Paleo Meal Delivery from Catered Fit!
Is healthy meal delivery worth the cost? What’s it like to order from Catered Fit?
Catered Fit is a healthy meal delivery service that is different from your average meal kit delivery. They offer a selection of meals to choose from (classic, paleo, vegetarian, or keto) and the meals come prepped and ready to eat!
Simply take your meal to-go and eat out of the container, or add to your plate at home to make it feel like a real chef’s meal. There’s no need for grocery shopping, preparation, cooking more than 2 minutes in the microwave (and not all meals need to be heated), or intense cleanup.
You don’t have to worry about leaving the food in the oven too long, buying the wrong ingredients, or messing up your meal. It’s all done for you - like having a personal chef, but the food is instead delivered to your doorstep.
Oh, and from the guesses of it, healthy meal delivery is much more affordable than hiring a daily personal chef!
Before we get into how Catered Fit works and what the meals are like, you may be wondering why you would want to order pre-made meals when you can shop, prep, and cook for yourself.
Why would I consider a healthy meal delivery service like Catered Fit?
Recently on Instagram Stories, I did a “tip of the day” where I covered making space in your life:
Physical space (declutter your home, Marie Kondo style)
Mental space (meditating, spending time with people who lift you up), and
Schedule space (making room in your schedule by outsourcing certain tasks or finding ways to be more productive)
“Schedule space” - looking for ways to make your day more productive or convenient - is where healthy meal delivery comes in.
Other examples of schedule space could include hiring a personal trainer, housekeeper, assistant, or flying first class. Many people fantasize about doing that if they don’t already do so.
It’s all about paying for extra assistance or convenience for certain areas of your life that are important to you.
Maybe you already pay extra for convenience…getting takeout when you’re busy, buying toothpaste in bulk from Costco, or having a spare phone charger for another room in the house.
So why not apply that convenience to your meals?
Here’s the thing. We have to eat every day. I love healthy food. I love food in general!
But I can’t stand cooking.
Yup, I said it. Cooking is just not my cup of tea.
I have friends that will say, “Ally, it’s so easy! You just need 2232 spices and 1247 ingredients, then prep everything in advance, and it only takes five hours to make! That’s it, there’s your lunch! Then you do it all over again for dinner!”
Okay, that’s not how my friends actually explain it, but all the complicated steps of planning, shopping, cooking, and cleaning just don’t entice me.
Back when I was in college, I declared that one day I would get a personal chef.
I’m not even joking!
One of my biggest motivations to be wealthy was to afford to hire a personal chef who would make flavorful, healthy meals.
Nowadays you can get the perks and benefits of having a personal chef without breaking the bank.
How? With a healthy meal delivery service!
That being said, when I heard about Catered Fit, you bet I leapt at the chance to try it out.
And GUYS.
I am obsessed.
Not only does this make my paleo personal chef dreams come true, having Catered Fit has allowed me to:
Spend the time I normally would spend cooking doing something I actually enjoy - such as relaxing or hanging out with my friends or roommates.
Spend the time and mental energy I use cooking and grocery shopping on growing my business instead.
Save time cooking and cleaning.
Add more variety and flavor to my meals! I get bored of having the same meals on rotation, so this was really nice.
Save money - sometimes I’ll grocery shop and buy food I won’t be able to finish (but the only way to buy it is in a large quantity), which goes bad and is unfortunately wasted.
It’s incredibly convenient.
Save my sanity. ;)
Can you relate to any of the above?
If so, keep reading!
Catered Fit Healthy Meal Delivery Review
If you’re considering trying out Catered Fit but want some more information, don’t worry - I gotchu.
I’ll explain how Catered Fit works, plus give you a detailed, honest review.
And if you want to try it, you get a discount code ;) sound great? Great!
What is Catered Fit?
Catered Fit is not a meal kit - it’s a meal delivery service.
The problem (for me) with all the amazing meal kit services…is that they literally just take grocery shopping out of the picture. You still have to do the WORK (aka cook and clean)! Ugh, who’s got time for that? If you enjoy cooking and have the time, sure! Have fun. ;)
As someone who mainly eats paleo at home, is a busy entrepreneur, is training to be a fitness instructor…and who finds just finds cooking totally draining and not fun, Catered Fit is literally the perfect solution.
Catered Fit - The Facts:
Get meals delivered to your house weekly or daily.
Available in the United States: Southern California and parts of Florida (daily delivery) or weekly delivery from Texas to New York and anywhere in between! See full list of locations here.
Choose breakfast, lunch, dinner (all three meals per day or just one or two). I chose lunch and dinner only as I eat the same thing for breakfast every day and love it (almond butter toast + bananas)!
Add-on options include snacks, desserts, coffee, and juice.
Meal plans: menu options include healthy choices to fit a variety of lifestyles/diets - choose from paleo, keto, vegetarian, or classic meals.
I chose to do the “combo” so I could choose between paleo and vegetarian. I prefer paleo for the most part at home, though paleo can be pretty meat-heavy and I like having some non-meat meal options.
How does Catered Fit work?
Sign up on the website. Code ALLYARCHER gets you $25 off your first order of $145+!
Use the app or website to order your meals. There are multiple options to choose from for each meal type. For example, there isn’t just one paleo breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You get multiple options to choose from, and it changes every day.
Click to enlarge each image of the menu (these are screenshots from one day):
Once you order your meals in advance, sit back and relax!
Meals are delivered either the week of or the night prior (depending if you are doing weekly or daily delivery) and placed inside your cooler bag with an ice pack. You get a text when it arrives so you don’t forget about it.
The containers are microwave-safe and made from recycled plastic. If a meal needs to be heated, it only needs to be microwaved for 1-2 minutes.
If there are any issues or questions with your order, customer service is helpful and quick to respond. One day my meals were delivered to the wrong address, and they added an extra free day of meals to compensate.
How fresh are the meals? How do the meals taste?
The meals are made with all-natural ingredients and have all tasted fresh to me.
The lettuce in the salads is always fresh and crisp, the meat and fish is perfectly cooked, and everything honestly tastes amazing.
What’s cool is that every meal lists the ingredients, calories, and macros. You know exactly what you’re eating and it makes it super easy if you track numbers like calories or macros.
How filling are the meals?
One thing about living a paleo-based lifestyle (or just eating very natural/clean in general) is that it can be tough to get enough calories in the day. A strict paleo lifestyle eliminates grains, dairy, soy, refined sugar, and legumes, and if you are strictly paleo, Catered Fit does a great job of ensuring the paleo meals fit paleo standards.
Personally, I aim for a more paleo-based lifestyle when eating at home but am flexible by incorporating some grains, legumes, and occasionally dairy, so it’s convenient to be able to choose from the non-paleo options.
You can choose between classic (has grains like pasta or rice and dairy), vegetarian, keto, or paleo. The calories and macros are listed on the menu when you place your orders and it has a convenient order summary that totals your calories/macros at the top.
Since I do HIIT workouts (Orangetheory Fitness!) several days a week and burn 500+ calories per class - not including the “afterburn” (the effect of “EPOC,” which stands for “Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption”) - I did find myself needing some extra cals on certain days to stay full and compensate for my workout.
I kept snacks on hand at home, though you can also choose to add snacks to your order as well!
My Favorite Catered Fit Meals
I tried taking photos of every meal I got, but let’s be honest…
There were many times I got hungry…
And it smelled too good…
For me to want to wait eat in order to get a photo.
I did snap quite a few photos of the meals, however!
Here are a few of my favorites from the past two weeks:
Blackened Chickpea Greek Salad over Romaine with Grape Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Red Onions, and Vegan Feta Cheese (Meatless)
Smoky Chipotle Jackfruit Bowl with Crispy Seasoned Yucca, Grilled Onions, Charred Corn, Kale, and Blackberry BBQ Sauce (meatless)
Ohhhh my goodness gracious. I could eat this every day for a week and not get sick of it! I LOVE yucca. I also really enjoyed having jackfruit as a “pulled pork” substitute since it has a similar texture.
Paleo breaded/crusted “fish and chips” with Sweet Potato Wedges and coleslaw (Paleo)
Paleo-approved breading for the fish?! Sweet potato wedges? Paleo sauce for the fish and potatoes? No more questions needed. Where’s my fork. I need to dig in again.
Grilled salmon with mashed sweet potato and asparagus (Paleo)
Excuse the heavily filtered Instagram story screenshot of the salmon - I didn’t get a real photo of this one but wanted to share it because this was one of my favorite meals!
Black Bean Empanada Mole with Green Pea Arroz Poblano and Sauteed Broccoli (Meatless)
Ready to sign up?
Don’t forget your discount code!
If you try Catered Fit, don’t forget to use my code, ALLYARCHER, to save $25 off your first order. That’s basically like getting a free lunch & dinner, on me! :)
Have you tried Catered Fit? What did you think?
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I partnered with Catered Fit for this collaboration and an honest review. Opinions are my own. Highly recommend this company if you’re looking for meal delivery that fits your healthy lifestyle.
