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Sunbasket tops 2022 meal delivery rankings

Forget the grocery store! Sunbasket brings all the quality ingredients you need to make delicious meals straight to your door. Sunbasket tops this year's rankings of best meal kit delivery services in 2022...

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Best overall healthy meal delivery service

Sunbasket is the jack-of-all-trades when it comes to meal delivery services, with its wide selection of meal kits, prepared meals, snacks, breakfast foods, and pantry staples. The brand's main focus is on clean and high-quality ingredients, sourcing certified organic produce, eggs, milk, yogurt, and sustainably-sourced meat from local farmers...

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38 Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gifts—That Are Still Very Thoughtful

To help you navigate the world of home-delivery meal kits for weight loss, It’s getting down to the wire to buy last-minute Mother’s Day gifts. But, whether you are in the market for a cheap (yet meaningful) gift, shopping for a mother-in-law, or haven’t even decided what she’d like this year…

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What’s Hot in Meal Kits

Companies that sell meal kits are upgrading to try to keep their pandemic subscribers. Sunbasket’s CEO talks about this year’s changing tastes.

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20 Vegan Gifts for the Plant-based People in Your Life

So you have a bestie on your holiday list who’s vegan? Yeah, those amazing cheese gifts aren’t going to cut it. Thankfully, there’s no shortage of incredible vegan gifts for the plant-based set, whether you’re shopping for a cruelty-free clotheshorse or your college roommate who has a degree in epic smoothies.

We’ve sampled and taste-tested the vegan universe high and low ...

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The 5 Best Mediterranean Diet Meal Delivery Services of 2022

The Mediterranean diet is a popular eating plan that’s well studied for its many potential health benefits.

However, because it focuses on balanced meals that feature fresh, unprocessed ingredients, following the diet may require you to spend more time than you’d like in the kitchen.

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The 20 Best Meal Delivery Services for Every Type of Eater

If you enjoy cooking, meal delivery services might not be on your radar — but they should be. Many meal kits provide the perks you love about culinary arts: You get to wind down in your kitchen, express your creativity, and experiment with new flavors.

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Sunbasket’s Meal Delivery Service Now Offers Single-Serving Portions

If you've been on the hunt for the perfect meal delivery service to help make dinner a breeze, Sunbasket may have been on your list to try. Though you may not have made your final decision on which one to go with just yet (I can understand why you haven't, there are so many to choose from!), if you needed a better reason to choose Sunbasket than their healthier and organic-filled options, this news is just for you.

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The Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services For Plant-Based Eaters

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For people searching for perfectly proportioned vegan meals, delivery services offer an easy way to make dinner fun and healthy. These plant-based offerings have something for everyone, whether you’re an at-home chef who loves getting creative in the kitchen or simply want to microwave some zoodles after a long day. 

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These Last Minute Mother’s Day Gifts Deliver Instantly

Sunbasket says many of their meals can be prepped and cooked in less than 20 minutes. Want something even more convenient? Sunbasket now offers breakfast, lunch and healthy snacks too, that you can easily add to your meal plan or cart. 
What we like: there is no commitment with Sunbasket. You can skip a delivery or cancel anytime you want. See full menu and plans at SunBasket.com.

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Sunbasket’s CEO on how COVID-19 has transformed the meal kit industry

In times of rapid change, it is imperative that businesses listen to their customers and ask “How can we help you?” and “What other services and offerings can we provide for you?” Those businesses that truly consider and act on consumer feedback will see the most growth moving forward. The current crisis, though economically devastating for many, is pushing long-predicted changes for our company and the meal delivery industry; the crisis has expedited the evolution.

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17 Meal Subscription Boxes That Make Cooking at Home Easier Than Ever

If you’ve committed to a certain healthy-eating lifestyle, or if you’re vegetarian or pescatarian, Sunbasket can help. The company is not only committed to sending the cleanest ingredients in each meal kit, but it offers 10 different plans so that you can find one that fits your lifestyle. Start by selecting your meal plan, and each week you’ll choose two, three, or four meals for either two or four people.

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Meal Kits Thrive During Coronavirus Lockdown

Six-year-old Sunbasket Inc. said weekly sales have almost doubled weekly, as regular customers placed orders more often and for more meals, said Chief Executive Don Barnett. The San Francisco company has narrowed its recipe offerings to keep up with demand. One hallmark of the meal-kit boom era was heavy discounting to add new customers. In the pandemic, those promotions aren’t necessary, Mr. Barnett notes, adding that Sunbasket plans to retain new customers via stronger engagement on text, email and social media.

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Nope, You Really Shouldn't Eat The Same Foods Every Day — Here's Why

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You may eat a well-balanced plate of sauteed kale, salmon, and quinoa for dinner, which at a glance is incredibly healthy," says Lindsey Kane, Sunbasket's in-house registered dietitian and director of nutrition. "But, if you eat this same meal each and every night, you'll wind up supplying your body with the same nutrition profile, one that may be a strong source of certain vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients, but consistently misses out on other critical nutrients, which, in some cases, can turn into nutrient deficiencies.

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The 13 New Year’s Resolutions Nutritionists Are Making for 2020

New Year, new resolutions—and if you’re like most people, it will include some goals for getting healthier. But 80 percent of resolutions fail by February, and it’s not just you and I that fall short; even the pros have a hard time sticking to their resolutions. What gives? A goal without a plan is just a wish, says Lindsey Kane, MS, a registered dietitian nutritionist and director of nutrition at Sunbasket. “The good news is, there are some tried-and-true strategies for making good habits, the key to keeping your resolutions,” she explains.

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Wall Street Journal

A Rare Disease Won’t Keep This Mountain Man Off the Trails

He and his wife have a Sunbasket membership. The meal-delivery service ships ingredients and recipes that they prepare for dinner. Frequent meals include rainbow trout with a vegetable stir fry or salmon with sautéed kale. Mr. LeNail also enjoys cooking soups and quiches. His weakness is goat cheese.

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Forbes

If Food Is Medicine, Then Sunbasket Wants To Be The Prescription

When he founded Sunbasket, Zbar, who’s the son of a cancer researcher, “focused on healthy lifestyles, like ‘I want to eat Paleo, I want to eat gluten-free.’ For us there was no such thing as a bad healthy lifestyle as long as the actual nutrients in the food were healthy. But then the next thing we started thinking about was how can we approach more than just lifestyles, but health states...we did partnerships with The American Heart Association, The American Diabetes Association and the American Cancer Society.”

That wasn’t enough for Zbar. He wondered if Sunbasket could impact more people’s lives. So, he asked the dietitians on his team who they respected most in their field. Pretty soon, he and Dr. David Katz of Yale University, The American College of Lifestyle Medicine and The True Health Initiative met and hit it off. The rest might be history.

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Self

21 Subscription Boxes That'll Make Your Life a Million Times Easier

"Why we’re into it: I tried Sunbasket one time, and that’s all it took to get me totally hooked. The produce in each shipment is organic, the meat is antibiotic-free, and the seafood is wild-caught and sustainable, which is right up my alley. (All deliveries arrive in packaging that's 100 percent recyclable and compostable, too.) The meal kit delivery service offers a wide variety of meal plan options, including paleo, vegan, vegetarian, and pescatarian. Offerings range from classics like chicken milanese and bucatini carbonara, to fun new combinations like farro risotto and roasted shrimp with ajo blanco sauce. Price varies depending on which meal plan you choose—either classic or family style-sized servings—as well as the number of weekly recipes sent (up to four per week under the family style plan), or number of people being served (either two or four under the classic plan)."

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Reviewed

The Best Meal Kit Delivery Services of 2018

"Best for Vegetarians

While not an entirely vegetarian service, Sunbasket offers a huge variety of quick, flavorful plant-based meals that will satisfy vegetarians and omnivores alike. Their ingredients are largely organic, and their recipes are some of the fastest we tested."

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Wall Street Journal

The Messy Business of Selling Meal Kits

“Building a perishable-food business is not something you do quickly or lightly,’ said Don Barnett, Sunbasket Inc.’s chief operating officer, who began his career at Dole Food Co. and has 25 years of experience with perishable food, including roles as a cofounder and CFO at organicgirl, a packaged salad company.

To help keep a lid on costs, Sunbasket, whose meal kits target health-conscious consumers, has gone so far as to set up a Midwestern distribution center in a converted limestone cave—a cheaper way to keep its products cold than spending millions to convert a conventional warehouse in the region for refrigeration. The temperature inside the underground facility remains stable regardless of whether it’s hot or cold outside, so the company spends less on electricity.”

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Cheddar

Why Sunbasket Is Going After the Healthy Lifestyle Market

“The meal-kit delivery service specializes in specific diets from Paleo to gluten-free to Mediterranean, which is how it differentiates itself in the space. “We’re not trying to be all things to all people,” says CEO Adam Zbar.”

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WholeFoods Magazine

Sunbasket Launches Diabetes-Friendly Meal Plan

“The San Francisco-based healthy meal kit delivery service has launched a Diabetes-Friendly Meal Plan for those with diabetes.  All of the meals have been chosen in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association® (ADA).”

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Forbes

A Meal Subscription Box That’s Seasonal And Earth Friendly

“There’s really nothing like a delicious cooked meal in the comfort of our own home after a long exhaustive day at work. This is where a meal delivery service comes into play. Having healthy, organic ingredients delivered right to your door can save you time and help pave the way for a more healthy lifestyle. Sunbasket, a meal delivery company that delivers dietitian-approved meal plans that offer organic, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian and Paleo, aims to make your cooking easier and healthier.”

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Reader’s Digest

I Tried Every Popular Meal Kit Delivery Service—and This Is the Best One

“Sunbasket has definitely taken the meal kit game up a notch. The company has made the most concessions for people who are serious about healthy eating and has the most choices for different types of diets. For example, while I try to stick to a Paleo/Whole30 lifestyle for 90 percent of the week, I wasn’t always able to do that on many of the other meal kits. However, with Sunbasket, not only was I able to stick to my eating regimen, but I also I enjoyed some pretty great meals too, including a poached salmon salad with tahini goddess dressing and lettuce-wrapped turkey sliders.”

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Cheddar

Healthy Cooking Made Easy

“There is a lot of money to be made in the meal-kit business. Adam Zbar, CEO of Sunbasket, explains how he is disrupting the grocery industry.”

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CNBC

Meal kit company Sunbasket bought a cave, and it’s helping them beat Blue Apron

You see, Sunbasket owns a cave — and it saves the company thousands of dollars in utilities every month.

The San Francisco-based company is well aware that the meal kit industry’s sustainability has come into question in the last year, but it’s not too worried. While other companies such as Blue Apron have suffered from distribution issues, Sunbasket’s facilities are running smoothly and growing bigger.”

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Cooking Light

Sunbasket Launches Heart-Healthy Meal Delivery Service

“Sunbasket is the first meal kit service to obtain the American Heart Association’s Heart-Check certification…recipes in the [Lean & Clean Meal Plan] have undergone meticulous evaluation to ensure they abide by the AHA’s strict nutrition guidelines.”

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PC Mag

Sunbasket Meal Delivery Service

“Sunbasket offers some of the most delicious food we’ve encountered in our meal-kit-delivery-service reviewing, and the packaging is sensible and mostly recyclable, which isn’t the case with most competing services.”

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Parade

5 Ways to Add Some Zen to Your Life

“[Sunbasket’s] food was packaged beautifully in individual brown paper bags, everything came out delicious and was ridiculously easy to prepare.”

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OBSERVER

We Tried Meal Kits That Are Supposedly Healthier Than Blue Apron – Here’s How They Rank We have a new meal kit champion

“Sunbasket wins because the food is just that good. I actually gave it a higher rating than Peach Dish, the winner of my first article testing and comparing meal kits. They’re priced about the same, as well. But Sunbasket was simply the most delicious, and I really appreciate how often it deviated from dishes like pasta and meat-with-a-veggie, which seem to be staples of the subscription meal service industry.”

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Inc.

Williams-Sonoma Enters Meal-Kit Market

“For the two San Francisco Bay Area companies the marriage of their brands seemed like a natural match. ‘We saw it as a great partnerships with both of us focused on making cooking easy and delicious and promoting the Northern California value system,’ said Adam Zbar, CEO, Sunbasket.”

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Business Insider

An unlikely company is building a Blue Apron killer in the $5 billion battle for your dinner

“Williams-Sonoma is getting into the meal-kit business.

The cookware company is partnering with San Francisco startup Sunbasket to offer organic, non-GMO meal kits bundled with Williams-Sonoma kitchen tools.

‘It’s a really exciting partnership for us,’ [said Sunbasket CEO Adam Zbar] in an interview with Business Insider. ‘It helps elevate our brand and take it to a national audience.’”

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Eater

Williams-Sonoma Hops on the Meal Kit Bandwagon

Published Nov 1, 2016

“Williams-Sonoma — the high-end kitchen-supply store — is the latest company to start slinging boxes of pre-measured and packaged raw foods ready for cooking. The company has announced a partnership with Sunbasket, a company that specializes in organic and non-GMO meal kits, on a line of co-branded boxed kits.”

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San Francisco Magazine

Everything but the Bird

“There are very few things that can improve upon perfectly roasted brussels sprouts, particularly when the outer leaves are crunchy and golden brown. But Sunbasket chef Justine Kelly has done them one better with the addition of hazelnuts, currants, and roasted delicata squash.”

“And while you have to put the (completely organic) dish together yourself, Sunbasket makes it easy.”

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Tasting Table

The 5 Best Ways to Get Healthy Food Delivered

“Using 100-percent recycled products is a huge plus, considering how much waste these services can accumulate. Sunbasket is also the first kit to offer a breakfast option and lets you swap a dinner for two morning meals. Fingers crossed other services follow suit with this idea.”

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Tasting Table

100 Percent Recyclable Meal Kit Packaging Is Here

“When Sunbasket’s head of user experience, Tyler MacNiven, found out that ‘90 percent of Sunbasket’s packaging was not being returned and was ending up in a landfill,’ he knew he had to do something about it. The company wanted to offer an easy way for customers to recycle and compost the products at home without sacrificing freshness and quality of food.”

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Inc.

Sunbasket Raises $15M Up Round as Overall Food Delivery Market Cools

“We started this [Sunbasket] focusing on meal-kits and how we provide an easier more delicious solution,” said Adam Zbar, founder and CEO, Sunbasket. “What we have realized is that we have a built a pretty radical solution in terms of how to create a better more efficient way to bring organic food to people in the U.S.”

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San Jose’s Office of Economic Development (OED)

Sunbasket—The Newest Addition to San Jose’s On-Demand Economy Creates Jobs

“You may be wondering how these on-demand services are shaping our local economy. San Jose’s newest addition, Sunbasket, has created 225 new full-time jobs with full benefits, and is on track to grow to 300 jobs in the near term. Sunbasket is an e-commerce meal kit subscription service that delivers chef-created recipes with pre- proportioned fresh ingredients to their online subscribers.”

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NPR

Do Meal Kits Provide Great Taste Along With Convenience?

“I tried the Salmon in Chraime with Mint couscous and really loved the vibrant flavors. The fish was Wild Alaskan salmon and the sauce was made from pureed tomatoes with a touch of spice, couscous with fresh mint, and a lemon-spiked yogurt sauce with dried sumac sprinkled on top. It was incredibly fresh tasting Moroccan-style food, and introduced me to some new flavor profiles. I was impressed with the quality of the fish and all the ingredients.” - Kathy Gunst (NPR’s Here & Now) 

Listen to the audio review here!

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BuzzFeed

10 Life-Changing Things To Try in April

“To save time, I’ve been trying out meal-in-a-box kits (or what a colleague of mine calls “Lego recipes”). There are a ton of options (Blue Apron, Plated, Purple Carrot, and HelloFresh, to name a few), and most of them suffer the same pitfall: insane amounts of packaging, which makes my Earth-loving heart hurt.My favorite box so far is Sunbasket because a) it comes with a return label for you to ship back the box, ice packs, and insulation for reuse; b) it’s an SF-based company that sources produce from West Coast farms (the others are based in NY); and c) the veggie recipes are actually filling, healthy, and INSANELY good.”

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The New York Times

It’s Dinner in a Box. But Are Meal Delivery Kits Cooking?

“Devotees of the culinary sensibilities of Northern California can join Sunbasket, where one of its owners, Justine Kelly, the former chef de cuisine at Charles Phan’s Slanted Door in San Francisco, develops the recipes.

She wrote 450 recipes last year, and each month sends out about 150,000 meals like lemongrass- and coriander-crusted pork loin and coconut-almond breakfast smoothies. The price works out to about $11.49 a meal, which she admitted makes it a luxury item for some. But Ms. Kelly said she has friends who aren’t wealthy who use it because the time-cost ratio works in their favor. “Honestly, especially in the Bay Area, it can be cheaper to do a meal kit than shop,” she said.”

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POPSUGAR.

10 Food Delivery Services For Every Personality

“For Farm-to-Table Fanatics // Strengths: Offering Paleo, gluten-free, and/or vegetarian options, Sunbasket prides itself on using the freshest, non-GMO produce, sustainably sourced seafood, and pastured meats. The quality of the ingredients truly impressed us! Better yet, the recipes are incredibly flavorful even though they only take 30 minutes. To top it all off, the box comes with a return delivery sticker, so all of the packaging can be returned to the company via USPS. Hooray for offsetting waste!”

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San Francisco Chronicle

Six healthy meal-delivery services in the Bay Area

“Another meal kit, this one from former Slanted Door chef Justine Kelly. A few great things about this one: You can customize your meals, first within a category (Paleo, gluten-free, vegetarian, etc.) and then the actual meals. You don’t just get what you get, as is the case with many other meal kits. I opted for baked eggs with tomatoes and pistou, turkey sausage with beet apple salad and walnut vinaigrette, and shrimp with blood orange-jicama salad with salsa verde. “Clean” or not, this is the kind of food I want to be eating. Also great: Each meal’s ingredients come in a paper bag, so there aren’t a million ingredients and individual bags, meaning there’s less waste. And there’s a paid shipping label so you can send back all of the ridiculous packaging that keeps everything fresh and cold. Overall, at $11.50/serving, it’s a winner — possibly my favorite so far of the meal kits I’ve tried. www.sunbasket.com

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Inc.

How Losing 50 Pounds Inspired This Entrepreneur to Start a Successful Startup

“'Do you want your 40’s to be good or bad?' Adam Zbar’s doctor asked pointedly. These words pierced his heart when the doctor told him that all his blood pressure and heart rate were going in the wrong direction. He had just sold his first company, Tap11, to the founders of YouTube. Zbar should be celebrating life instead of fearing it. He had a simple choice to alter the trajectory of his life–change his diet.”

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Today.com

6 healthy food trends for 2016

“People want to cook fun and delicious meals at home, but many don’t want to spend time searching for recipes and shopping for ingredients. Thanks to this, meal kit services like Blue Apron and Plated saw huge growth last year and 2016 will see it continue to expand. Look for new services that offer solutions for every type of diet, including vegan and paleo, and cater to millennial tastes. New delivery services include the Mark Bittman-curated Purple Carrot, Hello Fresh, One Potato, Sunbasket and Peach Dish, offering Southern-inspired dishes. Phil Lempert, the guru of food predictions, says that 2016 will bring celeb chef-driven meal kits and we’ll see some brands consolidate to create the Amazon of meal kits.”

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CNBC

"If you’re a busy professional, if you’re a busy working mom, busy working dad, busy couple, it’s just the type of thing where you can have the experience where we’re almost like a farmers market in the sky, curated by a great chef,” said Adam Zbar, CEO of meal kit delivery company, Sunbasket."

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Inc.

Sunbasket Gobbles Up $4.5MM in Funding

“Founded by Adam Zbar and Justine Kelly, the former head chef of the James Beard Award-winning restaurant, Slanted Door, Sunbasket began with the mission to bring Northern California’s healthy food sensibilities to the rest of the country via easy-to-prepare recipes and sustainably sourced, organic ingredients… “We really want this to be something that is easy and enjoyable,” said Zbar. “The beauty of doing farm-to-table is less ingredients is more, and it really focuses on the flavor profile of each one of those ingredients.”

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Wall Street Journal

Workout Buddies and Work Colleagues

Learn how Sunbasket CEO Adam Zbar stays healthy and keeps the spirt of competition alive in the office. Fun fact: The name Sunbasket was inspired by Adam and Tyler’s early-morning “Sun Runs”!

“Last fall Mr. Zbar and Sunbasket’s head of branding and user experience, Tyler MacNiven, began Friday sunrise workouts. Mr. MacNiven, 35, won the TV show “The Amazing Race” in 2006. [They] meet at the Miwok trailhead in the Marin Headlands at 5 a.m. with the goal of reaching the top just as the sun is rising… Mr. Zbar and his fiancée cook Sunbasket meals three times a week. They subscribe to Sunbasket’s Paleo meal plan… Portion control and smarter food choices have led Mr. Zbar to drop to 177 pounds.”

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Grass Fed Girl

Healthy Dinner Recipes from Sunbasket Delivery

“I was so excited to have something to make for dinner that was healthy but still tasty.  I would order this service over and over just to try new recipes and to solve the boredom of weeknight meals.”

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Food Gal - Carolyn Jung

Test Driving (and Cooking) Sunbasket

“When I was invited to try out a free delivery by San Francisco’s Sunbasket, I was swayed to do so by a couple of factors.

First, the recipes for the cooking kits were developed by Justine Kelly, former executive chef at The Slanted Door in San Francisco. Second, the quality of ingredients is impressive. The kits include organic, seasonal ingredients from highly regarded purveyors such as Dirty Girl, Far West Funghi, Water 2 Table, and Marin Sun.”

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