An Unbiased and Up-to-Date Mom’s Meals Review

Mom’s Meals offers meals to people who are covered by different programs or insurance plans (Medicare Advantage plan, Medicaid, Older Americans Act). These people can benefit from meals as part of the program. They mostly work with case managers, caregivers, and healthcare organizations.

However, anyone else can also order from Mom’s Meals even if they don’t have an eligible health plan. Mom’s Meals self-pay program covers nine health-condition menus and comprises a wide array of meal options. There are 4 different programs you can access to order meals from Mom’s Meals:  Self Care, LTSS – HCBS, which stands for Long Term Services and Support/Home and Community-Based Services, Post-Discharge Care, and Chronic Care. 

You can customize your meals and choose where you want them to be delivered. The price is $6.99 per meal. For renal-friendly, gluten-free, or pureed meals, the price is $7.99 per meal. There are over 60 meals on the menu, for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. 

The order process is quite straightforward. It includes 3 easy steps: selecting your meals from a vast and diversified menu, entering your delivery address, and sending the order. 

When you access the Mom’s Meals menu online, you will first see an overview of what types of diets the menu covers: general wellness, low sodium, heart-friendly, diabetes-friendly, renal-friendly, gluten-free, vegetarian, pureed, cancer support. Each diet features a short description and offers the possibility to download or view the correlated menu online. When you order online as a Self-Pay customer, you can choose between different packages: breakfast, lunch and dinner, or only lunch and dinner. 

The orders can contain 21, 14, 10, or 7 meals. There is also a 3-meal trial you can enjoy when you use the service for the first time. Highly customizable, Mom’s Meals service allows you to choose any of the available meals on the menu, but there is also the option to let the chefs make the choice by selecting the option Chef’s Choice.  Even in the Chef’s Choice menu, you have the possibility to exclude and replace any of the meals you don’t like. 

You can receive orders once or two times per week. The meals can last for up to 14 days if you properly refrigerate them. Before eating the meals, it’s recommended to heat them for two minutes or less. No further preparation is required for any of the meals, all you have to do is follow the heating instructions on each entree’s label. 

There are two ways to order meals. You can either call the telephone number or place an order online if you opt for the self-pay program. No matter what option you choose, you will schedule the date when you want to receive your meals and they will be delivered directly to your door by Mom’s Meals or a meal delivery service. You can also choose to place a one-time order or select the auto-ship option, which means you will receive the meals each week. The auto-ship order doesn’t mean you will receive exactly the same meals every week, you can log into your account and customize each week’s order. The shipping and handling fee is $14.95 and it is applied at checkout. 

Each order is carefully packed in a custom cooler that keeps the food fresh and prevents it from getting accidentally damaged during transportation. The entrees are packed in Mom’s Meals proprietary packaging, which allows you to store them in the refrigerator.

To be able to place an order online, you need to create an account on the website. This service is subscription-based. Creating an account is easy and it will enable you to order meals faster. Moreover, if you decide to place recurring orders, you will also enjoy a discount of 10%.

The meal options are divided based on the special diets the service caters to: regular wellness diet, low sodium, heart-friendly, diabetes-friendly, renal-friendly, gluten-free, vegetarian, pureed, cancer support. These 9 menus are available for all the programs, including the Self Pay plan. There are 60 different recipes you can choose from every week.

There is a wide array of Mom’s Meals recipes to choose from. The recipes are mainly created for people who need to be careful with their diet either for age-related reasons or because they suffer from a chronic disease or they’ve recently had surgery. For this reason, the recipes are balanced and contain just the right amount of protein, carbs, or fat a person is allowed to eat in the above-mentioned case. To choose the recipes that best fit your dietary needs, you simply have to select the most appropriate menu from the 9 available options. If you don’t need to follow any specific restrictions, you can opt for the general wellness menu that includes a wide array of nutritionally balanced meals anyone can enjoy. This menu includes both recipes that contain meat and vegetarian options. There is a separate section in the menu called ‘International Flavors’. Here, you can find recipes inspired by different cuisines such as Italian, Mexican, Indian, or Japanese.

The types of meals you can order from Mom’s Meals are well organized according to the specific diet they are crafted for. Each diet features a separate menu. Later on, in this Mom’s Meals review, we will offer you a short overview of what each diet entails, below, we provide some meal examples taken from the current menu.