Prepd Meal Kits Review 2019

You might have had a difficult time finding our Prepd Canadian meal kit review due to a food box company down in the USA going under the same name.

So just to be clear – we’re talking about a food subscription box company located in Canada here, NOT the USA-based lunchbox company.

Prepd is a Toronto-only meal kit company that has tried to cut costs to the bare minimum in order to compete with the national “Big three” Canadian meal kit companies.  For more info on those, see our: Hello Fresh Review, GoodFood Review, and Chef’s Plate Review.

It was pretty easy to notice the difference between Prepd and other meal kits right away, as Prepd arrives in a basic cardboard box – and not the insulated boxes that bigger meal companies like HelloFresh uses.  For me, that’s a pretty big deal, just because I love having the tested-true knowledge that those insulated boxes will keep my meat cold despite the hottest possible temperatures that Canada can throw at them.

Prepd Review Summary

Prepd Review: Weekly Meal Kit Options

Prepd is exclusively a meal kit company.  So unlike fellow Toronto-only competitors Fresh City Farms, Prepd does not have the option to do add ons to your food box subscription.  From what I was able to garner from news articles about the company, Prepd delivers from Victoria park to the 427, and then its north-south radius stretches from the 407 to Lake Ontario.

The Prepd website promotes a similar value proposition to that of other Canadian meal kits, saying: Get everything you need to make an amazing dinner in 30 minutes. Delivered from $10/plate. No planning. No shopping. No fuss.

One unique aspect of Prepd is the fact that you can order single-person subscriptions AND that that there is a weekly option for both 2- and 5-meal boxes.  Most other meal kits tend to stream you into a 3-box or 4-box subscription model.

Another neat option is to order a one-time only sample box that I’ve only ever seen offered Prepd.  (Although there is nothing stopping anyone from ordering a week’s worth of food and then cancelling on other meal kit sites.)

Because Prepd is a relatively small company with a meagre website and relatively little media exposure, I was not able to garner a ton of background information about the company other than the fact that is was one of the first meal kit companies to start off in Toronto, and that it tries to cut costs as much as possible.  The few Prepd reviews that I could on Yelp and Facebook were over two years old, but were mostly positive.

Prepd Review: Their Meal Kit Recipes

Our Prepd review wouldn’t be complete without actually looking at some of the dinner meals that their cooks and nutionists have put together.  Here’s a sampling from the recent Prepd menu.