Low-carbohydrate diet

I kept hearing awesome things about Diet-To-Go so I decided to sign up to be an ambassador and check them out.  Who doesn’t want to have quick lunches to go? Sure, I could do what I’ve been doing and spend Sunday’s prepping my lunches, but sometimes life happens, we get busy and I just want to grab something and go.  If you don’t ever experience that, then good for you. But I do, all the time. Sometimes my lunch doesn’t sound good. Sometimes I forget it. Sometimes I just need something different. Having a meal that’s portioned and ready to go? Yes please!

When I signed up, I picked the low-carb plan.  This was a little daring for me, because I’m a very picky eater. I picked LC  because I tend to supplement with a lot of fruit (which have plenty of carbs) so the bulk of my meal, I try and keep lower carb.  This also helps keep me out of the mentality that I need a starch with every meal   However, the meal plan that some of my other fellow bloggers are following (the 1200 traditional) has foods that are very tempting and I might switch.

So on with the food – the food was really good. Seriously. No joke.  I got 5 breakfasts, lunches and dinners to try. TOTAL honest disclosure: I have not yet made it through all the meals. I know ideally I would eat them all at once, but I still have a lot of groceries left in the house, and hate to let anything go to waste. So I am working my way through the meals.

The package comes secure and well packaged. Each meal comes well sealed. The packaging was simple and easy and the box comes with a nice list of everything.

I’m not a breakfast person.  It’s just not my thing.  I tried 4 out of the five sent to me.  I couldn’t get down with trying a pork chop for breakfast. It’s just too much chewing work for the AM.   As far being a frozen meal, it wasn’t an issue. The eggs heated up great, the veggies weren’t soggy – all in all, they were good.  I won’t continue with breakfast, because really, it’s like an effort for me to eat that much. I really prefer a yogurt and some fruit. When I wake up, I have  a snack.

Once I’m awake, I could appreciate the food more come lunch time. Lunch time is a struggle for me because I eat so early, and don’t eat dinner again until whenever husband gets home. So I try to find something that is substantial and will old me over.  These meals did that.   I had about 6 of the 10 lunch/dinner meals for lunch.  Because dinner is more planned with the husband, I took the dinners that were selected for lunches as well.  It’s all the same in my book

Three of my favorite meals:

Chicken Marsala with veggies. This was my FAVORITE. The veggies were crisp and delicious, and the chicken was so tender and the sauce was just enough.

Baked cajun salmon – delicious flavor!

Veal parm and veggies. The picture looks awful, I know. I don’t  take plates with me to work – I eat out of containers, it is what it is. The veal was a little more chewy than I thought it should be, but the flavor and sauce and veggies were great!

So out of the 10 meals I had (three I haven’t yet) – I have three favorites, that I will most certainly want to have again.  A few of them, like one with goat cheese, I won’t personally eat, husband will and he will offer me some opinion to share. I also will not eat a cauliflower puree – so that will have to be sampled by him as well. What? I said I’m a picky eater! 

All in all – I’m super pleased with the service, and I will  be ordering again.  I probably won’t do the low carb, I want to try the foods I keep seeing others post from the regular plan.  I also won’t do the breakfast plan, because it seems silly when I so rarely ever want to eat a real breakfast.  And really, how long does an egg really take to make? I’m not that lazy (usually…)

The only issue I had, is that there is no nutritional information on the packaging. I’m not sure if once I order officially from the website, I can find the nutritional information for the meals or not.  Trying to gauge WWPP values was a little tricky. Not impossible, just tricky.

Even though I didn’t follow the DTG plan 100% I did still lose 1.8lbs at my WI last week, so that makes me happy

If you’re interested, or a limited time only, Diet-to-Go is offering readers a 25% discount on their first week of meals. Simply plug in the coupon code “summer25” at check-out for 25% off your first order!

Have you ever tried a food delivery service? were you happy with it?

Disclosure: I was given 15 meals to try for free. I was asked to share my opinion with no other compensation.  The opinions are always 100% my own. 

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