Best Vegetarian Meal Delivery, Tested by BA Editors (2026)

Tester: Jaia Clingham-David, research fellow

About Hello Fresh: “HelloFresh is one of the most ubiquitous delivery kit services in the US for a reason: Recipes come together fast, instructions are easy to follow, and the results are reliably tasty. When you are exhausted from the day and can’t conjure up a new recipe idea, this service does the heavy lifting by giving you all the ingredients you need for a weeknight meal. If you’re a vegetarian, you’ll love the wide array of balanced options that are both comforting and effortlessly simple,” Clingham-David writes.

What we love: “For vegetarians looking for quick no-fuss recipes, HelloFresh’s meals satisfy that need. Whether you’re looking to cook something you’ve always wanted to try or return to a reliable staple meal, HelloFresh delivers the necessary ingredients to your door and spells out each step of the cooking process. The recipes are straightforward, and everything comes ready to go, but you still feel like you’re doing all the prep and cooking yourself (for the most part, you are!),” Clingham-David writes.

As someone who formerly followed a vegan diet, Clingham-David is well familiar with the challenges of meatless meal planning. “For new vegetarians, this service is a wonderful way to learn how to have balanced meatless dishes. The meals feature colorful veggies, hearty legumes and proteins, and a reasonable amount of a carby base like pasta or rice. These recipes could easily translate to home cooks’ weekly routines for families and individuals alike,” she writes.

Unlike some other meal delivery services, HelloFresh doesn’t make you jump through many hoops to find vegetarian options—the second question when ordering allows you to choose “vegetarian” right away. When selecting her meals, Clingham-David enjoyed “the breadth of personalization, including useful preferences to save money, limit waste, eat healthy, meal prep faster, or discover new recipes.” She was also impressed by how “varied and lively” the vegetarian options were week to week: “pasta and veg bowls, hearty wraps and sandwiches, flavorful soups and salads. Some were simple, such as pesto pasta, and others were more inventive, like BBQ Pulled Mushroom Sandwiches. Clicking into each dish reveals the full ingredient list, making it easy to see what you’re signing up for. The variety alone made me excited for the week of meals to come. These aren’t simply meat dishes without the meat—they were intentionally thought-out meals with a balance of flavors and textures,” she writes.

Clingham-David’s favorite dish during her week of testing was the Tofu Banh Mi. “At first I was skeptical—bahn mi, one of my personal favorites, is a balancing act of sweet, sour, salty, and spicy with pickled vegetables, bright cilantro, a toothsome marinated protein, and a soft, fluffy baguette. The flavors of HelloFresh’s banh mi were spot-on. The instructions streamlined all the vegetable prep and allowed you to prepare your sauces well in advance of any cooking. The bread was pillowy and soft, and even though it didn’t fully hold up when stuffed with the tofu and vegetables, the texture was better than expected with bread from a plastic bag,” she writes.

What we’d leave: There wasn’t much Clingham-David didn’t like during her week of testing HelloFresh, but she does mention that some of the produce in her box went bad before she had a chance to use it.