Plant-Based/Vegan Meal Services, Etc in and Around Austin, Texas (Your Local Options May Vary)

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We started our transition to a plant-based diet as well as sources for this kind of food almost two weeks ago after watching the What the Health documentary on Netflix.  Note: Contains some very disturbing footage, but makes a case for the well-documented linkage between meat, dairy, and processed foods and obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol, hypertension (high blood pressure), etc, not to mention its intense impact on our environment.

 

Note: Food allergies further constrain our choices, so you would almost certainly have a much wider selection.

 

While the film’s claims have certainly been challenged, we were intrigued (and grossed out 🤮 ) enough to try the alternatives and see if we felt better, lost weight, reduced our blood pressure and bad cholesterol levels, etc.

 

We currently use the Green Chef meal service for about 3 meals a week and have been generally pleased with it, but it comes in a LOT of packaging, which is thrown away, uses a lot of single-use plastic pouches, etc, travels a long way via shipping (trucks and planes), which adds a large carbon footprint, and contains foods that may be sourced as far or even further away.

 

So we’re sharing the results of our search in case you’re interested in investigating these options.  Also, my sister has been hooking us up with some AMAZINGLY delicious vegan recipes.

 

Next, I plan to try to put some kind of table together that compares the stats on these services (please see our evaluation criteria below) and picks a winner, although Prep to Your Door looks like a strong front runner right outta the gate.

 

We hope this information is useful or at least interesting.  And remember (in the immortal words of Phish), “The herbivores ate well ’cause their food didn’t ever run“.

 

 

Peace, love & music!

 

 

 

Meal Service Evaluation Criteria:

• Locally sourced ingredients (no long-distance shipping)
• Local meal preparation and delivery (again no planes or interstate trucks)
• No plastics (since actual recycling is questionable at present)
• Vegan/plant-based meals
• No soy, egg, or gluten (we’ve learned that Val is very allergic to these)
• Easy to identify meals meeting these criteria
• Food/recipe quality and meal variety
• Cost

 

Prep to Your Door

Texas’ only zero waste meal delivery

 

Jack & Annie’s Jackfruit-Based Ingredients & Recipes

Never look at plants the same way again – Eat less meat with more joy

 

Daily Harvest Frozen Smoothies, Bowls, Flatbreads, Scoops, Bites, and Lattes

Let’s start with good clean food – No dairy, no gluten, no gums, no fillers, no artificial anything

 

Trifecta Organic, Never Frozen, Gluten-Free Meal Delivery

We cook, so you can do more

 

Farmhouse A La Carte Produce Box, Meal Kit & Grocery Delivery

Bring the farm to your door

 

Fresh ‘n Lean

Healthy is easy. All your meals delivered. Ready-to-eat.

 

The Austin Artisan

Catering and personal chef services that make meals memorable

 

Eat the Grains Meal Service

Eating healthy can taste great and be super easy!

 

Purple Carrot

Embark on a delicious adventure

 

Territory Foods

Discover healthy meals delivered fresh

 

[Article] Dinner Is Served: Meal & Grocery Delivery for Austin Families

 

 

Note: Be careful with the wording on these sites.  It’s often [intentionally?] difficult to be certain what words like “local” actually modify.

Science Says Marijuana Makes You Skinny — Seriously

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“According to the journal of Obesity Biology and Integrated Physiology, researchers have found that cannabis users have a lower body mass index. Basically, pot users are on average thinner than non-users. Not only that but there’s good news for diabetics and pre-diabetics: Cannabis users have lower blood glucose levels than non-users.

That’s not where the good news ends, either. Several studies show that cannabis users have a higher caloric intake on average than non-users despite the fact that they had a lower body weight. This means that using cannabis may encourage the munchies and make you eat more, but your metabolism simultaneously gets a little boost that prevents weight-gain …

Scientists at the University of Nebraska, the Harvard School of Public Health, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that marijuana users had a smaller waist circumference than non-users.

In yet another study of 52,000 participants, it was reported — and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology — that rates of obesity are 1/3 lower in cannabis users versus non-users. Cholesterol levels also proved to be healthier in cannabis users as well.”

— Science Says Marijuana Makes You Skinny — Seriously