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How to find Meal Delivery Services for Seniors
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A good solution for this problem is to use a meal delivery service that caters to seniors. These services have a large menu to choose from and often accommodate special dietary restrictions, such as low sugar, low carb or gluten free foods. Most of the meal delivery services work on a subscription basis, where you sign up for a certain number of meals per week, which are usually delivered all together once a week to your door. The meals are all designed to stay in your refrigerator or freezer and be heated up in a microwave or regular oven.
Listed below are five of the highest rated regular meal delivery services, plus restaurant-to-home delivery services and free meal delivery services.
A good solution for this problem is to use a meal delivery service that caters to seniors. These services have a large menu to choose from and often accommodate special dietary restrictions, such as low sugar, low carb or gluten free foods. Most of the meal delivery services work on a subscription basis, where you sign up for a certain number of meals per week, which are usually delivered all together once a week to your door. The meals are all designed to stay in your refrigerator or freezer and be heated up in a microwave or regular oven.
Listed below are five of the highest rated regular meal delivery services, plus restaurant-to-home delivery services and free meal delivery services.
Mom’s Meals
Mom’s Meals are packaged and delivered refrigerated — not frozen — making them easier to prepare. The meals and packaging are designed to last up to 2 weeks in your refrigerator. Their dietitian-designed meals are suitable for older adults with medical conditions like diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Mom’s Meals works with many Medicare Advantage plans that may cover all or part of the cost of Mom’s Meals under a “home-delivered meals” benefit.
Number of meals per week: Flexible
Cost: starts at $6.99 per meal, with diet restricted meals starting at $7.99 per meal
Real Eats
Real Eats differs from most other services, as they package and deliver their meals in boilable vacuum-packed bags. The meals then can be heated up either in boiling water or in a microwave. Breakfast and dinner meals are available with optional soups, sides and snacks.
Number of meals per week: 4, 6, 8, or 12 dinners; or 4, 6, 8, or 12 breakfasts plus dinners
Cost: $7.99–13.99 per meal
Magic Kitchen
Magic Kitchen offers two separate menus – A La Carte and Complete Meals. The A La Carte menu allows you to choose exactly which dishes you want in your meals. They package and deliver their food frozen, with most dishes being microwavable. They have available dietician supervised meals that are low sodium, low carb, diabetes- and renal-friendly.
Number of meals per week: 7, 14, or 21
Cost: $11.70–14.00 per meal
Freshly
All Freshly meals are certified gluten-free and they also offer low carb, dairy-free and peanut-free menus. Their meals last about five days in the refrigerator and can also be frozen. You can select a delivery date and time that works for you and they offer menu of over 30 meals.
Number of meals per week: 4, 6, 10, or 12
Cost: start at $8.49 per meal
Snap Kitchen
Snap Kitchen differs from most of the other services as they offer a variety of breakfast, lunch, and dinner options. Their meals can be refrigerated for 4–6 days or frozen and then stored for future use, they are reheated in a microwave or oven. All Snap Kitchen meals are gluten-free, plus they have available low carb and high protein meal plans. They will deliver on a day that is convenient for you.
Number of meals per week: 6 or 12
Cost: the 6-meal plan starts at $11.67 per meal, and the 12-meal plan starts at $9.58 per meal
Restaurant-to-Home Delivery Services
When you’re in the mood for some of your local restaurants’ cuisine, but want to dine in your home, then you can use one of the following meal delivery services that will bring “the restaurant to your home”.
– GrubHub: they deliver from over 300,000 restaurants across 4,000 cities in the U.S. Their mobile app and website are both user friendly and very informative. GrubHub’s app lets you track your order online. A very nice feature is their subscription service, where for $9.99 per month you get deliveries on all your orders with no delivery fee.
– DoorDash: their special feature is a recommendation engine, which suggests restaurants near you that you may like. The more you use this feature, the more accurate the recommendations become. This is great for seniors who want to try something new in their area. In addition, DoorDash has a helpful and informative consumer rating system of the restaurants.
Free Food Delivery Services
Most of the meal delivery services are too expensive for seniors on a tight budget or limited income. Many of these seniors still need this type of service because of physical or mental challenges. To help these seniors, there are two organizations that provide free meal delivery to qualifying seniors:
– Meals On Wheels America: this well known and established organization runs over 5,000 local programs, which provide daily healthy meals either for free or at a subsidized price.
– Mom’s Meals: this for profit company also provides free meals to seniors who qualify for government-funded nutrition programs or are covered by Medicaid, on a nationwide basis.
