Not Nutrisystem?

October 31, 2011 4:36 PM

Have you done a prepared-food / delivery diet? Did you like it? Do you know any local (San Francisco) places you would recommend over something national? Thanks!
posted by dame to Health & Fitness (3 answers total)

Best answer: I have! I did Diet-To-Go (local delivery when I lived in DC). I know they deliver locally in San Francisco. I liked the local delivery - it was easy to pick and I never felt starved. It also helped me eat right through a very busy time in my life where I was making some big lifestyle changes.

Specifically, I liked that you could customize a lot of things with the local delivery. My food was fresh, and I never had a problem with anything being spoiled or off.

The one downside I found is that as a food lover (and decent cook) I found their food a bit bland, and often dressed it up a bit. It was a bit uninspired as well. Also, I felt that the food wasn't as wholesome as I would have liked it to be. However, it was what I needed at the time, but I was happy to move away from the meals and apply the portion control I learned during my time using the service to my real life.

Sure, the national chains might be cheaper, but the food is much, much worse. When I moved to NYC, I was still working on my diet, and I opted to use their national delivery service. I ended up canceling and going with a local service in NYC.

There are lot of local delivery services now in NYC - I imagine San Francisco is the same. I do find that the more hyper-local ones are very expensive, more so than something like Diet-To-Go which seems to be a medium between those and the big chains.

I've heard nice things about Freshology but it is significantly more expensive than Diet-To-Go.

Feel free to memail me if you have specific questions!
posted by carmenghia at 6:17 PM on October 31, 2011

Response by poster: So I've gone for Diet to Go. (Freshology looks wonderful but is *way * a lot at 30-50 per day. Will update after next week.
posted by dame at 6:04 PM on November 1, 2011

hey, i'm looking into this too and am also in the Bay Area. how is it for you?
posted by divabat at 1:12 PM on August 11, 2012