Best Organic Meal Delivery Services

Entrepreneur Rachel Drori launched Daily Harvest in 2015. At the beginning, it was strictly a smoothie company but has since branched out thanks in part to prominent investors like Bobby Flay, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Serena Williams.

Daily Harvest offers smoothies, “harvest bowls,” flatbreads, soups, “forager bowls,” chia bowls, “bites” (sort of like balls of superfood cookie dough), lattes, oat bowls, and non-dairy ice creams. Specific items include the acai and cherry smoothie, half gallons of house-made almond “mylk,” the artichoke and lemon harvest bowl, a portobello and pesto flatbread (made with cassava flour), butternut squash and rosemary soup, the raspberry and mulberry seeded forager bowl, and the vanilla bean and apple chia bowl.

All Daily Harvest products are shipped frozen, which the company says helps to preserve freshness and nutritional content. The company says it uses 95% organic ingredients, and the ingredient lists indicate which are organic and which are not. The site is well-designed and the menu can be filtered according to likes, dislikes, and dietary needs. All dishes are single-serving.

There are three subscription levels:

• Small box, 9-11 items: $5 discount
• Medium box, 12-23 items: $10 discount
• Large box 24-26 items: $25 discount

Each discount applies to the grand total of all items you select. When you sign up, your first order becomes your default order, which will recur weekly until you change or cancel.

Daily Harvest delivers to every state except Hawaii.

Learn More: Read Our Daily Harvest Review.

Sakara Life was launched from a 500-square-foot New York City apartment by childhood best friends Danielle DuBoise and Whitney Tingle. The pair delivered their first meals via bicycle. Today, the company operates facilities in New York and Southern California and ships fresh meals across the country.

Sakara Life promotes the food-as-medicine concept. The company’s philosophy is called its “9 pillars of nutrition.” You can explore the philosophy in detail on Sakara’s website, but we can summarize it in two words: eat plants.

The company says it works with many certified organic farms, but also sources from farms without certification that employ organic practices. Sakara Life does not indicate which ingredients are certified and which are not, so you’ll have to trust what it says.

The company offers three meal plans, plus an extensive menu of seed and nut blends, “superfood” powders and supplements, teas, “detox water” and more.

Sakara’s meal programs are called Signature (Level 1), Detox (Level 2), and Brides. The Detox and Brides plans are one-time purchases. The Signature plan can be purchased either as a subscription or a one-time order.

Here are a few sample meals from the Signature plan:

• Forbidden rice + tatsoi bowl, with black forbidden rice, roasted zucchini, sugar snap peas
• Four bean protein chili, with chickpeas, black, kidney, and white beans, alongside pumpkin cornbread
• Spiced apple parfait, topped with a mesquite-maple-almond butter caramel + superfood granola
• H2O glow salad, with white beans, celery, cucumber, fresh herb dressing

The Detox and Bride programs are much more complex. You not only receive meals, but also tea, supplements, beauty products, health coaching, and so on.

The cost of the Signature program depends on how many meals you want to receive, which ranges from around $110 for two breakfasts and two lunches per week to about $420 for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. The Detox program is a five-day plan for $450. The Bride program is a four-week program that costs $1,680.

Sakara Life ships everywhere within the continental United States. Shipping is free over $75, and the packaging is recyclable.

Learn More: Read Our Sakara Life Review.

Greg Connolly founded Trifecta in 2015. His ambition is “to get America back into shape” by "out-competing fast food and other unhealthy options in the marketplace," he told the Sacramento Business Journal.

We picked Trifecta because it is one of the only meal delivery services—organic or conventional—with a meal prep plan.

Trifecta uses mostly organic ingredients, which, in the meal prep menu at least, are clearly labeled. Proteins are not certified organic, but they are free-range, grass-fed, or wild/sustainably caught.

The meal prep plan is simple. Just order any combination of pre-cooked proteins, carbs, or vegetables to hit the $110 weekly minimum. The protein choices are the most numerous. You can get chicken, ground beef and bison, salmon, basa, shrimp, elk, venison, hard-boiled eggs, and a few other things.

There are fewer carb and vegetable choices. Select from sweet potato, white rice, brown rice, quinoa, and banana bread on the carb menu; and broccoli, asparagus, zucchini, mixed vegetables, and portobello mushrooms on the veggie menu. All meal prep items are four servings. The site’s cart automatically calculates how many meals your order will produce, as well as the cost per meal, which is pretty nifty.

The order you place upon signup becomes your weekly default order, which you can change at any time. Trifecta ships to all 50 states. Shipping is free, and the packaging is largely recyclable and/or biodegradable.

Learn More: Read Our Trifecta Review.

Owned by Pete Servold, Pete’s Paleo utilizes local, organically grown produce and pastured, grass-fed proteins. It publishes a list of its suppliers on its website, as well as hundreds of customer reviews.

Pete’s offers ready-to-eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and sides, as well as bone broth and sugar-free bacon. The dishes can genuinely be described as “gourmet.” Some entree examples are roasted chicken with olive tapenade and turnips, meatball shakshuka with spaghetti squash, and osso bucco. All meals are single-serving, and there’s a “lite” menu with smaller portions of select menu items.

Pete’s Paleo offers a selection of meal bundles—available both by subscription and one-time orders—along with an a la carte menu called “Eat What You Love.” Either way, you must order at least five meals. By subscription, you can receive up to 14, single-serving meals—or 5 4-serving meals—per week. There appears to be no limit on orders from the “Eat What You Love” menu. Prices are as follows:

• 7 Pete’s Paleo Lite meals: $120.98
• 5 Pete’s Paleo meals: $97.92
• 10 Pete’s Paleo meals: $191.10
• 14 Pete’s Paleo meals: $251.39
• 5 4-serving Pete’s Paleo meals (the Family Plan): $359.13
• 5 Breakfasts: $74.80
• Individual entrees on the Eat What You Love menu: $16-$19

Pete’s Paleo ships via FedEx to all 50 states. Most meals ship fresh, but the “Eat What You Love” a la carte menu ships frozen.

Learn More: Read Our Pete's Paleo Review.

Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Green Chef was founded in 2014 and was the first certified organic meal kit delivery service. It specializes in delivering healthful, sustainable, and simple-to-prepare meal kits made with organic produce and quality proteins. The company only offers lunch and dinner kits—there are no sides, snacks, desserts, or other add-ons.

Green Chef's low-carb Keto+Paleo menu features meals like roasted fennel-cumin shrimp, grilled cheese (without bread) with chimichurri and veggies, and beef tenderloin with truffle cream sauce. Besides the keto plan, Green Chef also offers Balanced Living and Plant-Powered plans.

All plans deliver either two, three, or four kits per week, and feed two, four, or six people each. Couples could order kits as large as six servings and use them for meal prep. Pricing for the keto plan is as follows:

• 2-servings x 3 meals per week: $13.49 per serving
• 2-servings x 4 meals per week: $12.99 per serving
• 4-servings x 2 meals per week: $12.99 per serving
• 4-servings x 3 meals per week: $12.49 per serving
• 4-servings x 4 meals per week: $11.99 per serving
• 6-servings x 3 meals per week: $11.99 per serving
• 6-servings x 4 meals per week: $11.99 per serving

Green Chef ships to almost everywhere in the continental United States, with the exception of Alaska, Hawaii and some parts of Louisiana. Shipping is a flat $9.99 per delivery. In addition to being organic, Green Chef utilizes mostly recyclable and compostable packaging.

Learn More: Read Our Green Chef Review.

One Potato was co-founded by Catherine McCord, the creator of the popular family-friendly recipe blog Weelicious. Like the blog, the company is all about organic, family-friendly recipes.

One Potato is mostly focused on dinner. The company’s menu is broken into three parts. The Seasonal Favorites change weekly, while the Vegan Meals and Family Favorites menus remain static. Each part has three to five selections, with dishes including:

• Chicken kebabs with quinoa and greek salad
• Corn and black bean taquitos with Spanish rice and cucumber avocado salsa
• Vegan pizza with salad
• Tacos with guacamole, pico de gallo, and slaw

Interestingly, the company also has a selection of smoothies and slice-and-bake cookie doughs.

You can order either two or three meal kits per week. Kits come in various sizes, serving as few as two or as many as six people each. Since One Potato is geared toward families, though, not all portions are adult-sized. One Potato says that a six-serving meal will feed two adults and four young children, two adults and two teens, or four adults.

Like most services, One Potato lowers the cost per serving as you order more. A pair of two-serving kits per week costs $13.95 per meal, but three, six-serving kits per week gets the price down to $8.32 per serving.

As of November 2021, the company was only accepting new customers in nine states: California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, and Texas. Shipping is free and the packaging is 100% recyclable or biodegradable.

Learn More: Read Our One Potato Review.

Sunbasket was born in 2014. Its culinary vision is driven by celebrity chef co-founder Justine Kelly, a longtime luminary of the Bay Area foodie scene.

Sunbasket serves a wide variety of diets, including vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, diabetes/low sugar, dairy-free, and paleo. The majority of Sunbasket’s produce is organic, and so are many of the company’s protein options, usually available as an upgrade at additional cost.

Sunbasket specializes in meal kits, but it extends its offerings into fully prepped, single-serving meals and a large collection of third-party add-ons, like pressed juices, egg bites, instant noodle bowls, and snacks. It’s almost like an online bodega. The kits and prepped meals (Sunbasket calls them Fresh & Ready) are all lunch and dinner dishes, with titles like chicken with shiitake "bacon," honey-mustard mayo, and root veggie fries; Brazilian pork and black bean feijoada with tomato salsa; smokehouse sausage jambalaya; and Moroccan salmon in chraime sauce with cauliflower “couscous.”

While subscription settings max out at five meals per week, you can manually order many more—up to eight units of each two-serving meal kit or Fresh & Ready meal on the company’s large menu. And that doesn’t even include the vast selection of add-ons.

You can subscribe to as few as four servings per week, or up to 20 servings per week (and, as mentioned above, you can manually order much more). As your order increases, the price per serving decreases. Meal kits range from $11.49 to $14.49 per serving, and Fresh & Ready meals go from $9.99 to $12.99 per serving. All meals are shipped fresh, never frozen.

Sunbasket ships to 46 states, leaving out Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, and North Dakota, as well as parts of New Mexico. Shipping is a flat $9.99 per delivery. The majority of the company’s packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable.

Learn More: Read Our Sunbasket Review.

Founder Laureen Asseo started Fresh n' Lean in her one-bedroom apartment when she was just 18 years old. The company concentrates on healthful, ready-to-eat meals across a number of dietary categories, all of which are gluten-free. It also clearly indicates which ingredients are organic and which are not, and utilizes grass-fed meat in some of its meals.

With Fresh n’ Lean, you can order breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all seven days of the week. Menu items include cheesy bacon chicken, Mediterranean salmon, kidney bean bowl, mushroom and spinach frittata, and bearnaise aioli steak with sweet potatoes. All the meals are single-serving, but there’s also a bulk/meal prep menu similar to Trifecta’s.

Fresh n' Lean’s plans include: high protein, keto, paleo, vegan, whole30, mediterranean, low-carb vegan, and the aforementioned bulk menu. The minimum you can order is five meals per week. Each plan has about 14 lunch/dinner choices and a handful of breakfast options. Meals are delivered fresh weekly.

Prices for the plans are as follows:

• Breakfast alone: $10.50 to $10.75 per meal
• Lunch or dinner alone: $12.64 to $15.43 per meal
• Breakfast with lunch or dinner: $11.09 to $11.25 per meal
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner: $7.93 to $9.97 per meal

Fresh n' Lean ships to all 50 states. Shipping is free, and the packaging is largely recyclable or compostable.

Learn More: Read Our Fresh n' Lean Review.