![]() ![]() Anyway, I made it for lunch one day and gulped it down like water. Even if they did, tell me one person who’d unabashedly whip a blender out and disturb their coworkers just to make a smoothie. I would eat this every day if I could, but (and here’s one of the main issues I had with Daily Harvest) “communal” blenders don’t exist at most offices. In total, I tested Daily Harvest over a three-week period and tried a cup from each of its categories-smoothies, bowls, lattes, bites, and soups. I opted for nine cups (the lowest number) on a weekly basis, because small Brooklyn apartments come with small Brooklyn freezers. So how good is the actual food? (My Daily Harvest meals review) That’s because you add whatever kind of liquid you like to the cups (oat milk was my preference, but you can add whole milk, water, hemp milk, etc.), and because of the customization, the brand likes to call its recipes “plant-based and vegan-friendly.” Everything comes free of gluten, dairy, fillers, preservatives, refined sugars, and artificial anything-but what you do with it after that is up to you. Daily Harvest isn’t exactly a vegan meal delivery service-even though its recipes are built on fruits and vegetables. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Anything organic is marked on the back of the cups. The brightly colored smoothies looked like candy masquerading as protein shakes, and since moving to the East Coast from Los Angeles, finding ripe, nonbruised fruit has been hard to come by. Like a good millennial, I was drawn to Daily Harvest because of its branding. Everything comes portioned, and all you have to do is throw the food in a microwave, pan, or blender before eating. Daily Harvest sends bowls and ready-to-blend smoothies in frozen cups. So I decided to try a meal-kit service with the hope that I would improve my habits and make sure that I am, in fact, eating protein and not subsisting on a permanent caffeine or sugar high. Still, a healthy meal or snack here and there doesn’t make up for my lack of eating whole foods on the regular. I’m basically a raccoon: often eating garbage, but sometimes that garbage is raw vegetables. Yet when I do peel my hands away from the nearest chip bag and eat “adult” food, I opt for generally healthy options. Suffice it to say I am not the picture of health. On top of this, Daily Harvest has doubled its inventory to make sure there's no interruption in its deliveries amid the coronavirus-and I can honestly say I haven't noticed a delay. The brand is doing a lot to help with COVID-19 relief efforts, from sending meals to health care professionals to partnering with Neil Patrick Harris to donate 400,000 meals to City Harvest. Daily Harvest is sending food to health care professionals on the front lines. It doesn’t feel like you’re eating a flimsy appetizer because the flatbread is hearty in a filling but not food-coma way. There are three options: kale and coriander (my favorite-the kale gets crispy in the oven), tomato and cremini mushrooms (smoky and delicious), and artichoke and spinach (I’m not big on artichokes, but I ate the hell out of this). I was lucky enough to test out the flatbreads early and I ate them for lunch every day for an entire week and never got bored. Today, Daily Harvest launched flatbreads (which is DH speak for pizza-really, really good pizza). It just launched game-changing flatbread. The rollout will start with harvest bowls, soups, oat bowls, and chia bowls, and will continue across other packages. The new packaging will no longer have plastic lids(!!), and the company has gone so far as to create its own materials to satisfy its dedication to using the most sustainable options as possible. This month Daily Harvest will be switching over to 100% home- and commercially compostable and recyclable packaging. Well, it seems the brand was listening, because it has completely changed its packaging as part of a new green initiative. One of the gripes I had with the service was that the packaging felt somewhat wasteful. Daily Harvest is more eco-friendly than ever. With that, here are three updates to my Daily Harvest review. ![]() But the coronavirus has changed everything, and with social-distancing measures in full force, a meal kit is one of the few ways people can safely receive food without exposing themselves or others to illness. When I last wrote about Daily Harvest, healthy food delivery services felt like a luxury to me. ![]()
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