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13 Allergy-Friendly Meal Delivery Services

By Susie Hultquist

Photo: Spokin

Everyone’s getting dinner on their doorstep these days. We’ve found the 13 most allergy-friendly meal delivery services. To make our list, these companies either have facilities dedicated free of at least one of the top 8 allergens or offer free-from options and have good allergen practices.

DEDICATED FACILITIES (allergens vary)

1. Nurture Life
Nurture Life provides freshly made, nutritionally balanced meals for babies, toddlers, and kids. Co-founded by Jennifer Chow—who not only has food allergies but is a food allergy mom herself. All meals are created in-house in a facility dedicated free from the allergies she and her son share—peanuts, tree nuts (except coconut), and shellfish.

2. Freshly
Freshly is a weekly meal service that delivers all-natural, fully prepared meals made in a gluten and peanut-free facility to prevent cross-contamination. While shopping for meals you can filter your options by allergen—so you only see meals that match your allergens.

  • Dedicated Free From: Gluten and Peanut

  • Other Free From Options: Milk, Egg, Tree Nut, Fish, Shellfish and Soy

  • Shipment: Continental U.S.

  • Freshly Allergen FAQ

3. Veestro

At Veestro, build a box of 100% plant-based, meatless, preservative-free and organic meals and feed your busy family in a flash! All meals are milk, meat, egg, fish, and honey-free.

  • Dedicated Free From: Milk and Egg

  • Other Free From Options: Gluten, Soy, Peanut, Tree Nut, Fish, Meat, and Honey

  • Shipment: Nationwide

  • Veestro Allergen FAQ

4. The Good Kitchen

The Good Kitchen makes healthy, pre-prepared meals—in a facility free from gluten, peanut, and soy. You’ll have a healthy and safe meal ready in minutes.

5. Thistle

Thistle creates plant-based meals with a focus on plant-based ingredients. All meals are free of milk, egg, and gluten. Customize a plan for your needs and leave the cooking—and the dishes—in their chefs’ capable hands.

  • Dedicated Free From: Milk, Egg and Gluten

  • Other Free From Options: Soy, Tree Nut, Peanut, Fish, Shellfish, Beef and Pork

  • Shipment:  Delivery to the San Francisco Bay Area and the Greater LA Area and shipping to all of CA and parts of NV

  • Thistle Allergen FAQ

6. Sprinly

Sprinly offers organic, plant-based and meat-free meals. In-house chefs and nutritionists create pre-prepared organic gluten, egg, and milk-free meals designed to jump-start a healthy lifest‌yle on a busy schedule.

  • Dedicated Free From: Gluten, Egg, Milk

  • Other Free From Options: Soy, Peanut, Tree Nut, and Oil

  • Shipment: Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, Nashville, Buffalo and the Greater Chicago Area

  • Sprinly Allergen FAQ

NON-DEDICATED FACILITIES (allergens vary)

7. Splendid Spoon

Splendid Spoon smoothies and soups are low in sugar and full of vegetables so that your next meal can be one you feel good about. All meals are free of gluten, soy, milk, and egg.

8.  Yumble

A recent Shark Tank success story, Yumble’s mission is to provide healthy, pre-prepared meals your kids will actually want to eat. With all meals free from peanuts and tree nuts and several soy, milk, egg, and gluten-free options, Yumble is here to make your life go swimmingly.

  • Dedicated Free From: None
     
  • ​​​​​​​Free From Options: Peanut, Tree Nut, Soy, Egg, Milk and Gluten

  • Shipment: Most Zip Codes East of the Mississippi

  • Yumble Allergen FAQ

9. One Potato

One Potato provides easy to follow recipes with gluten-free and nut-free ingredient options for Instagram-worthy meals in 30 minutes or less. We love that there are options for adult and child-sized portions.

  • Dedicated Free From: None
     
  • ​​​​​​​Free From Options: Gluten, Peanut, and Tree Nut

  • Shipment: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Utah

  • One Potato Allergen FAQ
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10. Kitchfix

Every Kitchkix meal is designed by a chef and approved by a nutritionist—a match made in heaven. All foods are non-GMO and free of gluten, milk, corn, soy, peanut, refined sugars and artificial preservatives.

  • Dedicated Free From: None
     
  • ​​​​​​​Free From Options: Peanut, Soy, Gluten, Milk and Corn

  • Shipment: Chicago and the surrounding neighborhoods

  • Kitchfix Allergen FAQ

11. Hungryroot

At Hungryroot, it is possible to choose a meal plan to make your meal 100% gluten-free, milk-free and egg-free. Choose from individual, couple, and family packages that can be customized to your food allergy or taste.

  • Dedicated Free From: None
     
  • ​​​​​​​Free From Options: Milk, Egg, Gluten, Peanut, Tree Nut and Soy

  • Shipment: Nationwide

  • Hungryroot Allergen FAQ

12. Daily Harvest

At Daily Harvest, choose from ready-to-blend smoothies, heatable soups, meal bowls, cookies and lattes that all exclude milk, egg and gluten and have many soy-free options. The only work on your end is to add liquid and blend or reheat.

13. Hello Fresh

Hello Fresh provides easy-to-make recipes with pre-measured farm-fresh ingredients. There are free-from meal options for all of the top 8 allergens—music to our ears.

  • Dedicated Free From: None
     
  • ​​​​​​​Free From Options: Gluten, Milk, Peanut, Tree Nut, Egg, Fish, Shellfish

  • Shipment: Continental U.S.

  • Hello Fresh Allergen FAQ

This post originally appeared on Spokin.

Spokin is a modern platform and app connecting people managing food allergies to resources including food, restaurants, hotels and more. Users have personalized experiences based on allergies & location. With 55,000+ reviews across 79 countries, Spokin helps the allergy community share and connect. The Spokin iOS app is free on iTunes.

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Real Meals for Babies and Tots: Try a Taste of lil’gourmets

by Whitney C. Harris
Partner Content

Introducing food is one of the most exciting milestones in your child’s first year of life. But have you ever actually tasted store-bought baby food? Go ahead. Give it a try. Jar or pouch not tasting so fresh and healthy? After discovering that most baby food available today is highly processed and either overly sweet or too bland, Chicago mom of two Shibani Baluja started making her own food full of hearty, nutritious veggies, and light on fruits. Read on for the scoop on Shibani’s company, lil’gourmets and why it’s a win-win for both kids and busy parents.

Special offer: Try lil’gourmets for just $3 a meal by using code REDTRI3 with the purchase of two or more boxes. And to learn more visit lilgourmets.com.

The Scoop

After consulting with pediatricians, chefs and nutritionists, Shibani launched lil’gourmets to make her fresh and delicious meals conveniently available to parents of babies and toddlers. Instead of using mostly apples and bananas to cover up the taste of vegetables, Shibani opted to rely on spices to enhance the flavors of those vegetables. The result was spoonfuls of bold and earthy veggie goodness, naturally low in sugar but big on taste.

Why You’ll Both Love the Meals
The meals are all 70-95% vegetables and beans and come in four flavorful varieties:

  • Organic Sweet Potato Curry: Made with 100% organic sweet potatoes, coconut milk, spinach, a squeeze of lemon and lime juice, and a blend of  spices
  • Organic Moroccan Butternut Squash: Made with 100% organic butternut squash, carrots, chickpeas, a squeeze of tamarind and lemon, and a blend of spices
  • Organic Coconut Cauliflower Mash: Made with 100% organic cauliflower, carrots, peas, coconut milk, a squeeze of tamarind and lime, and a blend of spices
  • Organic Cinnamon Beets & Apples: Made with 100% organic beets, a bit of apple, a squeeze of lemon, and a hint of cinnamon and ginger

These chef-inspired flavors can help develop a young child’s curiosity and palate, while the minimal processing allows your baby to absorb the essential nutrients in the veggies to boost growing brains and bodies. Each 3.5 oz lil’gourmets cup exposes your little one to new tastes, textures, colors, and aromas, and can be served directly from the fridge or placed in a bowl of warm water for a few minutes.

A single serving packs enough nutritional punch to stand as a meal for baby, or to offer as a side dish for a hungry toddler or preschooler. Try Cinnamon Beets & Apples on the side of beef or substitute for an applesauce snack; let your toddler dip their grilled chicken in Sweet Potato Curry or Moroccan Butternut Squash; or pair Coconut Cauliflower Mash with a fish or grain, like quinoa or pita bread, or even sprinkle with ground cashews for a nutty flavor. Talk to your baby and let your child see how you think about, prepare, and enjoy food and family mealtime will take on a whole new dimension.

 

Benefits Beyond a Delicious and Healthy Meal
The lil’gourmets servings are all packaged in clear cups so your baby will get lots of spoon-feeding and fine motor skills practice, plus plenty of chances to recognize satiety cues and relish parent/caretaker bonding. And, all that time you spend together with your baby in a highchair sharing a meal? Setting a positive relationship with food by providing healthy and hearty meals will help your kiddo blossom into a healthy and happy eater.

It's Convenient

The lil’gourmets model couldn’t be easier. The meals—ala-carte or subscription—are delivered refrigerated to your door, saving you time and energy to do all the other things you love doing. Just order a box of the organic veggie meals, store them in your fridge and your little one will enjoy fresh and flavorful foods every day. What’s more, lil’gourmets meals are made with only organic ingredients, just 3-5 grams of sugar per serving, and everything is non-GMO, vegan, preservative-free, and gluten-free. So you also save yourself any worry over what you're putting in your baby’s bowl.

Want to give it a taste? Try lil’gourmets for just $3 a meal by using code REDTRI3 at lilgourmets.com with the purchase of two or more boxes. And to learn more or see the list of local grocers they are sold at, visit lilgourmets.com.

—Whitney Harris

 

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5 Reasons to Shop Thrive Market This Fall

by Tinybeans Team
Partner Content

The lunchboxes they’re using this year put a brown bag to shame. Make sure you fill it with the foods your crew will love by shopping at Thrive Market. Here are five reasons parents are choosing Thrive Market for all their back-to-school (and beyond) shopping needs.

Convenience. Online grocery shopping makes the whole process stress-free. Thrive Market offers free shipping on orders over $49 and will include a free item, like a new granola bar to try or almond butter. Perk: your order will ship in two days or less.

Brands. Find products and foods from your favorite brands like Happy Baby, Late July, Banza, Annie’s, Lotus Foods, Rao’s, Seventh Generation, Honest Kids and more. Or, shop the highly-rated Thrive Market Goods brand for pantry staples like olive oil, almond flour and apple cider vinegar.

Shop by Value or Diet. Thrive Market allows you to sort its 6,000+ products by 12 diets (Keto, Paleo, AIP), 35 ingredients, and 29 environmental or social values (Non-GMO, Preservative-Free, Grass Fed and Plant-Based). Perk: Thrive Market offers pre-selected boxes based on your diet or its value, which means you don’t have to think about what to buy.

Thrive Market does good. Try it free for 30 days. After your free trial, the $60 annual membership will provide a free membership to a low-income family, student, teacher, veteran or first responder so they can also access Thrive Market’s quality goods.

Discounted prices. See below for some popular products (and discounts!), including Dr. Bronner’s, Mrs. Meyers and Annie’s. If you don’t save at least $60, Thrive Market will give you the difference in credit after you renew your membership.

 

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