App Profile: Tovala

Rooch5

Rating: 5/5

I have completed my first week. I am a widow with pounds I need to lose. My intuition was true: I look forward to these meals every night! It’s like eating in a restaurant except I have to scoop it onto a plate and take it to my own table. No hassle having to pick up food or wait for slow servers. I get 15-20 minutes to do what I want without meal prep. I am called to my table by a text on my phone telling me dinner is ready. Clean up is very simple. The portions are a bit small it seems, but they are enough. Obviously, I don’t know much about portions so this controls it for me. When it’s gone, my meal is OVER. I haven’t gotten hungry before bed, so that tells me something. This may finally be the key for me. I’m a widow who lives like a queen! I stay out of the grocery store a lot more, thus avoiding impulse buys, so the price of the meals is worth it. I have found the oven to be a little less handy than my toaster oven for heating up things. Perhaps with some more experience....

MrOBrian

Rating: 4/5

Tried to contact support, but got no response other than automated messages, which a very annoying trend for “customer support” when it can never deal with any actual situation. First the good. I love this service. Better quality food than pre-made meals you get in a plastic tray that you throw in the microwave and easier than the ones where you get the ingredients and have to cook it all yourself. The menu is also much larger than some other services. My only complaint is that they seem to be moving away from meals that include green beans, and fewer have broccoli. Far too many are just rice and a protein, or a burger and fries. There used to be a lot more healthy options. The bad… this app is not great. Each week I have to force quit and relaunch to get it to load new menus. Before I realized that I nearly missed putting in my order. The nutrition info also scrolls abruptly after expanding it and then beginning to scroll. It’s very jarring. Also, there’s a “Log Nutrition” menu option on the meals, but it doesn’t seem to do anything. I’ve tapped it multiple times and then looked everywhere, but couldn’t find where it would have logged. And if you want to leave any feedback on a meal, it marks it as you not liking it. I hate that. I enjoyed a meal very much but wanted to let them know the instructions weren’t very clear, but now it shows up in the app with a big thumbs down.

bluesmom73

Rating: 4/5

I bought this oven on a Black Friday special that required 6 weeks of meals. I thought I would use those 6 weeks and then cancel my subscription, but have never stopped. I have loved nearly every meal with the Tovala. The chicken and the salmon always turn out perfect. I work a lot, so I prepare a few meals ahead of time and take to work. Prep is a minute or two and clean up is even less. I’m spending so much less time in the kitchen. Now I only cook what I enjoy making and the rest of the time still eat delicious food. It’s streamlined my grocery shopping, so less time at the store. My only complaint is that for a single person, 6 meals a week was almost too much. I loved it, but I missed some of my own meals and the restaurants I frequent. I had been thinking of skipping every other week or something so I could mix those things back in, but Tovala offered a breakfast meal option, so I’m back in. I keep raving about it to anyone who will listen, but people are skeptical. I call it my easy bake oven, lol. Am seriously considering buying this for my parents, who live in a small town with limited dining options and an even smaller offering of options at the grocery store for cooking. I’ve tried other meal plans, and although I enjoyed cooking and learning how to cook new things, I became busier in my career and needed to free up some time from somewhere.