How to Mail Order Prepared Meals

Series Summary

Everyone wants to live a fit and healthy life, but sometimes beginning a new low-fat diet can be daunting and even challenging. Changing eating habits and learning to prepare low-calorie, low-fat food can be difficult. However, having a solid knowledge base about the types of foods that can be enjoyed without guilt, and some inspiration towards creating a delicious menu full of diet-friendly meals is a great start. Healthy snacks, exercise and a refrigerator makeover are great steps for diet beginners, and this series will help jump start a diet easily. In this free video series, a licensed dietitian provides nutrition tips for promoting general health and for adapting diets to fit the needs of people with varying illnesses. Discover how to live with wheat, corn or shellfish allergies, how to cook for a diabetic and how to cope with irritable bowel syndrome. Find ways to avoid overeating, identify anorexia and fight weight gain. With these dieting and nutrition tips, anyone can start eating healthy and eating well.

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 to mail order prepared meals. There are actually a lot of different diet delivery programs across the nation, where you can mail order your prepared meals. A variety of options are available. If you want to do strictly frozen dinners, you can go that route. NutriSystems is a very popular program, where you can do that, order frozen foods, or other packaged items, and have that delivered directly to your home. There are other services, such as Diet- to-Go, Chef's Diet, Jenny Craig. Lots of different diet delivery service programs are available, where you can actually order the prepared meals, and have them delivered directly to your home, or if it's more convenient, you can actually have them delivered to your place of work, and you have again, a variety of options. You can also pick from different plans,whether that would be three meals a day, or maybe you just want to do one meal a day. Maybe it's only your dinner meal that you need, or maybe you want meals and snacks. Most of these places offer a variety of options, and they also have a wide range of cost, just depending again, on how many meals you choose to order. Whether you're ordering it for five days a week, or for a full week, a lot of times it will have discounts based on the number of meals that you're actually ordering, so there are a lot of different options for mail ordering your foods. You will definitely want to look into exactly what you need. Whether it's two or three meals a day, whether you need snacks, and again, whether you need them every single day, or maybe just a couple of days out of the week, so those are just some tips on how to mail order prepared meals."