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What we love: The selection is impressive, and the recipes are reliable and flavorful. Briskin enjoyed the shrimp in her Southwestern Shrimp Tacos With Corn Slaw recipe, noting that, “often, frozen shrimp can be rubbery and flavorless, but these were juicy and sweet. There was plenty of fajita seasoning to coat every crustacean, and the tacos were fully loaded.” We also appreciated that the ingredients were organized by recipe and that the instructions were easy to follow, thanks in part to pictures on the recipe cards.
What we’d leave: In repeat testing, many Bon Appétit staff and contributors find that these meals do take a little more work and time—and produce more dirty dishes—than other kits on this list.
The best meal delivery service for babies and toddlers: LittleSpoon
About Little Spoon: Little Spoon offers snacks and nutritious meals for kids of all ages, starting with organic purées, baby cereal, and puffs for the earliest solids stage. Meals are selected with guidance from registered dietitians, pediatric nutritionists, and other feeding experts. As your littles get bigger, you can introduce new flavors and textures through healthy meals like kid-friendly smoothies (in a pouch, of course) and three-course finger-food dinners made with whole, organic ingredients. There are even premade meals for bigger kids; think Lunchables, but made with more premium organic ingredients. And yes: There are noodles, too.
Why it’s great for families: Like meal kits for adults, you can personalize your kids-only subscription to fit your family’s dietary preferences, and you can filter different meal options based on common kid allergens like tree nuts, shellfish, and gluten. Little Spoon also makes it easy to pause or skip your subscription and to adjust the quantity and frequency as needed.
What we love: If you’re tired of the constant requests for the same sandwich or processed snacks over and over again, Little Spoon is a great way to introduce new flavors and cuisines into your home in a decidedly kid-friendly way. Senior commerce writer Emily Farris tested the service, saying that “everyone in my home (including me) really loved every element of the Sunny-Butter Chicken, a limited-time collaboration with Brooklyn Delhi—especially after I put the veggie turmeric poppers in the air fryer to crisp them up.”
What we’d leave: Packaged snacks aside, this meal service is really best for babies and toddlers, because the simpler preparations are what Little Spoon does best. We felt that some of the big-kid entrées are trying to do too much, and there’s a chance older, pickier kids will find at least one thing on the plate to hate.
How we tested the best meal delivery services for families
We test and retest meal kits on an ongoing process, relying on our methodical Bon Appétit editors and writers to cook them in real life situations at home, on weeknights, and for their partners and children when possible.
Our reviewers subscribed or were sent meal kits for two to four weeks, and in some cases we tested the same kit multiple times over the course of a few years as menus and services changed or developed. We not only review and judge the cooking and food itself, but also the ordering and delivery process, the packaging and ingredient quality, diversity of menu options, and the reliability of the recipes (including their promised start-to-finish times!).
Using all of that information, we selected the best available options to cater to specific household needs: bigger families, little kids, organic meals, lots of vegan and vegetarian options, and flexibility for home cook involvement (i.e. little to no prep). Like all our meal kit tests, this list of the best meal kits for families is regularly updated based on feedback from our ongoing testing.
