EatPakd-Lunch Box Subscription Week 1

RachelReviews
Jun 14, 2017
7 min read

These are marketed as school lunches for kids. But surprisingly, if you get the ones with high protein and add a snack they work as adult lunches too :) These are also the only subscription lunch box idea shockingly. Unless you count frozen meals at the store.... Seriously, market anyone?

https://www.eatpakd.com/menu

Cons:

These are marked as school lunches so why are the delivery days Monday, Tues, Wed? No one is going to want their school lunches Wed night....Please change the shipping days to Sat, Sunday, Monday. It just makes more sense.

Why can't customers cancel/pause their own account on the website? That would take away half the work of customer service! Also, not being able to change a coupon once entered.

Suggestions:

Minor, but I would like more food variety. I feel that alot of the time I have two lunches I really like, and hate the rest. THey tend to repeat two meal options two weeks in a row. But this wasn't a big deal to me since I could always customize meals for that week. And likeing half the food options is not bad at all.

I would suggest making a slightly bigger adult size for heavier eaters. I personally was fine with the regular sizes, but I am a small eater.

Changing those delivery days to Sat and Sunday and letting customers pause/cancel their own account instead of emailing customer service.

Pick more cool mains, things we can't make ourselves or dont think to like the steak and mango or was it pineapple carnitas, and chicken tacos.

Pros:

Customer service is super friendly. Always answers by the next day.

Food is delicious. Could use a little more variety. But I really like that you can customize your meal pak!! WHich make things alot easier for my Boyfriend S who was couldn't eat the bannana pudding and chips that came with the Steak and Pineapple Carnitas.

I also found you didn't need much to make the meal Adult worthy. For the meatmall pak I used french bread to make it a sandwich, for other meals I added a pudding or bag of chips.

TRied to make my own Lunchboxes to compare:

Meal 1 : Chicken Taco with raspberries, and Sunchips.

I really liked not having to make my own food! I actually tried making my own meal to compare to Eatpakd for $36.50 the 5 meal plan for a week. I ended up spending $28 with tax I believe at the store with S for 5 meals for two. That comes down to about $15 a person for five meals. I got frozen chicken $9 (THere has to seriously be cheaper bags than this somewhere), Raspberries $3 multiply that by 2 cases, mangos 5 for $4, soft tortilla shells $3, and sunships 2 for $6, blackberries 89 cents on sale. I got a few other things I needed like eggs and creamer for my coffee so I am going off of memory here.

As a future rule, whatever fruit goes in my lunchbox should be on sale. I could not resist getting those raspberries. And it was completely wasted. I rinsed them off, let them dry and somehow the raspberries were soaking wet and moldy the next day. Such a waste.

The sunchips and chicken were good. But I found I need more variety. And it turns out I hate making my own lunch. I remembered for two days and then kept running out of time or forgetting. I am also a very impulsive grocery shopper and cannot resist grabbing extra snacks and sweets so I feel I actually saved money not going to the grocery store last week. But everyone is different. If you are good at planning meals and finding good grocery deals then go for it. I on the other hand may be lured by having someone else make my lunch every other week...

Other meal ideas:

I have to find that sheet with all the lunch ideas I had!! Maybe I ll make a new post for this.

WEEK 1 Eatpkd

I have only tried one week of meals so far. THe ham it up pak, pita pizza, uncle samwich, and turkey meatball paks.

Things I liked from Eatpakd:

MAIN

Meatballs I liked. Adding them to french bread made a quick sandwich and more filling meal.

Veggie Hamburger

SIDES

Blueberries were great, just too few. Like a handful.

Strawberry rubarb pudding. The pudding tasted like mouse.

Green Apples were great. Favorite fruit side by far.

Yogurt pretzels. Not my favorite but okay.

Hated:

MAIN

The Ham Sandwich sub roll thing. Tasted awful to me. S thought it was okay. Ham and veggie rolls.

SIDES

Yogurt ranch that came with carrots. CArrots were also really moist.

BRownie was oddly moist and unappealing. weird taste.

The orange was okay but really half a cutie? Even a kid would eat a full cutie.

Veggies tator tots were not all that great.

Paks I am looking forward to:

BBQ Chicken Tacos Pak

BBQ chicken tacos served with elote style corn salad, pineapple and blueberries, and rice pudding

Breakfast for Lunch Pak

Eggs, veggies, and cheddar cheese in a whole wheat quesadilla wrap, served with celery & SunButter dip, clementines & dried cranberries, and pumpkin chocolate chip muffins.

Craving Carnitas Pak

Pineapple carnitas served with cornbread, applesauce, and banana chips with banana pudding dip.

Other PAks to give you an idea:

Week A

Jump Aboard Zucchini Boat Pak

Baked and stuffed zucchini boat served with cauliflower with tzatziki sauce, grapes & blueberries, and yogurt pretzels. More Info