I used freshly last year just for lunches. The meals were prepared already. The food was good, and I'm a notoriously very picky eater of total crap, but they had good choices. The prices are also very good. The issue I had was they ship the meals fresh and recommend that you don't freeze them. I had to freeze them because I couldn't keep up with the weekly deliveries. Well they were right about not freezing the meals, they were complete crap cooked from frozen. They did come with some bomb ass ice packs that I still use to this day, like sheet sized gel ice packs, every week.