The Big Easy is without a doubt one of the best food cities in the world. From po’ boys and jambalaya to beignets and chicory coffee, there’s a delicious dish for everyone to enjoy. Just because you live in a hotspot for Creole and Cajun cuisine, however, doesn’t mean you can’t benefit from a meal delivery service.
Services like HelloFresh and Blue Apron make it easy to prepare your own meals at home. Instead of stressing about meal planning and grocery shopping, the best meal delivery services let you simply pick out a selection of diverse dishes from a weekly-changing menu. All the portioning, prep, and dietary concerns are taken care of, meaning all you have to do is cook and enjoy.
Home Chef – Customizable Dinners for New Orleanians
Blue Apron – Jazz Up Your Meals with Diverse Dishes in New Orleans
HelloFresh – Easy Dinners in the Big Easy
Meal delivery services like HelloFresh and Veestro ship refrigerated ingredients and, in some cases, premade meals to your door. With meal kits, you can follow the provided recipes to prepare your own easy, delicious dinners. Prepared meals can simply be heated and eaten in a matter of minutes.
Food delivery services, on the other hand, are slightly different. Grubhub, Postmates, and other similar services provide delivery from any local restaurant for a small fee. Meals are chef-prepared and delivered to you hot, fresh, and ready to enjoy.
Nearly every dish can be customized with delicious proteins
Entrée Salads, Oven-Ready Meal Kits, and other ways to save time in the kitchen
Affordable daily dinners with prices as low as $6.99/serving
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Our favorite thing about Home Chef is how customizable the whole experience is. Nearly every dish offered by this top-tier meal delivery service can be customized with different proteins, such as adding an extra portion or substituting chicken for steak. Home Chef also lets you select meals to suit how much time you want to spend cooking.
My colleague goes into more detail about just how easy these kits are in her expert Home Chef review.
Meals from the Culinary Collection, like the Truffle Mushroom Chicken featured above, allow you to flex your skills in the kitchen. For nights when you’d rather be at Preservation Hall listening to some old-fashioned New Orleans jazz, however, Home Chef offers quick and easy dinners too.
15-Minute Meal Kits function just as advertised, minimizing your time in the kitchen. Oven-Ready Meal Kits take convenience a step further, allowing you to simply toss all the ingredients in the included pan and stick it in the oven.
Multiple menu options ensure there’s something for everyone
Sheet Pan recipes offer trendy dishes with easy cleanup
Special Deal: $130 off across your first 6 boxes!
Blue Apron is one of the best-known meal delivery services in the United States thanks in large part to its diverse collection of dishes inspired by cuisines from around the world. The company offers familiar, New Orleans-inspired dishes like Cajun Chicken & Rice alongside more adventurous meals.
Our dedicated Blue Apron review goes more in-depth about delicious offerings like the vegetarian, One-Pan Udon Noodle Stir Fry pictured above.
Besides an ever-expanding selection of delicious meal kits to make at home, a personalized wine delivery service helps set Blue Apron apart from the crowd. For an average of just $10/bottle, you can enjoy six personalized wines every month to pair with your home-prepared Blue Apron dishes.
Expansive menu includes gourmet offerings, takeout favorites, “Taste Tours,” and more
Up to four meals a week for four-person households
The company is committed to sustainability and recyclability in its packaging
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The great thing about weekly meal delivery services is how frequently the menu changes. For most services, including HelloFresh, you’ll have a new extensive menu to choose from every single week.
There’s plenty of room to enjoy Louisiana-inspired classics like the Cajun Blackened Tilapia (pictured above) as well as unique dishes you may have never tried before, like HelloFresh’s famous Firecracker Meatballs. Our dedicated HelloFresh review goes into greater detail on this service’s offerings.
As one of the largest meal delivery services around, you can rest assured that HelloFresh is great value, with recipes to suit every palate, including vegetarian, family-friendly, and calorie smart.
Caters to nearly any diet you can think of
Its market section functions as an online organic grocery
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Life in the Big Easy is the envy of many, but the amazing food options are not without their drawbacks. Too many beignets from Cafe Du Monde or a taste for fried shrimp po’ boys may begin to affect your health. Luckily, meal delivery services like Sunbasket make it easier than ever to incorporate healthy ingredients into your lifestyle.
Sunbasket is an organic meal delivery service providing meals that cater to just about any diet you can think of. From paleo to vegan to the Mediterranean diet (our in-depth dedicated review discusses these offerings further), Sunbasket has meal kits and prepared meals to help you eat clean and live better.
The One-pot chicken and Spanish rice dish pictured above is just one example of Sunbasket’s healthier approach to food. With just 440 calories per serving, you can choose regular chicken thighs, organic chicken thighs, or organic chicken breasts as the main protein of this meal kit.
High protein, low-carb meals to suit active lifestyles
Delivery sizes range from 4 to 12 meals per week
Meals are ready within three minutes in the microwave
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Freshly is a prepared meal delivery service with the mission of providing meals that are high in protein and nutrients but low in sugar and processed ingredients. My colleague’s Freshly review goes into more depth about this culinary mission.
All of Freshly’s dishes are individually portioned, ready for you to heat and eat in mere minutes. This makes it the perfect choice for people with active lifestyles who need clean, high-protein dishes but don’t always have the time to cook for themselves.
Get in touch with New Orleans’s French culinary roots with delectable dishes like the Dijon Pork Chop (seen above), which is loaded with 27g of protein. And, like all of Freshly’s offerings, it’s soy- and gluten-free.
All ingredients are certified organic
Signature sauces and spice blends make it easy to add wonderful flavor
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Green Chef is a certified organic meal delivery service specializing in three overarching dietary plans. Rather than strictly adhering to any specific diet, Green Chef lets you choose between a low-carb plan (including both keto and paleo dishes) and a plant-based plan (including both vegan and vegetarian dishes). Our dedicated Green Chef review discusses these plans in greater detail.
Cajun crab cakes are one of my favorite dishes, but you owe it to yourself to try Green Chef’s totally vegan Artichoke “Crab” Cakes, pictured above. Served with quinoa, roasted red peppers, sautéed zucchini, and walnuts, this dish is a fresh-tasting and nutrient-packed take on the classic seafood staple.
Ultra-affordable at just $4.99/serving
Many dishes can be upgraded with premium sides and proteins
Simple, streamlined menu with classic dishes and a few vegetarian options
Special Deal: $40 OFF throughout your first 3 boxes
One of the best things about meal delivery services is that they can help you manage your grocery budget. Pre-sorted ingredients reduce waste and simplify your shopping needs. If there’s one service that takes the savings to an extreme, though, it’s definitely EveryPlate.
You can read more about EveryPlate in our dedicated review, but the main thing that sets it apart from other services is its super-affordable prices. At just $4.99/serving, EveryPlate makes it easy to save money on your weekly meals. That’ll make it easy to afford an extra trip to the French Quarter this month!
With weekly meals at such an affordable low price, it’s easy to splurge on the occasional upgrade. Premium dishes like the Sweet Chili Salmon shown above are a perfect way to add some class to your daily dinners for just a few extra bucks.
The menu includes delicious breakfasts as well as lunches and dinners
Everything is 100% vegan
Order a la carte or sign up for the special weight loss plan
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New Orleans is slowly becoming a real hotspot for vegan foodies with plant-based jambalaya and vegetarian po’ boys. But sticking to a completely plant-based diet can be a tall order if you don’t know where to shop. Luckily, Veestro is here to help!
With a massive menu of over fifty vegan dishes, Veestro makes it easy for you to enjoy delicious plant-based breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. Our dedicated Veestro review discusses the plans in detail.
I dare you to try one of Veestro’s delicious breakfasts and tell me it isn’t one of the tastiest vegan meals you’ve ever had. The sweet and savory Banana French Toast & Scramble pictured above is a perfect vegan breakfast: hearty, filling, and – of course – absolutely delicious.
Delivery fees are usually just a few bucks
Star ratings help you discover new and popular eateries
For those nights when you just can’t be bothered to cook a meal, or for when you have a restaurant craving that must be fulfilled, Grubhub comes to the rescue.
Enjoy Bourbon Street delicacies like Creole Crab Cakes from the Olde NOLA Cookery without having to set foot outside your home. Grubhub’s website and app make it easy to sort through the best-reviewed restaurants that deliver to your address.
Whether you’re hungry for a local classic or even a chicken sandwich from Popeye’s, Grubhub has your back.
Daily Deals and cheap delivery fees keep prices low
Convenience items often available for delivery in addition to food
Get fast food or local restaurant dishes delivered in about thirty minutes
One of Grubhub’s biggest competitors is Postmates, another food delivery service. Postmates differentiates itself from Grubhub in a few ways, so the decision between the two services is largely up to your individual needs.
Postmates doesn’t have a rating system like Grubhub does, but it does offer Daily Deals providing discounts like free shipping to select restaurants each day. In New Orleans, Postmates’ delivery fee is also usually cheaper – rarely more than three bucks! That means it can often be the most affordable way to get your fix of local restaurants like Poke Loa.
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No matter what your dietary needs and preferences, there’s bound to be a meal delivery service perfect for you. Today, New Orleans residents have access to all of the best meal kits and prepared meals on the market. And since a meal delivery service is often more affordable than traditional grocery shopping, you owe it to yourself to try one out!
Whether you’re a seasoned home cook or a total newbie in the kitchen, services like Home Chef and Sunbasket have something for you. If you’re trying to stick to a unique diet like paleo, then a meal delivery service is indispensable.
EveryPlate is without a doubt the most budget-friendly meal delivery service in New Orleans. Prices start at just $4.99/serving, nearly half the usual average cost of popular meal kits like Blue Apron and HelloFresh.
The only caveat is that this low price comes with a smaller variety of meals, especially for those of us with dietary restrictions. However, the base price is so low that it’s easy to splurge on some ingredient upgrades to add extra flair to your weekly meals.
When you’re a student, you have to be careful about what sort of meals you plan. If you live in a dorm, you often won’t have access to anything but a microwave. That’s why you’ll want to look for services offering prepared meals that simply need to be microwaved and enjoyed.
Freshly provides healthy, single-serving meals that are easy to heat and eat. They’re the perfect daily meal for any college or university student.
Green Chef is my favorite low-carb meal delivery service because of its delicious menu featuring both keto and paleo dishes. This diversity allows you to enjoy high-protein dishes without strictly committing to a particular diet.
If you want to adhere to a strict paleo diet, however, Sunbasket is another great choice that allows you to filter your menu to include only paleo dishes.
Because “healthy” can mean different things to different people, there’s no single answer for the healthiest service in the Big Easy. Sunbasket and Green Chef are both organic and offer many diet options, making them great resources for folks looking to eat more healthily.
Freshly also deserves recognition for its commitment to using natural, unprocessed ingredients.