Introduction
Now everyone can enjoy the good-eats from the legendary Martha Stewart herself with easy-to-follow recipe cards and step-by-step instructions that will have you cooking many great meals, some which have featured in the popular television show Martha Stewart Living. For most of us, cooking is a boring chore we have to do and the food can be a bore (this is a lot more often than not in my house, unfortunately). With Martha & Marley Spoon anyone can experience a new kind of meal kit that makes home cooking simple, timely and fun!
Pros
- Specialty diets welcome – Vegan, Gluten-free, Low-carb, and more
- Recipes are always 6-steps and under
- Ingredients sorted by dish
- Great resources for information on the website
Cons
- No discounted shipping for larger meal plans
- No options for larger families (more than 4 persons)
- Some recipes require knowledge of basic cooking methods
Martha & Marley Spoon is Perfect For
- Couples or small families that want to experience a traditional take on tasty, healthy meals
- Anyone with a busy lifestyle and lacks the time needed to prepare and plan for meals and grocery shopping
Martha & Marley Spoon is Not For
- Anyone that is not confident with their skills in the kitchen as most meals require more than just the one-pot and an understanding of basic kitchen cooking methods
Martha & Marley Spoon Bonus Offer
- Get up to $60 off your first four meal kits
Martha & Marley Spoon Meal Plan Menu Examples
The recipes in the Martha & Marley Spoon meal kit delivery service feature great out-of-the-ordinary meals that anyone can eat – without reliance on offering eccentric world-class restaurant recipes as the focus.
Simply put, this food is for the people and you can check out 5 of my favorite recipes from Martha & Marley Spoon below.
Honey-Dijon Glazed Steak with Roasted Green Beans & Potatoes
A modern take on “steak & potatoes”. Succulent sirloins glazed in a sweet-tangy combo of honey-mustard and vinegar, plus cooking the potatoes and greens together means you save time cooking.
- 30 – 40 minutes of preparation time
- Cooking difficulty – easy
Nutritional Information:
- Calories 620
- Total Fats 31g
- Carbohydrate 59g
- Protein 31g
Sweet & Sour Meatballs with Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Meatballs bathed in a beef broth with apricot and sherry vinegar for a craveable sweet-savory flavor, served on a bed of fluffy garlic mashed potatoes.
- 30 – 40 minutes of preparation time
- Cooking difficulty – easy
Nutritional Information:
- Calories 720
- Total Fats 33g
- Carbohydrate 69g
- Protein 39g
Creamy Baked Tortelloni with Salad & Marinated Shallots
This meal will give you the comfort of baked stuffed pasta without the hard work that it normally includes. Tortelloni which is already stuffed with cheese, coated in a pink sauce that reminiscent of vodka sauce (just without the vodka). Baked under a molten blanket of mozzarella.
- 20 – 30 minutes of preparation time
- Cooking difficulty – easy
Nutritional Information:
- Calories 970
- Total Fats 53g
- Carbohydrate 88g
- Protein 36g
Roasted Lemon Chicken Thighs with Spinach, Artichokes & Potatoes
Winner, winner, one-pan chicken dinner! With juicy bone-in chicken thighs, roasted alongside sweet red onions, lemony artichoke hearts, and potatoes.
- 30 – 40 minutes of preparation time
- Cooking difficulty – easy
Nutritional Information:
- Calories 790
- Total Fats 38g
- Carbohydrate 66g
- Protein 51g
Cheesy Ratatouille Casserole with Homemade Basil Pesto
This is the ultimate in comfort food, although I would enjoy it all year round. This casserole features tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, and shallots-roasted to add rich flavor. Throw in some toasted bread and bake it under a blanket of cheese for the best skillet ratatouille ever!
- 30 – 40 minutes of preparation time
- Cooking difficulty – easy
Nutritional Information:
- Calories 780
- Total Fats 48g
- Carbohydrate 58g
- Protein 31g
What’s Unique About Martha & Marley Spoon?
The Martha & Marley Spoon meal portions seemed quite decent when compared with other services. I found that we were having leftovers every night, even with me being a gut and eating more than one portion.
After I noticed this was happening all the time I jumped back on the Martha & Marley Spoon website to see if I had been ordering the wrong meals.
Nope. Something else is up then. Maybe I was lucky and somehow getting extra?
Again, nope.
What I never realized is that the 4-person box (which is what I ordered for our family of 4) can feed up to 4 adults! Even though my two boys like to eat their fair share (if they aren’t being picky and refusing everything) we still had enough for me to take to work for lunch and my partner to heat up for a light lunch the next day.
This is a big bonus if you ask me.
What I also found as a unique addition to the Martha & Marley Spoon meal kits was that the food was realistic. Now, I am not a foodie by any stretch of the imagination so I don’t specifically go out looking for exquisite meals – I would be happy to live off sausages and mash for the rest of my life (pitty mash takes so long to prepare).
The Martha & Marley Spoon recipes were not basic, they were fun to read and find on the website menus, most of which I had never tasted before – without being too ‘extra’ and tacky.
Perfection in my eyes, and a winner for the two picky eaters in our family!
Further to this, I really liked the blog on Martha & Marley Spoon. It is packed to the brim with resources and high-quality content and it is clear that they have a team preparing material fairly frequently and to a much higher standard than other meal kit delivery services.
Check out the blog here to get everything from meal or ingredient insights to guides, tips, and some of the best seasonal recipes!
How to Get Started with Martha & Marley Spoon
1. Select your plan
Getting started is easy and the first thing you need to do is select the plan that suits your situation, whether you are cooking for 2 people or 4 people and just how many meals you would like per week (2, 3, or 4).
2. Set your location
Enter your zip code and your email address to continue on.
3. Delivery details
Choose your delivery day from either Monday or Saturday with delivery occurring between 9 am and 8 pm. You will also need to enter your delivery information here and leave a comment for any particular location that a package can be left if you aren’t home at the time of delivery.
4. Payment
Check the details of your order with the order summary, select your payment method from the usual credit and debit card or via PayPal and enter your payment information. Choose a password and apply any promotional codes that you wish to use.
5. Select your meals
The fun part! Time to choose your meals and then kick back and relax while your Martha & Marley Spoon meal kit box is delivered right to you!
Meal options & Specialty diets
Martha & Marley Spoon provides a variety of tasty meal options and specialty diets. However, while they do have a great selection of meal types, there is no set category or way to filter the meals to only see what suits your diet. Finding the specialty meals is a case of looking at the 20 recipes and seeing the tags and meal highlights on each image.
The following list includes some of the specialty diets and meal options that are available at Martha & Marley Spoon:
- Healthy
- Kid-Friendly
- Gluten-Free
- Dairy-Free
- Low-Calorie
- Vegetarian
- Low Carb
On top of these diet and meal options, there are also tags that I found very helpful (given my personal taste and love of slow-cooked meals). These extra tags were more aimed at cooking or preparation methods, for example:
- Under 30 Minutes
- One Pot Meal
How much does Martha & Marley Spoon cost?
Martha & Marley Spoon has two very simple meal plans, you are either cooking for 2 people, or cooking for 4 people. While this means a lesser variety in terms of customers, it does mean that the pricing is kept simple and affordable for what is the average or for the lack of a better word, the typical makeup of an American family.
Check out the easy breakdown of the cost for both meal plans in the table below.
| Menu | Cost | ||
| 2 Recipes per week | 3 Recipes per week | 4 Recipes per week | |
| 2 People | $41.00 ($10.25 per serving) | $53.94 ($8.99 per serving) | $67.92 ($8.49 per serving) |
| 4 People | $67.92 ($8.49 per serving) | $89.88 ($7.49 per serving) | $111.84 ($6.99 per serving) |
Although disappointing that there is no discounted shipping for larger 4 recipe orders, shipping is charged at a flat rate of only $8.99 and is average for many meal kit delivery services.
What Comes in the Martha & Marley Spoon Box?
The Martha & Marley Spoon box is entirely recyclable and will arrive at your door chilled to keep your ingredients fresh and cool, plus there won’t be any confusion when you open the box because the ingredients are packaged by each recipe!
Apart from the perfectly portioned healthy ingredients (yay no wastage or measuring!) and the insulated packaging, each box will also include easy-to-follow recipe cards which feature 6-steps with precise instructions and really helpful color pictures to make light work of the cooking process. These photos with the instructions saved me big time when I come across a gravy that I had never heard of or prepared before.
One thing to consider, although they send you all the ingredients you will need, they don’t send the kitchen basics like oil, salt and pepper, sugar, flour, and eggs. Which is mostly fine, with eggs being the only one I don’t ‘normally’ have in abundance at all times.
How Long Do the Martha & Marley Spoon Ingredients Last
While everything in your meal box is shipped to you to arrive fresher than you might expect at many supermarkets. The Martha & Marley Spoon team guarantee that the ingredients are usable for at least 4 days after you receive them.
So, cooking each meal each night – which is no biggie because you would grab this delivery service so that you can cook easily made food!
The only exception to the 4-day rule is when it comes to fish – which should be cooked within 48 hours.
Martha & Marley Spoon Customer Support
Head over to the Martha & Marley Spoon FAQ page to access answers to many of the frequently asked questions. If you still need to get in touch with the customer support team, you can email at [email protected] or via telephone at 866-228-4513, alternatively, you can use the contact form found here to send them a message through the website.
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Martha & Marley Spoon Conclusion
It can be hard to decide which meal kit service is the best. It is like deciding which shoe size is the best, just like there is no shoe size that fits all, it is hard to find a meal kit delivery service which fit’s everyone’s preferences. If you are looking to cook delicious, chef-designed meals – than Martha & Marley Spoon would be the perfect meal kit for you.
The ingredients are from premium, locally-sourced farms and the meals were designed by none other than the Queen of lifestyle, Martha Stewart. The variety of meals that Martha & Marley Spoon provide means that whether you need a tasty balanced diet or you are looking to try the current trends in the weight loss world – like keto, paleo, low-carb, or vegan – then you can do so without being trapped into a length subscription.
With awesome seasonal recipes – including great holiday dessert recipes (I didn’t get to taste the Christmas desserts but I googled them and wow!) and summer grilling recipes – and the flexibility of choice you can take full advantage of Martha & Marley Spoon all year round.
