Meal delivery (also referred to as meal-kit delivery) is a type of subscription service in which a company sends you a box of fresh ingredients in the right amounts for a few recipes that you can make at home. It's a rapidly growing sector of the food industry, with one report projecting the global market for meal delivery to be worth $8.94 billion by 2025.
Cook-from-a-kit boxes, such as HelloFresh, are just one style of meal delivery. Some throw the "kit" element to the wind and instead provide heat-and-eat meals that require minimal effort. Sunbasket, for example, provides the ingredients for a family dinner already mixed and assembled in an oven-safe container.