How Do Diet Delivery Services Work?

Video Transcript

"My name is Christine Marquette, and I'm a registered dietitian with the Austin Regional Clinic. And I'm going to talk to you about how diet delivery serves work. These are programs that can be found nationally as well as locally. And the vast majority of them will deliver meals directly to your home or office. Some of them have actual store fronts where you can go in an browse a selection of different types of foods, and actually pick up things yourself and take them home. The vast majority of them have a variety of packages, they may have basic heat and eat frozen dinners. Some of them may have fresh produce, fresh salads, that type of thing. Those are going to be more of your local delivery service programs that don't have a long distance to travel. As far as the type of foods, you're going to find a wide variety. Some of them will be low carbohydrate, others will be low fat, others will be low sodium, so there is a really wide range really depending on what you need. You can find just about anything to meet your needs with these particular programs. You will also find that the cost varies a lot. Some of them will offer discounts if you buy say a month at a time, others will offer you the ability to earn free meals. And again that's based on how many you actually purchase. So you really want to do a little research, look at a variety of different programs. Some offer vegetarian, some offer kosher meals, so depending on what your needs are, more than likely you can actually find one of these programs to suit your needs. If that's something that you think would be a convenient way for you to maintain a healthy diet. So that's just a little information on how diet delivery service programs actually work."