bistroMDReviews of bistromd.com

I've been using the program somewhat sporadically but when I stick to it, it does work for weight loss. However, the food quality is very inconsistent. Some of it is good and some has been inedible. While I love the convenience, for the price, the taste and quality need to be better.

There needs to be more choices especially considering price. The green beans inevitably suffer because the other part of dish requires more cooking so most times it is inedible. Would love to be able to use oven to cook like most frozen food brands.

While I think the program is a good program and very easy to manage, I am now incredibly bored by the menu and the food. I find myself struggling to get excited by any of the entrees. The turkey and pork entrees are actually quite bad. The Chicken entrees are pretty good if a little Bland. I recently tried the breakfast items and they are pretty awful. Also, the instructions can be a bit overly simplified and thus your entrees if you follow the instructions or not very well prepared. For instance the breakfast entrees that include pancakes or anything that includes a bread like option the instructions should expensify how to prepare those outside of the microwave. I would recommend people try this for a couple of weeks and perhaps do it when you know that you're going to have a very busy. With work. Otherwise, I would suggest one of the lower maintenance but prepare the food at home options like blue apron or hello fresh

I like most of the dishes quite a bit, but I do find them too salty. Also, I would like more variety, if possible. For example, could you add sandwiches for lunch?

I did some internet research before deciding to try BistroMD, versus other meal delivery programs, because the food was supposed to be better tasting and well portioned, thus worth the cost. What I realized quickly was that I was really going to have to try everything - things that sounded appetizing weren't always so in real diet-meal life. For me, every soup was delicious, but every beef option was somewhat gristly and bland. The chicken seemed a bit rubbery, like it had been soaked in buttermilk or a brine before cooking. Green beans are used so often that, because I'm allergic, many were unavailable to me, but there were still many options left to pick from. Customer service is very good, as long as you can call during their business hours, the people there are friendly and helpful. I am a night shift worker, and remembering to call right when I got up was difficult. Some things they will handle by e-mail, others require a phone call. For me, the frequency of delivery became too much. I've seen an "every other" option (every other week, every other month, etc) with other delivery services, but that is not available with BistroMD. You'd have to call in every time you want to hold off on the next delivery, and make sure you do it by the right day or else you'd miss the cutoff and receive another delivery, whether or not you have room in your freezer, or anyone else's freezers. I'm glad I gave it a shot, but I don't think meal deliveries are right for me. I think I received 6-7 deliveries before deciding to cancel. If you're considering signing up, try the split pea soup.... You won't be disappointed!

This program was okay. Customer service always seemed fine to me. I gave it 5-6 weeks but didn’t lose any weight on the gluten free program so I'm discontinuing the service. I was very frustrated because doing the 5 day plan was really expensive but I tried going up to the 7 day to see if that made a difference with weight loss and it didn't, so it’s really just not worth the money. I had much higher expectations for the cost and 5 weeks is a long time to do something without any results. The breakfasts and some of the snacks were usually great but about half the dinners and lunches were just disgusting. I even missed work one day last week because a dinner made me sick the night before and it was too late to prevent the same meal from going into my next shipment based on their timing policies. The meals also have so, so much tomato sauce and some of the fish meals I've received were past their expiration dates. So gross! On the bright side, I think I really did learn about portion control and making more of an effort to add protein to my diet, and to snack less at my desk. This could be a very good way to ease into a diet on your own.

I joined the program based on the promise of quality meals delivered weekly. The majority of the meals were decent. However, the beef sent in some of the meals was so grisly that it was inedible. I wouldn't have feed it to a starving stray animal. The delivery for the meals also suffered after two weeks of deliveries. My husband and I were enrolled and both received deliveries on Saturdays which was perfect. The Sunday meals could be thawed in the fridge and meals for both of us could be organized at the same time in the freezer for the following week. This wasn't bad at all. Once and done then anyone could thaw the meals for the next day. Then, for some reason, my meals came on Wednesday. This means reorganizing the freezer with Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday meals for both of us because there was a a week worth of new meals needed to be organized and frozen. Then his meals would arrive on Saturday which means another large reorganization. Its not bad to do it once but twice a week is unacceptable. There is a large selection of meals with this plan with an emphasis on protein. With as many selections as there were, a participant should be able to eat a unique item with no repeats for a month maybe even two. I had repeat meals the very next delivery. This was not the worse thing but imagine that you removed the meal from your preferences, double checked the menu to make sure it wasn't missed then on delivery day, there they are! This is just an opinion on the taste of the meals but for me you either like them or you want to toss them. At the price of $450 for delivery for two adults eating 20 meals per week with 2-3 snacks daily, its an average of $11-$13 per item. I could eat a lot of things at those prices. Especially considering I spend $150 per week to feed two people under any other circumstances. Overall, the cost for the plan is high but I was willing to pay for a great program. However, with all the mistakes including the odd delivery times, inedible meals and high cost at least the customer service was excellent! If you have the money and are willing to work around these problems I experienced, try it, you just might like it.

It's a bit confusing to start because I did everything online. Having said that, when I had problems and called customer service, they were very responsive. It's only been 5 days ....I've lost maybe a pound, but i've not been hungry either which is a deal breaker for me. The food is okay...the beef is a bit fatty...I would rather have very lean beef. The chicken, turkey and salmon were fine. I like the breakfast sandwiches...quite tasty and very satisfying. I also like that I don't have to buy any other food. Time will tell if I lose weight or not...I'm giving it two weeks and we'll see....I would expect I should be about 4 pounds down.