You might be looking for the best vegetarian meal delivery services because you’re an omnivore trying to eat more plants. Maybe you’re a flexitarian trying to ease yourself into a dairy-free, plant-based diet. Or perhaps you’re a lifelong vegetarian looking for quick dinner solutions that allow you to skip the grocery store. The truth is, our editor-selected list of the best meal kits features many plans that offer vegetarian and vegan dishes. But this time around we tested with the specific goal of finding the very best vegetarian options a meal kit could offer.

Here’s what we’ve learned after trying multiple meal kits and looking through dozens of menus: While almost all of the regular meal kit companies do offer meat-free items, some lack variety. People who want vegetarian dishes will often have to choose an only slightly varied grain bowl or smoothie week after week. Don’t get me wrong, grain bowls and smoothies are great, but sometimes you want something different—like quinoa and veggie enchiladas with spicy chipotle cream or pesto flatbread with agrodolce peppers and cannellini bean purée. In our search we focused on variety, deliciousness, convenience, and affordability.

Below we’ve compiled all of our top picks. Some of them offer solely plant-based options. Some of them are regular meal kits with stellar veg options. Some provide a combination of meal kits and fully prepared dishes that don’t require any meal prep. Some of them are crafted by teams of professional chefs, nutritionists, and registered dietitians. And all of them offer creative, satisfying vegetarian meals.

• The best vegan option: Sign up for Purple Carrot →or skip down to read more about it.
• A sustainability-minded kit that does the prep work for you: Sign up for Green Chef →or skip down to read more about it
• The best option if you want lots of variety: Sign up for Marley Spoon →or skip down to read more about it
• An actually good prepared meal delivery: Sign up for Cook Unity →or skip down to read more about it.

Purple Carrot is one of the only meal kit services that focuses solely on vegan meals. Its weekly menu offers 12 dinners to choose from, along with some breakfast and lunch options too. Here, you’ll find an abundance of colorful meals, like caprese mac and cheese with sun-dried tomatoes and toasted breadcrumbs, masala cashew fried rice with cilantro chutney, and black bean burgers with creamy avocado-kale slaw. BA contributor Sarah Jampel says the dishes are intriguing, with flavors that are bold and bright. When trying out Purple Carrot, she was delighted to see that the vegetarian recipes featured ingredients she’d never think to combine, like crisped gnocchi with furikake and a miso-tomato sauce. Some of the recipes even taught her a few new cooking techniques, like, sprinkling roasted tempeh with sugar for the last few minutes in the oven so the crumbles caramelize. Along with meal kits, Purple Carrot also offers fully prepared, microwavable meals (you can have elote corn with Cuban black beans and brown rice in just two minutes) and grocery items (check out the black truffle mushroom chips and plant-based bacon). Whether you’re new to the world of plant-based cooking, you want to get more veggies in your diet, or you just want to skip your weekly grocery run, this is a strong vegan meal delivery service to consider. Meals starting at $11 per serving

Maybe you’re a vegetarian who wants to prioritize sustainability and cooking with organic ingredients. If so, you’ll love Green Chef, the first certified organic meal kit. Its weekly menu features around 50 meals to choose from, including ample vegetarian options and vegan options (along with dishes that fit a variety of other diets, like paleo and pescatarian). Most of the meals take around 30 minutes to prepare from start to finish—and if you’re anything like me, you’ll appreciate that some of the prep work is done for you. Most of these meal kits come with pre-made sauces, dressings, and spice blends.

All of the Green Chef meals I tried were flavorful and satiating. That said, I should note that while dishes like the birria-style black bean tacos and the creamy tomato pasta with roasted veggies were quick and simple to prepare, they require the use of multiple pots and pans. You might have to dirty a stock pot, sauté pan, sheet pan, mixing bowls, and strainers for a single recipe. Not a big deal if you have a dishwasher, but one-pot meals these are not. Still, this is the best organic meal kit, and it features high-quality, fresh ingredients from local farmers and eco-friendly packaging. Meals starting at $11.99 per serving

This collaboration between Martha Stewart and Berlin-based food subscription company Marley Spoon brings us carefully tested, family-friendly recipes from Stewart’s archives. With more than 100 weekly meals to choose from, they have one of the biggest menus I’ve seen from a traditional meal kit service. While not all of the meals are vegetarian, almost all of them are customizable, so you can choose any protein source you’d like. For instance, you can get this saucy orange stir-fry with beef, pork, chicken, or plant-based chicken—or this smash burger meal with Impossible meat patties or black bean-veggie patties.