Best Meal Delivery Services for Busy Parents

Why cook when you can get healthy meals dropped at your door? Easy-peasy. Discover our picks here.

By Samantha Lande May 8, 2014

Having a little one can throw your usual activities like cooking and sleeping into a tailspin. To help, we rounded up meal delivery services that help you eat healthfully and cut out the time it takes to gather recipes, grocery shop and make dinner. Click through our album to discover everything from nutrient-packed snacks to mommy-geared meal kits — all delivered to your door. Look at it this way: Less time for cooking means more time for sleeping, right?

For Snack Attacks: Naturebox

Sometimes you get so hungry it’s hard not to grab anything in sight and start chowing. This delivery service isn’t for meals but rather fills your house with healthy snacks so you can avoid polishing off a bag of potato chips in desperation. Instead, munch on snacks like bruschetta pretzel pops, roasted sea salt chickpeas and South Pacific plantains. The site allows you to customize your selections so you can go nut free, lactose free or just choose what tastes most delicious to you. When your baby gets old enough to snack these selections are perfect to keep in your diaper bag. Plus you can feel good about snacking — their partnership with Feeding America has them donating one meal for every snack box sold.

How it works: Pick from three different sized boxes (containing 5, 10 or 20 full sized-packages). From there choose your snacks or let them surprise you with choices.

Cost: $19.95/month for the deluxe box -- the perfect size for 1-3 people and contains five snack bags.

Delivery area: Ships nationwide

Online: naturebox.com

What meal delivery service do you love? Let us know in the Comments!

— Samantha Lande