Calorie Counting Made Easy – The Good Box Meal Review

320 kcal Dinner : Summer Lasagna and Fresh Salad

Dieting – one task that can be easy to say but so difficult to do. I know for sure that I am not overstating that because in my 10 years of being a mother, maintaining a fit body through proper diet has been one tough job not because I eat so much but mainly because I don’t watch what I eat.

I don’t blame anyone or anything but I just to have acknowledge the fact that I need help when it comes to dieting. Maybe someone professional enough who can count the calories for me.

Last week, I had an opportunity to try a one-full-day set meal from The Good Box which is a delivery service business catering to everyone who wants to eat organic food deliciously prepared and delivered to their doorsteps daily. The Good Box has ( 6) different calorie menus for everyday of the week: 1200, 1500, 1800, 2100, 2400 and 2700 calories where customers can choose from depending on their needs, whether to slim down or to gain weight. There will be 5 meals daily (breakfast, AM snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner) all prepared and delivered a day before to be heated and consumed for one day.

What’s exciting about The Good Box for me personally is that they allow you to taste different kinds of food which you may not be able to prepare personally, (1) because it will be expensive to do so (2) you don’t know how to cook these kinds of meals (3) you don’t have the time and equipments. The Good Box also mentions that their ingredients come from Gawad Kalinga’s ‘Enchanted Farm’ which means you help our local farmers when you buy these organic products.

150 kcal AM Snack : Fresh Fruit Smoothie

All meals are delivered in, take note, “biodegradable containers” which means they are both safe to use and to dispose. They also offer Special Meal Programs: South Beach DIet, Diabetic Diet, Hypertensive Diet and Pregnant-Diabetic Diet Programs. The best thing to do to know what the appropriate diet for you is to fill up their Nutrition and Lifestyle form and their nutritionist will send you suggestions for the perfect program that you should be following.

367 kcal breakfast : Crustless Caprese Quiche, Toast, Coffee

For my sample meal, I was given a packed set meal which contains 1,200 kcalories. I checked the Calorie Requirement Chart from their website and found out that it was the maximum calorie intake count for a 7 year old female with sedentary lifestyle. I am sedentary 37 year old and my maximum kcal count should be 1,800 so that means I am still allowed to eat something with 600 kcal. Nice one for a food allowance! Check my photos here and they all have their counted calories.

308 kcal Lunch : Moroccan Spiced Chicken on Chickpea and Pumpkin Salad + Brown Rice

1,200 kcal definitely made me hungry in between, I admit it but I was happy that my food allowance which I used up by eating a banana, apple and some biscuits made up for my hunger which means I can live with a recommended 1,800 calorie meal intake for a day. That’s good news for me. To think that I barely notice being hungry except from the times when I forgot that I still have an allowed calorie intake. Their salad was fresh, the chicken was tender and that banana drink (not so much tasty looking in photo) actually tasted sooo good.

From their Price List. a 1,200 kcal meal (5 meals for 5 days) amounts to P2,750. Compute it out, you’ll be paying P110 per meal. Not bad at all! A sweet slush outside already costs P125 🙂 I just wish that they will have this 1 day program if I just want to choose 1 day in a week.

Verdict: The Good Box makes dieting easy by doing that hard part of counting calories and lets you enjoy the day without worrying what you will eat, what your food will taste like, and how fat you will be after meal.

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