That said, Martha and Marley Spoon is a great option for people who want a meal kit that still allows them to cook, as opposed to one that does all of the cooking done for them. These recipes aren’t a pour-and-stir situation, instead they actually require a good amount of attention. In many cases, you’ll need to have your own butter, garlic, and red wine vinegar to make the meals. These recipes take a little more time and effort, and they also require you to have some of your own pantry ingredients on deck. I liked that all of the dishes came with pre-portioned ingredients and pre-made spice blends, but I should note that there’s still a lot of prepping you’ll have to do-whether that’s chopping zucchini, snipping herbs, cutting chicken breast into 1-inch cubes, or making a tomatoey caramelized onion sauce from scratch. I was also a fan of the pastrami-spiced burger with homemade thousand island.

I enjoyed the red chili beef enchiladas, where all of the flavors from the tomatoes, bell peppers, and chorizo chili spice melded together deliciously. With more than 100 dishes to choose from every week, they have one of the biggest menus I’ve seen from a traditional meal kit service. This meal kit collaboration between the American lifestyle icon and the popular Berlin-based meal company offers a plethora of classic, family-friendly meals. Meet Martha and Marley Spoon, a.k.a the easiest way to get Martha Stewart’s most beloved recipes onto your dinner table. Perhaps it did.) They also have snack, dessert, and breakfast options like maple brown sugar oatmeal bites from GoOats, a product I will be buying again because who doesn’t want to eat oatmeal that tastes like donut holes? While none of the meals blew me away in terms of flavor and the packaging was a bit gratuitous, if you’re looking for family-friendly meals to feed picky eaters, you will find a lot to appreciate here. (But did the challenge of making do without make me a better home chef? Perhaps it did, reader. For those with more time to spare, the “Culinary Collection” offers some more advanced recipes, like blackened mahi-mahi with lemon dill cream, sautéed asparagus, and Parmesan potato pressé-a dish that turned out to be a bit too advanced for yours truly because I don’t own a muffin tin. I am not a mom to anyone besides two cats who eat out of cans, but if I were a parent to human children, I imagine these options would feel like blessings. There are the more traditional pre-portioned 30-minute meal kits, prepped 15-minute meal kits, and the Fast & Fresh option: a fully prepared meal you just have to stick in the oven or microwave. There are oven-ready meals that come with their own tin and grill-ready meals that arrive in a foil bag.

Home Chef has a nice variety of meals, and if you’ve got dietary restrictions, the customization opportunities here are many.

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