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Just Salad launches meal kits with zero-plastic packaging

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February 9, 2021

Just Salad has launched Housemade, a meal kit and grocery service available within delivery range of locations in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Chicago and South Florida. It offers a variety of one-pan meal kits in zero-plastic packaging, grocery staples and prepared foods from the Just Salad menu, according to a company press release.

"We're launching the next generation of meal kits," Just Salad CEO and founder Nick Kenner said in the release. "With 14 micro-fulfillment centers across five major markets, we can offer unparalleled flexibility with 60-minute deliveries and no commitments. We've been able to go above and beyond to provide the most sustainable meal kit packaging out there. This is going to be a game changer for the meal kit industry."

Housemade's menu features seven one-pan recipes, such as a Buffalo Chicken Bowl and Taco Tuesday Bowl. The variety includes two kits that are vegan and one that features plant-based Beyond Beef. The offerings evolved fromJust Grocery, a service launched in April that provided salad meal kits, groceries and pantry staples. Housemade will also carry an assortment of everyday groceries and greens.

In contrast to mail-order meal kit brands, Housemade uses 91% less packaging by weight, Kenner said. Containers are curbside-recyclable or compostable, recipe cards contain explicit disposal instructions, and the product labels are water soluble. That means no cardboard clutter, no dry ice, and nothing that needs to go to a landfill.

Housemade has no order minimum or subscription requirements, and customers may order single- or multiple-serving meal options and have it scheduled for same-day delivery.

"2020 swiftly and substantially changed the way we all shop and dine," Kenner said. "Housemade alleviates a lot of the headaches when it comes to planning meals and ordering grocery staples. The service reflects our mission to make everyday health and sustainability possible."

Housemade is available at www.gethousemade.com with meal kits priced between $10.49 and $11.49 per serving. Meal kits are also available on Grubhub and UberEats.

Just Salad was founded in 2006 in New York City and has nearly 50 locations in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Dubai.