What to Know Before You Buy Diet Delivery Services

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 what to know before you purchase a diet delivery service. The first thing to look at is make sure that this is either something local to your region that you know for a fact you can get delivery service from, or that it is a nation wide delivery service that includes your particular city or your particular town in its service area. That's the first thing to check out. The next thing that you're going to look at is their product offering. If you have any particular health conditions you want to make sure that they offer foods that meet your needs. So for example if you have high blood pressure you want to make sure that they have food options available that are low sodium. So that would be the thing to check out there. If you have diabetes and you're trying to control your carbohydrate intake, you want to make sure that they have options that are low carbohydrate. So that would be the thing to look at for that particular need. If you're, for example dealing with cholesterol issues you want to make sure that they have foods that are low in saturated and trans fats. So there's a variety of things that you need to look at, you need to make sure that they offer to meet your needs. Other people are concerned with kosher foods. So that's another area to look at, do they offer kosher foods, or if you're a vegetarian, do they offer vegetarian options? The next thing that you want to make sure and find out research are there different packages? Some people may only need dinner, so they want a package that will allow them just to buy dinner meals. Other people want all three meals. So they need sure that that particular service offers three meals. Other people may want to include snacks. So again, based on your own needs, you're going to want to research that particular program and make sure that they offer what you're looking for. Of course you also want to look at their billing practices, do you have to pay upfront, do you get your food first and you pay later? Make sure you look into all of those different things before you actually sign up with a diet delivery service program."