With the new year officially in full swing, there's no better time to set the goal of eating healthier and fresher. And with that, comes a slew of high-end food delivery services catering to wellbeing and virility—both in New York City and around the country. Fasting on juice cleanses and bone broth? That's so 2015. The new version of eating clean is illuminated in color and at your fingertips: ranging from slow cooked potato chili to plant-based pastas and gluten-free mashes. Here, five options to try in 2016.
1) Sakara Life: The fashionable bicoastal delivery service counts fans including Lena Dunham, Lily Aldridge and even the staff of Alexander Wang's design studio. Founded by former model and actress Danielle DuBoise and Whitney Tingle, who formerly worked on Wall Street, menus are devoted to eating clean with the chicest packaging we've ever seen. The programs and the Clean Boutique (a selection of individual items like beauty water, classic superfood granola, probiotic chocolate, detox tea and watermelon jerky) are creative and worth trying even for the diet-averse.
2) Provenance Meals: Brooklyn-based Provenance Meals puts a new spin on the idea of detoxing and cleansing through the vessel of whole foods. Try a one, three or five day cleanse delivered to your door, which includes locally sourced ingredients for meals such as sweet potato chili with cilantro and pumpkin seeds, or nut and seed falafel with lemon tahini and greens. The detox delivery program seeks to clear skin and improve overall wellbeing, but individual items and entrees are also available to order.
3) Purple Carrot: This delivery service offers plant-based meals with the goal in mind to change your life and the planet. The benefits of eating a plant-based diet have been touted by many, and range from reducing high blood pressure to saving water and reducing your carbon footprint. But Purple Carrot focuses on those who enjoy cooking, delivering pre-measured ingredients to make meals like Brazilian black beans and beets with coconut rice and tropical salsa or broccoli pasta with crisp butter beans.
4) Munchery: With a focus on freshness and chefs' artistry (the company has its own, all with various styles) , Munchery has the ultimate variety when it comes to delivering healthy fare. Meals come both ready to eat or ready to cook, and prices start as low as $8.95 per serving. The menus change daily and according to location, but a few recent options include a pan seared salmon rice bowl and beet-pickled eggs on a Boston wedge salad.
5) IndieFresh: Think of it as your new power lunch. New York based IndieFresh delivers food that's always gluten-free and often paleo and was founded as a collaboration between chef Akhtar Nawab and nutritionist Bridget Bennett. Its meals are perfect for ordering in at the office but IndieFresh also has programs for serious health enthusiasts, based completely off of soups and shakes. For the lunch crowd, try one of the broths, like mushroom dashi or ginger chicken, mashes, or a wild bison burger on a gluten-free English muffin.
