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Best meal delivery services for breakfasts
Eating a healthy breakfast at the start of your day is important for a number of reasons. If you tend to skip breakfast (or frequently start your day with foods high in sugar), then it may be time to switch things up. And what better way to do that than with a convenient meal delivery service?
Most meal kits have you covered when it comes to dinnertime meals, but that’s far from the only thing on the menu. The best meal delivery services offer a variety of other options to choose from, such as sides, snacks, and marketplace add-ons. These days, it’s not uncommon to find tasty breakfast and lunch items in the mix as well.
Not sure which meal delivery service has the best offers when it comes to breakfast foods? We break down the best prepared meal services and meal kits with added breakfast options below.
Best meal delivery services for breakfasts
Here are the best prepared meal delivery services and meal kits for anyone interested in switching things up when it comes to breakfast.
*HelloFresh is currently offering free breakfast items for life when you sign up, but you better hurry over to HelloFresh — according to the meal delivery service, this offer is ending soon.
Start looking forward to early morning breakfast again with one of these top meal kit and prepared meal delivery services:
Top pick: Green Chef
Green Chef
First up on our list is a no-brainer: Green Chef already won us over as one of the healthiest meal delivery services out there, thanks to dozens of varied and diet-friendly meals to choose from week after week.
Would it surprise you to know that in addition to delicious dinner meal kits, Green Chef also offers a number of breakfast and lunch items as well?
The Green Market is your go-to spot for healthy and delicious add-ons such as proteins, fruits and vegetables, and yes — breakfast meals.
Each week, you can customize your order with as many breakfast add-ons as you’d like such as lattes, oatmeal, muffins, and a brioche French toast meal. There is also a variety of breakfast bites to consider: turkey sausage and cheddar egg bites, bacon and cheddar egg bites, spinach and feta egg bites, and more.
Best family breakfast meals: Marley Spoon
Marley Spoon
Having the option to include breakfast items and add-ons to your meal plan is great and all, but what about when you’re ordering for the whole family? If you want larger portion sizes and breakfast meal kits you can prepare yourself, Marley Spoon has the menu you’re looking for.
Subscribers can browse dozens of weekly options to find mouth-watering breakfast recipes. With a quick look of our own, we found bacon cheddar buttermilk scones, stuffed French toast, and a super easy breakfast bake — perfect for feeding up to 10 people.
Subscribers can also access Market by Marley Spoon, a one-stop shop for even more breakfast goodness. Look for customizable breakfast and brunch bags, the first of which comes with everything you need to start your day off right.
Best prepared meal delivery: Mosaic Foods
Mosaic Foods
For people with a busy schedule, we recommend Mosaic Foods. This meal delivery service pairs subscribers with fully prepared meals that require zero prep work — just heat and eat.
Mosaic Foods’s vegan meal delivery service is perfect for healthy, properly portioned, and hassle-free meals. This includes breakfast items such as nutrient-packed steel-cut oat bowls.
If a variety of protein-packed, zero-prep, and vegan oat and veggie bowls sounds like the perfect match to your morning routines, then scroll no further. Mosaic Foods offers good breakfast eats like the peanut butter, banana, and cacao oats bowl or our personal favorite, the cranberry cinnamon oats bowl.
Like most Mosaic Foods vegan options, oat bowls start at $6 apiece, while veggie bowls start at $11. Subscribers can also save up to $20 off their delivery by choosing larger meal plans, as well as free shipping on orders with 12 or more items.
Best breakfast smoothies: Daily Harvest
Daily Harvest
Any smoothie lovers out there?
If your breakfasts tend to come from a blender more than anywhere else, then Daily Harvest has the meal delivery menu for you.
Choose from more than two dozen smoothie flavors and recipes each week, from fruit-packed classics like strawberry and peach to energizing treats like the cold brew and cacao smoothie.
Daily Harvest offers a fully organic and dairy free menu with plenty of other great meals, snacks, and treats — perfect for breakfast and lunchtime.
Like many other meal delivery services, Daily Harvest offers added discounts for first-time subscribers: save up to $65, plus enjoy free shipping on that first order, by using promo code DH65 when you sign up.
Absolute best sign-up bonus: HelloFresh
HelloFresh
If you’ve peeked at what HelloFresh has to offer recently, you’ll understand why America’s most popular meal kit made our list.
HelloFresh has a special treat for new subscribers: one free breakfast item per box for life. You read that right. So long as you maintain an active subscription, you can enjoy one free breakfast item per weekly delivery.
Details on this offer are hard to come by online, but common breakfast rewards mentioned by current subscribers include:
- egg bites (bacon and cheese or turkey sausage and cheese, two pack)
- blueberry muffins (two pack)
- waffles (four pack)
According to HelloFresh, this offer ends soon, so don’t wait to check this out if free breakfast items for the life of your HelloFresh subscription sounds like a great deal.
How we reviewed breakfast meal delivery options
To make the best selections, it’s important to pull out all the stops when reviewing meal kit delivery services. We considered a number of factors when choosing the best meal kits for anyone looking for delicious and nutritious breakfast foods:
- Breakfast meal variety: This one’s obvious, but bears repeating. We made sure every service on the list offers a nice variety of breakfast meals, sides, and marketplace add-ons.
- Sign up bonuses: Don’t you just love a good bargain? Us too! That’s why we found some of the most impressive first-time deals and discounts to help you save big by switching to meal kits.
- Meal variety: A breakfast-friendly meal kit won’t mean much if you cancel after a few weeks. That’s why we looked for companies that offer an impressive selection of weekly recipes that will keep you coming back for more.
- Flexible plans: Sometimes, life throws you a curveball and you simply have to make some changes to what you’re spending money on. Which is why we prioritized meal kit companies that make it easy to pause or skip deliveries whenever needed.
Bela Karolyi, the charismatic if polarizing gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the United States into an international power, has died. He was 82.
A spokesperson for USA Gymnastics confirmed to CBS News by email that Karolyi died Friday. No cause of death was given.
Karolyi and wife Martha trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and world champions in the U.S. and Romania, including Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton.
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“A big impact and influence on my life,” Comaneci, who was just 14 when Karolyi coached her to gold for Romania at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, posted on Instagram.
The Karolyis defected to the United States in 1981 and over the next 30-plus years became a guiding force in American gymnastics, though not without controversy. Bela helped guide Retton — all of 16 — to the Olympic all-around title at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles and memorably helped an injured Kerri Strug off the floor at the 1996 Games in Atlanta after Strug’s vault secured the team gold for the Americans.
Karolyi briefly became the national team coordinator for USA Gymnastics women’s elite program in 1999 and incorporated a semi-centralized system that eventually turned the Americans into the sport’s gold standard. It did not come without a cost. He was pushed out after the 2000 Olympics after several athletes spoke out about his tactics.
It would not be the last time Karolyi was accused of grandstanding and pushing his athletes too far physically and mentally.
During the height of the Larry Nassar scandal in the late 2010s — when the disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor was effectively given a life sentence after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting gymnasts and other athletes with his hands under the guise of medical treatment — over a dozen former gymnasts came forward saying the Karolyis were part of a system that created an oppressive culture that allowed Nassar’s behavior to run unchecked for years.
Still, some of Karolyi’s most famous students were always among his staunchest defenders. When Strug got married, she and Karolyi took a photo recreating their famous scene from the 1996 Olympics, when he carried her onto the medals podium after she vaulted on a badly sprained ankle.
Despite losing his boxing match to Jake Paul, Mike Tyson in a social media post Saturday said he had “no regrets” to getting “in ring one last time.”
The boxing legend was defeated by social media star Jake Paul in a highly anticipated fight on Friday night with an age difference of over three decades between the two contenders.
Netflix said Saturday that 60 million households worldwide tuned in to watch the match. The two fighters went eight full rounds, with each round two minutes long. Paul defeated Tyson by unanimous decision and the 27-year-old upset boxer and 58-year-old former heavyweight champion hugged afterward.
Paul was expected to earn about $40 million from the fight, and Tyson was expected to take around $20 million for the fight, according to DraftKings and other online reports.
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Tyson said on his social media that “this is one of those situations when you lost but still won. I’m grateful for last night.”
The fight almost didn’t happen after Tyson experienced an ulcer flare-up while on a plane in March. He addressed his illness Saturday, writing that he “almost died in June.” He said he had eight blood transfusions and “lost half my blood and 25lbs in hospital and had to fight to get healthy to fight so I won.”
Tyson retired from boxing in 2005 after a 20-year career. He last fought in a 2020 exhibition match against former four-division world champ Roy Jones Jr.
“To have my children see me stand toe to toe and finish 8 rounds with a talented fighter half my age in front of a packed Dallas Cowboy stadium is an experience that no man has the right to ask for. Thank you,” he said.
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In their final meeting, China’s leader Xi Jinping told U.S. President Biden that his nation was “ready to work with a new administration,” as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take over.
The two leaders gathered Saturday on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Mr. Biden was expected to urge Xi to dissuade North Korea from further deepening its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine. It marked their first in-person meeting since they met in Northern California last November.
Without mentioning Trump’s name, Xi appeared to signal his concern that the incoming president’s protectionist rhetoric on the campaign trail could send the U.S.-China relationship into another valley.
“China is ready to work with a new U.S. administration to maintain communication, expand cooperation and manage differences so as to strive for a steady transition of the China-U.S. relationship for the benefit of the two peoples,” Xi said through an interpreter.
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Mr. Biden, meanwhile, spoke in broader brushstrokes about where the relationship has gone and reflected not just on the past four years, but on their long relationship.
“Over the past four years, China-U.S. relations have experienced ups and downs, but with the two of us at the helm, we have also engaged in fruitful dialogues and cooperation, and generally achieved stability,” he said.
Mr. Biden and Xi, with top aides surrounding them, gathered around a long rectangle of tables in an expansive conference room at Lima’s Defines Hotel and Conference Center.
There’s much uncertainty about what lies ahead in the U.S.-China relationship under Trump, who campaigned promising to levy 60% tariffs on Chinese imports.
Bobby Djavaheri, president of Los Angeles-based Yedi Houseware Appliances — which manufactures its products in China — told CBS News in an interview this week that such tariffs “would decimate our business, but not only our business. It would decimate all small businesses that rely on importing.”
Trump has also proposed revoking China’s Most Favored Nation trade status, phasing out all imports of essential goods from China and banning China from buying U.S. farmland.
Already, many American companies, including Nike and eyewear retailer Warby Parker, have been diversifying their sourcing away from China. Shoe brand Steve Madden says it plans to cut imports from China by as much as 45% next year.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden administration officials will advise the Trump team that managing the intense competition with Beijing will likely be the most significant foreign policy challenge they will face.
It’s a big moment for Mr. Biden as he wraps up more than 50 years in politics. He saw his relationship with Xi as among the most consequential on the international stage and put much effort into cultivating that relationship.
Mr. Biden and Xi first got to know each other on travels across the U.S. and China when both were vice presidents, interactions that both have said left a lasting impression.
“For over a decade, you and I have spent many hours together, both here and in China and in between. And I think we’ve spent a long time dealing with these issues,” Mr. Biden said Saturday.
But the last four years have presented a steady stream of difficult moments.
The FBI this week offered new details of a federal investigation into Chinese government efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks. The initial findings have revealed a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from Americans who work in government and politics.
U.S. intelligence officials also have assessed China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in its war against Ukraine.
And tensions flared last year after Mr. Biden ordered the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon that traversed the United States.
