Metabolic Meals Review

Metabolic Meals offers a weekly rotating menu of about twenty-four to thirty meals, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner options. This breaks down to about 15-20 lunch/dinner entrees and 7-10 breakfast meals.

In addition to prepared meals, customers can also choose to add extra protein, signature side dishes, and even an occasional dessert to their weekly delivery. The extra protein, such as chicken breasts, pulled chicken, pulled pork, and bison meatballs, are great for those who eat a high protein diet and want an easy way to enjoy more meat without making extra trips to the grocery store.

Examples of their healthy best sellers include Hawaiian BBQ Chicken with Fried Rice, Grass Fed Beef Burger with Cabernet Onions, and Spinach Parmesan Pasta with Olive Oil Vinaigrette Chicken.

A sampling of other entrees might include Grass-Fed Bison Baked Ziti Casserole, Low Country Wild-Caught Shrimp Boil, Cider Braised Grass-Fed Beef & Roasted Root Vegetables, and Oven Roasted Turkey with Sherry Wine Sauce.

A decent breakfast selection makes it easy to eat healthy food for breakfast during the week, rather than just grabbing nothing more than a cup of coffee or speeding through the drive-thru on your way to your morning obligations. For breakfast, you’ll find meals like maple bacon and egg scramble, biscuit and gravy casserole, and the steakhouse mushroom scrambler.

Overall, Metabolic Meal’s menu is satisfactory. There’s enough variety to keep things interesting, and the flavors are ones that even picky eaters will like. We’d like to see a few dishes that featured plant-based ingredients as the main star, but overall, it’s a decent menu.

With a name like Metabolic Meals, you naturally assume that the food will be designed for weight loss or weight maintenance. Some customers approach Metabolic Meals thinking that it’s a weight loss program in and of itself, which it isn’t. Instead, each meal is created to fit into a range of weight loss or health maintenance programs. Information on calories and macro-nutrients is readily available for viewing on the weekly menu.

When choosing meals, you can filter the options by a handful of special diet categories. These include keto, low-carb, low-sodium, diabetic-friendly, and low-calorie (under 450 calories) to help you lose weight.

All Metabolic Meals are already gluten-free and free of wheat, soy, refined sugar, artificial flavors, and artificial colors. There’s also the option to select meals that exclude certain ingredients. These include dairy, egg, peanut, tree-nut, shellfish, and fish.

Overall, Metabolic Meals does a good job of offering meals that work with the most popular weight control diets, including keto and low-calorie diets. The fact that they also offer diabetic and low sodium meals is a bonus. We also like that all their meals are free of artificial ingredients, including flavors and colorings. What they don’t offer are meals for dietary preferences like paleo, Whole30, or the Mediterranean diet. There also aren’t really any options for vegans, vegetarians, or whole-food plant-based lifestyles.

One of the main reasons people turn to services like Metabolic meals is because they’re looking for new options for their mealtime dilemmas. They want food that is healthy and delicious but also nutritionally balanced to support and boost their metabolism for fat loss.

On the menu, you’ll find low to moderate-fat meals that are high in lean protein and come in perfect portions to satisfy your appetite. Many items are what you’d consider a good option for low-calorie diets. Most entrees are under 400 calories, but just a few exceed that number.

What you might like about these meals is that they’re made with foods known to increase motivational neurotransmitters dopamine and acetylcholine. These foods play a role in this by helping to regulate blood sugar and give you the pre-workout motivation you need to power through that workout session.

Each meal is designed with the guidance of a nutritionist who understands the demand that fitness and weight loss can put on the body. Whether you’re looking to achieve fat loss, body sculpting, or even just maintain your body as it is, Metabolic Meals are good options from a nutritional standpoint.

A big part of what Metabolic Meals seems to stand for is the integrity and quality of the food they use to make their meals. They use organic ingredients whenever possible, and each cut of protein is either grass-fed, free-range, or sustainably raised. They’re also known for not using added sugar, artificial flavor, or artificial colorants in their meals. 

When you order a Metabolic Meal, what you’re getting is fresh food. The meals don’t arrive frozen, so the integrity of the ingredients really stands out. There’s no hiding behind artificial anything. 

As mentioned earlier, all meals are gluten-free, and while not all are dairy-free, there are not a lot of meals that contain dairy, at least compared to other meal delivery companies that don’t offer specific dairy-free plans. 

Taste is one of the most important factors when signing up for a meal subscription. If the flavor doesn’t appeal to you, you’re wasting your money. Here’s what we discovered about the flavor of Metabolic Meals. 

First, their meals are created by top chefs and nutritionists, so at a base level, they’re inherently good. Overall, their meals are designed to be well-liked by even picky eaters. This means that you’re going to find a lot of comfort-food style dishes, and nothing that goes too over the top with bold and new flavors. They do get innovative with some preparations and combinations of foods, but it’s all very nicely balanced in terms of how it tastes. 

Biscuits and Gravy Casserole with Organic Free-Range Turkey Sausage

Spanish Rice and Fajita Vegetables

As with pretty much all meal delivery services, there are people who love the meals and think they’re delicious. Some simply want to know that what they eat is healthy and are more concerned about nutrition than anything else. Then, there are those that simply aren’t that crazy about the dishes they’ve eaten from Metabolic Meals. 

Considering that these meals are delivered fresh, there’s a good chance they’ll become slightly disheveled during shipping. This means that they’re not going to look as intact and pretty as a frozen meal might. We say that you shouldn’t let that discourage you. 

Chicken Asado with Green Chile Rice

Low Country Wild-Caught Shrimp Boil

Generally, these meals taste good, although the texture is sometimes slightly off. An example might be green beans that are a little limper than they appear in the beautiful picture. The flavor is still good, but the texture and bright colors might not be there. A few customer reviews claim that the protein options and sides are slightly bland. If you’re ordering a la carte bulk items, you can always add your own seasoning to liven things up.

In terms of preparation, these meals couldn’t be easier. They come fully prepared and ready to heat and eat. Each meal comes with heating instructions, but for the most part, all they require is a little time in the microwave. In just a few minutes, you can have a healthy meal to eat.

Metabolic Meals is a weekly subscription service, meaning that you’ll receive weekly recurring meals once you sign up and create an account. Unlike other services, they don’t offer specific meal plans. Instead, you pick how many meals you want each week from the meal options. There’s a minimum order of six meals, but the rest is up to you.

On average, each meal costs about $12.99. When you look for more options a little further down the menu, you’ll see that the premium protein options and signature sides are priced differently from the meals. The proteins are a few dollars more, and the sides are a little over $10.  We like that you have more control over how much you spend each week compared to other meal delivery companies, and the meals are all in the mid-range price. You can find more budget-friendly options out there, but they’re also not the most expensive either. 

Metabolic Meals are packaged in individual trays that are recyclable and BPA-free. When your meals are shipped, they’ll arrive in a well-insulated box that’s also completely recyclable. There are soft liners in each shipment that are completely biodegradable, and Metabolic Meals uses ice packs to keep your shipment at the proper temperature during transit.  The ice packs are non-toxic; the inner contents can be emptied, and the outer shell can be recycled. It isn’t recommended that you pour the contents of the ice pack down the drain since it may interfere with the performance of your plumbing. 

Metabolic Meals is a recurring meal service, so when you sign up, you can expect to be billed for weekly shipments unless you otherwise request a change to your order. You can log into your account and skip weeks or pause your subscription. However, you do need to do this by the posted cut-off date for your shipment. Once an order is processed or shipped, it’s impossible to cancel it. 

You can also cancel your account. However, according to customer reviews, it’s best to contact the company directly and get a confirmation for the cancellation rather than doing it online. More than one review gave Metabolic Meals a poor rating because they felt it was too difficult to cancel their subscription or felt that they signed up not knowing that this was a subscription service. 

Still, despite the few knocks from their customer service reviews, most customers don’t have a problem managing their accounts online. We also noticed that Metabolic Meals is very responsive to both positive and negative customer reviews. To us, this signals a customer service department that does care about their customer’s satisfaction.

Overall, we think Metabolic Meals can be a great option for anyone looking to boost their metabolism through dietary approaches. They’re great if you don’t like to cook but want to enjoy a tasty, healthy meal without all the fuss.

What we liked:

• No-cook, easy heating instructions 
• Essential nutrition your body needs 
• Great if you want to maintain or lose weight 
• Good value for the money
• Fresh, not frozen meals 
• Build your own meal plan

What we didn’t like:

• Some bland meal components 
• Some poor customer service reviews
• Would like to see a bit more variety on the menu