Home delivered meal programs....

I really like Blue Apron. Not sure it will really do what you want, but it's great for us.

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or the patience to go to a Eastern Siberian grocery store to find Finely ground root of the Siberian sycamore tree or some other obscure ingredient.

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Neither do I. It really isn't that hard. As mentioned, stay in the produce, meat, dairy areas. Stay the hell away from the center, processed, boxed crap that is magically closer to you. We'd probably solve 95% of our problems in obesity doing just that simple thing. All of us here agree on center isles being terrible.

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Most people like to lay out their meals per day in containers

But I just cook a frick ton of ground beef and chicken ever few days. Three cups of rice for the week, peppers and onions for the week. Let’s me mix and match each day and pick what ever frozen vegetables I throw in the wok on the spot or just spiral my zucchini.

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Green Chef

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I tried this one because a friend added me at a discount. The food is OK, but I just find the whole thing distasteful. For one, everything is over-packed. You get a cardboard box that has ice packs inside. And every single ingredient is wrapped separately. One of the salads had some black olives in the recipe, so literally 4 olives were in their own separate packaging. I just thought that was obscene and not at all how I wanted to live.

I did appreciate the fact that they had a "keto" plan.

I agree with the rest on here that it's just not that hard to cook without all this complication. My meals consist of a meat and a veggie (sometimes). Nothing could be easier to prepare. You don't need all these complicated recipes.

Have used Blue Apron and Home Chef. Home Chef is very basic and seemed to repeat often when I was using it. I prefer Blue Apron as it seems to have a better variety of ingredients. Blue Apron isn't really carb friendly though. That said, they are starting to have low carb options each week.

I tried a couple of these programs and quickly canceled.

First off they sit a heavy cardboard box outside your doorstep. In 90 degree LA heat the packaging ice half melted and a lot of times the food was old/moldy.

Then you open the box and find a myriad of ingrediants randomly tossed in there not sure which ingrediant goes with which meal. So then you have to use your phone and pull up your order to remember the meals.

It was too much hassle, I'd rather spend 20 minutes at the grocery store each week, getting enough food that lasts just as long for a fraction of the price. If you don't like shopping then use Walmart's delivery service.

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Then you open the box and find a myriad of ingrediants randomly tossed in there not sure which ingrediant goes with which meal. So then you have to use your phone and pull up your order to remember the meals.

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I have used several meal services and none of them were like that. Everything comes labeled with directions.

I will subscribe once or twice a year for something different. Currently I'm using Green Chef keto, and it's good. Sun Basket had the best meals but their summer packaging sucked. Blue Apron was good but not particularly diet friendly, and I had delivery issues. I used Hello Fresh years ago and had problems with the quality of their produce.