Freshly Meals

MassEffectFan88

I know calorie labels have a ton of error generally unless you weight every ingredient yourself, but does anyone know how inaccurate pre-packaged meals like Freshly delivery meals might be?

Don't they basically have to weigh every ingredient as part of a streamlined assembly line sort of ordeal? I mean wouldn't it be slightly more accurate than, say, a restaurant meal?

I just want to know because I have very little wriggle room in counting calories as a petite...and I honestly don't have a real kitchen so it'd be hard to cook all my meals. I thought Freshly might be a good way to reliably track calories.

I'm prepared to automatically factor in some percentage for a buffer. Like factor in 20 calories for error? Just wanted to see if anyone else has given this some thought.

cmriverside

I would think they do the best they can.

I don't think any of us get exact numbers. When I was losing I used a digital food scale and made most of my own meals, but obviously I made mistakes, forgot food I ate between meals sometimes, went out to eat and ate at other peoples' houses.

Luckily exact numbers are not necessary for weight management.


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COGypsy

I used Freshly meals for a while until their delivery just became too unreliable to deal with. I always trusted their labels. They rotate menus so often, I figure the information is current and like cmriverside pointed out--nothing's perfect. I had exactly the results I expected using them, so I'm presuming there wasn't actually a secret plot to make me fat going on.

cwolfman13

MassEffectFan88 wrote: »

I know calorie labels have a ton of error generally unless you weight every ingredient yourself, but does anyone know how inaccurate pre-packaged meals like Freshly delivery meals might be?

Don't they basically have to weigh every ingredient as part of a streamlined assembly line sort of ordeal? I mean wouldn't it be slightly more accurate than, say, a restaurant meal?

I just want to know because I have very little wriggle room in counting calories as a petite...and I honestly don't have a real kitchen so it'd be hard to cook all my meals. I thought Freshly might be a good way to reliably track calories.

I'm prepared to automatically factor in some percentage for a buffer. Like factor in 20 calories for error? Just wanted to see if anyone else has given this some thought.

Nutrition labels won't be 100% accurate, but they don't have a ton of error either. That would be a problem from a legal standpoint. These things are tested in a lab.