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Love, love, love this food. It’s super expensive, but we stretch it out. I love that we have virtually no wasted food at the end of the week like we’d normally have with traditional grocery shopping. I have had issues with delivery, like items being in their sides so the dressings pop open, but customer service credited me immediately for the damaged items and flagged the account for extra care.

Thistle is great for vegans. Their quality is very good and consistent. I love their delivery of fresh food. It is so important for me.

I hate to admit it, but I LOVE this service. The food is so fresh and tasty and surprisingly filling. I get vegan lunch and dinner 5d/wk. I only planned to do it for a few months, mainly to gather ideas about how I might better make plant-based meals on my own. I'm sure I could cook up and freeze batches of grains and roast veg, use canned beans, keep baby greens on hand, etc - and have a lot of the basic components ready to assemble. But the key is the delicious sauces, and also various plant protein concoctions. There's just no way I could freshly prepare these with all the flavorful variety. I'm kind of at the limit of my food budget, but I've justified continuing because my diet is so healthy and delicious now (and SO freaking convenient!!); left to my own devices it would surely devolve. Maybe it depends on where you live, but I've had NO issues with delivery. The couple times it was delayed a day (holiday, ice storm) I got ample notice about the change. In 6 months of using this service, I've received a mistaken item only once. I was credited within hours of reporting it, and got a fulsome apology. And yes, over time, you will see familiar meals cycle through. And yet, cooking for yourself, there's no way you'd create as much variety. I still hold out some vague hope of one day finding the secret for feeding myself this way, but in the meanwhile I'm thrilled Thistle is here for me.

I have just gone through my first full day of meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack. Each af the meals was super tasty. I made a switch from eating meat, to a plant based way of eating and quite frankly after three days of cooking for myself I was relieved to find such a great PREPARED meal plan. I would never be able to achieve this level of variety on my own and am excited on how this will positively affect my gut biome. I also am glad that I am no longer contributing to the damage that mass animal farming is doing to our environment. I have seen comments about the expense. If you consider time saved and quality and variety of the ingredients, I think it is a pretty good deal. I may at some point start making breakfast, but for now, Thistle is making the transition from eating out a lot and eating meat to a completely plant based meal plan totally seamless and worry free.

Thistle has been life-changing. We eat WAY more vegetables, save a ton of time on food shopping and prep, waste far less food, and our cholesterol even is lower. The folks on here complaining about lack of variety, plastic packaging, and delivery timing have little familiarity with the reality of running a business like this. I personally think Thistle does an excellent job of managing variety, they use reusable delivery bags, and they make a big effort to communicate delivery times and any upcoming delivery days that fall on holidays. Yes, each of the meals comes in plastic, but this is recyclable and people often do not realize that alternate materials that are heavier than plastic will require far more fuel to transport, and will also contribute to more food spoilage and waste if they are less secure. I've tried lots of meal services and Thistle is the best both in meal quality and in the supply chain and packaging tradeoff decisions they have to make.