plan)? I really wanted Bistro but I honestly cannot afford $800.00 a month for food and if I only do weeks and have weekends off, I will be derailed again. Any suggestions? Can Pur Foods or Deliciously Yours deliver each week instead of every two weeks because of spoilage? I love the idea of fresh food, but I don't want bacterial issues from it.
Sorry for the long post. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I plan to make a decision early this week and order one of or the other. Thank you for listening!