Meal Delivery Review: New Year, New You with meals from Eat Zest
Meal Delivery Review: Balance your budget in the new year while starting afresh with nutrition.
Meal delivery services are popping up all over the place at the moment. Whether it’s taste kits, veg boxes, or full-blown planned meal services. These meal delivery services vary wildly in quality, taste, service and cost. Therefore, establishing the value for money can be hard to judge.
A recent addition to the gourmet meal delivery niche is the company, Eat Zest. They offer freshly prepared gourmet meals designed to support three different diet plans for the end user.
Meal Delivery Review: What are the pros of Eat Zest?
Eat Zest sent us over a box of meals to review in order to allow us to see if they delivered on tasty, nutritional budget-friendly meals. Their website claims that the meals are all nutritionally balanced, high protein, calorie controlled, and free of added oils, sugars and preservatives. They are also cooked in rapeseed oil to reduce the saturated fat levels.
The three different meal plan options are great for tailoring food and meals to your New Year’s resolutions…
The low carb, low fat “Burn” package is perfect for those wishing to shed a few pounds carefully with a New Year Diet. The “Balance” plan from Eat Zest, however, aims to maintain weight while providing high-quality carbs and protein to fuel training or a busy lifestyle. The final package offering comes in the form of the “Bulk” option, jam-packed full of high protein and high carb ingredients.
Whichever option you go for you’ll get the same recipe options to pick from, but the ingredients are adjusted and tailored to your chosen package.
Meal Delivery Review: How do Eat Zest meals taste and how much do they cost?
We opted to trial the mid-package, the “Balance” option. With 10 meals costing an increasing amount from the Burn package at £43.99 through to £51.99 for the 10 meal “Bulk” option, you’re looking at £4-£5 per meal. You can decrease the cost per meal further by choosing the 15 meal option, or trial the service on their 7 meal package, which works out slightly more expensive (per meal). Read on below for your chance to win a 7 meal bundle from Eat Zest to try yourself!
Eat Zest use at present DPD for delivery, not my preferred delivery company from past experiences, but nevertheless, the items arrived quickly on this occasion. The packaging the meals arrived in looked suitably professional and practical with easy to remove labelled sleeves that contained all the nutritional information needed. All meals had a few days date on them but can be frozen to use at your own pace.
We used a few meals from fresh and a few after freezing to see if the freezing process had an impact on the taste and appeal of the meals. The 10 meals we tried from the “Balance” package were:
- 2 x Chicken Katsu with Sticky Rice & Pickled Carrot (Balance)
- Thai Green Chicken Curry with Brown Rice (Balance)
- Handmade Sicilian Meatballs with Corn Penne Pasta & Grated Cheddar (Balance)
- Beef & Black Bean Stir-fry (Balance)
- Jamaican Jerk Chicken with Rice & Peas (Balance)
- 2 x Tennessee BBQ Pulled Pork with Sweet Potato Wedges and Rainbow Slaw (Balance)
- Tandoori White Fish with Spicy Sweet Potato Mash & Chunky Fresh Tomato Salsa (Balance)
- Chargrilled Peppers & Goats Cheese with Couscous & Butternut Squash (Balance)
We froze one of the Pulled Pork meals and one of the Chicken Katsu meals to compare to the “same” non-frozen version.
We were able to sample the meals over a week or so and found that the particular highlights were the Pulled Pork and Jerk Chicken meals. These two meals in particular not only looked appealing before and after heating but also packed good levels of flavour alongside the healthy nutrients they included. Achieving flavoursome meals whilst monitoring the levels of less preferred additions is never going to be easy, but on the whole Eat Zest have managed the feat.
That being said, the Meatball dish and Thai Green Curry could have had more flavour for our personal liking, but the meals were still perfectly palatable. For the price, I would suggest these meals would be of most use to those with busy lifestyles looking to have meals ready to go at a reasonable price. Whether enjoyed as a quick lunch in a city commute lifestyle or even as a stable means to healthy meals for run-ragged parents, Eat Zest is definitely worth a try. Oh, and factor in that they have a “refer a friend” style scheme too so you can get credit for introducing others to the service, again adding value.
You can try the meals yourself in two ways… Via our exclusive 10% off code “SAVVYDAD10” which you can redeem on the Eat Zest gourmet meal website. Alternatively, why not enter our competition below to win your very own 7 meal supply from Eat Zest.
Meal Delivery Review: Win your very own 7 Meal Gourmet Hamper
Eat Zest are giving one of our lucky readers the chance to win their very own week’s worth of meals by giving away one of their 7 Meal hampers. To be in the running just use the form below and don’t forget to let us know your experiences good or bad for this and other meal delivery services in the comments section below.
COMPETITION NOW CLOSED.
NOTE: This is a collaborative post and winners’ details will be passed on to Eat Zest to arrange the prize directly with the winner.
Great 2018 comp, new start!
I like the sound of the Thai Green Chicken Curry.
Sounds a great company that I would love to try! Thanks
great way to try new flavours
Fab prize. Thanks.
Sounds great…..thanks for the chance
These are a good idea
Such a great giveaway thank you for the chance x
Looks yummy would love to win and try
A great, inspiring start for 2018. I’d love to try out Eat Zest’s new recipes.
They all look and sound delicious meals…anything with sweet potato or butternut squash will be a winner for me ,as well as one of my favourites,Thai Green Chicken Curry. Fabulous giveaway to start the New Year!
These foods look delicious!
These look so delicious
Amazing giveaway, these look fantastic for lunch or dinner!
This looks great especially as i’m trying to become more healthy this year.
These meals sound fantastic. A great way to eat a little bit healthier x
Would love to try
Sounds really good!
Could be a real time saver option
fabulous they look amazing
Not my cup of tea but my husband and girls would love the selection
This sounds fab
Very handy for work. No thinking about what to do for lunches, just grab a tub and go!
Great prize. We love food, we need food. Also ” Variety is the Spice of Life”.
The meals look good and nutritious, also time saving
What a lovely selection of meals! My family would love these … x
What a great giveaway! Thank you for the chance!
Lovely prize thank you
would love to try these – Love Thai too
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fingers crossed, fab giveaway x
Wonderful ! Thank you for the opportunity !
brilliant way to kick start the year
They sound delicious
Great start to 2018!!! Yummmm
Ohhh these look very good! Please count me in!
Such a wonderful prize. The meals looks so delicious.
oo I’d love to try these they sound delicious and such a great idea! we work shifts so eating healthily is sometimes hard!
Would love to try these!
nice prize
I have tried similar meals from a different firm and i must say i was surprised how nice they were. Lovely giveaway xx
These look really tasty and all done for you. Lovely
This would give my life ZEST and healthiness. Trying to be fitter and healthier this year, so I would love to win. Thanks for the chance & HAPPY NEW YEAR xxx
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Jerk chicken! Droooool! Nice to take the faff out of healthy eating. Keeps it easy enough to get you over the hump of giving up the chrimbo calories!
I like the look of the Pulled Pork. Although I wouldn’t turn my nose up at any of the other suggestions either ?
Good variety to choose from
Love to try.
All looks very yummy!
Very tasty looking dishes.
The meals looks delicious
amazing giveaway! would love to be the lucky winner. thankyou so much for the chance x
meals look nice
What a fab prize to hopefully win
Really nice to come home to some healthy and ready made cooked meals when you have had a busy day at work.
The 7-day package is an ideal way to trial this out!
I have tried Hello Fresh! and they were lovely, although I find it a bit expensive, I love the idea of it all though and we ate really healthily – thanks for the chance 0- Happy New Year
Agreed, we’ve tried Hello Fresh and we found 50% we liked 50% we didn’t. Handy things the recipe cards though, as you can source the ingredients much cheaper yourself if you like the Hello Fresh meals 😉
Just the job for jaded January
looks good lovely giveaway
The meals sound delicious.
These look interesting and might be worth a try
all of these sound very tempting!
great giveaway – thanks for the chance
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Sounds delicious would love to try
These look tasty and so convenient.
These look delicious, I’ve tried something like this before but these ones are much better x
Great competition! Fingers crossed!
what a great prize
These look delicious
fabulous prize thankyou very much
These meals look and sound delicious. I would love to try. I am such a big foody and this is such a good alternative to going out.
They all sound delicious
Looks like a great way to start the new year
ALL LOOKS GREAT
All sounds nice. Love the sound of the Jerk Chicken especially because I struggle to find a good recipe for it.
YUM ! Would love to give this a go, fingers crossed 🙂 Thanks
These look really tasty, I’d love to try them!
This looks a really good idea
I’ve never tried anything like this before
looks good
These meals look very appetising!
These meals sound delicious would love to give this a try
I could really do with these, tasty nutritious meals all ready to be heated up. Fantastic. I work full time and have a 3 year old, so when I’ve put her to bed, its hard for me to motivate myself to cook something tasty/healthy.
The slow cooker is your friend 😉 http://savvydad.co.uk/?s=slow+cooker We feel your child-related lack of time pain!
Lovely prize and very tasty sounding too xx
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I have never tried a meal delivery service. The closest I have used is graze. It was delicious, but ultimately too expensive/poor value for money.
Sounds a great way to sample different flavours but the price would need to be sensible to tempt us
These sound like lovely meals and would certainly save time cooking from scratch.
I’ve never used a meal delivery service! But these look and sound delicious so I’d love to try them
Sounds lovely 🙂
I fancy jerk chicken now.
These look really nice – thanks for the chance to win and try
Great prize
The vegetarian ones are great.
I love the convenience of these. Time is a rare commodity nowadays, so anything that lets me do the things I enjoy (instead of cooking from scratch!) is a great idea in my book. Thank you!
Great Prize! Thanx.xxx
These meals look super tasty
Those disheslook very tasty adn colourful, a nice way to bring some variety to our diet
They all sound really appealing.
I really like the sounds of this. I do really enjoy a chicken katsu curry but don’t cook them for myself at home, so I’d particularly enjoy that in the plan.
Ive been keeping my eyes peeled for something like this to recommend to my incredibly busy friend. She doesnt have much time to cook from scratch so healthy tasty meals to go would be fab