10 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested By an Ex-Restaurant Critic

More Meal Kits We Liked Dinnerly ($6 to $9 per serving): Marley Spoon's lower-cost meal kit, Dinnerly (7/10, WIRED Recommends) was long WIRED's budget pick. Frankly, it's still a good budget pick. It's also a stolidly meat-and-potatoes pick, and often straightforwardly Midwestern in its recipes. The proteins are generous and of excellent quality, and the produce is fresh. The meals are balanced. That said, the recipe development isn't quite up to Marley Spoon standards, though I did love the middle-American trashiness and hold-my-beer inventiveness of a “Reuben meatloaf” stuffed with sauerkraut and caraway seeds. That said, this year I ended up preferring the meals I tried from EveryPlate, which has the further merit of being a buck cheaper a meal. Hungryroot ($10 to $12 per serving): Honestly, I like Hungryroot's model quite a bit (7/10, WIRED Reviewed), and its AI-aided meal planning will probably get even better over time. The plan offers flexibility in mixing upscale grocery shop ... Read full article.