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Company Address
Home Bistro, Inc.
190 Banker Road
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
(1-800-628-5588) Corporate: 518-825-2000
Website: www.homebistro.com
Summary
This upstate New York company claims to be
in the diet/healthy meals delivery business
for more than 10 years. Meals are delivered
nationwide. The food is vacuum sealed and
flash frozen. However, one should note that
this is not a plan that provides ALL your
meals for the day. The focus is on dinner
entrees--not breakfasts or lunches.
How
The Service Works
Home Bistro prepares chef-prepared meals
for home delivery, including:
- dinner entrees
- appetizers
- soups
- desserts
Special diet plans are offered for: low-carb,
low-fat, low sodium, and diabetes
friendly. Dinners include choices from:
beef, pork, lamb, poultry, seafood, and
pasta. Lighter Side dinners are
lower in calories and fat.
Home Bistro also sells "samplers and
monthly gift plans as well. There is an
introductory Lighter Side package of 4
meals for $19.95 plus $6.95 shipping,
but regular plans will cost more than
this.
To prepare the meals, you simply place
the special package in simmering water.
Shipments are made on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday--not Thursday through
Sunday. The meals are shipped UPS so it
will take 2-3 days to get to you. If you
order on a Thursday, for example, your
order won't ship until the following
Monday.
The Cost
It can be difficult to determine the daily, weekly or monthly cost
of this plan, since you are not buying a full day's food, just
dinner. The a la carte price of Lighter Side dinner entrees is
$11.99. The appetizers range from $7 to $13.50. Desserts range from
$19.99 to $26.99 for a box of 4 or 6.
There are 3, 6 or 12 month sampler plans. You are billed monthly,
when the meals are shipped.
If one wanted to purchase 30 dinners, one for every day of the
month, the best you could do is a 30% discount that brings the price
down to $8.39 per meal, plus $29.95 shipping. So, if you ordered 30
meals up front (and you could fit them all in your freezer), you'd
pay $296.95. If you order 7-13 meals, there is a 10% discount. If
you order 14-29 meals, you get 20% off. Of course, if you want
appetizers or desserts, that costs extra. Adding a dessert with each
meal will add about $5/day.
Consequently, ordering just 30 dinners (with desserts) will run
about $450 per month. To that, add the cost of your breakfasts and
lunches and snacks that you have to buy and prepare yourself.
You can choose to have shipped any amount of meals at one time that
you desire. But, it you want daily delivery, for example, you'll pay
a heft amount in shipping charges.
Unlike Nutrisystem or other plans, this is more of an a la carte
plan than an all-inclusive plan covering all your meals and snacks
in a day.
Monthly gift samplers range from $75.95 to $119.99, plus $19.95 s/h.