Eat Fit Go Review 2024: Is It Actually Healthy?

Overview

You might be wondering if Eat Fit Go is worth it in the sea of competition out there. You may also want to know if prepared meals can actually be healthy and allow you to be slim and fit. I’ve extensively analyzed and tested its meals personally to find out how it stacks up. Read on to find out if this is the service for you, or if you should be looking elsewhere.

It offers you the chance to browse the menu in person at select retail locations (mostly in the midwest). But there are several other reasons why I find Eat Fit Go pretty interesting. For instance, microwaves are on hand for you to try any dish you want, which is something pretty much zero other competitors offer – but you can also order them online, of course.

I tried a week’s worth of meals, and I’m here to give you my honest thoughts. I found that the menu is large and diverse. The meals contain lots of wholesome, fresh, and whole foods-based ingredients. Also, there’s a great loyalty rewards program that can help you save money, and there are tons of different dietary preferences to choose from.

What’s on the Eat Fit Go Menu

Eat Fit Go offers fresh, ready-made meals primarily aimed at customers in a hurry and fitness enthusiasts. In this section, you can learn more about the details, such as which niche it serves and what personalization options are available.

Meal Options

Eat Fit Go produces single-serving, vacuum-packed meals that are delivered fresh and easily microwavable. There’s quite a bit of choice here, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, and snacks. For example, for breakfast, you could get the Early Bird breakfast. This includes scrambled eggs, diced chicken breast, bell pepper, shaved parmesan, and parsley.

Eat Fit Go also offers a wide range of snacks, desserts, and lunches. You could get items like banana nut muffins, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip GoGo Bites, Turkey Chili, or Simple Chicken with green beans and seasoned riced cauliflower.

As far as taste… Well, Eat Fit Go’s menu seems pretty safe. So if you aren’t a big fan of international cuisine, you’ll feel right at home. On the other hand, if you like trying exciting international recipes, you should check out Factor’s menu.

Eat Fit Go is an online meal delivery service, but it also has several brick-and-mortar locations. The online menu offers around 33 recipes, while the brick-and-mortar locations have around 40 recipes on display. It’s not clear how frequently new items are added to the menu.

The vast majority of dishes are typical American cuisine. I’d say about 85% of the menu consists of classic meals like Barbecue Chicken or Turkey Chili. The only deviation from this is a handful of Mexican-style meals like Black Bean Enchiladas.

Eat Fit Go isn’t marketed specifically to children. I’m glad they don’t do this since I really don’t think these meals are for kids. If I don’t know what an ingredient is (let alone know how to pronounce it properly!), there’s no way I’m giving it to my kids.

Compare this to HelloFresh, one of my favorite meal delivery services. It carries a bevy of meal kits and prepared meals with exciting flavors and ingredients like saffron, miso, and harissa. It has plenty of kid- and family-friendly recipes, too.

However, I was bummed that you don’t get much in the form of plant-based meals. In fact, of the 34 meals I found on the menu, only 3 were vegetarian (and just 2 of those were also vegan).

Besides, the plant-based meals seem to contain weird ingredients I’m not particularly fond of. For instance, you can expect ingredients like xanthan gum, maltodextrin, potassium chloride, soybean oil, and silicon dioxide. Those don’t sound especially healthy.

On that note, my personal favorite plant-based meals come from Purple Carrot. It offers high-quality meal kits and prepared meals that are 100% vegan. Plus, you won’t find any of those weird ingredients, and the use of fresh veggies in every dish is the number 1 objective. Have a look at our list of the best vegan meal delivery services if you’re specifically looking for plant-based meals.

Still, Eat Fit Go does offer meals to suit various allergies and dietary restrictions. You’ll find plenty of options like gluten-, soy-, and dairy-free, diabetes-, renal-, and heart-friendly, low-carb, “lower” sodium, and plant-based/veggie.

There are roughly 30+ meals in total on the menu at any given time. You’ll find 20+ gluten-free, soy-free, diabetic-friendly, and heart-friendly options, 9+ dairy-free, renal-friendly, and lower sodium choices, plus around 5 low-carb and plant-based ones.

Customization

I do have to give Eat Fit Go props for its menu filters. Narrowing down your choices with this many options is nice to see, and is something not all competitors offer.

Vital nutritional info is also visible from the main menu page. This way, even if you don’t use the filters, you can see further details by clicking on any menu item.

The meals were definitely convenient and would’ve been even more so if I’d had a microwave (more on that later). Looking at the nutrition facts, I’d say that they’re also relatively healthy, although probably not as healthy as the company would lead you to believe.

The sodium levels seemed pretty high (though there’s a low sodium filter that displays the meals with less than 600 mg sodium). However, I only found 15 low-sodium options, which is less than half of the menu. If you want a full low-sodium meal plan, you should check BistroMD’s Heart Healthy program.

There really isn’t a way to narrow down the menu by specific ingredients. You can only select your box size plus any dietary preferences you like. Box sizes come in 5 or 10 meals.

Furthermore, customization is not an option with Eat Fit Go – even at in-person locations. Since all the meals are prepared, it’s impossible to customize individual ingredients. If customization is important to you, you’d be better off with a meal kit delivery service.

Keep in mind, too, that allergy information is nowhere to be found. But since all the ingredients are clearly listed on the menu for each meal, you can easily see if there’s something you can’t eat.

Unboxing

The box was really heavy and cold from the mounds of ice packs. All the plastic involved here is a little disconcerting for the environment, but I can’t deny that it did a great job of preserving my meals in the summer heat.

On its website, Eat Fit Go also claims that most of its packaging is recyclable. The insulated liner is biodegradable, and the gel ice packs are “durable, reusable, and long-lasting.”

All delivery boxes, cardboard sleeves, and meal containers are recyclable as well. The cotton shippers are made from recycled cotton, and the white poly film that the insulation is wrapped in is also biodegradable.

All the meals are color-coordinated based on protein. For instance, dark green is for vegetarian meals, light green is for turkey, purple is for chicken, and red is for beef.

Eat Fit Go’s packaging is uniform, which is 1 of my favorite features. This is a small detail that makes it easy to see at a glance what’s in each box, especially since the labeling extends down the side of the cardboard sleeve. The organization nerd in me loves how easy it is to identify different meals in your fridge.

Once refrigerated, the meals are good for about 2 weeks (due to the vacuum packaging) or you can freeze them to extend the shelf life.

Cooking (and Eating) with Eat Fit Go

All the meals are prepared fresh and are vacuum-sealed, and they’re also designed to be heated up in the microwave. If you’re a weirdo like me and don’t have a microwave, you can also transfer the meal to a heat-safe dish and use the oven.

If you use a microwave, your meals can be heated in about 2-3 minutes, depending on the strength of your microwave. In terms of heating them in the oven, exact heating times can vary depending on the dish and how quickly your oven preheats.

Overall, I found the process of picking out a meal and heating it up to be quite convenient, even without a microwave. Meals are good for 2 weeks in the refrigerator. Or you can freeze them for longer-term storage – just cook them straight from frozen and confirm the food has reached 165 degrees.

While I’d say that all of the meals were tasty, they kinda started getting boring. I think that’s largely because many ingredients are reused in different meals. In particular, I ate a lot of chickpea rotini over that week – like, more chickpea rotini than a person should eat.

Even the proteins were prepared pretty much the same way in each meal: The meat in the Fajita Chicken Bowl tasted the same as the Barbeque Chicken, which tasted the same as the Chicken Marsala, etc. It’s like Eat Fit Go bakes 1 massive batch of chicken breasts, then just divides it up with different sauces to create different dishes.

Don’t get me wrong, I generally enjoyed the dishes. It’s just that by the end of the week, I was pretty tired of the same dozen or so ingredients. So, if you want variety, you may be better off with a service like HelloFresh, where you can choose from over 70 recipes each week. That said, people who prefer consistency and subtle flavors may see this as an advantage..

Shortlist of My Favorite Meals

As I’ve mentioned, I wouldn’t say I was blown away by any of the meals I tried. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy them!

Creamy Pesto Chicken

My favorite dish of the week was probably the Creamy Pesto Chicken, which I gotta admit tasted better than it looked! Eat Fit Go advertises that all its meals are prepared in a kitchen by real chefs and that care comes through in this dish. The pesto sauce and veggies like tomato and spinach added a lot of welcome freshness.

This dish is also an example of my biggest issue with Eat Fit Go’s menu. While the combination of chicken and pesto sauce tastes great over a bed of chickpea rotini, it starts to get really tiring when so many dishes are extremely similar.

This protein-rich meal has 39 g of protein and 530 calories. If you count carbohydrates and fat, the Creamy Pesto Chicken has 36 g of carbs and 28 g of fat. Avoid this dish if you are lactose intolerant. 

Fajita Chicken Bowl

If you're a fan of chicken breasts, don't miss this meal. The dish also consists of black beans, bell peppers, and cheese. I like that the meal includes Cheddar Blend and Monterey Jack cheeses.

This dish provides 420 calories and 34 g of protein, making it very desirable for athletes. The serving also adds 52 g of carbohydrates and only 6 g of fat. If you are lactose intolerant, avoid this meal.

Barbeque Chicken

If you're looking to lower your calorie intake as much as possible, Barbeque Chicken is the ideal meal for you. Some of the other ingredients include green beans, and roasted sweet potatoes & broccoli.

In addition to 290 calories, a serving of this dish provides 29 g of protein, 38 g of carbohydrates, and 2.5 g of fat. Avoid this meal if you are intolerant to soy or fish.

Recipes Summary

Prices

These prices are already pretty high if you don’t have a discount, and that’s before even taking shipping into consideration. Those insulated boxes must be pretty expensive because shipping will set you back anywhere from $15-25 depending on the order size. 

Also, you don’t have to pay extra for, well… extras and add-ons. For instance, extras like muffins or GoGo bites count as one meal against your overall budget. So, if you’ve selected a 10-meal box, the 8-pack of muffins or 10-pack of GoGo bites will each be classed as a meal.

The cheapest order you can possibly make is $58.50 before shipping, which is for the 5-meal box based on a recurring subscription. Now, I have to admit that, compared to Factor’s prices, Eat Fit Go is more affordable.

You won’t even be able to actually see any meals until you choose a box size. There are only 2 options to choose from – 5 and 10-meal boxes. Also, meals aren’t priced individually anymore if you’re familiar with the service from before.

There’s also a discount if you choose the 10-meal order. You save around $1 per serving, going from 5 to 10 meals, and overall prices aren’t outrageous compared to similar competitors.

Shipping & Delivery

Since I don’t live near an Eat Fit Go storefront, I had my meals shipped directly to me. This will be the case for most of us, as the brick and mortars are relegated to a few locations in the midwest.

But worry not – Eat Fit Go ships across the lower 48 US states. As someone who frequently orders from meal delivery services, I knew exactly what to expect when I saw that big brown box on my porch!

Eat Fit Go ships all orders on Tuesdays, but you have to put in your order by 8 pm CT the prior Friday. Shipping time will vary depending on your location (generally 1-3 days), but you’ll get a tracking number via email to follow your shipment.

How Eat Fit Go Works

Eat Fit Go lets you earn points while purchasing and get referral rewards. But you have to sign up first before enjoying these benefits. Click on the Rewards icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen to learn more.

Certain locations have the option to receive speedy local delivery or shop in-store. This option is only available if you live around Nebraska and Kansas. Also, I have to mention that the in-store menu offers more options.

To order, you’ll need to select meals in quantities of at least 5 or 10 meals. Orders are typically shipped on Tuesdays, and can be placed up to 3 weeks in advance.

How to Sign Up

In a nutshell, here’s how Eat Fit Go works:

1. Choose your pack size: Select your meals for delivery in quantities of 5 or 10 meals per order.

2. Add the minimum number of meals: Begin the process by selecting the meals you want.

3. Continue to the checkout: Click Next, then decide if you want recurring deliveries every week, every 2 weeks, or simply a one-off order. Then, click Add to cart to continue to the checkout screen.

4. Choose your delivery or pickup option: Here, you can select standard shipping, local delivery, or even in-person pickup in select areas.

5. Fill out the required information: Once you plug in all your details like name, email, and shipping address, you can continue to the checkout screen.  Alternatively, you can use your Google Pay information for express checkout instead.

Once you complete these steps, you’ve purchased Eat Fit Go’s prepared meals.

Managing Your Subscription

Your order must be canceled or modified by 8 pm CST on Friday for one-time orders and subscriptions, prior to its shipment. Also, if you opt for one-time orders, there’s nothing to manage unless you want to make changes to your delivery.

You can also schedule orders up to 3 weeks in advance. You can do all of this from your account page without speaking to a representative.

Customer Service

In my experience, its customer service is good. While there's no phone line, you can reach a representative at any time by sending an email. Unfortunately, there's no live chat feature, which is somewhat disappointing, as most online companies today offer this function.

I had a good experience emailing Eat Fit Go’s customer service team. I sent a question on Sunday and got an answer in just a few hours. The answer was short and sweet, and they didn’t even try to sell me anything else, which I really liked.

There’s also an FAQ on the website, but I found it to be a bit sparse in information. It also states that, if you have any additional questions, you could email the support team at support@eatfitgo.com.

If you’re looking for a service that’s more involved with the customers, you could try Factor or Green Chef. Besides having more contact channels, these services also offer free nutrition coaching sessions for anyone who wants to learn more. 

In terms of canceling your account, it's very easy to do. You can do that from your account dashboard, or talk to the customer service team. And if you chose one-off orders, you don't have to worry about canceling your account, of course.

How Eat Fit Go Compares to Other Meal Delivery Services

• Eat Fit Go vs. Factor: Factor tends to have a lot more weekly options. There are around 35 for you to choose from, and they include everything from Italian, Latin American, classic American, and French-influenced breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. Plus, you get a wide range of extras and add-ons like smoothies, mascarpone, keto truffles, and lots more. If you’re a keto dieter you’ll find plenty of keto options from Factor.

• Eat Fit Go vs. Purple Carrot: Again, Purple Carrot is a much better option if you want vegan/plant-based meals. It offers meal kits and prepared meals, and they’re pretty much the highest-quality plant-based meals you can get. It makes the veggies the star of each dish, doesn’t rely on imitation meats and doesn’t use ingredients that you can’t pronounce, or that you don’t recognize.

• Eat Fit Go vs. Green Chef: Green Chef is a meal kit delivery service, but it offers several 10-minute and 15-minute recipes. Also, most of its meal kits need around 35 minutes of preparation and cooking, so it’s not that long. Unlike Eat Fit Go, Green Chef offers culinary variety and caters to several dietary needs, such as vegetarian, keto, or Mediterranean.

The Bottom Line: Is Eat Fit Go Worth It?

I think Eat Fit Go can be a good option for those who don’t want to cook but still want something decently nutritious. However, I’m not sure I’d personally choose Eat Fit Go over some of its competitors. While the 14-day shelf life is useful for keeping meals readily on hand, most of the food was really just okay. I prefer the more adventurous and internationally-inspired menus of Factor.

The final nail in the coffin for me is the price, which is easily on the higher end of all the meal delivery services I’ve ever reviewed. However, again, you do get a pretty reasonable discount of $1-2 per serving the more you order at a time.

FAQ

What is Eat Fit Go?

Eat Fit Go offers chef-prepared and dietitian-approved meals to your door. You can heat the meals in the microwave or oven and eat them straight away. All nutritional info is clearly displayed, and most of the meals are designed to have less than 500 calories.

You also have a lot of filters to sort through the menu, from plant-based to gluten-free to renal-friendly. Plus, the ingredients are free from artificial preservatives.

Can you freeze Eat Fit Go meals?

Although the meals are designed to be eaten fresh, you can freeze them prior to the "use by" date. After freezing them, you should reheat the meals directly from frozen, without thawing, and make sure that the food has reached 165 degrees.

Are there Eat Fit Go gluten-free meals?

Yes – nearly 25 options on the menu at any given time are gluten-free. Plus, there are a whole bunch of other dietary preferences to choose from including soy- and dairy-free, low-carb, and many more.

How much does it cost to eat at Eat Fit Go?

Eat Fit Go prices start at around $6.00 per serving for the maximum order. The more you order at a time, the more you’ll save per serving. Note that you can buy multiple 5- and 10-meal boxes while ordering.