Plated's best feature is its flexibility. The range of recipes encompass all tastes, serving needs (they will send you anywhere from 1-8 servings!), levels of kid-friendliness, difficulty, and more. There's just enough repetition that if you like a recipe you can get it frequently enough, but no so much that you get bored. If you're someone who loves a little of everything and wants to try new things, Plated is for you! Hear more from Chef Nick: 

The cost of Plated varies based on servings you need, and how many recipes you get in a box. We usually get three servings of two recipes, and sometimes one of their dessert add ons (see this review of the cherry cheesecakes from this same box). Including the shipping charge, our box this week was $67.65 for six dinner and four dessert servings. 

I also like that they track your Chef Stats, counting how many recipes you've cooked, and how many unique ingredients you've used. As of this writing, we are at 34 recipes and 188 ingredients! 

This recipe was way simpler than I expected. Sometimes I think that I think that the more words in a recipe's name, the more complicated it will be. And maybe that can be true, but here Plated makes it easy! 

Plated's ingredients are a mix of prepared, semi-prepared, or completely DIY. Here, we got pre-shredded carrots and a premade sauce, but everything else was whole or raw. For us, Plated's main drawback is the amount of plastic they use. Everything comes in one large bag (not shown), and then nearly everything inside is contained in plastic too. Each piece of chicken is individually wrapped - and none of this is recyclable. I hope they are working on this! It's the main reason we don't get Plated as frequently as some of the more environmentally friendly options, such as Green Chef or.

Raddish is a kid-friendly cooking club, culinary lesson, and mealtime solution all-in-one designed for kids and parents to cook and learn together.

There is only once choice – boxes come monthly and all users receive the same items. Each month's Raddish kit features a surprise theme that generally falls into one of four categories: Seasonal Spotlights, Global Cuisine, Creative Cookery (science- or imagination-based), and Holiday Celebrations. A kit’s theme cannot be chosen in advance—that would ruin the surprise! Here’s a FREE digital sample kit so you can see what’s included.
Each monthly kit includes:

• 3 illustrated recipe guides (see a sample)
• 3 culinary skill cards (see a sample)
• a creative theme project (see a sample)
• kid-friendly tools and collectibles (see a sample) such as Table Talk cards, a culinary tool, and an iron-on Raddish patch
• 1 free Raddish apron with the purchase of a membership (additional aprons may be purchased during checkout)

Meal Box Review readers can get $10 off a new Raddish service! Sign up here and use coupon code gpxghh
In addition, you’ll receive a grocery store shopping list inside your kit and via email. They also provide digital “Bonus Bites” recipes, videos, playlists, activities, dietary substitutions, digital lesson plans about the holiday or culture of that month’s theme (see a sample), and more! These items are always archived on the website, so you can return to any previous month’s theme activities.
The biggest difference is that Raddish does NOT include the food or any other ingredients. You do the grocery shopping – ideally with the child(ren) – using their pre-made list.

Remember, we always post individual reviews of one recipe at a time - so you may need to return to read all the recipe reviews if we are still working on this box. Sign up here to get updates sent directly to your inbox!

This month the theme was TASTE OF INDIA!
The three recipes this month were:
1. Indian Naan Bread
2. Chicken Tikka Masala
3. Yellow Rice Biryani
4. Indian Lassi (mango smoothie)

Because Raddish is not a meal-delivery service, no food comes packaged in the kit. Instead we got these kid-friendly supplies and printed materials:

We learned how to use garam masala! It's that secret ingredient that makes your local Indian buffet smell so good! It's one of the key ingredients in the Chicken Tikka Masala recipe.

Our rating system considers quality, value, convenience, cost, waste materials, taste, freshness, choice/variety, and family friendliness. Here's our review of this box as a whole:

We also review each recipe separately:

1. Indian Naan Bread
2. Chicken Tikka Masala
3. Yellow Rice Biryani
4. Indian Lassi (mango smoothie)

General PROS of Raddish:

• We love that Raddish aims to get kids involved through their fun and creative activities, videos, kid-friendly supplies and directions. Our kid can cook! She did most of the work in making all of the recipes from this box.
• We especially liked that because they send a prep email when your package ships that we had a few days to get the ingredients from the recipe card before the kit arrived. The prep email also includes links to all of the Bonus Bites material, including at-home lesson plans, a grocery store scavenger hunt, a bonus recipe (this time it was the mango-yogurt smoothie), and other fun stuff.
• The supplies in the box include a kid-friendly utensil, a cute patch for the apron, a couple of fun art activity instructions, high-quality recipe booklets, and little "Table Talk" cards about the monthly theme and/or recipes. It's obvious that Raddish really put a lot of work into making these not just "kid-friendly" versions of recipes but actually recipes for kids!
  

General CONS of Raddish:

• Obviously, the major con of Raddish is that we still have to buy the groceries. However, this list was fairly straightforward and didn't require any trips to specialty stores.
• The second issue we noticed takes a hit in the value category. While they offer a TON of valuable content on their website (https://www.raddishkids.com/blogs/bonus-bites), all of the online material is FREE for anyone to access - like this recipe card for DIY Dreamsicles! In fact, there is no log-in or members-only section of their website. Everything is either public, or accessible only through the email or box they send. What members pay for that the public doesn't get includes the patch, the physical supplies shown above, and expanded recipe booklets - these are well made and high-quality.
  

Thanks for cooking with us and remember to eat well!

This recipe is from Raddish - August 2018 - Taste of India
See our other reviews from this box:
Chicken Tikka Masala
Yellow Rice Biryani
Mango Lassi

Bread is one of those things that humans have been making from scratch for thousands of years, but today's humans suddenly much less so. This naan recipe was so easy, required minimal ingredients, and came together in less than an hour, including rise time - and it's delicious!!

We rolled and cooked each piece separately and we got a little better each time. We probably didn't knead the bread long enough, and we found that the last piece we made the thinnest turned out the best. It might be easier to do this in a stand mixer!

I'll let her tell it:

and then you roll them and butter/salt them:

and cook them in a skillet! This is when it's ready to flip - cooked on the bottom and bubbly on top!

Raddish provides instructions for modifications as such:
Gluten-free: Use Bob's Red Mill 1:1 Baking Flour and add an additional 1/4 cup milk
Vegan/Dairy-Free: Use dairy-free yogurt and dairy-free butter
Vegetarian/Egg-Free: No modifications necessary!

For this recipe, we rated:

Thanks for cooking with us, and as always, eat well!