4/3/2023 0 Comments The big salad delivery![]() The harvest salad with goat cheese and sweet potato was my favorite of the bunch. Even without a meat protein, it satisfied my lunch craving in between Zoom meetings. Harvest salad with balsamic vinaigrette: This was my favorite of the salads with some interesting mix-ins including goat cheese, pecans, sweet potato, cranberries and apple. The cobb salad was solid with crunchy pepitas and hard-boiled egg slices for some protein. It tasted fresh even two days after arrival and was also quite filling, even without the standard bacon or chicken you might associate with a cobb. The Caesar salad was simple but fresh with an excellent garlic-heavy dressing.Ĭobb salad with toasted pepitas: The Cobb was a nice mix of romaine, carrots, cherry tomatoes, corn, cheddar and toasted pepitas. It was a big portion too, almost more than I could finish after I shook it up in the jar and released it into a bowl. The dressing was also excellent with a good hit of garlic. The chicken Caesar was a hit with fresh and crunchy romaine, tender bites of chicken, shaved parmesan and crunchy chickpeas (came wrapped in plastic). ![]() What I had and how I liked my Farmer's Fridge mealsĬhicken Caesar salad with crispy chickpeas: I opted to eat the salads first since I figured they were likely to wilt or spoil the fastest. Only some minor leakage (top left) courtesy of the chia and coconut parfait. ![]() Read more: Don't Use a Microwave to Reheat Leftovers and Prepared Meals. You can use a microwave, but I opted to warm mine in a nonstick skillet for a couple of minutes on medium heat. Grain bowls, noodles and pasta meals should be heated up. Salads are meant to be mixed or shaken in the jar and eaten. Dressings and dry items for salads such as nuts and croutons are wrapped separately and tucked under the lid. All the meals (except wraps) are housed in recyclable plastic jars with the ingredients to keep them from mixing up or getting mushy. All the greens and vegetables looked vibrant and there was no sign of food that was past its prime. But even that dish was mostly intact and plenty edible. My meals showed up fresh, cold and packed well, save for a little leaking from one of the parfait cups. How my box looked: A little spillage but mostly in good shape ![]() You can cancel or adjust your order up until five days before the arrival date. Shipping for each box is $6, but there's no commitment or subscription required. You can place a one-time order (no subscription needed) but you'll need to purchase a minimum of about five salads or bowls and can't order more than eight or nine so they can pack the jars securely in what I assume is a one-size-fits-all box.ĭelivery is currently available in 42 states and you can check your ZIP code here. The weekly has about 23 total options, most of them geared toward lunch. Wraps are $8.79 each and breakfast parfaits are $6. There are smaller portions of noodle, pasta and rice bowls for under $7 each. There's a set menu to order from with salads and bowls clocking in mostly $9 or $10 each. During May of 2022, and at the height of the pandemic, the service saw an opportunity to expand to a new crop of work-from-homers and now offers national delivery of its quick and easy meals.Ī snapshot of offerings from the online menu. The company originally launched as a food vending machine operation, dispensing fresh salads at airports and on college campuses. Read more: The Best Cheap Meal Delivery Services in 2022 How Farmer's Fridge worksįarmer's Fridge makes and ships mostly assembled layered salads, noodle and rice bowls, wraps and breakfast parfaits. While we're not dealing with Michelin-level cuisine here, the food - and the salads in particular - was far better than I'd expected, making Farmer's Fridge an easy lunch fix during a busy workweek. I tested a week's worth of meals including the meal delivery brand's healthy salads, premade pasta dishes, grain bowls and breakfast parfaits. If you're skeptical about (mostly) preassembled salads arriving fresh, I was too, but Farmer's Fridge pulls it off and for pretty affordable prices.
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