Home Style Direct Reviews

Located in Kimberly Idaho, HomeStyle Direct is a relatively new company in the prepared meals market. They offer four seasonal menus of meals with roughly 55 complete meal selections. The majority of the menu consists of single serving meals, which may be used as lunch or dinner. Breakfast meals, desserts, fruit juice and meal replacement shakes round out the balance of their menu. It is a relatively small menu compared to other companies in the same niche.

$50 Minimum Food Order

Unlike most companies offering prepared meals, they require a $50 minimum food order, not including shipping fees. All orders from the previous week are shipped on the following Monday. They make their own local deliveries and use UPS for national meal deliveries. Orders normally arrive within two or three days, depending on what part of the country you live in and what method of shipping you choose.

Shipping rates are not posted on their website, but a $60 food order to New York or Miami starts at $27 and can go up to as much as $78 depending on the shipping options you select. Shipping fees to Los Angeles are slightly less expensive.

HomeStyle prepared meals require you to defrost and thaw your meals before reheating. This too, is uncommon for the industry. Consumers interested in the convenience of having prepared meals delivered, generally like the simplicity of reheating meals in a microwave from a frozen state. Their heating instructions recommend a 24 hour thaw in your refrigerator before reheating. Customers also have the option if reheating HomeStyle Direct meals in their ovens.

The nutritional information of their meals is impressive, and is competitive with most of the weight loss meals offered by diet companies. The vast majority of their meals are under 500 calories, and only one is over 600 calories. These meals can easily fit into a healthy 2,000 calorie a day diet. The carbohydrate counts might be a tad on the high side, but within USDA recommendations, and only a few of their meals would qualify for a low sodium diet. Most of the meals were high in fiber, which is good, and can be unusual for the industry.

Medicaid Meal Delivery

HomeStyle Direct offers a Medicaid meal delivery service. To qualify for prepared meals medicaid, residents must live in Idaho, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Utah, or Wyoming. The prepared meals medicaid menu appears to offer the identical meals fond on their regular menu. Creating prepared meals that qualify for medicaid will most likely have price and cost challenges not associated with traditional gourmet meals one might buy online.

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Prepared Meals for People on Low Budgets

Overall I found the meals I sampled on the Homestyle Direct menu to be okay, and a little behind the other vendors in this market. Having to allow time for the meals to defrost is an inconvenience, and shipping costs are more than most other services. The cost of the meals may make this company a good value for people with very low budgets.

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HomeStyle Direct Hamburger Prepared Meal

HomeStyle Direct Hamburger Meal

The microwaved Tater Tots were soggy. I was surprised to find a ketchup and mustard package under the Tater Tots, which probably should have been removed before cooking. The burger was a bad a burger could be, with the exception I was able to pick it up. The bread didn’t reheat evenly top and bottom and side to side. Some parts of the bun were to hard I couldn’t bit it. Overall, a disappointing meal.

HomeStyle Direct Stuffed Pepper Prepared Meal

HomeStyle Direct Stuffed Pepper Meal

This stuffed pepper is not really stuffed. The meat, which has traditional rice in it, sits on a bed of rice. The pepper wedge is located right next to it. The rice had a crunchy, uncooked, texture to it. The meat and pepper is good, but there is very little sauce. The side vegetables were nothing special and a little mushy. Overall, an okay meal.

HomeStyle Direct Beef Burgundy Prepared Meal

HomeStyle Direct Beef Burgundy Meal

The meat in this meal seems very “processed,” and unlike the meat of the stuffed pepper. It reminds me a microwave meat sandwich you might find at a gas station. Under the meat is a generous bed of pasta with a nice sauce. This was the best part of the meal, but the sauce seemed more like a pasta sauce than a beef burgundy sauce. The vegetables were good and not soggy. They had a healthy “crunch” to them. The quality of the beef made this meal disappointing.

HomeStyle Direct Harvest Breakfast Prepared Meal

HomeStyle Direct Harvest Breakfast Meal

Wow! A very nice piece of skirt steak is the highlight of this meal. It microwaved well, wasn't overcooked, and was quite tasty. The juice from the steak, however, leaked into the potatoes and the scrambled eggs underneath it. The potatoes were slightly “crunchy” undercooked and had little seasoning. The scrambled eggs appeared to be powered, but the apples slices were great. A tray with compartments would have greatly helped this meal, but the steak makes this meal a star.

HomeStyle Direct Pork Loin Prepared Meal

HomeStyle Direct Pork Loin Meal

The little piece of paper you see in the tray is the leftover of a pat of butter covering the beans. It melted during reheating. The directions did not say to remove the film and remove it. There is one slice of pork tenderloin, which is a real slice of a true pork tenderloin. It came out perfect. The rest of the meal didn’t fare so well. There was a lot of excess water in the bottom of the tray from the vegetables, which ruined the stuffing. Again, compartment trays would probably help.

HomeStyle Direct Jumbo Cheese Ravioli

Basically, this is three ravioli with standard vegetables. The meal was okay, but there was nothing special about it that you couldn’t buy at the supermarket. This meal seemed on the small scale for portion size. Most of their meals do provide a substantial portion. Although the tray was hot, both components seemed undercooked. Okay meal.

HomeStyle Direct Biscuit and Gravy Prepared Breakfast Meal

HomeStyle Direct Biscuit and Gravy Breakfast

One of my favorite things about traveling to the South is to load up on biscuits and gravy. This was a great experience. The sauce is loaded with sausage chunks, the sauce is not watery like you might expect with a microwave meal, and there is a traditional “kick” of Southern spices.

Perhaps a biscuit on the side would make this perfect, but I scarfed the whole thing down. Excellent.