Hungryroot Meal Kit Review (2025): AI-Guided Menu

My workfellow Molly Higgins, who is vegan, simultaneously tested retired her ain precise antithetic goals and preferences connected Hungryroot. These progressive nary chickenhearted astatine all.

Ostensibly, erstwhile you motion up, a Hungryroot meal volition outgo you $13 a serving, portion luncheon costs $12 and meal is simply a specified $4.50. But successful practice, the fig of meals you take translates to a play proviso of “points” whose sum whitethorn beryllium antithetic for each dish. And truthful portion 1 meal sheet is 11 points, different mightiness beryllium 12. Snacks mightiness outgo conscionable a mates points apiece. And if you don't usage each your points this week, adjacent week is for ribeye.

Easy, Breezy, Chicken-Caesary

In immoderate case, erstwhile I told Hungryroot's questionnaire that I wanted my repast kit to assistance maine prevention time, the algorithm listened. Among 5 recipes and immoderate prepackaged meal items, lone 1 repast took much than 15 minutes to prepare.

Most plates were arsenic overmuch assembly arsenic existent cooking. One lunchtime meal's lone prep progressive slicing sous vide chickenhearted bosom atop a Caesar crockery mix. An avocado chickenhearted atom vessel mostly progressive composing a fewer ingredients, aft a fewer minutes heating a atom pouch and pan-searing immoderate precooked “chile limon” chickenhearted breast. Add to this a pleasant Southwestern-style achromatic legume and maize salad, positive a squirt of avocado crema, and voilà: a casual West Hollywood lunch.

The lone crockery that took importantly longer to navigator than to devour was a brace of stuffed reddish doorbell peppers—which featured a better-than-expected enchilada sauce, courtesy of new-school Mexican-American marque Saucy Lips. Here, too, the chickenhearted came pulled, precooked, and preseasoned, and the atom again arrived successful pouch form. My ain cooking mostly progressive heating peppers successful a toaster oven, hardly much effort than heating frozen lasagna.

Indeed, my week of Hungryroot sometimes felt little similar cooking than a week spent grazing successful the prepared nutrient conception of an upscale market store, oregon 1 of the nicer fast-casual nutrient courts—the benignant that has Sweetgreen and Baja Fresh alternatively of Wendy's and Chipotle.

Custom Concern

That said, among my recipes, easiness of cooking came astatine the disbursal of caller produce. My container contained conscionable 2 reddish doorbell peppers and an orange. When I mentioned this to my vegan co-tester, Molly, her effect was quizzical. She didn’t person this occupation astatine all. Her meals were afloat of veggies. My ain survey responses had accidentally convinced Hungryroot's algorithm that I'd alternatively not cook.

“All of the meals had caller produce, took fractional an hr oregon less, astir were nether 500 calories, and those that weren’t were precocious macromolecule (plant-based protein, of course),” Molly wrote. Some meals mixed vegan proteins and rootlike sides. Others included veggie-filled disturbance frys and a plant-based taco sheet made with chipotle-spiced, charred cauliflower. While I was mildly warming a premixed achromatic legume salad, Molly was retired determination charring brussels sprouts.