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BistroMD Reviews - Prepared Meal Delivery Reviews

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It has been some while since I last tried diet meals from BistroMD, and I have to say I am quite impressed with how far they have come. Overall, the portion sizes are much bigger, the menu is more compelling, and the packaging is second to none for trayed meals.

I purchased the five day meal plan for $129, which makes each meal $8.60. The only meal I didn't think was worth $8.60 was the bagel sandwich breakfast, but I salute them for using a real egg white instead of one of those processed, machine made omelets. The bagel isn't a good match with the microwave, and some cheese would have been nice.

The pulled pork would have received a thumbs down just for the notion of people thinking if you add BBQ sauce to pork, it is BBQ. However, my personal pet-peeve aside, the pork was delicious, as was the corn. The baked beans could have been more plentiful, and even with the sauce, the meal passed the $8.60 value mark.

Everything was outstanding! I received five thick slices of roasted turkey breast, which automatically covered the cost of the meal, in my opinion.

The Steak House Wrap was like the best stuffed pepper you have ever had, and the creamed spinach was right on. The portion size was huge, too!
BistroMD Review by Chef Piquanti
The Moroccan Inspired Chicken was also very good and flavorful with spice without being too hot. The stuffed French toast was huge improvement to the last version of this dish I had.

Breakfast was the same crepes with different sides. Some egg dishes would have been nice. The Pot Roast was amazingly tender, and the Blackened Tilapia was a home run. All good sized portions, too.

At $8.60 per meal, none of this food tastes like diet food and would satisfy anyone looking for prepared meals, just for the convenience of them in the house.
-Chef Piquanti

Our BistroMD Review of their Diet Meal Delivery Service

At the very beginning of this BistroMD review, we said we thought this company that one of the best values in the diet meal plan industry, and after testing this year's offerings, we still believe that.
  • Long-time history of being one of the highest quality diet delivery services
  • Packaging and food storage designed for small freezer space
  • Customizable menu. You can pick every meal you want
  • Large substitution menu
  • Complete meals for breakfast lunch and dinner. No muffins, snack bars, soups, or sandwiches as meals like some other companies do to lower the cost of their program
  • Crepes and Omelets for breakfast are best in the business
  • Smaller menu options than years past with the same entree appearing with different sides
  • We had great difficulty getting through to customer service over the phone and they never replied to our email
  • Food shipment was four days late
  • We had to add 90 seconds extra to the reheating times shown on the labels
  • The seven day meal plan comes with just six dinners, which you will only discover after you give your credit card and sign up for the program. That seems like a stupid way to save money.
A sampling of photos of BistroMD Meals
  • My BistroMD section of website looks incomplete with missing meal descriptions, pictures, and customer reviews. The excessive nag screens to buy snacks or restart your deliveries (if you paused) are beyond annoying.
Bistro MD Prepared Meals We Would Order Again
  • Breakfast - Stuffed French Toast with Turkey Sausage and Sweet Potatoes
  • Lunch - Turkey Breast with Carrots and Cauliflower Puree
  • Dinner - Steak House Wrap Kit
  • Lunch - Moroccan Inspired Chicken
  • Dinner - Turkey and Beef Chipotle Chili with Pudding
  • Breakfast - Spinach Mushroom Crepes with Mixed Berry Compote
  • Lunch - Roasted North Atantic Salmon with Wild Rice and Spinach
  • Dinner - Pulled Pork Carolina with Baked Beans and Corn
  • Breakfast - Spinach Ricotta Crepes with Turkey Sausage and Sweet Potatoes
  • Lunch - Cheese Ravioli with Green Beans and Almond
  • Dinner - Pot Roast with Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Vegetables
  • Breakfast - Spinach Ricotta Crepes with Waldorf Apples
  • Lunch - Pork Tenderloin in Asian Plum Sauce and Sugar Snap Peas
  • Dinner - Blackened Tilapia with Brown Rice and Broccoli
Bistro MD Prepared Meals We Would Not Reorder
  • Breakfast - Bagel Sandwich with Ham and an Egg White

Our 2nd BistroMD Review of their 7 Day Diet Plan

Day 1
Breakfast: Rodeo Omelet with Sweet Potatoes. This was our first meal and it didn't reheat based on the instructions. The inside of the omelet was still frozen and had a crunchy texture. We already plated it, so we learned from our mistake. Outside of that issue, this is a very good breakfast. We liked the real egg whites instead of processed or powdered eggs other companies use. There were real bits of ham, diced peppers, and cheddar cheese, which we could taste. The roasted sweet potatoes were seasoned with thyme, but certainly missing salt and pepper. Add that yourself, and you have a winner of a breakfast! 

Lunch: Herbed Chicken Parmesan with Marinara Sauce, Orzo, and Garlic Seasoned Broccoli. We loved that the Marinara sauce was homemade and not from a jar. The orzo was outstanding, too, and we wish we had more of it, even though the portion size was good. We didn't taste any garlic seasoning in the broccoli. The chicken breast wasn't breaded, which is okay for a diet plan. The company gets bonus points for not using a machine-processed chicken breast. Overall, you would probably be very happy with this as an office lunch.

Dinner: Beef with Mushroom Marsala and Linguini and Italian Style Green Beans. It just so happens, the day before, our chef made braised beef with filet mignon. This beef is not the same as filet mignon, but it is real chunks of beef (not USDA select or canned beef) and much better than average. We especially love when a company uses real (and large) mushrooms over the cheaper canned ones. The sauce was good, but the Marsala taste was faint. The linguine was soft and didn't have an al dente texture. We found just a hint of seasoning on the vegetables, but we felt this diet plan was off to a very good start.
Day 2
Breakfast: Chicken and Mushroom Crepes with a Zucchini and Sweet Potato Hash. We have always loved BistroMD's crepes and this one didn't disappoint. It's quite an impressive portion size for a diet meal, too. The crepe is stuffed with shredded chicken and bits of ham. The Bechamel sauce brings it all together very nicely. We wouldn't go out of our way to get more hash, but it was good enough to get some healthy zucchini and sweet potatoes into our body.

Lunch: Meatloaf with Ground Turkey and Ground Beef, Bacon, and Cheddar Cheese Served with Sweat Potato Fries, Carrots and Spinach. There's really nothing better than a healthy-sized protein entree on a diet plan, and this meatloaf didn't disappoint. It is the first we ever heard of a 50% blend of beef and turkey from a diet delivery service. It is good, a little on the dry side, which can be expected when there isn't any natural fat to keep it moist. The sweet potato fries were okay, the carrots were okay, and the spinach was okay. They all needed to be seasoned, which we are finding to be a common theme with these meals, and none of them really "wowed" us, as far as taste goes, although they did accomplish their job of filling us up until lunch.

Dinner: Vegetable and Three Bean Burrito Kit with Cauliflower and Cilantro. It's not like us to rave about vegetarian meals, we tend to be closer to the "meat and potatoes" type, but this vegetable and bean burrito was pretty darn tasty. We would have preferred it to be assembled for us, and imagined that someone taking this to work as an office lunch might make a bit of a mess. But that observation aside, there was a generous amount of beans and vegetables all held together by the melted cheese. We had trouble rolling it into a burrito that we could eat with our hands, which made us like it more. The roasted cauliflower was tossed with cilantro, which we didn't taste at all. 
Day 3
Breakfast: Tomato Pesto Omelet with Peaches. If you want to spend the time to customize your meal plan, you really can't go wrong with any of the omelets. This one was filled with diced tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and pesto sauce. We didn't get much of the pesto flavor, but this was still an outstanding, egg white omelet. The peaches on the side were very soft from the microwave and we didn't taste any basil. There is one tiny piece of basil in the close-up photo.

Lunch: Manicotti with Vodka Marinara Sauce and Mixed Green Vegetables. This is a meal that over-promised and under-delivered a bit. Not that it was bad, because it wasn't; the meal came with one large manicotti which reheated to be very soft. There was an extra large amount of sauce, which probably added to the texture. We had a hard time lifting it out of the tray without falling apart. We are sure they used low-fat cheese as a filling, because it didn't have much flavor, but the sauce was outstanding, even though we didn't see a connection to the "Vodka" mentioned in the name.

Dinner: Turkey and Spinach Meatloaf with Caramelized Onion Gravy. Another meatloaf, which was sent to us a replacement meal for one we ordered but wasn't in stock. Turkey can be painfully dry, and this one was no exception. If you tried this blindfolded, you probably wouldn't be able to identify what you were eating. It lacked seasoning, like most of their meals. The whipped sweet potatoes are the first vegetable we've tried that we can say we would look to order again. They are firm and packed with flavor. The seasoned cauliflower florets didn't seem seasoned to us at all. The chef might need a refresher course on what a caramelized onion is, as you can see in the picture. A proper sauce would have complemented the meatloaf perfectly. 
Day 4
Breakfast: Salmon Benedict. When we selected this from the menu, we had visions of grandeur and loved the idea of a prepared meal delivery service finding a way to make eggs Benedict. This one fell short of our gourmet expectations, but it did pass our test, grading it on a curve for a high level of difficulty. The eggs are real, which is uncommon (believe it or not) but far from being poached or anything even close to that. We imagined there was going to be little tasty bits of smoked salmon (remember, we said most of meal descriptions are missing on the BistroMD website) sprinkled over a traditional Hollandaise sauce. There is more salmon than we imagined, but it is cooked through. The sauce was not similar to any Hollandaise, even on the most generous comparison, but it was good. The mixed grill was fine but under seasoned. If the omelets are a home run (and they are) this prepared breakfast was a double, plus an "A" for effort.

Lunch: Beef Shepard's Pie. One of our staff members has a pet peeve about the difference between Shepherd's Pie and Cottage Pie. They are exactly the same thing except a Shepherd's Pie is made with Lamb, and a Cottage Pie is made with beef. There is no such thing as a Beef Shepherd's Pie. You may not care, that's okay. As you might be able to tell, we are experts on this meal, and this one fell short. The quality of the beef was a concern as two of our testers experienced tiny pieces of bone wedged into their teeth. The mashed potatoes didn't help the cause either. This would be a meal we recommend you replace.

Dinner: Steak House Wrap Kit. Dinner more than made up for lunch. We had the vegetable burrito earlier and loved it. This is really the same thing with ground beef, we wouldn't call it steak. It was the same quality ground beef we had for lunch, but we didn't have any issues. The rice was good and not dry. It helped make the meal bigger than what you would expect for a diet meal. The caramelized onion, and brunoise peppers (a smaller cut than a dice) missed the boat to the party in our opinion. The magic of these burritos is in the cheese and how it holds everything together, both technically and in flavor. The creamed spinach side was the second vegetable side we will look for and order again. 
Day 5
Breakfast: Steak and Onion Omelet with Sweet Potatoes. As you may have already gathered, we love the BistroMD egg white omelets, and this one was our favorite. Think of an omelet stuffed with Philly Cheesesteak Beef. Shredded and one of the few meals that was seasoned, this breakfast was a treat. The same wonderful cheese they used on the burritos would have been wonderful, but this is cheese-less. It reheats well and was quite enjoyable. The side of cubed sweet potatoes was good, but lacked seasoning. An occasional real potato for breakfast would be welcome, but we would recommend adding this to your regular breakfast menus.

Lunch: Oven-Fried Catfish with Spicy Tomato Leek Sauce. We were so excited to see catfish on the menu, and we were not disappointed. How they did this, so the catfish and breading heats up in a microwave without getting mushy, is a mystery to us, but they nailed it. Spot on! The sauteed green cabbage was also outstanding, and the spicy tomato leek sauce was grand. It was actually pretty spicy; something most prepared meal delivery services shy away from. Now it won't burn your mouth off, but if you like some heat this sauce is for you. The red beans and rice were okay. The rice came out a bit dried out. It's far from a dirty rice you might get in New Orleans, but still an awesome meal to add to your menu.

Dinner: Your Own Structured Meal. We've mentioned it, but we'll say it again. The seven day breakfast, lunch, and dinner doesn't come with a seven dinners. Just six. It is also not clearly explained anywhere on the website before you place your order. Instead, you get a night off to have a "structured diet meal." We thought the seven day meal plan should include seven dinners, like all the other diet meal delivery services do.
Day 6
Breakfast: Pulled Pork Crepes with BBQ Sauce and Apple Chutney. We only purchased one crepe breakfast this order because we've had them all in the past. If it is true that history repeats itself, then you can be assured any crepe breakfast from BistroMD will be outstanding. This one was no exception. Don't be afraid of the BBQ Sauce, it's very mild and not relevant to the dish. It's the combination of pork and cinnamon apples that make this breakfast one of the best you can buy from any company. If you select your own menu (and you should) of crepes and omelets you can go wrong.

Lunch: Turkey and Spinach Meatloaf with Old Fashioned Tomato Sauce. We had this entree on day three. This time it's partnered with tomato sauce and some different sides. The corn is pretty straightforward. It's corn. The sweet red and green cabbage slaw is another vegetable side we will look for to order again, it was that good. We don't know what made the tomato sauce old-fashioned, it tasted like their base sauce to us. The brick of turkey meatloaf was exactly the same as our previous experience.

Dinner: Beef with Mushroom Marsala Sauce. Basically, this is another duplicate meal, less the linguini. We did seem to get a bit more garlic flavor from the Italian-styled green beans. The linguini was replaced with spaghetti squash which was divine, and we wished there was more of it. We would have liked to see it in its own compartment in the tray, too, instead of just tossed on top of the beef.
Day 7
Breakfast: Eggs Florentine with Hollandaise. This egg breakfast was better than the salmon Benedict we tried. The eggs are the same, but the Hollandaise sauce was a little more flavorful. The bed of spinach lacked seasoning, but wasn't watery. The bean, zucchini, and red pepper stew was watery, but okay.

Lunch: Beef with Red Wine Sauce and Roasted Vegetables. This came out more like a stew than anything else. The barley was cooked perfectly and had some texture. The braised beef is the same cubed beef we had in other similar meals. The port wine sauce didn't bring as much rich flavor you might expect, and there were a couple of pieces of red onion and baby carrots.

Dinner: Turkey and Spinach Meatloaf with Caramelized Onion Gravy.
This is the same exact meal we had on day three. It was another substitution. No change in our comments.
Cost

We paid $179.95 for our seven day meal plan. Had we used the BistroMD coupon above, we would have paid $118.95. We didn't get 21 meals, we received 20, so the cost comes out to $8.99 per meal. Had we used the coupon, the cost would have been $5.94 per meal. The coupon gives you an opportunity to try the meal plan. You don't have to do it for seven days, they also have a five day plan. At $8.99 per meal, we think BistroMD offers good value and a realistic amount of food that won't leave you hungry for snacks between meals and after hours.

Are they perfect? No. No diet meal delivery service is, but they are one of the best solutions for weight loss when you don't have the time, desire, or money to shop and cook for yourself. Yes, we said money. You will probably spend more per meal trying to buy and prepare your own diet meals.

Summary

At the very beginning of this BistroMD review, we said we thought this company that one of the best values in the diet meal plan industry, and after testing this year's offerings, we still believe that.

Positives
  • Long-time history of being one of the highest quality diet delivery services.
  • Packaging and food storage designed for small freezer space
  • Customizable menu. You can pick every meal you want
  • Large substitution menu
  • Complete meals for breakfast lunch and dinner. No muffins, snack bars, soups, or sandwiches as meals like some other companies do to lower the cost of their program
  • Crepes and Omelets for breakfast are best in the business
Negatives
  • Smaller menu options than years past with the same entree appearing with different sides
  • We had great difficulty getting through to customer service over the phone and they never replied to our email
  • Food shipment was four days late
  • We had to add 90 seconds extra to the reheating times shown on the labels
  • The seven day meal plan comes with just six dinners, which you will only discover after you give your credit card and sign up for the program
  • My BistroMD section of website looks incomplete with missing meal descriptions, pictures, and customer reviews. The excessive nag screens to buy snacks or restart your deliveries (if you paused) are beyond annoying.

BistroMD Reviews from Consumers

Bronze Medal Review
Satisfying Enough But Meals Taste Similar

Overall: Bronze Medal
  • Website Ease of Ordering: Excellent
  • Reheating: Good
  • Customer Service: Excellent
  • Shipping: Excellent
  • Taste and Food Quality: Fair
  • Value: Fair
The meals were a decent size & reheated well in a toaster oven (I don't use a microwave). I would just take it out of the plastic container & reheat in an appropriate pan. I was on the gluten free plan. It was satisfying enough, so no complaints there. My husband tried one or two meals & liked them, no problem. However I ate it more often than him & everything had a similar flavor to me. The food also made me very gassy, so I couldn't really enjoy anything without paying for it after!

The customer service was good. I had to cancel due to a surgery & they obliged quickly & easily.
-Aeva, NJ
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Gold Medal Review
Rewarding Meals

Overall: Gold Medal
  • Website Ease of Ordering: Excellent
  • Reheating: Excellent
  • Customer Service: Excellent
  • Shipping: Excellent
  • Taste and Food Quality: Excellent
  • Value: Excellent
Eating delicious meals and losing weight at the same time is what I have always wanted. And they gave me just that. I was in search for a diet meal that could satisfy my appetite and help me lose weight for years now, and I thought I won't be able to find it. A friend finally recommended them and I tried their diet pack for a week. I absolutely admire how their customer support agents checks on me from time to time to see how I feel about their meals, and if there's anything I want to be changed. Of course, I would always say none. Their meals are rewarding and no doubt life changing.
-M. White, Barley, Nebraska
Silver Medal Review
Serving Sizes are Fulfilling

Overall: Silver Medal
  • Website Ease of Ordering: Good
  • Reheating: Good
  • Customer Service: Excellent
  • Shipping: Good
  • Taste and Food Quality: Excellent
  • Value: Excellent
They make the best diet meals. They all look great in pictures and even more appealing once you take them out of the microwave. What you see is what you get. Their beef tips with wine and mushrooms is a must try. Serving sizes are fulfilling. My meals are fresh and nutritious, which is a big factor for me. I loved getting free shipping with my Bistro MD Coupons.
-L. Lee, Ballock, New Hampshire
Gold Medal Review
Mom's Health Improved

Overall: Gold Medal
  • Website Ease of Ordering: Good
  • Reheating: Good
  • Customer Service: Excellent
  • Shipping: Good
  • Taste and Food Quality: Excellent
  • Value: Excellent
I ordered once for my 60 year old mother for her birthday, and to my surprise she loved it. She's a picky eater, her nurses say so themselves. She has too many health complications, which I think adds up to her finicky diet. But with these meals, her health improved, and so did her appetite. Her doctors even approved of them and recommend she continue this diet.
M. Stone, New York, NY
Gold Medal Review
I Would Recommend This Service to Anyone

Overall: Gold Medal
  • Website Ease of Ordering: Good
  • Reheating: Excellent
  • Customer Service: Excellent
  • Shipping: Excellent
  • Taste and Food Quality: Good
  • Value: Excellent
I almost didn't order this service becuase it makes you buy breakfast. I am not one to have breakfast, aside from a piece of fruit and maybe a yogurt, so I didn't like the fact I had to buy them. If there was another diet meal delivery that didn't force you to buy breakfast, I would have purchased there.

I chose the 7 day plan without snacks (which I can buy myself) and spent $160 for 21 meals. Roughly, $7.50 a meal which was in my budget. I was quite happy with my decision. The meals had a menu that left wondering what was next. I found them easy to warm up and they traveled well with me to the office.

One of the surprise things I learned about myself while I was on the program is how much time I spend in the kitchen. With this program I was only in the kitchen to feed my dog and make coffee. I'm sorry if that is too much detail.

I enjoyed my food, and even the breakfasts. There is a lot of chicken and pork dishes (hard to tell the difference), and I would like to see more meat meals. But I would recommend this service to anyone.
-Angie A., MI
Gold Medal Review
Thumbs Up!

Overall: Gold Medal
  • Website Ease of Ordering: Good
  • Reheating: Excellent
  • Customer Service: Excellent
  • Shipping: Excellent
  • Taste and Food Quality: Good
  • Value: Excellent
This was the perfect diet for me to lose 4 pounds in a short amount of time. I was expecting to suffer a week of eating diet food, but I was surprised how good the food was. Shipping was great, and I didn't have a need to call customer service. The sizes of the meals were good too. Thumbs up!
-Janet F., CO
Silver Medal Review
Better than Average

Overall: Silver Medal
  • Website Ease of Ordering: Good
  • Reheating: Good
  • Customer Service: Good
  • Shipping: Excellent
  • Taste and Food Quality: Fair
  • Value: Fair
Your rating scale is based on one to four If it were based on one to five, I would give the Bistro MD meal I purchased a 2.5. Exactly in the middle average. Some were good, some were very disappointing. I had a little difficulty canceling future orders. I thought the pictures would help everyone see what they are getting.
-Michael P., NYC

Grilled Pesto Chicken
Following the heating instructions, the chicken never heated up to temperature, and the pesto was in a solid state compared to more of a sauce. The vegetables were good. The kidney beans appeared to have poured right from a can, with that gooey-like fluid, they pack kidney beans in, and they were the best part of the meal. Fair Meal.

Vegetable Beef Stir Fry
It reheated well, the beef was cooked more than the rice, and the vegetables were not soggy. The beef tasted like real pieces of steak. Vegetables were not mushy, but boring. Their packaging says DO NOT REMOVE film, and I wasn't sure what that meant. But this meal reheated well, and I thought it was a Pretty Good Meal.

Turkey with Cranberry Quinoa
Following the heating instructions, it was still cold. The sauce didn’t melt. After two more minutes, the meal was hot. The sauce is so sweet I couldn’t eat it. The turkey consists of just two small slices, which was arid. I wouldn’t call it dry. It was, however, real sliced turkey.

The pilaf of Quinoa, was edible but far from good. There was little in the way in the seasoning or flavor, and it too was dry. The puree of squash looked and tasted like baby food. This is a bad meal.

Chicken Mushroom Crepe
Following the heating instructions, the crepe was warm and the vegetables were cold. The crepe couldn’t stand the additional cooking and became impossible to cut with a fork. Inside the crepe was diced chicken, mushrooms, and Swiss cheese, but only the chicken had any flavor.

There was a strange spice that left a bad aftertaste in my mouth, which I couldn’t identify from the ingredients list. The filling is held together with food starch. The squash and zucchini medley was the best thing in the meal, but not worth getting just for them. Fair Meal.

Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pancake
Cooked from frozen 3 minutes per directions. The Syrup melted all over the turkey sausage patty, which was petrified from cooking and only ¼ inch thick. The three small pancake patties were stuck together.

The top pancake was too hard to eat. The bottom pancake was mushy. They tasted like fibrous sawdust with a hint of pumpkin, not a sweet potato. Not a good meal.

Apricot Glazed Pork Tenderloin
Following the heating instructions, meal came out hot and evenly cooked. The spinach was exceptional, without any water at the bottom of the tray like you might expect with a frozen meal. The brown rice pilaf also reheated well. It tasted a little bland, but okay. 

You can see the pork tenderloin doesn’t come with much of a portion. Three small slices, but it was real tenderloin meat, it reheated moist, and the apricot-mustard glaze was surprising good. A very good meal, probably the best so far.

Broccoli and Beef Dinner
Following the heating instructions, the broccoli was still cold. I didn’t continue to cook the broccoli for fear of ruining the meat. The beef is the star of this meal. It is plentiful and tender.

The sweet and sour sauce is nice too. The rice was less enjoyable and had a crunchy or grainy texture to it. With the sauce, it was good. The broccoli was nothing more than you would find in the freezer section of your local supermarket. Overall, a Good Meal.

Ham and Turkey Dinner
The ham is sliced from a real smoked spiral sliced ham, and the turkey is sliced from a real turkey breast.

The fruit chutney was not too sweet like most of the other sauces I had tried so far. You get two slices of ham wedged between a small slice of turkey. The Confetti Rice Blend is flavorless with a little kick of heat. It didn’t have much texture for a grainy rice dish. The Broccoli Raab was a delightful surprise. It was well seasoned, flavorful, and the roasted corn kernels were a nice touch. No excess water at the bottom of the tray either. Overall, a good meal, but I didn’t eat the rice.

Spinach Mushroom Crepe
Unlike the other crepe meal, these crepes were tender and cut easily with a fork. The dill Hollandaise sauce could have used another 30 seconds to get hot, which probably would have dried out the crepe. The filling was mostly spinach, I saw very few mushrooms, and what I saw was bits.

It tasted okay, like cream of mushroom soup, mixed with spinach, and stuffed in a crepe. The roasted sweet potato cubes heated well and didn’t have any water in the bottom of the tray. Overall, a good meal, but not one I would order again.

Buckwheat Berry Pancakes
The pancakes came out much better than my last try. They were warm, cooked evenly, and tasted good, butthey were a little sweet. The Canadian bacon also reheated well, but it was way too salty for my tastes.

The Fruit Compote consisted of a strawberry in a blueberry mixture, which was way too sweet for me to enjoy. The only thing I ate from this breakfast were the three pancakes. Fair Meal.

Chicken Breast with Spinach and Feta
Following the heating instructions, the chicken and the sauce was still cold. It needed 2 more minutes. The whole pasta, located in the bottom of the main tray was cooked well, but there was a lot of excess water in the bottom of the tray.

Even with additional cooking time, there were cold spots in the chicken and the filling. The filling eventually mixed with the water and became a sloppy soup. Fair Meal.
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Bronze Medal Review
Tasted Just Okay

Overall: Bronze Medal
  • Website Ease of Ordering: Fair
  • Reheating: Good
  • Customer Service: Excellent
  • Shipping: Excellent
  • Taste and Food Quality: Fair
  • Value: Fair
I think I would have been happy with meals that tasted just OK because my main concern was losing weight. I felt disappointed and unsatisfied after eating most of my meals. Most of the time my meal didn't evenly too. I felt like there was always something on the plate I would never order in a restaurant or make at home.

I also felt hungry most of the day and to supplement this food with salads, fruit, and chopped up vegetables. I had to decide between a tight budget and my tight jeans. I think I might have been better off saving money with frozen diet dinners from the supermarket. The Bistro MD Coupons saved me some money, but I probably wouldn't order again.
-Mary Lynn, Il
Silver Medal Review
A Decent Plan for the Money

Overall: Silver Medal
  • Website Ease of Ordering: Good
  • Reheating: Excellent
  • Customer Service: Excellent
  • Shipping: Excellent
  • Taste and Food Quality: Good
  • Value: Good
I think I may have been on some kind of diet most of my life, so I feel exceptionally qualified to speak on diet food. There are some meal programs out that taste disgusting and others that have tiny tiny portion sizes, which is how you lose weight.

I don't think this company falls into either category. Are they wonderful and delicious dinners you have eating out? Absolutely not, but you have to grade all "diet food" on a scale anyway. Michael P. might not realize this.

They're pretty good compared to the competition and the price you will have to pay. I wouldn't be one to spend $50 a day on diet meals, so this is a decent plan for the money. And the Free Shipping you get with the Bistro MD Coupon is an added bonus!
-Susie A, MD

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