Updated on March, 2025
After years of not using meal kits, I’m open to trying them again. I started with EveryPlate because it’s cheap. I’m updating my 2019 review.
EveryPlate is a budget meal kit brand launched by HelloFresh. It offers simpler meals than its parent company, without fancy ingredients.
The Food
EveryPlate now offers a choice of over 30 meals a week, including several “premium” ones that have an additional cost, a few “oven ready” meals that come in a tray ready to be put in the oven and others that can prepared ahead and cooked quickly. They include several vegetarian meals, and several meals allow you to switch to a different protein for a small additional cost.
The meals are usually uncomplicated American favorites, things such as grilled cheese sandwich with tomato sauce, burgers, baked pastas and the now-popular “bowls”. Most meals include pork, chicken or sausages – though you might be able to switch to beef for an additional cost.
Even though they have expanded their menu, I still struggled to find enough recipes that sounded like things I wanted to eat.
The ingredients, in general, are of good quality. The meats are tasty and at least as good as supermarket meats. I particularly liked the ranch steak. The produce is hit and miss. Some items are not exactly what’s mentioned in the recipe (different types of onions or peppers), some seem overripe and some under. I’ve gotten old garlic and limes. The meats are vacuum sealed and are good for a week after receiving them.
While some meal kits include all the ingredients you’ll need, save for salt, pepper and cooking oil – EveryPlate is more stingy. They require you to use (and have!) your own butter, milk, sugar, flour and ketchup, for example. As not everyone has a stocked pantry, make sure you read what each recipe calls for before ordering it.
The Shipping & Delivery
EveryPlate now delivers their boxes six days a week. My box was delivered in the morning and I got a text altering me to it.
The Packaging
The ingredients come in a cardboard box with a cushioned liner. Some of these are recyclable and other aren’t, so you need to check before you dispose of them. The meats are sandwiched at the bottom of the box between two freezer packs and the rest of the ingredients come in their own little cardboard box. I usually just transfer the whole box into the fridge, though some ingredients (like dry pasta) don’t need refrigeration.
The Plans
EveryPlate allows you get 3 to 5 meals a week for 2, 4 or 6 people each. The basic plan of 3 meals a week for 2 costs $50 ($39 for the meals and $11 for shipping), or $17 per meal / $8.50 per portion. If you order more meals, the cost per meal goes down.
You can usually find discounts online that are good for at least the first week. You can get $15 off by using this link, but there are probably better deals elsewhere.
EveryPlate’s reduced costs are achieved by offering meals with few ingredients, reducing assembly time by not separating ingredients by recipe in the box and by not including some ingredients their recipes call for (e.g. butter, milk, flour & ketchup).
The Meals
These are the Every Plate meals I made in 2025 – I didn’t take photos of the first three.
Beef Bolognese over Linguine
Simple and perfectly acceptable. Also, relatively quick to make.
Molto Mozzarella Beef Burgers with Creamy Marinara & Potato Wedges
I only made the burger, it was pretty good. I didn’t use the marinara sauce and instead used my own ketchup and garlic aioli.
Crispy Caesar Chicken with Roasted Carrots & Garlic Mashed Potatoes
The chicken was simple but pretty tasty. The caesar dressing helped keep it moist. I roasted the potatoes instead of mashing them and tossed them with olive oil, chopped garlic and Italian seasoning. They were quite yummy.
Creamy Tomato & Pork Sausage Linguine with Garlic Bread
This was also pretty good, but pretty heavy and I don’t think worth the calories or carbs. I added my own Parmesan to both the garlic bread and the pasta – it needed it. I cooked the garlic bread in the air fryer for 5 minutes at 350F. No need to preheat.
Back in 2019, I made these ones:
 | Carne Asada Fajitas with Pickled Onions and Lime cream This dish was just OK |
 | Steak Tagliata with Tomato Jam, Creamy Kale and Garlic Bread A surprisingly enjoyable dish with good quality beef. |
 | BBQ Pork Sloppy Joes with Pickled Onions and Sweet Potato Wedges I made a mess of this, but the pork was still tasty |
All in all, I was happy with them. They were relatively easy to make, quicker than other meal kits, and they were tasty. The portions were also OK – though in some cases this was because of the empty carbs (just look at the size of that garlic bread in comparison to the beef!).
I also made a meal based on an EveryPlate recipe, and might make more in the future:
Garlic-Rosemary Chicken with Roasted Root Veggies
A very decent meal to put together with stuff I had at home.
Cancelling the service was also very easy – just do it online – and reactivation is a breeze as well.
