Babeth's Feast
Babeth's Feast Reviews - Prepared Meal Delivery Reviews
Babeth's Feast is a prepared meal delivery service that ships prepared meal components nationwide. This means you are not buying a meal. Instead, you are purchasing an entree, side, and vegetable to make your own complete meals. If you want to.
Unlike most meal delivery services, Babeth's doesn't require you to buy enough meal components to create a complete meal. You have the freedom to buy just entrees, entrees, and sides, just sides, or any combination of meal components you desire.
The downside of this freedom is the amount of calculation it takes to make sure you have enough product to create complete meals. Entrees can come in serving sizes as sides, and most people do not recognize suggested serving sizes as being realistic.
Babeth's does a better job than most in this area, but be prepared to have a notepad and a pen ready to track your serving qualities if you do want to have balanced meals. Also, we thought there are very few green vegetable options to create balanced meals.
There is a lot to like with this menu. Consumers can choose from meat, seafood, vegetarian, and pasta mains, A large selection of sides, sauces, appetizers, desserts, and bakery items. The menu should be vast enough to create meals for even the most finicky of culinary tastes. Nutritional information is provided on the website for each product, but shopping is not simplified for customers on nutritional meal plans. Diabetics, low sodium, and weight loss meal planners will need another notepad to calculate their dietary requirements manually.
- Overall, we found the prices to be better than average; shipping was good too.
- We did not have any issues with delivery, packaging, or leaking or broken seals.
- No 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- All meal components are shipped frozen. Babeth's uses a flat shipping rate of $15 provided you order at least $50 of food.
- Babeth's offers a meal subscription plan for customers interested in automatic deliveries. This service is entirely customizable by the needs and budget of the customer.
- One of the growing trends we hate in the prepared meal delivery industry is the use of cheap canned or frozen meal components dumped in a microwave tray. Babeth's Feast hires chefs to cook their recipes and use only all natural, antibiotic-free products produced without preservatives.
- A large portion of the menu and everything in the mix and match section comes sous-vide for better reheating, storage, and food quality. Customers can still heat their food in a microwave.
- The company has a generous specials section which changes frequently and offers customers 20% off or more select dining options.
Our Babeth's Feast Review of their Prepared Meal Delivery Service
Babeth's Feast Meal Components We Would Reorder
Chicken Cutlet Dinner, with Mashed Carrots and White and Wild Rice - $11
This Chicken Cutlet is one of the best I have ever had from a prepared meal delivery service. At $5 each, it is the best value on the Internet. It is huge, and the breading was crunchy. Wow, what a way to start a review.
The White and Wild Rice was excellent, as were the Mashed Carrots. The combined cost of this meal was $11, and I would challenge you to find a similar meal at this cost, and at this high-quality. I don't think you'll find one.
-Morris Pelphner
Chicken Parmesan Dinner with Pasta and Sauce and Asparagus - $13
The Chicken Cutlet used in the Parmesan version of this meal is the same one as above. It came in a tray with Italian sauce and seasoned Mozzarella. It is just as good, although the sauce falls a bit below the mark. We purchased fresh pasta and frozen Asparagus, making the cost of the meal $13. There was enough sauce in the tray to cover the pasta. Look at the huge portion size of this meal; it barely fits on the plate.
Would I buy it again at $13? I already have on numerous occasions!
-Morris Pelphner
Beef Bourguignon Dinner - $11
Beef Bourguignon is not a simple or easy meal to make. It takes a lot of effort, knowledge, and time to it properly. Not only is it appropriately done here, but I am also astonished at how little they charge for it. We bought a single serving for $9 and added $2 of noodles. I would say $1 is closer to cost but either way, it would hard to deny that this meal is an absolute steal at $11. It is rich and perfectly seasoned. The sauce might be ever so slightly on the watery side, but I would attribute that being frozen and unfrozen. I doubt the average consumer would notice. Yes, I would buy this again!
-Chef Aldo Piquanti
Chicken Marsala with Mashed Potatoes, Gravy and Maple Sriracha Brussels Sprouts - $12
As a professional food blogger, I have reviewed Chicken Marsala so many times I no longer eat it personally. For $5 each, you are just not going to find a better value than these. Morris bought twenty of them for his freezer inventory when they were on sale for $8. Growing up in my family, gravy was considered a beverage, and I would have to say this might be the best Marsala gravy, with strong scents and tastes of Marsala wine, available online. The mashed potatoes were homemade, and I was happy to have a small lump to prove it. I thought the Maple Sriracha Brussels Sprouts were a home run too. Sweet maple, and spicy Sriracha pair perfectly without being too hot. Great job!
-Nicole DiLayne
Lemon Chicken with Artichokes Served Over Pasta with Spinach and Brussels Sprouts - $12
I stepped up to claim this meal to review because I wanted more of the Maple Sriracha Brussels Sprouts. They are particularly yummy, and I enjoyed a second helping. The Lemon Chicken was made with thigh meat. There is nothing wrong with that, except in my experience, there are people out there that will only eat chicken breasts and run at the thought of dark meat. If that sounds like you, you may want to pass on this one. Which is a shame because there are not many chicken sauced meals as good as this combination, and thighs are the traditional meat to use for this recipe. Equally delicious is the Sauteed Spinach which was so good I think I could have eaten three servings as a meal. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
-Nicole DiLayne
Pork Chops with Scalloped Potatoes, Asparagus, and Sauteed Mushrooms - $14
There is an extra side with this meal, which is what made the cost $14. I also plated this with a second grilled pork chop because I thought Nicole was reviewing it. Nicole is the only one here who eats the entire plate of food, no matter how many she reviews. I have never seen such an attractive petite woman able to eat so much food in one sitting.
I suspect the grilled pork chops used here are machine made. The fake grill marks are a dead giveaway. It's okay, they are good, but they don't taste homemade. I thought the scalloped potatoes were excellent, as were the Sauteed Mushrooms. This is a meal with great value.
-Chef Aldo Piquanti
Beef Brisket with Scalloped Potatoes, Corn, and Sauteed Mushrooms - $12
Here is another meal with three sides, but the corn came from our pantry and didn't cost $1. Thank you, Chef, for telling the world how I eat! But don't worry, I won't say anything to our loyal readers who is famous for eating all the Dunkin Doughnuts instead of seeing them thrown out.
Beef Brisket doesn't appear on many meal delivery service menus because it's expensive and almost always comes out dry. Brisket has such a small window before it dries out, but somehow Babeth's managed to overcome both challenges. Not only is the brisket moist and delicious, but it also cost $5 a serving. Unbelievable, as are the Scalloped Potatoes and Sauteed Mushrooms. Enjoy!
-Nicole DiLayne
Frozen Pizza Slice - $2
Chef Piquanti would tell you that centuries of Italian cooking have it all wrong and New Pizza is the only proper way to make it. He would also deny eating a dozen doughnuts by himself, but we all know he does. In fact, when I bring them in, I bring an extra dozen just to mess with him. He hates to see food go to waste, but it would be okay with him if you threw this pizza out. Nicole does have a magic metabolism which probably helped her define her career path. No one remembers more details about the food we have previously reviewed than Nicole. It like she has a photographic memory for flavors. Save yourself the money; you can get a frozen pizza at the market of equal quality and price.
-Morris Pelphner
Babeth's Feast Consumer Reviews
I See Constant Improvements
Overall: Silver Medal
- Website Ease of Ordering: Excellent
- Reheating:
Excellent
- Customer Service: Excellent
- Shipping: Excellent
- Taste and Food Quality: Good
- Value: Excellent
I am a long-time customer of Babeth's Feast, mainly because I live in Manhattan and use the service as one of my food delivery services. I have seen this company evolve and make constant improvements to make their service better. They adjust the menu, the shipping process, and sometimes they have the most amazing sales you could imagine. In the beginning, I had some bad customer experiences, and the company has always stood behind its food and its service. I hope they start to add more healthy dining options, and especially more green vegetables, as you mentioned in your review, or maybe even salads. But I love them.
-Mary R., Manhattan, NYC
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Morris Pelphner
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Chef Aldo Piquanti,
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Formerly of Gourmet-Reviews.com
Nicole DiLayne
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Formerly of Prepared-Meals.com
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