Green Chef Meal Kit Review (2025): Excellent Gluten-Free Fare

Gluten-free cuisine has a deservedly bad reputation. This is not because wheat has a monopoly on good taste: Entire countries and cultures would disagree. Rather, it's that cooks far too often make things that desperately need gluten to be what they are: pancakes and waffles, say, or Southern fried chicken. Or, lord help us, pizza. And so every time I've tried out gluten-free plates among the many meal kits I've reviewed, it's been with a little bit of fear—lest I find myself endlessly chewing a tapioca pancake, or breaking my own heart over a tray of limp zoodles. Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Which is all a prelude to say: The gluten-free meals from HelloFresh's organic meal-kit brand Green Chef were a hell of a nice surprise. More than half of Green Chef's recipes are gluten-free, a quality that the brand attests with hearty, full-throated validation from the Seattle-based Gluten Intolerance Group, which offers certification for gluten-free ingredients and restaurants. More on th ... Read full article.