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Green Chef is a certified organic meal kit company offering over 35 customizable recipes each week. Meals are designed to match a range of dietary preferences, and everything arrives pre-measured, prepped, and ready for home cooking. You choose your plan, select meals, and receive weekly deliveries with step-by-step instructions.
If you’re looking to eat more intentionally without spending hours meal planning or shopping, Green Chef might be a good way to test the waters. Recipes are built around whole ingredients, and the boxes include a mix of convenience and flexibility.
✖ No fully microwave-ready meals
✖ Higher starting price compared to some non-organic options
✖ Not suitable for those with severe allergies
After signing up, you’ll be asked to select your dietary preferences—like low-carb, calorie smart, or plant-based—and how many servings you want per meal. The menu updates weekly, but you can always mix and match across categories.
Once you choose your meals, your box arrives on your preferred delivery day. Inside, ingredients are grouped by recipe, labeled clearly, and kept cold with insulation and ice packs. If you’ve used other meal kits, the unboxing experience will feel familiar, with everything organized and portioned out.
Each recipe includes a photo-based instruction card. Cooking usually takes around 25–35 minutes depending on the meal. Even if you're not a confident cook, the instructions break down the process clearly—helpful if you’re trying to make home-cooked meals without overthinking it.
Green Chef offers eight dietary plans, and you can select more than one:
Weekly meals are tagged clearly so you know what you're choosing. Some examples from recent menus:
If you want to adjust a meal to better fit your preferences, Green Chef offers a few built-in customization tools. You can:
Along with full meals, you can add a few extras from the Green Market. These include:
Green Chef meals start around $11.99 per serving, with lower prices on larger box sizes. Custom protein upgrades and Green Market add-ons are priced separately. As with most meal kit services, exact cost depends on your selections and delivery area.
Here’s what the process looks like from start to finish:
If you’re not sure where to start nutritionally, Green Chef offers a free 20-minute coaching session with a registered dietitian. This is available even if you haven’t subscribed yet. You can use the session to ask about:
Green Chef places a visible emphasis on sustainability, with several steps built into the delivery model:
Green Chef is structured for people who want variety, dietary flexibility, and clean ingredients without the work of meal planning or grocery shopping. It's more hands-on than services that offer heat-and-eat options, but still convenient enough to work into a weekday schedule.
You’ll likely spend about half an hour cooking, and you won’t need to measure or prep much. If you’re trying to eat more intentionally, the built-in diet filters, quality ingredients, and optional nutrition coaching might give you a solid foundation to start from.