The food delivery market in Moscow has gone so far that now numerous services can satisfy any client’s needs. Delivery of products from a farmer's market or from a supermarket, ready-made kits for preparing home dinners, mobile applications for receiving dishes from any restaurant - this will not surprise anyone today.

Now marketers have taken on dietary nutrition. Fortunately, the fashion for supposedly “healthy” detoxification courses using fruit and vegetable smoothies has passed. Restaurant food still contains too much sugar, cholesterol and calories. The latest trend is proper nutrition, which, as you know, should be different for everyone. The delivery of a ready-made diet is developed specifically for the client’s needs: for weight loss or maintaining fitness, with a reduced sugar or fat content, without gluten or any other allergen. For some, not going shopping and not standing at the stove is a dream, but for business people who want to eat healthy, it is a vital necessity.

We have selected five similar food delivery services that, in our opinion, are worthy of your attention.

Just Food

The service was created by three friends: Yaroslav Kachanov, Sergei Korolev and Nikita Kastov. The kitchen is overseen by Nikita, a representative of the healthy nutrition direction in restaurant business(worked at Goodman and Fish House in Moscow). Everything is strict with him: he does not use sweeteners, spices and oil, does not add salt (but adds salt separately) and does not fry, cooks porridge in water, and includes a menu for the diet, where each dish is listed according to the amount of KBJU (calories, proteins, fats) and carbohydrates). The undeniable advantages include punctual delivery (starting from 6 am), the presence of soups on the menu and the use of convenient environmentally friendly biodegradable containers.

At Just Food, the cost of a day of healthy eating starts from RUB 1,090. (5-6 meals) – this is one of the most low prices On the market. Minus - no one promises that it will be delicious. True, if you don’t like buckwheat, oatmeal and cottage cheese, proper nutrition in any case will be a test of strength.

Just for you

Just for you positions itself as a “haute cuisine” service, which was developed by the best European chefs and promises to be not only healthy, but also truly delicious. The luxury balanced nutrition project was created in 2006 in Moscow by Dr. Irina Pochitaeva and restaurateur Arkady Novikov, and its uniqueness lies in the combination of medical knowledge and modern methods cooking. Programs are offered for weight loss, cleansing the body, for lactating and pregnant women, a hypocholesterol diet, an individual diet developed by a nutritionist, and even “food for private aviation” (an exclusive offer for those who prefer flying on private jets). A varied and exquisite menu, exclusively organic products, laboratory control, thoughtful service, timely delivery, individual approach - all this is promised at Just for you. Pros: airtight containers, food in which can be reheated in the oven or microwave oven, and cooking in a combi oven. The most gourmet, but also the most expensive option (one day of food costs from 6,500 rubles).

Easy Meal

Having lost weight from 110 to 80 kg, entrepreneur Vadim Malkin in 2012, together with his partner consulting business Yuri Samokhin launched a healthy food service with home delivery. Easy Meal is a healthy meal delivered for those who, for some reason, need to follow a proper diet. Programs offered: “Weight loss”, “Balance”, “Anti-stress”, “ Sports nutrition”, “Fasting and vegetarianism”, “School breakfast”, as well as specialized ones, that is, menus for medical reasons (for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and pancreas, obesity and diseases of the cardiovascular system or increased excitability of the nervous system). The founders of the service position it as smart premium: when premium quality is ensured mainly due to the “smart” organization of the process, and not high prices. They advocate a scientific approach and the formation of constant healthy eating habits and are against diets as such.

Eating healthy can be a hassle for working people: according to statistics, food shopping and preparing healthy food takes up to 9 hours a week – that’s almost a whole working day. The advantages of the service include the use of “restaurant” products and delicacies, but the disadvantages are plastic containers in a huge number. A day of nutrition from Easy Meal will cost from 2,600 rubles.

Eat and train

Eat and train is an economical option for delivering diets with a sports focus. The service was created in 2013 by Kristina Vorobyova, all diets are calculated by Vladimir Sudarev, a nutritionist at the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Research Institute of Nutrition” - they, in their words, are “in the subject of sports” and know what those who lead a healthy lifestyle need. The company cooperates with professional sports organizations, such as “World of Boxing”, Fight Nights, Klokov&BazaTeam, helping athletes “make weight” for competitions. On the website you can choose a set for losing weight, maintaining weight or gaining muscle mass, and you can choose the portion size based on your personal parameters: XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL (there is a weight and calorie calculator for this).

The advantage of the service is a good ratio between price and quality: the cost of one day of food will be from 1000 rubles, while in addition to the classic chicken breast, buckwheat and cottage cheese for proper nutrition, the diet includes (although not always) red fish, seafood, beef, fruit , vegetables, exotic cereals and homemade sauces.

Digibu has already written about how relevant food delivery is in the difficult conditions of a modern metropolis, and also reviewed the activities of Russian services that deliver food and provide related services. Today we will separately focus on the most popular - companies that deliver products to your home with photo recipes.

Digibu selected a dozen of the most popular online grocery delivery services operating in this format.

How to make a cool restaurant dish at home?

The “” service invites its clients to expand the horizons of their culinary skills, or even take a fresh look at their daily diet (especially if other people have begun to suspect you of being overweight).

The company's main message is clearly stated on the home page. Each unusual dish comes with step-by-step instructions and an already formed “basket” of products that will be needed to prepare the dish from the menu.

The company also offers customers not only to deliver products, but also provides the services of a professional nutritionist and individual program weight loss, which is compiled after filling out a questionnaire on the site.

On the one hand, here you can find photo recipes of mainly traditional European dishes that are familiar to middle-class Russians since childhood. On the other hand, “Varim-Zharim” is made with care for the athletes and hipsters of our Motherland (delivery has two more directions).

Cook at home

Perhaps, The best way look at the person who shares recipes.

The "" service not only offers simple and understandable photo recipes along with sets of fully prepared products, but also lifts the veil of secrecy over who all these people are who offer recipes for urban home cooking?

Evgeniy Stukov is a current member of the National Guild of Chefs, without any doubt, the main feature of the Cook-at-home service.

This guy will always have something to post on Instagram!

Products and recipes. Nothing extra.

Online delivery of a basket of products and photo recipes from the cultural capital. The service has already counted calories for its clients, found interesting recipes, indicated the approximate “weight” of each ready-made dish, and is just waiting for a call for delivery.

The simplicity and information content of the resource is captivating, and the flexibility of product layout options is undoubtedly pleasing.

Teach you how to cook.

All books about tasty and healthy food have already been read by people from “”, and the recipes have been approved by a practicing nutritionist - in any case, this is what he clearly tells us home page online grocery delivery service.

A unique component of delivery is the prospect of opening a “Everything for the Chef” store, which will allow customers not only to cook with the same products as in the restaurant, but also with the same cutlery. So, a complete “presence effect” is guaranteed.

In Siberia they cook themselves, just like in a restaurant!

Delivery of products with photo recipes from Krasnoyarsk. A young and dynamically developing project that helps Siberians easily and naturally eat only healthy, natural, home-cooked food.

Recipes of predominantly European cuisine are used. The “” menu already provides how much time a home cook will need to prepare a dish, how much it will actually cost, not in a restaurant, and also indicates which world cuisine the food belongs to.

The only caveat is that some of the products should still be at home: salt and pepper.

Delicious week

Ready-made dinner solutions for the day/week/month.

Delicious ideas for every day from the “Tasty Week” service include: dividing the menu into classic and vegetarian, delivery of products and photo recipes from one dinner to a “subscription” for a month, photo recipes that are sold in no longer than 40 minutes.

All perishable products are delivered in vacuum packaging - this increases shelf life. The ingredients are delivered fully prepared, in the required proportions.

Self-assembled tablecloth

Fabulously easy to prepare.

The portion size of the “Tablecloth-Samobranka” service is much larger than in an expensive restaurant. In addition, anyone who has doubts can make an inexpensive “trial” order to find out once and for all whether they specifically need this service and how it works in practice.

Optionally, the number of people for whom the food will be prepared, as well as the number of days over which the online delivery menu will be “extended,” changes.

Masterpieces of the transcendental taste sensations.

The business process of this delivery immediately assumes a serious relationship, offering to place orders a week in advance. However, to the credit of "" it is worth saying that the menu here is also worked out with special care: classic cuisine, food for vegetarians, a special children's menu.

A “trial” order for RUR 700 is also offered. – ready-made ingredients for Cordon Bleu with spinach rice will be delivered to you the next day. According to the deliverymen themselves, after Cordon Bleu, the lives of their clients will never be the same again due to the ease of preparation and the brightness of the taste sensations from this dish.

This is the best way to cook at home.

“” promises obscenely large portions, as well as all the best that already exists in the field of food delivery with photo recipes in Russia.

Purchasing products, including exotic ones, packaging them and delivering them to the client’s door is what “Dinner from the Chef” has already taken care of. Extensive menu and several options for ordering food delivery. All
counted, weighed, packaged, provided.

Thus, services for delivering products with photo recipes can so far be called only a developing branch of commerce in Russia. However, today many such services demonstrate a decent competitive level, and also successfully solve the main problem of the vast majority of the working population - they offer ready-made options for a healthy breakfast, nutritious lunch and delicious dinner, without fast food and semi-finished products.

The Elementaree service offers three options for subscription food kits. One-time dinner: two courses for two plus dessert (2,500 rubles for everything) for those who do not have time to go to the store or are tired of showing their imagination when choosing recipes on the Internet. A “healthy” designer if you plan to completely overhaul your diet: the set is enough for a week, and you will have to cook to a minimum. And finally, a food set for a week (enough to prepare breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert), if you don’t want to waste time at the supermarket.

What was tested

set of proper nutrition

Duration

7 days

Price

from 1,070 to 1,430 rubles (per day)

KATYA FIRSOVA, JUNIOR EDITOR OF WEEKEND SECTION: The Elementaree set was originally chosen Chief Editor The Village Yura Bolotov, but by the beginning of the experiment he was getting ready to go on vacation and refused to bring a week’s supply of breakfast, lunch and dinner to Berlin. I was offered to participate at the last moment, so I knew absolutely nothing about what awaited me. When I saw my not very large package, designed for three days of five meals a day, I felt sick. While my colleagues were leaving home in a taxi with huge boxes, my two-day rations fit into a backpack and weighed less than a regular bag of groceries.

Elementaree is really like a designer. Inside a large plastic bag there are a dozen small bags of ingredients, each with a sticker with a number so as not to confuse the meal. The meat and fish are already cut and put in vacuum bags, there are spices and herbs. The maximum that may be required to prepare one dish is to cut vegetables or cook porridge. In addition to the contents of the packages, you will need olive oil, a frying pan, a small saucepan and salt.

Along with the food, containers and daily menu, the kit includes three information sheets. Two of them are written in small print on both sides and include the history of the company, a personal letter from the founder of the service Olga, as well as instructions and tips on how to painlessly integrate Elementaree into your life. For example, always eat slowly, cut into small pieces, observe intervals between meals. “Goal achiever” is printed on the third sheet. In it you need to note your diet, well-being and changes in weight every day. It seems like a good idea, but since my experiment will be short-lived, I’m putting this piece of paper aside.

Since I don’t need to demonstrate any culinary skills, I decided to strictly limit myself to only the food from the set - after all, there must be at least some kind of challenge. There should be enough food for three full meals and two snacks - a total of 1,400 kilocalories per day. The instructions say that if you still want to eat during the day, you should consult with the support service: a nutritionist can increase your calorie intake.

The first day doesn’t start out very well: my berry cheesecake was already eaten by my colleagues, so all that was left for breakfast was cottage cheese. I add raspberry jam to it and eat at most four spoons - the sweet stuff doesn’t fit into my mouth at all. It’s an hour’s drive to the editorial office, and during this time I’m trying to memorize the phrases with which I’m asked to answer the questions of others: “I need this to get all the necessary energy for life, without wasting time and thoughts on the routine around food.” I vehemently protest against this idea: food is almost the main entertainment for me. In addition, thoughts are spinning in my head about the banana-strawberry lassi that is waiting for me in the refrigerator at work. True, it doesn’t bring much saturation either. It’s also difficult to enjoy a milkshake because in the office kitchen there are plates of sausage, fresh bread and Druzhba cheese, and the cook Svetlana is already working her magic on lunch. By two o'clock my stomach is growling so loudly that I am ready to eat without tearing off the vacuum packaging of the food. Another half hour to prepare chicken with pineapple and rice, and I finally had my usual meal in front of me - for the first time since eight in the morning. True, I want to eat again after an hour and a half. For an afternoon snack I have pumpkin fritters - and they are delicious. I would eat them every day and in large quantities. I end the day half-starved, nervous and tired as ever.

The second day turns out to be just as painful. Today for breakfast - muesli with fermented baked milk and kiwi. I hate ryazhenka and never drink it. The kiwi tastes green and the granola bag fits in the palm of your hand. Due to the lack of any liquid, it all resembles a mineral mixture from a pet store - this is also what they feed parrots and guinea pigs. Even after adding yoghurt from the menu the next day, the muesli does not chew at all and squeaks unpleasantly on the teeth. The advice “drink water” does not help, because I am used to drinking a lot. In addition, no matter how much water or even tea you drink, a meager breakfast and snack cannot be corrected by them. An hour after lunch, I catch myself thinking that again I can’t think about anything but food. I really want Svetlana’s chicken or at least a salad with eggplant. Not eating enough makes me constantly in a bad mood, and I tell everyone how lousy I am and how hungry I am. My colleagues listen and feel sorry for me, while finishing the second plate of pilaf.

I start the third day cheerfully - however, right before the message that the courier has brought another part of the set. For some reason, I thought that the experiment would last only three days, and I was already dreaming of having lunch with the rest of the employees. I try to cheer myself up with the thoughts that I saved Yura from such a sad fate, but my mood and strength appear only after dinner.

On the fourth day, I finally got lucky: I had apple and pear crumble for breakfast. And although on a normal day I would have eaten another portion of this, the crumble greatly improved my mood. For lunch, the menu included funchoza with chicken and vegetables. To be honest, I didn’t expect that regular cabbage with glass noodles could be so tasty. Besides, this was the first lunch, half of which I saved for later. I have an almost royal dinner - squid with spelled. This is the first time that I was full all day and happy with what was on my plate. The fifth day also supported the wave of success of the previous one, and for the first time I put “excellent” marks in front of all the dishes. I almost don’t feel like eating, but I put aside the cottage cheese dessert with dates. I am in a good mood all day and hardly complain.

It’s worth noting here that on Saturdays and Sundays I generally eat little. These days I'm broadcasting "" and only have time to have two or three small snacks. Probably, the brain is used to focusing only on work, so during broadcasts you never feel like eating. In addition, I noticed that I really have enough food from the set - even if I have to throw out the hated lentils from dinner. The combination of these factors was the reason that for the last two days I have never been hungry, and my afternoon snacks and snacks even remained untouched.

In general, as a picky person, I cannot call the menu ideal. For example, for some reason almost all breakfasts turned out to be sweet. Only on the last day there was an omelette with suluguni and fresh vegetables. Before it - cottage cheese, muesli with fruit or porridge with nuts. While I understand the effectiveness of this approach, for me there is nothing better than toast with cheese or salmon. The snack was also frustrating. In the six-hour break between breakfast and lunch, I want to eat something more significant than an apple with a handful of almonds, but fruits and fermented milk were again on the menu. Banana-pear smoothie, milk dessert with vanilla, curd dessert with dates - all this was tasty, but not filling at all.

Lunch always consisted of turkey or chicken, vegetables and some kind of cereal or noodles. Nothing special, but by this point my stomach was always rumbling from hunger and I didn’t really want to look into it, and besides, the meat always came with a set of seasonings, which added variety. The impression from the afternoon tea was twofold. If I was ready to sing the praises of pumpkin fritters or bars with cottage cheese and spinach, then the sets of “root vegetables with dip” (and they came most often) made me sad. The fifth meal was when things looked best. The only thing I didn’t like the whole time was the cod with oatmeal: the fish turned out to be tasteless and bony. All the other dinners were awarded a happy smiley face on the sign, and the last one, quinoa with pumpkin and goat cheese, made it into my personal top dishes.

Sometimes there were problems with the ingredients. For example, I don’t eat beans, lentils, parsley, celery and peanuts - I immediately had to cut them out of my diet. In addition, I add onions and garlic to dishes only if I can brush my teeth after eating, so I had to exclude them too. Service workers say that the menu can be adjusted depending on preferences - perhaps with a long-term subscription such transfer of products can be avoided.

On the menu sheet next to each dish you can give a rating. For seven days of five meals a day, I gave 17 “excellent”, 10 “average” and 7 “poor”. It was not possible to evaluate another meal: my very first breakfast (berry cheesecake) was eaten without me.

After the end of the experiment, I continued to eat very little, because the desire to fill my stomach to capacity had disappeared. True, coffee, sweets, soda and bread have returned to the diet.

In the first couple of days of the experiment, I was literally exhausted from the lack of the amount of food I was accustomed to: I scolded myself, resisted the very idea. But by the end of the course, I still discovered several advantages. For example, sometimes it's really convenient to not worry about what you eat. Save time on grocery shopping and cooking. Secondly, the body often deceives us with the amount of food it needs. It turns out that you can live on 1,400 kilocalories. In addition, a well-thought-out menu adds variety.

Here I would like to note the healthy attitude of the creators of Elementaree towards the entire process. For example, if you want variety, a person is advised to sometimes treat the set as a base, adding the necessary products to it. And although the description of the service advises you to follow a routine and not eat too much, no one forces you to give up dinner or spend an hour in the gym for eating a cake.

I don't think I would use Elementaree all the time. After all, food for me is synonymous with entertainment and pleasure. I love looking at grocery shelves, planning what I'm going to eat, tinkering with new recipes. At the same time, I personally know people who can sit on chicken with buckwheat for weeks and not complain. Simply because food doesn't matter that much to them. Unfortunately or fortunately, shopping, counting and cooking are not a routine for me.

"Food Party"

Since 2014, the Food Party has been operating in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Here you can order a Sunday box with enough food for five full dinners for two. The menu is updated every week: you can check it directly on the website. They promise that it will take no more than half an hour to prepare dinner.

What was tested

classic dinners

Duration

5 days

Price

3,295 rubles

Nastya Dujardin, community manager: I heard about the “Food Party” a couple of years ago from friends (and heard only good things), so I decided to try them. A huge box was brought to the office containing craft bags with food and recipes packaged for five days. My menu looked like this. Day one: chicken drumsticks in garlic marinade with vegetable rice and tomato sauce. Day two: Homemade turkey nuggets with pasta and cheese sauce. Day three: grandma's cutlets with mashed potatoes and mushrooms with meat sauce. Day four: Provençal lamb stew. Day five: baked potatoes stuffed with crispy bacon and onion mix, topped with cheese.

The first thing that caught my eye when I started unpacking the packages at home was the expiration date of the meat. All expiration dates expired exactly on the day when this dish needed to be prepared, which is critical for me: I cannot force myself to eat foods whose expiration date has not yet expired, but is close to the end. Therefore, for my own peace of mind, I threw all the meat into the freezer on the first evening.

The second question, which, I admit, caused me even more bewilderment, was the number of chicken drumsticks. There were five of them. Five drumsticks for two persons. At first I assumed that, perhaps, the Food Party believed that only couples order such dinners and that the man should eat more. But this option was rejected after a conversation with my neighbor. He immediately stated that he couldn’t handle three legs at once. In general, the question of why you need to put five drumsticks in a dinner for two remained silently lying in the refrigerator, the last chicken leg that no one needed.

I didn't like the first dinner. The marinade for the chicken didn’t work out (I assume that the bird still needed to lie in it for a while, but the instructions don’t say anything about this), the sauce came out too spicy (adding all the spices to it according to the instructions was a big mistake). The rice with vegetables was a success, but I don’t really understand how you can ruin the rice.

on the picture: Baked potatoes stuffed with crispy bacon

The second dinner was much better. The turkey nuggets turned out so tasty and tender that I wasn’t even bothered by the fact that their quantity again exceeded the required amount for two persons. The cheese sauce was also good, but there was too little of it. There was so much pasta (aka just pasta) left that we ate it for a couple more days.

The third day turned out to be the most difficult. I didn’t really want to cook a dish whose name included the words “cutlets” and “mushrooms”. But we have to admit: this dinner was very tasty, and the amount of food prepared finally matched our capabilities. The fourth day became my favorite. The lamb stew turned out simply amazing, and for the first time I wasn’t upset that there was a lot of it. I ate it with pleasure the next day. I would like to say a special thank you for the very soft meat. I was really looking forward to the fifth day because I absolutely love bacon. I can only say that everything turned out delicious (and again more than necessary).

In general, I was pleased with the “Food Party”, although I still had some questions. But I wouldn’t use such services: I finish work quite late, and for a whole week it was hard for me to cook in the evenings and have dinner at 10 pm. And be careful with spices: for each of the five days they put much more than was necessary. After the failure with the sauce on the first day, I decided to add them at my discretion.

"Chef Market"

One of the first Russian analogues of the American Blue Apron, Chef Market has existed since 2012. The service undertakes the delivery of dinners for five days and diet sets (“Diet from Dukan” - 900 rubles per day), and also offers a five-day supply of smoothies (which you still have to mix yourself).

What was tested

fitness dinners

Duration

5 days

Price

3,900 rubles

Nastya Kurganskaya, editor of the Weekend section:“Ha ha ha, there is even a section with the Dukan menu in 2016, ha ha ha!” - before the experiment begins, I study the website of the service I inherited, out of habit, without controlling the speech flow. Fate interprets my comments incorrectly, and two days later they mistakenly bring me five sets of “Chef Market” products from the “fitness” category, although it seems that diet food is what they feed in the lower circles of Dante’s hell. Nevertheless, all the dishes on paper look quite appetizing and satisfying - the emphasis is on protein, vegetables and complex carbohydrates - and the cooking time for each does not exceed 40 minutes, which in theory is not much. I look at the experiment with enthusiasm, but problems begin already on the first day, and they are not related to the quality of the service or products.

Lyrical digression: most weekdays I come to work at 11:00 and leave no earlier than 20:00; at breakfast, work obliges me to watch various new movies, and in the evening I usually occupy myself with sports and personal meetings. It’s great when you can squeeze in a seminar at the university, a manicure, a haircut, or some other indescribably important concern for a woman into a day. I am not married, I have no children, and fortunately, the burden of cooking for someone other than myself does not yet fall on me. In addition, the office cook Svetlana feeds us at the editorial office, so I don’t come home very hungry. Even if I come, it doesn’t happen before 10 pm - and let’s be honest, this is how half of Moscow lives. Spend a whole hour at this time (in all five recipes, the cooking time is a third less, but in practice it turned out that I am not Yulia Vysotskaya and swing a knife much more slowly) on preparing a tandoori turkey under a cap of Himalayan salt, so that I can eat it in one mouth ? It’s better to quickly cook a plate of bulgur with olive oil and go finish the day’s work.

Therefore, in the morning I begin to suspect that I am not the target audience for such projects. I take the first bag of ingredients to the office kitchen and cook it there at 7 pm before my cycling class. No complaints, the meat is quite tender, an ordinary food for those concerned about their figure or health. However, I’m still late for cycling: the reason for this is half an hour in the oven.

on the picture: Tandoori turkey with Himalayan salt cap

On the second day of the experiment, I don’t want to repeat yesterday’s mistakes, and I decide to cook dinner for breakfast - the phrase “roll with grilled beef, baked peppers and chia sauce” sounds like something suitable for the early hours. The spices for it need to be ground in a mortar - I’m late again, this time for work. I quite often make rolls for breakfast - with cream cheese, vegetables, ham and other things that do not require baking. Each time it takes no more than five minutes. A roll that requires almost an hour of sorcery does not fit into my picture of the world. It was tasty, but not exciting.

Next on the “Chef Market” schedule is lamb with kiwi and red rice, baked fish with onions and oranges and beef cutlets with mozzarella. I still prepared the first one, also in the office - the ingredients for each dish are packaged in separate craft bags, so they are easy to transport. Again, it was tasty, healthy and satisfying to a certain extent, but, Lord, I can walk 300 meters and buy rice with chicken for 100 rubles at Silver Panda on Trekhgorka. And then the weekend began, half of which I spent in entertainment venues, and half in sleep. The fish became rotten and flew into the trash can, and the cutlets with mozzarella were partially eaten - their mozzarella part.

My experiment failed. Three out of five dinners were squeaky prepared, and it’s not even that I’m lazy or don’t like to cook. I still don’t understand the audience of Chef Market. For gastronomy fans, the dishes are obviously too boring. Workaholics who don’t have time to go to Auchan for groceries are unlikely to find 40 minutes to prepare a beef roll. The savings are also debatable: five meals for two cost 3,900 rubles, which is a full week’s worth of shopping at ABC of Taste. These meals are also unlikely to help with your diet: okay, I can have a 400-calorie chicken fillet dinner, but still have a burger and potatoes for lunch. Healthy nutrition is thought out comprehensively - according to this principle, it seems to me that the Elementaree service, which my colleague Katya tested, works more successfully. And in general, the fact that you know in advance that on Thursday you must eat fish, and on Friday you must definitely eat a cutlet (expiration dates of products limit variations), seems boring. However, after the experiment, solid remnants of chia seeds, Himalayan salt and ptitim settled in my closet - they are pleasing to the eye when you reach for oatmeal at 8 in the morning.

Just Cook It

Just Cook It has a standard menu - five dinners for two - and several options for those who are not used to dining at home on weekdays ("Weekend Set" - 2 thousand rubles) or are thinking about a diet ("Fitness Set" for one - the same 2 thousand rubles). Conveniently, the cost of each dish separately can be checked on the website.

What was tested

dinners

Duration

5 days

Price

3,000 rubles

NASTYA ANDREEVA, SENIOR EDITOR, NEWS DEPARTMENT: Just Cook It has the following system: every week you are offered a menu of seven dishes, you choose five from them - this will be your dinner for five working days. The menu changes every week. The list usually includes fish, meat, poultry, seafood and a vegetable dish - in my case it was tomato soup. For each dish from the set, on the website you can see the complexity of preparation, a list of what will be brought, and what you need to have at home.

There are no options for those losing weight and vegetarians, which in my case was a problem, since I am one of the latter. So I cooked, and my husband mostly ate and then shared his impressions. I’m not a big fan of cooking, and my limit on the stove is 40 minutes, so when choosing a set, I immediately refused the most difficult dish - duck leg with chutney, which had two points out of three on the difficulty scale (versus one for all other options) . I also skipped the shrimp salad - because, seriously, who can get enough of shrimp salad? As a result, the menu for the week was as follows: chicken with coconut milk, fish cutlets with mashed potatoes and lentils, stir-fry pork, spaghetti with tuna and tomato soup. Since I hardly eat fish either (well, except for those cases when “you’re not you when you’re hungry”), and I can’t stand fish cutlets at all since the days of the school canteen, from the entire set, as you might guess, I was left with only soup. “Well, I love tomato soup, so this is not bad,” I thought, getting ready for a week of late-night cooking.

I really can only cook at night - after I put the baby to bed and read the evening news. Usually I only have enough time to throw rice into boiling water and throw meat into the frying pan. Therefore, I decided to take this opportunity and find out whether it is realistic for a person who is far from kitchen wisdom to regularly cook something unusual, tasty and varied at night, without spending too much time on it. In general, I wanted to know how to become a guru of sauces and gravy - and not get stuck.

The box of groceries was delivered to work on Tuesday. Everything was packed in separate bags by day: inside each bag there were many small bags with strictly measured ingredients and detailed recipes. Attached to all this was a memo that stated that the dishes from the set must be cooked and eaten strictly in the specified order, otherwise the company declines responsibility for the consequences. Here I’ll be honest: I expected that I would be able to evaluate my strengths myself in the evening and choose what to cook, but for the purity of the experiment I decided that rules are rules. And I didn’t really want to get poisoned.

Since there wasn’t much space in the work refrigerator, and I wasn’t the only one who brought the box, I put it outside the office kitchen window, on the roof of the extension. You should have seen the eyes of the unsuspecting cleaning lady when in the evening with the words “Excuse me, can I come in?” I walked around it, proudly threw my leg over the radiator, climbed onto the windowsill, opened the window and walked out onto the roof with the air of a winner. And then she made her way back with a huge box, showing the wonders of balancing and climbing. “Oh, I thought you wanted to smoke,” was all she said. Since yet great surprise The taxi driver was looking at me, to whom I was trying to explain the essence of the service and the experiment. I’m afraid that I couldn’t answer his question about why you couldn’t just go to the store and cook - “or cook some dumplings from a pack, if you’re really lazy.”

So, day one. After putting the baby to bed, I took out of the refrigerator (it took all my childhood Tetris skills to fit five grocery bags in there) a bag called “Day One” and learned that I would have chicken with sauce and coconut milk for company that evening. I had never tried coconut milk before, but from the telegram channel of our media manager Sasha Suvorova I knew that it was something irreplaceable and magical in the household. Also among the ingredients were peanuts, which I really love. So I set to work with enthusiasm, despite the fact that the 25 minutes of cooking time indicated in the recipe seemed to me a clear understatement.

I will say right away: my fears were not justified. Since all the ingredients were strictly measured, the bird was already marinated, the sauce was ready, and the ginger was peeled, all I had to do was cut the chicken, onion, garlic, that same ginger, decide on the amount of chili pepper, fry it in the right order, then pour in coconut milk and sauce and wait a little. True, I still went too far with the chili - in general, if you don’t like it spicy, then reduce the amount of ginger and seasonings; Just Cook It had plenty of them. The taster, that is, the husband, said that, for his taste, it was too vigorous, so in the future I divided everything spicy and hot into two, or even three. As for the portion size, it honestly turned out to be two servings. As a side dish for the chicken, there was ready-made steamed rice, which just needed to be heated. The rice was cooked well: fluffy and not sticky. In general, the first night of the experiment was a success - except for the spiciness and the fact that I accidentally fried the onions instead of decorating the dish with them. Coconut milk, by the way, also met my expectations.

The next evening, a more significant task awaited me: fish cutlets and mashed potatoes and lentils. Here more steps were required: boil the potatoes and lentils, first fry and then bake the cutlets themselves, melt the butter in milk and add it to the side dish to make a puree. I was worried about the issue with the minced meat, since the halibut fillet ended up in the bag in one piece, and for obvious reasons I couldn’t use a meat grinder. However, apparently, the idea that a meat grinder is too much for the concept of quick cooking occurred to the authors of the project. The recipe suggested simply chopping the halibut very finely. As a result, the cutlets stuck together, at first glance, quite normally, but fell apart already during the eating process. According to reviews, they tasted very mediocre. But I liked the mashed potatoes: I love lentils, but you can’t eat a lot of them, but in combination with potatoes it turned out very well - I took note of the recipe. This time, of course, I couldn’t cook in the half hour promised by the recipe - my husband returning from work at midnight found me surrounded by two pots and one baking sheet. However, the peeled potatoes packed in separate bags with the inscriptions “for mashed potatoes” and “for cutlets” gave me a feeling of tenderness.

On the third evening I took on the pork. It had to be fried in a wok, which I don’t have, but the frying pan did the job quite well. The meat itself, unfortunately, was not up to par: it was quite stringy and fibrous, although fresh. The sauce for the pork was already ready, and my only task was to chop all the necessary ingredients, fry, pour in the sauce and stir. It was again proposed to decorate the finished dish with green onions - and this time I didn’t mix anything up. The side dish was again steamed rice. On the one hand, it’s good that you don’t have to prepare anything, on the other hand, the question of variety arises. For example, I don’t really like rice, and if I ordered a set for myself, I wouldn’t be too pleased.

On Friday evening I came home well after midnight, and I had neither the strength nor the desire to stand at the stove, even the word “at all.” In addition, the fourth dish on the list was spaghetti with tuna and tomato sauce, which was recommended to be served immediately, but there was no one to eat it. Therefore, judging that it was unlikely that anything would happen to the canned tuna, I went to bed with a clear conscience. Well, the next day was a day off - a rare occasion when we all have lunch at home. Because the ready food There wasn't any left, so I decided to take a chance and cook the last two dishes at the same time. From the spaghetti recipe, I removed balsamic vinegar, which Sasha—that’s the name of the man who risked sharing his life with me—cannot stand, but I poured more of it into my tomato soup.

With pasta, everything was quite simple: boil, separately fry herbs, tomatoes in their own juice and tuna, then mix everything. I had to tinker with the tomato soup a little more: first I had to bake the tomatoes, during which time I fried the onions with balsamic vinegar and herbs, then boil the baked tomatoes a little, then blend everything in a blender. I completed both dishes in an hour, but the kitchen, after everything that happened, reminded me of how 20 years ago my mother, looking into the nursery, said: “What have you got here, has Mamai passed by?” The amount of dishes used was such that there was nothing clean left in the house. But both dishes really turned out delicious, especially the soup. For him, the set included two types of tomatoes: regular and cherry. They also didn’t spare the basil and thyme, and this time I prudently added one ring of chili pepper. The consistency came out great, the taste was just the way I like it. A baguette was also included. I also didn’t have to wash the dishes, so I was satisfied with the last day of the experiment.

To summarize, I can say that the Just Cook It system is definitely convenient, but it has not only its advantages, but also disadvantages. First, the good stuff. Firstly, this is a good option for those who want to cook deliciously, but not bother. Everything is ready, measured, marinated in advance, cleaned, something is even cut. There is a clear recipe - and there is no need to waste time searching on the Internet for an option that can be adapted to the contents of the refrigerator. This made the process much easier: you seem to be preparing something unusual, but you also spend a minimum of effort. Secondly, good quality products: everything is fresh, the greens are vigorous in appearance, you are not afraid of poisoning. True, the tough pork somewhat spoiled the picture. Thirdly, if you live alone or with a partner whose tastes coincide with yours, you both work and hardly eat at home, then you can really limit yourself to this set of products and no longer go to the store on weekdays.

Now about the disadvantages. The very first is, of course, the meager choice of dishes. If you don't eat meat, then Just Cook It is not your option at all, and the variety of side dishes is also poor. The second disadvantage is that sometimes there are too many spices and seasonings, you need to remember this and subtract the excess if you don’t want a fire in your mouth. The third disadvantage is that the time indicated in the recipe is not always true. So if you don’t like cooking at all, and even more so, washing dishes, then don’t torture yourself and order delivery. Still, you need to understand that in the evening after work you will need to stand for about forty minutes at the stove, and then wash a couple of pans and a blender. But for people with a child who need to cook something for him, this is a completely dubious option.

Just Cook It - for those who live alone or together with a like-minded person in terms of food, eat meat, don’t lose weight, don’t mind spicy foods, are comfortable with repeated side dishes, don’t get horrified by one type of stove, eat at home once or twice a day day and does not want to waste time in stores and money in restaurants.

Dasha Polygaeva, editor of the “City” section: I have long wanted to try food constructors: I love to cook, but I don’t always have enough time and ingenuity to make something worthwhile. And the products in our stores - as a result of a circular defense against the rest of the world - leave much to be desired. The idea that someone will come up with breakfast and dinner for me, select fresh ingredients for this and put them in small bags, providing detailed instructions seemed attractive.

What interested me most was the dinners. The chances of eating healthy for a working person in Moscow tend to zero: in the best case scenario, you get home at 8 o’clock in the evening. Even if immediately after this, in the best traditions of patriarchy, you get up to the stove, a more or less decent meal will not be ready until 20:40. Meal designers, I thought, would save me from having late dinners every day.

The set for three days from “Need Dinner” turned out to be so large that I had to take a taxi home from work. There were six packages in two cardboard boxes: three dinners and three breakfasts. In the next three days I had to eat cheesecakes with persimmons, scrambled eggs with bacon and mushrooms, curd mousse with pineapple, chicken with lentils, rump steak with vegetables and noodles with beef and vegetables. On the service’s website you can order dinners and breakfasts separately or all together - for three or five days. Only three breakfasts will cost 1,400 rubles (five - 1,800), only three dinners - 2,500 rubles (five - 3,500). There are classic and vegetarian options, they cost the same.

The first pancake, or rather cheesecake, is lumpy. The guys from “We Need Dinner” suggested making it from grainy cottage cheese, which is not the most suitable ingredient for this dish. The cottage cheese turned out to be too crumbly and wet, so the cheesecakes simply fell apart in the pan. As a result, for breakfast I had to eat warm, sweet curd porridge with persimmons - it was tasty, but did not live up to the promises of the menu. By the way, on the service’s Instagram I did not find a single photo of cheesecakes prepared by clients - perhaps many, like me, were not successful. Looking ahead, I will say that the kit for making curd mousse with pineapples contained regular, less moist and denser cottage cheese, suitable just for cheesecakes. Maybe the ingredients were simply mixed up.

There was no way I could be an exemplary cook even with a ready-made set of food: in the evening of the first day of the experiment I met with university friends, so dinner at home had to be postponed to the next day. It was not difficult: the shelf life of each dish expired the day after the intended day of preparation. So in the middle of the week I stayed home to work so that the food wouldn't go to waste and my dinner would turn into lunch.

The breakfast on Thursday was scrambled eggs with bacon and mushrooms. I'm not a fan of a powerful protein hit in the morning and rarely eat eggs, so scrambled eggs moved to Friday, and on this day I decided to eat Friday curd mousse with pineapple. This dish turned out to be the simplest in the set: I mixed cottage cheese with classic white yogurt, added flax seeds, a little powdered sugar and pieces of canned pineapple. It turned out delicious and fast.

During the day, when The Village employees usually flock to our editorial kitchen for lunch, I took out a bag of chicken, vegetables and lentils. According to the recipe, the side dish had to be cooked, the main dish had to be baked. This time there were no problems: while the lentils were cooking, I rubbed the chicken with garlic, put a sprig of thyme on it and threw it in the oven for 25 minutes. After half an hour, everything was ready: I ​​added a little butter, cherry tomatoes and fried onions to the finished lentils. I usually do everything by eye and don’t follow the recipe strictly, so I baked the chicken a little longer than indicated in the recommendation, and it didn’t harm it - the meat was soft and juicy. And it looks like I overcooked the lentils a little. The dish turned out to be huge, so I divided it into two parts - the second half was left for dinner for my boyfriend. The dinner from the set, rump steak with vegetables, had to be postponed: in the evening I went to cycling, which was popular in the editorial office, and a powerful piece of meat after a workout was completely inappropriate.

Friday was not best day for cooking: before work I only had time to prepare breakfast, and in the evening my plans were to watch an Oscar-winning film about investigative journalism in the USA. Dinner at home again did not fit into these plans. But my boyfriend was lucky: the scrambled eggs he hadn’t eaten the day before became his breakfast. Classic American version: eggs with bacon, oyster mushrooms, thyme and toast. We try to live a healthy lifestyle, so my boyfriend gave up bacon and white toast. I fried the mushrooms, added eggs and sprinkled with thyme, the simple dish was ready in about 15 minutes.

By Saturday, which was the sixth working day due to the postponement of the holidays, I had two bags of food: the menu included rump steak with vegetables and noodles with meat. Left to work at home, I decided to cook meat for lunch. The recipe said that the vegetables should be fried and the beef should be beaten. Despite the fact that I cook quite often, I didn’t have a kitchen hammer in my home arsenal. We don't buy meat often and usually choose steaks that don't require additional cooking before cooking. They finally found a way out of the situation: I wrapped the beef in film, and my boyfriend beat it off with a very ordinary hammer. While he worked on the meat, I chopped and fried peppers, zucchini and onions. Then we fried the beef in the same frying pan. The recipe said that the meat would need to be kept in the pan for two minutes on each side, but it took us about twice as long to bring the rump steak to medium rare. This dish turned out to be the most delicious of the set: the meat was very soft and juicy. The large portion was again enough for two, and I even stole a couple of pieces of rump steak from my boyfriend.

On Saturday evening we had plans, and the next day too, but we never got around to udon with beef and vegetables. For the holidays, I went to my parents and took the last package from the set with me, so my mother was responsible for preparing the dish. I was very worried that the food might spoil, but my fears were unfounded: the surviving udon was in perfect order. The recipe, like all the previous ones, was quite simple: fry meat and vegetables, cook noodles. The dish came with sweet chili sauce to add a touch of piquancy. There was again a lot of food: there was enough food for dinner for two, and there was still some left over.

Overall, I was satisfied with my set: the food was quite varied, the dishes were simple, the portions were large, and the ingredients were fresh. The main problem in always busy Moscow was the lack of time to cook. Sometimes I felt tied to my kits: what if I don’t have time to cook and something gets ruined? Go to a meeting - or go cook dinner? So I would advise a person “from the office” with a busy schedule to order as little food as possible: three breakfasts and dinners were enough for me for a week, and there was still left.

We present to your attention an overview of services that sell products with recipes with delivery throughout Moscow and the Moscow region. If you don’t know where to order delicious dinners for the week, we’ll help you.

Chefmarket 👍👍👍

Products with recipes

SHEFMARKET delivers products with recipes in Moscow and Moscow Region. The company was founded in 2012 and is a market leader similar services. Every day hundreds of families have breakfast, lunch and dinner with SHEFMARKET. There are three product lines: 5 dinners (5 dishes for 5 days) - for those who don’t want to think about food all week; menu to choose from - for those who want to assemble their own dinner or lunch; diet - for those who want to lose weight.

Yandex.Chief

Products with recipes

Yandex.Chief - new way delicious to cook at home. Every week you receive a box of products and recipes. It contains five packages - one for each day of the week. Each contains products packaged in the exact quantities needed to prepare dinner. Delivery is carried out on Sunday and Monday. When placing an order, you can choose a convenient time period. Delivery within Moscow and within 30 km from the Moscow Ring Road is free.

RA-TA-TU

Products with recipes

RA-TA-TU is a convenient service for preparing food at home with step-by-step recipes, minimal effort and maximum pleasure from the process. Offers three main menu options. Family menu: homemade and hearty dinners for the whole family. Premium menu: a variety of restaurant-quality dishes. Collect it yourself: the opportunity to assemble your own version using dishes from the family and premium menus.

Elementaree

Products with recipes

Elementaree is a smart supermarket that will select a menu for you and deliver food at a convenient time. Fresh food every day without shopping. They adapt the menu to a specific client based on his preferences and food restrictions. Two product lines: Basee - you need to cook, everything is washed, cut, peeled, any dish can be prepared in 15 minutes. Smartee - everything is already ready, focused on achieving goals.

Last year I came across a post by Anya Mitrokhova about her experience with the katerina.ru service. At that time, my reluctance to cook in general and lack of interest in various new recipes irritated my husband, and I myself wanted to eat something more varied than sausages, dumplings, cutlets from semi-finished products. Although I had long heard about services like “Chefmarket”, something always stopped me when ordering, it seemed that it would be difficult to prepare, there would be additional costs for food, it was unclear whether you would get enough of the portion... And then the stars aligned. I placed my first order for a set of ingredients for four dinners for the week (with recipes). My life has never been the same since then. (And family too!)

For several months I ordered katerina.ru almost every week. But similar services are multiplying like mushrooms after rain, I always looked at other offers, and in the end I’ve already tried three services, which I’ll tell you about.

One of the very first services of this kind, with what seems to be the largest number of subscribers in the networks and a varied menu of dishes to choose from.

In “Chefmarket” you can either choose what exactly you want to cook today - soups, salads, desserts, or order sets: these are usually three menu options for three days (family with two dishes per day), themed ( now here is Greek, for example) and the choice of Yulia Vysotskaya. There are also themed sets - a full lunch or dinner with two courses and a drink.

It has always been uninteresting for me to choose from a menu - the fact is that initially I don’t want to cook so much that I don’t even want to think about it - what to choose. Therefore, I immediately went into sets for three days and somehow ordered North American cuisine - two dishes for three days. The menu included burgers, avocado soup, salad and other dishes.

You can take advantage of a 20% discount on your first order, which is what I did. The polite operator on the phone clarified that I would need salt and butter, we virtually shook hands, and after some time they brought me all the ingredients in a paper bag. Each dish was packaged with all the ingredients separately, the recipe was rolled up. They also brought scissors as a gift for the first order; by the way, I replaced my old kitchen ones with them -).

However, the resulting experience was unsatisfactory. I was only able to cook burgers and salad. The burgers turned out to be quite greasy (of course, what else can you take from a burger, but it was still a bit heavy), although edible, but the banal Caesar salad failed due to the tasteless (and also greasy) dressing. Well, not every dish should turn out well, I thought. And the next day (or rather, it was almost night) I got ready to cook a new dish - in a very hungry state. And then it turned out that this requires a meat grinder. “Shefmarket” fundamentally does not deliver minced meat ready-made (read here on Instagram our correspondence). I respect such concern for the health of clients, but you need to warn about the meat grinder! This doesn't happen in my house. “Okay,” I thought. And she took another dish. And it also required a meat grinder. Ouch. The only option left was avocado soup - but it would take a long time to make and it definitely wouldn’t satisfy my husband’s appetites.

In frustration, the next day I corresponded with the service (“I should have warned you” - “yes, sorry, but it’s written in the recipe” - “I didn’t read the recipe, I ordered a set” - “well, cut it with a knife”) and just threw it all away. Cutting meat into minced meat with a knife is not why I order such sets of ingredients, namely: to quickly and without any hassles prepare delicious food for myself and my husband.

However, I have not given up on the service and periodically look at their sets for three days. I almost ordered it again once, but I found parchment paper there, which again needs to be purchased separately (you can directly from them - but why do I need a roll when I’m only going to cook with it once?).

By time: cooking took from 30 minutes to 50.

By price :

• themed menu for 3 days of two courses - 3500 rubles for two,
• family - 4000 rubles for two,
• menu from Yulia Vysotskaya (3 dishes for 3 days) - 2500 rubles. However, it often contains either soup or salad, which my husband does not consider to be a full meal.

If you order dishes separately, price from 190 to 900 rubles per serving.

Delivery: free from 1500 rubles, 250 rubles if less. All conditions.

I came to the conclusion that:"Shefmarket" is a service for people who LOVE to cook. They are interested in cooking something new without scouring markets and supermarkets for all the ingredients they need. They are not lazy to spend time on a recipe, they are not lazy to risk the possibility of going hungry if it suddenly turns out not tasty, they have a meat grinder at home :))). Unfortunately, this is not for me.

However: I sometimes use their services " Cooking «— home delivery of prepared meals. Solves the problem of my lunch at home -). (By the way, there is also a 20% discount on your first culinary order, and free delivery over 1,200 rubles).

Katerina.ru

I praised this service so much that some blogger friends already thought that I was being paid for it :). No, they don’t pay anything, it’s just a really very convenient thing that I’ve been using since December last year with rare breaks for other services.

Katerina.ru understands people like me: for those who have absolutely no time, this is one; for those who don’t want to waste brain energy thinking about what to cook, this is two. They offer four dinners for a week, a ready-made menu, you don’t even think about what exactly you would like to cook (or not want). This is really convenient - you may never order stewed rabbit in your life, but here it is included in the set and it turns out that it is very tasty. In general, it’s definitely a way to expand your taste preferences.

At Katerina.ru, you can place an order this week or for the next one (that is, on Sunday inclusive, you can still order a set so that it is delivered to you on Monday, for example). On Tuesday they post new set and are starting to collect orders for it.

The set arrives in a paper bag, each ingredient is packaged separately (vegetables are usually together), meat and fish are in vacuum bags (all services here are the same). Quite often, ready-made sauces arrive for the dishes of the week, which, of course, also saves time and makes the food even tastier. And the recipe on paper is simple, step-by-step.

In six months with Katerina.ru, I only had problems with cooking a couple of times - sometimes some cereal was not cooked into porridge (I saw it for the first time and didn’t even know that this happened), then puree turned out to be better than everything - do it with a blender (I don’t have a blender either :)). We weren’t hungry after these dishes (except at the very beginning, back in December, it seemed like it wasn’t enough for two and my husband didn’t eat enough a couple of times, I added my food to the side dishes - potatoes or rice, for example, but since then everything was fine). But you are unlikely to have any left over for tomorrow - everything is planned for one dinner. I have mastered many new recipes and repeat some of them myself (oh, chili con carne! what a delicious thing you are!).

There were also no problems with the freshness of the products. Once they forgot to put the baking dish in, they called back themselves and were very worried. Another time, the courier mixed up the packages and gave me the wrong one - that same evening they brought everything I needed, plus dessert as a gift -). Yes, unlike Chefmarket, they put everything you need here - a piece of foil, a mold, skewers, in general, any similar little thing that you need and which you don’t necessarily have at home (and they deliver the minced meat :)) .

In general, this is a sincere service that listens to you, takes a huge amount of worry off your plate, and everything turns out delicious. Cooking takes from 30 to (rarely) 50 minutes.

Price: 2400 rubles for 4 dinners for two or 4000 for 4 dinners for four. Free delivery.

In general: this is still my ideal option.

Why then did I go try other services? It's the menu. Gradually I realized that I don’t like, for example, cod, boiled carrots as a base for fish, and I sincerely hate celery puree (how disgusting!). At Katerina.ru, sometimes there are weeks when I see a dish and realize that I don’t want to eat it. You can write to them and say - please, put beef instead of cod - no problem. But if there are already two such dishes, then I start scouring other services.

Elementaree

I tried three dishes last week - delicious chicken stuffed with mozzarella and pineapple salad, salmon in Thai curry sauce and amazing ginger-honey crusted pork with amazingly delicious broccoli. All the dishes were a success, although, of course, some kind of cooking experience contributes to an easy attitude towards the process - for example, I was not worried when the chicken slightly fell apart, and the chili pepper burned in the pan and a fog floated around the kitchen, in which my husband and I laughed for a long time and coughed -).

The only thing worth paying attention to at Elementaree is the satiety of the dishes. If I fed myself, there would be no problem eating chicken with grass salad - but I feed my husband and he does not mistake the salad for a side dish. I just immediately boiled extra rice for him, which then went with pork (he doesn’t accept broccoli as a side dish either :)).

Price: from 700 rubles per serving (for two), but if you order by subscription, the serving costs 500 rubles. This week I also ordered Elementaree (because Katerina.ru has pork (fatty), celery puree and cod (meee:)), 4 dinners cost 2,000 rubles with free delivery. So in terms of price, the service is still the leader!

(True, it’s difficult to understand how to place an order via subscription (they just introduced this option), I ended up just calling them -)).

General conclusions:

There were no problems with delivery in any service - everything is fine here. All allow you to specify delivery intervals.

The services are aimed at different audiences, so decide what exactly you want.

The big plus of all this about: every day you eat something new, interesting, and in 95% of cases, tasty. No housewife with a love for the kitchen will come up with so many new recipes -)

A common problem with these services— I wouldn’t call all this food that healthy. “Chefmarket” with a North American menu seemed to me the richest (probably the kitchen suggests this), at Katerina.ru it’s different, but Yana and I’s trainer would definitely prohibit delicious sauces (like baked potatoes... ahh), at Elementaree - approximately the same thing, although they often have vegetables or salad as a side dish rather than potatoes.

In terms of money: the result is either a little cheaper than our expenses before, or the same. Because here you don’t need to add the cost of the set (as I did before in my head) to your food expenses, but replace the numbers. With Katerina.ru, for example, we spend 2400 a week + food for breakfast + my messy lunches, which more often than not happen than happen (or happen in a cafe, which I believe in separate budget). We stopped going to the supermarket after work once every two days, as before, to buy food that, given our lifestyle, simply went rotten in the refrigerator and we then threw it away. Now my husband just runs into the store next door to buy food for breakfast and bread. That's all! I don’t know about you - we spent a lot of time standing in line at the checkout, we spent at least an hour going to the store just to buy bread, and we sometimes fought about it.

Truth: after two months of living with katerina.ru, we bought a dishwasher. Before that, we had been arguing for a month about unwashed dishes. My husband just discovered that the joy of a hot, delicious dinner ready for him when he arrives is too diminished by the need to scrub the pot, pan and baking sheet every day. (Recipes from katerina.ru often require you to quickly fry something and stick it in the oven). In general, keep in mind that cooking every day or even 4 days a week creates a lot of dishes.

As a result, I quickly found a place where a dishwasher would fit in our kitchen - and it was delivered to me exactly on March 8th :))). And this, of course, is the greatest invention of mankind!