My Honest Hungryroot Review: A Meal Kit That Fits My Life

When it comes to meal planning and grocery shopping, I’m always on the lookout for solutions that can make my routine easier without compromising on taste and nutrition. Recently I decided to try Hungryroot, a meal plan subscription service that promises convenience, customization, and nutritious options.

In this post I’ll share with you my Hungryroot review and experience and everything else you need to know before you order.

What is Hungryroot?

Hungryroot is a food delivery service that’s based in New York and ships high quality groceries throughout the US. They offer both meal kits and traditional groceries.

My Hungryroot Review

My family has been using Hungryroot for a few years now and really like it. We had tried other meal kits in the past but always found that they were time consuming, the meals were really high in calories and they just weren’t worth the price.

Hungryroot is different. Hungryroot allows me to select meals based on our nutrition needs and select meals that fit into my macro diet pans. They also allow you to use credits for grocery shopping, so some weeks I can order less meal kits and more regular groceries.

The one area that gets tricky with Hugnryroot is the credit process. Each week your plan gives you a certain amount of credits and before your order finalizes you can shop around. Hungryroot will preselect meals and groceries that use all your credits, but you also have th opportunity to edit and swap items if you’d like. You can also purchase more items and Hungryroot will charge you the difference.

This credit process has always been a little confusing for me. Some items – mostly groceries – seem to be randomly priced for credits. For example, a box of granola bars might be 2 credits but an individual piece of chocolate might be 1.

But besides the credits we’ve really liked the meals and groceries we’ve received from them. Over the past year they’ve also started to introduce kids meals so that’s been a nice option to get for my kids.

Pros

There are a quite a few pros for this service:

Ease of use: the website is very easy to use and navigate. They also make it really easy to pause and skip deliveries.

Quick meals with little cleanup: I love how easy the meals are to make and cleanup! They’re perfect weeknight dinners because the prep, cook time, and cleanup time is minimal.

Variety for different diets: They offer good variety for different diets and offer filters to make it easy.

Good assortment: The groceries have a really great assortment and I’m able to find brands I know and love and try new ones.

Kids Meals: I don’t think any other dinner subscription plan even offers kids meals. Hungryroot has a few different options to choose from each week.

Cons

While there are a lot of pros to the service, there are also some downsides.

Expensive – meal kits are pricey when compared to regular grocery shopping, and Hungryroot is no different. However it does help save time in the long run so that might be worth factoring in.

Repetitive – Some of the dinners can get a little repetitive, like the stir fries, if you keep your subscription for a few months.

Is Hungryroot a Meal Service?

Hungryroot isn’t a meal service like the traditional ones where they just send you ingredients for recipes. Instead you’re able to customize what is sent to you (like regular grocery shopping) and make your own recipes, or make the suggested recipes they have each week.

Recipe Examples

Every week there’s a few special recipes to try, as well as weekly staples like stir fry, burgers, tacos, flatbreads, and grain bowls. Our favorite recipes so far have been:

• Black Bean Tacos with Superblend Salad and Cashew Cheese
• Coconut Curry Tofu with Pea Snaps and Lentil Quinoa Rice Mix
• Guac Veggie Burger and Garlic Potatoes
• Thai Peanut Tofu with Veggie Stir Fry and Quinoa Blend
• Tomato Black Bean Enchiladas

Hungryroot also offers premade options that just need to be heated up.

How Much is It?

Hungryroot generally costs anywhere from $60 to $160 – it all depends on how many servings and recipes sent to you. In my case, we use Hungryroot for our dinners and snacks and get 3 recipes (4 servings each) and groceries for about $150 a week.

What Diets Does Hungryroot Work For?

Hungryroot is really flexible about diets and dietary restrictions. During your food profile quiz you can select diets that are:

• Vegetarian
• Vegan
• Dairy Free
• High Protein
• Nut Free
• Low Carb

and more. In addition, when you select the foods each week you can read the labels to make sure they fit in your diet.

What Brands Does Hungryroot Carry?

I’ve found that most of the brands available are the same ones you’d find at grocery stores like Whole Foods. A lot of the meals do feature Hungyroot’s own brand (which we’ve been super impressed with! Especially their dips and sauces), but they also do carry brands like:

• Beyond Burgers
• Banza
• Kitehill
• Little Potato Company
• Partake

Is Hungryroot Worth it?

We’ve been subscribing for a few years now and have found that it’s been worth it to us. It’s helped me save time with meal planning and prepping, and it’s introduced us to new foods and combinations that we never would’ve tried before. I also really like how all the produce we’ve received has been great quality and really fresh.

Hungryroot hasn’t completely replaced our grocery shopping but it has replaced a good chunk of it. I still prefer my morning protein overnight oats, so I still make that, but other than that, most of the food we eat comes from the Hungryroot box.

Overall we’re really happy with our subscription and plan to continue it. It’s introduced us to so many new foods and combinations, and it’s saved me so much time in the kitchen!

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