Plated is a weekly dinner kit subscription box with high-quality ingredients and chef-created recipes. Each week you’ll choose from a variety of quick gourmet meals that range from meats, chicken, seafood, and purely vegetarian options. You can swap out your recipes and skip any week you don’t want.
Plated insulates the food with padding filled with recycled thread material. Boxes are always packed with the meat on the bottom, underneath a few big ice packs – the rest of the food is set on top with more ice.
Plated sends a weekly email – it doesn’t tell you much about your meals, other than what you need from home. They now offer three-serving meals! This is a great option for guaranteeing leftovers for a tasty and easy lunch!
DEAL: Currently you can get 2 free plates when you buy 4 when you sign up with this link (no coupon code required).
On-card information is now streamlined and includes only prep-time, number of servings and calorie count. Most of Plated’s meals serve two people. Unless stated otherwise, the pics of finished dishes show a single serving.
Plated’s recipes rely on mise en place and then cook – we often mix up the steps from how the recipe is written, but we’re both experienced cooks and know what can be accomplished while something else cooks. So, read your cards if you need the step by steps.
All the food comes bagged up and separated (mostly) into the recipes – meat and some large or delicate items are bagged separately.
Sesame Chicken Long Life Noodles With Spinach And Mushrooms. 25-35 minutes, easy, 820 calories per serving.
This dish is traditionally served during Chinese New Year celebrations to bring good fortune in the coming year. This version was loaded with three types of mushrooms, spinach, green onions, and chicken. The sauce was very light, absorbing completely into the noodles – this lets the ingredients really shine. I loved this dish and ate way too much of it – it made huge portions, but, despite being very filling, it maintained a light feel and didn’t bog me down. Really tasty and easy to make.
Smoked Salmon Pizza With Whipped Goat Cheese, Capers, And Tomato. 40-50 minutes, medium, 730 calories per serving.
I missed out on my annual smoked salmon feast at our Christmas Eve dinner this year, so I was very excited to grab this offering! Despite all the ingredients, this pizza went together fairly quickly. Baking the crust with the tomato and onion on it prevented it from puffing up too high and burning, so it turned out nicely. The Japanese seasoning on the crust was very similar to the topping on an “everything” bagel, and it was the perfect choice for smoked salmon. Brandy isn’t a fan of smoked salmon, so my portion was piled extra high – pictured above is the entire recipe – it still would have had plenty of salmon had I spread it out across the whole pie. The goat cheese made for a great topping by itself, and it went particularly well with the salmon and all its accompaniments. Tons of capers and seasoning with this dish. It looked great and made an awesome New Year’s Eve feast!
We enjoy Plated and order it frequently. Of the three meal kits we regularly order, Plated shoots for the most upscale image, echoing popular trends in food culture. They have blended classic dishes accompanied by a French-style sauce with more contemporary and international offerings, plus some simplified and more mainstream dishes — broadening the appeal while still offering top-notch fare.
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