Listening to Consumers: Diet to Go Reduces Sodium in Prepared Meals

Diet to Go isn’t a specific diet plan, but instead a food preparation company that provides a meal delivery service of foods based on a variety of diets. Begun in 1991, it has shipped almost 1,000,000,000 meals to homes across the United States. The meal plans are nutritionally balanced, prepared fresh, and delivered to your door, removing temptation, allowing you to focus on other lifestyle changes, and eliminating the need to count calories.

Meals are assembled fresh with high quality ingredients. They offer four meal plans: Low Fat, Low-Fat Vegetarian, Low Carb, and Diabetic. Plans follow dietary guidelines set by the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society and the USDA Food Pyramid. Now Diet to Go has revised both its low-fat and low-fat vegetarian meal plans to lower sodium content, a direct response to a consumer survey

Diet-to-Go Executive Vice President John Stewart says the move to remake the menus and tweak some of the recipes was well underway when the Food and Drug Administration and other watchdog groups began clamoring for U.S. food makers to lower sodium counts. While Stewart said they have never added sodium directly into any of their food, some sodium is naturally occurring and some has been added by prepared foodstuffs they purchase and use in their prepared meals.

New meals not only boast a lower salt content but an increased flavor quotient. In planning and revamping recipes, the newly constructed recipes have pumped up taste, utilizing such ingredients as herbs and spices, while dropping sodium content below the daily maximum of 2400 milligrams.

Meal plans come in 5- or 7-day increments, either full meals (3x/day) or lunch and dinner only. Diets to Go claims that the average customer spends about $90 per week on their meal plans. The lowest cost option is Low-Fat, 1200 calories, 5 days/week, lunch and dinner only. The price: $83.99. The highest is Low-Carb, 1200 calories, 7 days/week, full meal plan at $149.99.

For more information and our editorial review of the Diet to Go plan, check our Diet Plan pages.