Purple Carrot Meal Kit Review: Worth the Prep Time

Purple Carrot is a completely vegan meal subscription service that offers both meal kits and ready-to-eat meals. The meal kits use inventive plant-based ingredients for various cuisines, although the prep time is lengthy (often around an hour) and requires sometimes involved preparation and active cooking. During my week of testing, the standouts were the meal kits that you needed to prepare—specifically, a delicious Mediterranean rice salad with roasted vegetables and stuffed grape leaves, and a labor-intensive butternut squash dumpling dish. Purple Carrot has choices with the type of vegan meals you get. There are fresh meal kits, which use flavorful, varied plant-based recipes with pre-portioned ingredients that require prep and cooking. These were by far my favorite. They also have ready-to-eat meals, which were premade, refrigerated meals that just required a pop in the microwave or oven (or skillet). These were surprisingly tasty for being frozen, but needed an extra pop of salt ... Read full article.