Personal Chef To Go

About Personal Chef To Go Prepared Meals

Personal Chef To Go (PCTG) may be the only senior meal service we recommend for automatic prepared meal deliveries. As the name suggests, family caretakers will find using this company is just like having a personal chef cook for your loved ones and at a very reasonable price for what you get.

Free Shipping is available for the eastern U.S.

You can pause your automatic food deliveries for up to three weeks. To stop all deliveries, you have to call the company. If you pause your deliveries and forget, PCTG will automatically send you an order based on their menu choices. We would love an a la carte ordering option! Your meals will arrive overnight, usually on a Friday, and are shipped fresh. We have had rare tray leaking issues with shipping many years ago, but now the process is iron-clad. We couldn’t imagine a better way to do it. Shipping boxes are probably light enough for most seniors and the elderly to carry into the house.

We use this service to send our Mom five meals a week, which she will generally use as dinners. She has also been known to use them for lunch, and even breakfast for that matter, when the menu is populated with her favorite food. Her meals do not take up much space in her refrigerator, and they last about a week, but Mom never lets that happen. Reheating these meals takes between two and three minutes. Since the food arrives fresh, all the meal components reheat to perfection.

The portion sizes are above average, and the menu is healthy enough to support her diabetic lifestyle, but we have to add our green vegetables to most of these meals. We would also prefer a menu choice larger than twelve meals, but our Mom is not a picky eater, and we are always able to satisfy her. There will always be selections that include beef, seafood, chicken, and pork.

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Sometimes it can be hard to choose from the limited selection of meals, especially if that week a salad counts as two or three of the choices. We won’t pay $15 for salad.

Most of the meals you will get are not completely balanced meals. They will either be missing a green vegetable or a carb side dish. This can be especially important if your loved one is on a nutritional diet where green vegetables are an important aspect of meal planning.

Say you can select enough meals from the limited selection. You may find yourself getting doubles because one went out of inventory. The company reserves the right to make substitutions, which you have to pay for.

Some of the entrees, sides, and vegetables we could identify from pictures of previous reviews of other services as being outsourced and not cooked by the company’s chefs at all.

Source: https://www.senior-meals.org/personal-chef-to-go