When I got home, there was a large styrofoam box and inside was my ten meals, vacuum packed and frozen, a selection of condiments for various meals, and a list of the meals. (I should've taken a picture, I'll try to remember next week.) The meals could have fit in a box half the size, but I imagine they use the same box whether you get 2 meals for 5 days or 3 meals for 7 days, so that makes sense. As I said, each meal was vacuum packed on top of a black tray that is mircorwave and conventional oven safe. On the back is a large white sticker with the name of the meal, directions on heating, and ingredients. Some meals said which week and day it was from, but weirdly some meals did not. (Diet To Go cycles their meals every four weeks.)
I wish there was a bit more instructions regarding which meals to have when, calorie count of the meals, etc... on the sheet included in the box, but instead there was a list that doesn't even clearly outline what is lunch and what is dinner. However, all of this information can be found on the web. One thing that is frustrating is that two lunches which were clearly different had the same label "Chicken, Vegetables and Sauce." The inventory list indicated that the first lunch "Bistro Chicken Salad" would be labelled "Chicken Vegetables and Sauce" but I had no way to know which of the two was the Bistro Chicken Salad. By the rule of deduction, I figured that the two lunches with the same label were Bistro Chicken Salad and Pesto Chicken Salad and clearly they just put the wrong label on the Pesto Chicken Salad. In order to determine which was which, I had to look at the pictures on the website. (The Pesto Chicken Salad comes with a piece of bread--which in its frozen, vacuum packed state actually looks like a sausage. The meals aren't particularly appetizing frozen and vacuum packed, but I wonder what would be?)
Since I plan on doing this for weekdays and not the weekends, I put my lunches and dinners for Thursday and Friday in the fridge and the rest of the meals in the freezer. For dinner, I was scheduled to have the Baked Spaghetti Pie which comes with cauliflower, but I wasn't in the mood and instead opted for the Turkey Picadillo which comes with rice and beans (which I love) and asparagus (which I hate). The heating directions from frozen are to microwave in two minute intervals on high until it reaches the desired temp. I believe I used 3, two minute intervals.
The Turkey Picadillo ended up looking a bit like chili and the meals itself was a bit watery, which is probably true of any frozen meal. Overall, it looked like what you'd expect from a frozen meal in size and consistency--perhaps a bit better. As far as taste, it was pretty good. The Turkey Picadillo was a bit sweet for my personal taste, but for someone who likes sweet with their savory this will be an added encouragement. I actually liked the asparagus when it incorporated the flavors of the Turkey Picadillo and while the rice and beans are certainly no where near the best I've ever had, like I already said, I like rice and beans.
Overall the meal was tasty, but I certainly could have made something I liked better myself. As far as quantity, I was still hungry afterwards but not famished and I eat A LOT. It is probably a satiating meal for the average person and this is supposed to be a diet, I shouldn't expect to be stuffed after eating a meal.
I would say the combination of taste, convenience, and quantity leave me happy with my decision so far--it would've really sucked if I got the food and it was tiny, disgusting, and a pain in the ass! So far it is way too early to have an opinion on the program overall.
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