And another one opened, First Seed.
It is not much different than Mama Sezz, it just costs more.
This is a link to their SOS box. The regular items are higher in sodium and some higher in fat too.
https://firstseedfoods.com/collections/frontpage/products/new-customer-no-salt-discovery-box-sos-free?selling_plan=1133183170For $150 dollars you get..... (I added in the serving size and the calories per container and the calories per box)
10 ox, 260 calories. _ _ x3 (780) No-Salt Chana Masala — Organic Chickpeas
10 oz, 180 Calories. _ _ x3 (540) No-Salt Dal Tadka — Organic Yellow Lentils
10 oz 180 calories. _ _ x2 (360) No-Salt Vegetable Pulao — Non GMO Rice and Organic Vegetables
10 oz, 140 calories _ _ x2 (280) No-Salt Aloo Palak — Organic Potatoes and Spinach
10 oz, 150. calories _ _ x2 (300) No-Salt Vegetable Korma — Organic Vegetables in Cashew Cream
Total calories; 2,260 calories which comes to .066 cents a calorie
The average person consumes around 2300 calories, so this could technically meet the calories needs of one person for one day, but for $150.
For one week, it would be $1,050.
For one month, $4,500.
I know, no one is going to use these for all of their meals. I get it. However, no matter how many meals they plan to use it for, the average price would be about $50/meal. 1 meal a day would be about $50/day, 2 meals a day, about $100/day
But what if you only use it as backup or occasionally?
If so, you have 2 issues, 1) the average cost per calorie remains the same so the average meal would still cost about $50 which is still very high. 2) The company is not going to survive if their customers only use it for an occasional back up meal. This is why there has been no longterm healthy Plant Exclusive, lower fat and no/low SOS that meets our guidelines (or comes close) and has lasted
Of course, you can make more food yourself at home to go with it to dilute out the cost per meal. However, if you are doing that, you could have just made the whole meal yourself.
They only ship once a month so you either need some really good storage space in your freezer to store a few boxes, or again, limit the amount you can buy and have around, which limits the potential success of the company.
A few years ago, Forbes did a study/survey and found that the average price per serving of home cooked meals is $4.31 while the average cost of eating out is $20.37. Not perfect numbers but if we use the average figure of $50 per meal from First Seed, then each of their average meals is over 10x the average home cooked meal and almost 2.5x the cost of the average restaurant meal.
The numbers for the regular menu boxes are the same, you just get more sodium.
There are much better solutions. Just read this whole thread and you will find my suggestions for just .004 per calorie.
To your good (and affordable) health.
Jeff