Best Food Subscription Boxes in Canada 2024

Yes! Skipping a week is very easy with most services. All three of the large food box subscription companies allow you to easily skip a week when you sign up. Cancelling is as simple as opening your account, and a few clicks later, you’re no longer committed—although there will be some follow-up emails that try to entice you back.

Delivery fees vary by company. Some companies simply factor delivery costs into the price and won’t charge any additional delivery fees. Others might give free delivery for new customers but eventually start charging a delivery fee. For companies that do charge for delivery, those fees tend to range between $3.50 and $9.99. Sometimes fees can be reduced based on the volume of food being ordered.

Every food subscription delivery service does things a bit differently, but long story short is that most companies will figure out how to get you their box—as long as you live in a city. If you live rurally or in an exurb/bedroom community, you might have to get a bit creative.

Now, if you want to make life easy on yourself and don’t want your package sitting on your doorstep or have parcel pickup (if you live in an apartment or condo), you can make an arrangement with a kind neighbour, ask a local business that you frequent if they mind holding it for you, or simply get the box mailed to your workplace. These boxes will be fine beside your desk or wherever else there is room. Just take your dinner home with you as you leave!

While there is no doubt that individualized packaging isn’t ideal from an overall environmental footprint point of view, 95% of the packaging in our boxes has been recyclable. The other thing that must be taken into consideration is the crazy reduction in food waste that meal kits allow you to benefit from.

This is unique to each company. All food subscription delivery companies pride themselves on being able to deliver fresher food than what is available in supermarkets because they can cut out a lot of “middle man” logistics in the farm-to-table supply chain. However, each company does this a little differently. For instance, FreshPrep reports that they “work directly with local purveyors and farms in BC that support sustainable practices.” While most companies strive to maximize the proportion of their food that’s grown locally and organically, the realities of the climate in Canada mean that it’s difficult and expensive for a meal kit to be completely organic and locally sourced.

Several of Canada’s healthy food subscription box companies have vegetarian options. Not only are they a very healthy way to eat, but they are also some of the cheaper options available. While the bigger meal kit companies are able to offer the occasional keto-friendly or non-gluten meal, we have yet to come across a company that markets those meal types specifically. HelloFresh offers low-carb meals, which are often suitable for the keto diet.

The “portions” vary by each food subscription box company. On average for all of the different services we’ve tried, we usually have leftovers roughly 25% of the time. What we’ve noticed is that the meals that include a high-calorie type of meat or sauce are the most likely to leave us wanting more. This is likely due to the fact that the food box delivery folks want to make sure they keep each meal within a certain calorie range. The pleasant surprise has been how much we enjoy eating vegetarian meals—and how big the portions are when we go that route!

Yes! The meals are pretty straightforward to cook almost all of the time. We’ve had some problems with “fancy” types of flaky pastries, but that’s really it. And we can’t emphasize this enough: some of us are complete novices in the kitchen.

Even the previous non-cooks in our team have been really surprised at how quickly a person can learn how to use different spices and foods to complement one another just by following the step-by-step guides that accompany each meal. You get to try spices and ingredients that you would have never put on your grocery list previously.

If you’re new to cooking gourmet meals, you should probably allow for 10-20% longer than what is predicted at the beginning., If you already know your way around the kitchen, then whatever the specified time is for each recipe will be enough for you.

The best food delivery subscription for you comes down to your personal preferences and requirements. The main factors to choose from are meal variety, dietary requirements, delivery to your area, the types of meal plans available, and cost.

Food subscription boxes are very popular in Canada because they help to save time and eat healthier. Meal kit delivery companies like HelloFresh and Chefs Plate are two of the largest brands and they deliver pre-portioned ingredients to make fresh dinners at home.

Food delivery services can deliver groceries, ready-made meals, or ingredients to cook meals at home (meal kits). Meal kits are becoming ever more popular as a convenient way to eat healthier, explore new recipes, and save time in the kitchen.

You can get halal and kosher meal kits delivered in Canada, although not every area is covered. It’s more common to find ready-made halal or kosher meals available for delivery.