“We were looking for a meal service that didn't have a ton of sodium, very difficult! My husband is on a low sodium diet for health reasons. These meals are delicious and more than half the sodium of others. Highly recommend! Thank you for these delicious low sodium options!”
“I absolutely love Metabolic Meals. They're fresh, they taste good, they have clean ingredients - low/no gums, no excessive seed oils or sugars, no fillers or extras - and are very friendly to my chronically ill body. I've tried lots of meal plans and very few have the combination of fresh food, taste, convenience, AND my body liking it that these do. They arrive on time and well-packaged, customer service is responsive, and menus have decent variety. Only thing that keeps it from five stars is sometimes I crave a little more flavor or more variety (especially in the sides), and I have higher hopes for those sour cream potatoes.”
“Ordering is very simple, and it is easy to skip a week. All of the meals I've had have been good, but I wish you offered more vegetables as sides. The packaging is horrible. The boxes are so big and heavy because of the ice packs that I end up throwing out. Please consider switching to styrofoam containers and dry ice.”
“As college students working full-time these kits are a lifesaver. We simply don't have time to cook but still want to ensure that we are eating enough and eating healthy. This has also been a great intro to different meals that we haven't tried before!
Only thing that could be improved is the description of the meals for people who want to know the ingredients; I don't like all foods and it could help to know a bit more about what I am getting. Additionally, the level of sustainability is not ideal, though it is due to practical reasons like needing the food to be sealed so it makes sense. I do wish that the ice packs were just water and not the gel so that they were easier to dispose of.
Overall I have been very satisfied and will continue to order from here!”
“My husband & i both have food allergies so it was hard to find a food service that fit both our needs. Very happy to have found Metabolic Meals. I have a gluten intolerance & can't eat onions. My husband has a rice allergy as well as a zucchini/squash sensitivity. I'd give you 5 stars if you had more selections that we could both eat especially having trouble with onions (I'm always bummed out when I see a new recipe & then find out it has onions in it). The food is really VERY GOOD as well as being healthy for us. Everything tastes so good!!! Also would love to see some seafood entrees as well as salads but I suppose it would be difficult to package. Thanks for asking my opinion & for having such a quality product at an affordable price.
Gina Kennedy-Doherty”
“Flavor and variety are excellent. I wish I could order just 5 meals a week and I also wish there were "incentives" (or a point system) that allowed one to earn discounts on the meals or the shipping charge.”
“Overall, I do enjoy these meals. I wish sodium was a bit lower in some recipes. I am happy they change meal selection each week but then it comes to point where you eventually come back around and some of those weeks I like more than others and other times it's the opposite. I wish there were more vegetables in some of these dishes that are not broccoli. As I cannot eat broccoli. I also would like more white meat chicken recipes because I do not eat chicken thighs, so this limits my choices. In my case, I go towards beef and some chicken dishes as I don't eat pork. But I am sure those are great for others that may enjoy that. I have lost 15 lbs since eating these meals so they are helpful for me.”
“This meal service is a valuable resource, freeing me from worrying about dinner arrangements.I do wish there was more of a variety with the meals and better side options. Customer service has been great anytime I have had to outreach regarding late deliveries or a meal damaged.”
“Often too much spice. Note I have lots of food intolerances including to many spices like balls of black pepper. White pepper is absolutely abhorrent to me, burns on the lips, burns in the mouth and burns in the stomach. I hate the porcine sauce. Like like the real taste of pork, beef, chicken, turkey, broccoli, even liver and spinach. I don't want "hot sauce" on my turkey meal.
I have a medically proven intolerance to olives/olive oil. Now it is mild so as long as I don't order vegetables and meat sauces made with olive oil, I will be OK. However since my Mother had the same problem, I never learned to like the smell or taste of olive oils. Yes I know why nutritionists stress its use.
I am celiac so I very much enjoy safe food to eat. I love knowing the sauces are safe to eat. However using ingredients like Worcester sauce worries me as well, one can get gluten free Worcester sauce, it is much more expensive. Thus I doubt you are avoiding all the subtle sources of gluten. Fortunately I am not hyper sensitive but I cannot recommend your food to my celiac sister.
I love your pre sliced meat. I love there are choices that do not have aminos. I wish you offered an occasional Mandrin Chinese meal with almost no hot spice. Even a mild meal will be too spicy to me.
I supposedly have an intolerance to white potato. You love, love white potato. Sigh. Sometimes I just buy the meal, throw out the potato and add a vegetable like broccoli. I like my green vegetables! I'm not a man needed lots of simple carbohydrates for enough fuel and satisfaction. I can eat sweet potatoes.
You also love simple carbohydrates in the form of white rice & white potato . Gluten free noodles that are likely not keto or paleo. How about sometimes using brown rice or quinoa? Bean noodles or spaghetti squash noodles? I'm trying to follow the Always Hungry diet which in the phase two, weight lost phase, bans simple carbohydrates used as a a meal portion. Like a serving of white rice. Or country cornbread egg breakfast.
You have had enough variation that I haven't gotten bored with certain meals. Most are tasty enough I eat all or most of the meal. As a senior citizen, I like the choice of the smaller serving of protein.
I'm not sure three, big, ice packs are needed when sending to the colder regions of the country in Winter. Now in the 100 degree Summer time, three may not be enough. May I suggest using packs of dry ice. This is much, much easier for me to dispose of and much, much, much less weight to handle and put into my trash. The ice packs have no recycling here and City Sanitation does not want the warmed contents to be put in the sewer line.”
“I absolutely love this service. The options are to our liking and things we would be making at home if time allowed. The only thing I'm struggling with right now it the cost.”
“The only thing I’d change is the way that it’s reoccurring. I hate the fact that if I don’t order by Wednesday they send meals the next week anyway and I haven’t chosen what I want I just get whatever. Other than that they’re great!”
“The meals are great quality. Taste wise, some will obvioulsy be better than others. The ingredients used is what sets Metabolic apart from all others. They actually know about good fats vs bad fats in that they use good oils in their recipes. The trays can be difficult to open, but maybe that's a necessary evil.”
