Randi M.
Yelp
I tried this for 2 days( and then got a 3rd for free) with a Living Social. Here is my experience: I requested no red meat, no salmon, no albacore tuna, no brussel sprouts and no eggplant. You're only allowed to have 5 exclusions or you need to pay extra. I hate raw tomatoes and I figured I could just remove them from salads. I didn't expect to have a full salad with tomatoes. I ended up just eating the jicama from that and tossing out the tomatoes.
Breakfast
1.Denver omelet( no meat)
strawberries
2. egg white frittata with Ham & cheese
cantaloupe and berries.
3. hard cooked egg, banana muffin, cottage cheese and fruit( watermelon, a few blackberries and strawberries)
Lunch
1. salad with 3 large cooked shrimp, avocado, beets, cashews, dried cranberries and avocado
2. lasagna( meat substitute), broccoli
3. mixed green salad, shrimp quesadilla
Dinner
1. fish with a mediteranian sauce, asparagus
2. fish with another red type sauce. carrots, squash and zuchini
3. turkey with mashed potatoes and brocoli
Snacks
1.Beet salad with goat cheese
2. honeydew wrapped with proscuito
3. tomato and jicama salad
Dessert
1. small slice of layer cake
2, 2 cookies
3. lemon cheesecake bar
Pros
The fruit was really tasty and fresh. I loved that they used organic whenever possible. I ended up consuming more fruit in 3 days than I would have, because it was all cut up for me. The fish was cooked perfectly as was the hard cooked egg and the veggies. I loved the onion salad dressing on the mixed green salad
Cons
The salads were soggy by the time I could eat them. The quesadilla was thrown on top of the salad and it was really soggy. I ended up pulling out the filling and using my own low-carb tortilla to remake the quesadilla. The avocado was brown on the one salad and the nuts were soggy. I recommend packing the nuts separately and the quesadilla. The cookies were stale too. The greens under the beet salad were really soggy as well. The cheddar cheese was too greasy in the quesadilla. recommend using a low-fat cheese. I hated the turkey too. It had a very weird texture.
I know the zone diet is 40, 30, 30, but I would have liked to see nutritional info. I did lose 5lbs the week I ate the food. It was enough food for me and I wasn't hungry. If it was a bit less expensive, I'd do it again.
There was some talk about me living too far away and them not wanting to deliver. Not sure what that's about, since they do advertise that they serve all of LA county.
Customer service was good and they gave me a free day of food because of some of the issues I had with the salads and me thinking they gave me ground beef.