Snap Kitchen Review

Snap Kitchen is a Texas-based meal delivery service that aims to make healthy eating effortless for busy individuals who have no time to cook. Since 2009, it has been providing professionally cooked comfort food, reimagined to provide all the nutrients you need without adding extra inches to your waistline.

Its menu is rich, its meal plans suit a variety of dietary preferences and lifestyles, and ordering is perfectly easy and flexible. On the downside, the service’s delivery map is surprisingly small. However, if you life in the great state of Texas and want to eat healthy, it’s a perfect choice. Keep reading this Snap Kitchen review to discover whether it delivers to your area and whether it is the right choice for you.

How Snap Kitchen Works

With Snap Kitchen, you get healthy meals and extras of your choice freshly prepared for you, portioned in accordance with your needs, and delivered to your doorstep or prepared for pickup in one of the company’s retail stores. You can choose from about 40 breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and meal components.

Depending on your dietary needs, you can choose one of the 9 meal plans in the company’s offer. The meal plans available include Quick Start, Vegetarian, High Protein, Low Carb, Balance, Whole 30, Paleo, and Keto-Friendly plans, as well as the custom Build Your Own plan that you can fully adjust to your needs.

If you choose to subscribe, you start by picking your desired meal plan and deciding whether you want to get 6 or 12 meals a week. You choose the dayparts as well, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner. you can further order pre-cooked meal components that you can combine into your own custom meals. The selection of items in your order is completely up to you, although the service can pre-select the items for you if that works better for you.

You can add or remove meals and modify your plan any way you wish to suit your goals. Your calorie and macro intake is automatically calculated, so can adjust your order until it is just right for you.

At all times, you are free to make changes to your plan and menu, skip a week or cancel your subscription, straight through your Snap Kitchen account. However, if you want the changes to apply to your next shipment, be sure to make the desired modifications 2 days before your weekly start date.

What Makes Snap Kitchen Different

There are 2 aspects of Snap Kitchen that make this service stand out from the crowd. The first is the range of customization options available and the second is the diversity of its menu.

As shown in the previous section of this Snap Kitchen review, you do not only get to choose whether you want to order with or without a subscription but you decide on everything in both scenarios. You can choose how often you get the food, you can set the desired daily calorie count, you can decide how many Snap Kitchen meals you want to enjoy per week, you can handpick the meals and extras yourself, and you can modify your orders, skip weeks, and start or cancel your subscription whenever you want. Every aspect of your experience is up to you, which is not the case with many meal delivery services currently available.

When it comes to the menu, it is pretty rich and diverse. There are meals for every part of the day, as well as meal components, which you can use to craft unique meals that are perfect for your body. Not only that, but you can choose from keto, Whole 30, and Paleo meals, vegetarian dishes, high-protein and low-carb dishes, and many more options for meat, seafood, and veggie lovers. Thus, a wide spectrum of healthy diets is covered, with something for virtually everyone.

In short, Snap Kitchen has gone the extra mile to ensure a perfectly enjoyable ordering and dining experience and it has done a great job designing a menu that can satisfy your needs throughout the day.

Meals And Recipes

In the previous sections of this Snap Kitchen review, we mentioned that the menu is quite impressive and includes around 40 items at all times. There are more than half a dozen breakfasts, 2 dozen lunches and dinners, and just about half a dozen meal components including chef-prepared proteins, carbs, and veg. Members enjoy 1:1 chats with our Registered Dietician, regular freebies, and special events and chef tastings.

The meals may be inspired by comfort food favorites, but they are made of healthier ingredients that can help you get or stay slim and fit. Thus, you can expect to enjoy your chicken tenders with turnip mash instead of potatoes and have almond butter and jam oatmeal for breakfast instead of a pb&j sandwich.

We have to admit that we were a bit worried that the changes in ingredients would result in unfavorable changes in flavor, but we were happy to be wrong. The meals are surprisingly tasty and they are perfectly fresh, which is a big plus in our book.

As far as the portions go, there are 3 options available, designed with different calorie goals in mind. The small portions range from 200 to 300 calories, the medium portions contain 300 to 400 calories while the large meals range from about 400 to 500 calories. The macro ratio depends on the meal plan you choose, that is, the diet you follow and the meals you pick.

After you’ve selected your plan (12 or 6 meals per week), it’s time to look at the meals. They’re conveniently divided into several categories. However, before we get to that part of our Snap Kitchen review, we must tell you all about their handy filters. There are six different selections you can make:

1. Calories
2. Carbs
3. Protein Amount
4. Sodium
5. Exclude Food That Contains:

• Egg
• Fish
• Gluten
• Milk
• Peanuts
• Pork
• Sesame
• Shellfish
• Soy
• Tree Nuts

6. Other (in stock)

As you can see, if you’re allergic to any of these items, you can quickly discard meals that contain them. And you can do all of this with a simple click of a button. Moving on, it’s time to look at the Snap Kitchen’s selection of meals:

• All Meals – Sample meal: Country Breakfast Bowl (460 cal)
• New Meals – Sample meal: Texas Brisket Fried Rice with Chili Crunch (520 cal)
• Breakfast – Sample meal: Cheesy Tex-Mex Migas with Salsa Roja (450 cal)
• Lunch & Dinner – Sample meal: Buffalo Chicken Bowl with Homemade Ranch (450 cal)
• Favorites – Sample meal: Steak Street Tacos and Spanish Rice Pilaf with Salsa Verde (500 cal)
• Sides & Proteins – Sample meal: Hill Country Chicken Salad with Cranberries and Pecans (330 cal)
• High Protein – Sample meal: Cajun Chicken with Dirty Rice and Remoulade Sauce (550 cal)
• Keto – Sample meal: Chicken Piccata with Garlic Roasted Cauliflower (420 cal)
• Low Carb – Sample meal: Chicken Burrito Bowl with Avocado Salsa (370 cal)
• Paleo – Sample meal: Stir-fry Chicken with Broccoli with Garlic Sauce

Heating And Storage Tips

Snap Kitchen meals are prepared and delivered fresh, never frozen. Since they contain no preservatives, they can last for 4 to 6 days in your fridge. The only exceptions to this rule are salad items, which you should enjoy within 2 days. You should avoid freezing your meals unless you have more food than you can eat in 6 days. We recommend keeping prepared meals in your freezer for up to 1 month.

The meals can be enjoyed straight from the container. Some items taste great cold, while others are at their best when hot. The latter come with detailed heating instructions. You can heat your meals in a microwave set on high or an oven preheated to 350℉. Heating times vary depending on the item, but usually, the meals can be microwaved in less than 3 minutes. Keep in mind that when heating in a microwave, the lid should be loosened, while it should be removed when heating in an oven.

Pricing

We’ve finally reached a very important element of this Snap Kitchen review and that’s: how much does all of this goodness costs? Well, you have two options to choose from:

• Option 1 (you get 18% off) – 12 meals a week – $11.34 per meal = $136.08 per week
• Option 2 (no discount) – 6 meals a week – $13.84 per meal = $83.04 per week

You should also know that the shipping is free.

Delivery Areas

Unfortunately, Snap Kitchen has a limited delivery area. At the moment, it delivers to most parts of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Texas, and Oklahoma, as well as certain areas in New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, and New Mexico.

The service has major expansion plans and we expect its delivery area to grow at a rapid rate. To check whether it delivers to your area, you can enter your zip code on the official Snap Kitchen website.

If you are interested in picking up the food yourself, you can choose from 30+ retail locations in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Philadelphia. Depending on your preferences, you can opt for in-store or curbside pickup.

Snap Kitchen Pros And Cons

To make sure Snap Kitchen meets all your standards and expectations, it is important to know its biggest advantages and disadvantages. With a short overview of its pros and cons, you can easily decide if Snap Kitchen is the right meal delivery service for you.

Sample Dishes

With Snap Kitchen, you get delicious meals prepared by pro chefs at affordable prices. To find out what kinds of delights you will receive in your delivery, we have chosen a couple of sample dishes that accurately represents its offer and can help you decide if it is the right service for you.