Diet-to-Go Keto-Carb30 Review 2024: Easy Diet?

Overview

I regularly alternate between keto and non-keto phases. And I find that constantly staying on track with macronutrient counts is time-consuming and monotonous. Fortunately, there's a solution that can make following a keto regimen significantly less daunting.

Diet-to-Go's Keto-Carb30 menu is an easy way to stick to a low-carb diet. It's not as rigid as a typical keto diet, making it a smooth introduction into the realm of low-carb eating. Your meals arrive fully cooked, and the menu is set 5 weeks in advance. That's right, no more food dilemmas. Diet-to-Go has literally taken meal scheduling and menu decisions off your plate.

Keep in mind – this isn’t a 100% keto diet since each recipe carb count is higher than the keto standard. However, it’s a high-fat, moderate protein, low-carb menu. Stick around, and let's explore together how this plan could take the guesswork out of your intro to the keto lifestyle.

What’s on the Diet-to-Go Keto-Carbo30 Menu

Meal Options

Diet-to-Go makes following a Keto-Carb30 plan super easy. If you’re unfamiliar with the keto diet, check out our article How to Start the Keto Diet for Beginners for an overview of the diet, whether it’s something that’ll work for you, and how to ease your way into it.

Diet-to-Go’s Keto-Carb30 is a near-keto diet and a great start if you want to go full keto. Eating the meals on this plan won’t get most people into ketosis, or the state in which your body is burning fat stores instead of carb stores for fuel. 

The standard macronutrient balance for the keto diet is 70% fat, 20% protein, and 10% carbs. That works out to about 20 g net carbs per day. Diet-to-Go’s plan works out to about 30 g to 40 g net carbs each day, with lower fat counts and slightly higher protein counts, making it closer to a moderate carb, moderate protein diet rather than a low-carb or keto diet. 

If ketosis is your goal, you’ll have to monitor your ketone levels with this plan since it’s not 100% keto. However, each person gets into ketosis at different carb intake amounts. While 1 person might need to stick to 20 g or less of net carbs per day, the next person might be able to stay in ketosis with around 30 g carbs.

Diet-to-Go’s Keto-Carb30 is best treated as a transition stage into the full keto diet. In my experience cycling through the keto diet, having a transition meal plan while getting off the keto diet is also useful. This plan may be great for that transition period out of the keto diet, as you start re-introducing a higher carb count, especially if you’ve been in ketosis for a long time.

All that said, the menu includes quite a variety of standard American and global fare. You’ll mostly find familiar American meals like egg or meat-centric breakfasts, roasts, and even keto-friendly pizzas. International dishes might include Chicken Marsala, Chicken Parmesan over Ratatouille, and Chicken Fontina.

The menu is posted 5 weeks in advance, so you can see exactly what you’re getting. You can see the entire 5-week menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Diet-to-Go’s website whether you choose to receive 21 meals or less each week. You’ll see a few repeating recipes throughout the 5-week cycle.

Each meal is designed to serve 1 person, so this is perfect if you’re the only person in your household trying to lose weight. As these are diet meals, these shouldn’t be served to children unless advised to by a medical professional.

All recipes are portion-controlled, as well as macronutrient-controlled. Your daily calorie intake when eating only meals from this plan will be around 1,200 for women and 1,400 for men. Most recipes range from 150 to 500 calories, with most in the 225 to 300 calorie range.

If you want to try the keto diet without portion control, you might want to try a different service. Green Chef offers a keto plan as well, offering meal kits with similar macronutrients to this Keto-Carb30 plan. Or, you can check out Factor, which also offers a keto plan of fully prepared, microwavable meals.

Customization

There are limited recipe customizations since this plan is designed to be eaten as is. However, this is for good purpose. Diet-to-Go carefully designs the recipes to follow the strict macronutrient requirements of the Keto-Carb30 diet.

The customizations you can make include swapping recipes within the 5-week menu. For example, you can swap breakfasts for other breakfasts or dinners for other dinners. You can select recipes once you choose a plan and enter payment and shipping details.

You can also exclude seafood from your entire menu when choosing your plan. When you make this selection, recipes that have fish in them will be excluded from your menu. Diet-to-Go doesn’t offer ingredient substitutions, so they simply replace the seafood meal with a different meal in the same 5-week rotation. If you have further dietary concerns – you’ll find detailed nutrition facts on each meal sleeve. You’ll find basic nutrition facts on the website, but the meals you receive have a meal sleeve noting the meal name and the detailed ingredients and macros of each recipe.

You can speak with 1 of Diet-to-Go’s menu consultants before ordering if you’re concerned about certain recipes in your plan. Menu consultants aren’t registered dietitians, but they often have more information about recipes than is posted on the website. They’re easiest to reach via the telephone line.

Unboxing

Diet-to-Go’s KetoCarb30 meals arrive frozen in single-portion containers. This is convenient since all you have to do is defrost the meals you know you’ll want the next day and pop them in the microwave at meal time. No prep, mess, or clean up required.

Diet-to-Go recommends that you make sure the meals are fully defrosted before you heat them. Each meal has a 7-day shelf life in the refrigerator. You can eat the meals cold if you prefer as they’re pre-cooked before freezing.

The snag of receiving 1 or 2 weeks’ worth of meals at once is ensuring you have freezer space for your meals. If you choose the maximum order of 3 meals per day for 7 days, you can receive up to 48 meals in 1 shipment – that’s a lot of freezer space! Shipments are sent every 2 to 4 weeks depending on how many meals you order.

Unfortunately, Diet-to-Go ships meals in styrofoam containers, which aren’t always recyclable. While they’re great for ensuring your meals remain well-insulated and safe during transit, you’ll have to do a little research about whether you can recycle styrofoam in your area.

Cooking with Diet-to-Go’s Keto-Carb30 Plan

Diet-to-Go’s meals are all microwave-ready, so all you have to do is add water, and heat once they’ve been defrosted. Directions for each meal are also listed on meal sleeves, so you know whether and how much water to add and how many minutes to heat your meal.

Shortlist of My Favorite Meals

I appreciate seeing some globally inspired Mediterranean and Latin American-derived meals. I don’t often eat breakfast, but when I do, I like eggs and meat, and this Spicy Breakfast Bowl would hit the spot.

Salmon is 1 of the best keto-friendly proteins since it’s high in protein and healthy fats. The side of asparagus makes this a classic combo. This recipe is on the lunch menu, but it’s dinner appropriate as well.

KetoCarb30 is a relatively strict diet, and seeing a dish that’s normally high-carb adapted to a keto-friendly version is fun. Instead of using processed white flour, this pie crust uses keto-friendly almond flour. If Keto-Carbo30 is a new diet for you, I can imagine seeing some of these familiar favorites can be comforting.

Prices

You get the best deal by ordering 21 meals, or 3 meals a day for 7 days per week. But you can order 2 or 3 meals a day for 5 or 7 days per week, and prices decrease per meal for bigger order sizes. The minimum order is 10 meals per week.

Diet-to-Go has some of the highest shipping fees of meal delivery services, adding $80 extra per month! When calculating shipping into per-meal prices, that’s about an extra $1–$2 per meal. This is something to consider if you’re looking for something affordable. However, for portion-controlled, keto-friendly, fully-prepared meals, this is a good deal.

Shipping comes in 2 ways – weekly frozen meal delivery or bi-weekly fresh home delivery. The shipping cost still comes to $19.98 per week, but if you get fresh home delivery, it’s $9.99 per delivery. Fresh home delivery is only available in certain zip code areas, so you’ll need to see what’s available in your area when you sign up.

The next best fully-prepared, calorie-smart meal delivery service is the keto-friendly Factor. Prices per meal start at $10.49 for the maximum order of 18 meals per week on the Keto plan. This is more expensive than Diet-to-Go’s Keto-Carb30 price point, but you’ll get higher quality ingredients that are delivered fresh – never frozen.

Shipping & Delivery

Diet-to-Go delivers to the contiguous 48 states, and delivery days differ depending on your location. No delivery is available to Alaska, Hawaii, or US territories. If that’s where you are, Nutrisystem may be a better option.

You can’t choose your delivery days since Diet-to-Go has set delivery days for each zip code. For those residing within the company's local service zones, deliveries are typically made on Tuesdays or Fridays. However, for customers located at a greater distance, the company dispatches your orders on Mondays.

For an update on your delivery time, you can check the tracking number sent to your email after you’ve confirmed your order. This is the best way to get the most accurate update on what day and time your order will arrive.

The order change deadline is 12 pm ET the Friday before your shipment. You’ll see your order change deadline when you set up your account and log in. Once you sign up, your order automatically renews each week, so you’ll want to keep an eye on the order change deadline in case you want to pause your subscription, skip a week, or cancel.

How Diet-to-Go’s Keto-Carb30 Plan Works

Signing up for Diet-to-Go’s Keto-Carb30 Plan is straightforward. If you’ve signed up for any subscription service before – you’re likely familiar with this process.

How to Sign Up

1. Select the Keto-Carb30 plan and the number of meals you want each week. You can choose 2 or 3 meals per day for 5 or 7 days per week. Your total number of meals will show in the upper-right box, with your pre-tax and pre-shipping order total.

2. Enter your shipping details. Make sure you enter the address of the location where you want to receive your order each week. Once you sign up, you can change this address if you need to receive your meals in a different location.

   Once you enter your zip code, you’ll see your weekly delivery days in the upper-right box along with your pre-tax and pre-shipping order total.

3. Enter your billing information and place your order. The credit or debit card number you enter is the one that will be billed each time your order is shipped. Double-check all payment details before submitting your order.

Managing Your Subscription

Diet-to-Go is a bit behind other meal delivery services when it comes to subscription management. There’s no app, so you’ll need to log in the traditional way through the website to order any subscription details. You can manage most details through the website portal.

You can also call customer service if you have any questions about an upcoming order or need to change any order details. If you want to cancel, you have to contact customer service.

Customer Service

My colleague ordered from Diet-to-Go and found that customer service was hard to reach. The only way you can reach customer service is through the phone line. While the website states there’s a contact form, I never received an answer to my inquiries about the Keto-Carb30 plan.

The phone line has limited contact hours of Monday to Friday 8 am to 5 pm ET. Most other meal delivery services at least have live chat online, or some form of 24/7 live chat or phone support.

My colleague thoroughly tested Diet-to-Go’s customer service and found that customer service agents responded within about 24 hours of sending an email through the contact form. While he at least received responses, this can be a frustrating wait time should you have a question while finalizing your order or making a subscription change.

How Diet-to-Go’s Keto-Carbo30 Plan Compares to Other Meal Delivery Services

Diet-to-Go vs Factor

Factor offers fully-prepared, microwavable, single-portioned, diet-specific meal plans. More than Diet-to-Go, Factor focuses on ingredient quality and only sources from farms that humanely raise animals and follow sustainable practices. You’ll find zero preservatives, artificial flavors, fillers, or sweeteners in Factor’s meals. Food is also only delivered fresh – never frozen!

Factor is pricier per meal than Diet-to-Go, but you get higher-quality ingredients and recipes. Diet-to-Go meals are known to be bland, while Factor’s meals are known to be flavorful and enjoyable. Prices start at $10.49 , and shipping is only $10.99 per week instead of Diet-to-Go’s $19.98 per week.

Diet-to-Go vs BistroMD

BistroMD offers fully-prepared, microwavable, single-portioned, diet-specific meal plans. You’ll find a Keto-Flex plan, which offers similar macronutrients to Diet-to-Go’s Keto-Carb30 plan. However, food is frozen and delivered frozen or partially thawed, without any indicator of how long the food has been frozen.

BistroMD is similar to Diet-to-Go regarding ingredient quality, which isn’t a priority. The company is focused on helping people lose weight with calorie-restricted meals of about 1,200 for women and 1,400 for men, with slight variations depending on BMI. Prices are similar to Diet-to-Go’s at $8.24 per meal, and shipping at a hefty $19.95 per week, with a minimum order of 10 meals per week.

Diet-to-Go vs Home Chef

Home Chef offers a large menu of carb-conscious and calorie-conscious meal kits. This means you’ll have to do some meal prep. However, ingredients arrive pre-portioned and separated into bags according to recipe. It’s a great service if you’re looking for familiar favorites and want some calorie-conscious meals here and there.

This is a better option if you want more fresh veggies and salads since produce arrives fresh and ingredients arrive needing prep. You’ll mostly find familiar American foods with a few Mexican, Italian, and some Asian-inspired dishes. Prices start at $7.99 per meal, with a more flexible minimum order of 2 meals for 2 each week, up to 6 meals for 6 each week, and shipping starting at $10.99 per delivery.

The Bottom Line: Is Ketogenic Diet-to-Go Worth It?

Diet-to-Go’s Keto-Carb30 plan is worth it if you want a convenient intro into a full keto diet. The macronutrients of this plan are less strict than a full-keto diet and most likely won’t get you into ketosis. However, it’s useful if you’d like to slowly adjust your body to a low-carb diet in the most convenient way possible.

If you don’t want to plan, shop, and prep food – this is the best and most affordable option. All meals arrive in microwavable, single-portioned trays that you can defrost, heat, and eat, relieving the stress of any meal-time decision-making and worrying whether your meal is optimized for your diet.

FAQ

Are Diet-to-Go meals healthy?

Yes, Diet-to-Go meals are generally healthy. They focus on low-carb, high-fat content that aligns with the principles of a ketogenic diet. Meals are portion-controlled to ensure balanced nutrition, and ingredients are selected for their health benefits. However, as everyone's dietary needs and health conditions vary, I advise consulting your healthcare provider before making significant dietary changes.

How much does Diet-to-Go cost?

Diet-to-Go's cost varies depending on the plan chosen. The Keto meal plan could cost anywhere between $150 to $225 per week, plus shipping. This includes 2 or 3 meals a day. Remember, the overall cost may be impacted by customization options and delivery charges.

How do I cancel my Diet-to-Go subscription?

To cancel your Diet-to-Go subscription, you’ll have to contact the customer service team by email or phone. Be sure to cancel before the weekly cutoff to avoid charges for the upcoming week.

Will Diet-to-Go's Keto plan get me into ketosis?

Individual results vary, but the Diet-to-Go Keto plan is designed to help you eat low-carb. It provides meals with low carbohydrate content, high fat, and moderate protein, which is the standard approach for achieving ketosis. However, factors like physical activity level and metabolism can influence the speed at which you reach ketosis.

Will I lose weight on 30 g net carbs per day?

Losing weight is possible when consuming 30 g net carbs per day, but results vary. This amount is close to the typical range for a ketogenic diet, which can induce weight loss by encouraging your body to burn fat for energy. But remember, weight loss also depends on physical activity, metabolic profile, calorie consumption, and many other factors you should discuss with your healthcare provider.