Soulara offers convenient and nourishing ready-to-eat meals that follow their four guiding principles – plant power, ingredients you can trust, sustainability and seasonality. Created by their in-house dietitian, each meal is designed to ensure you are getting the vitamins, minerals and plant protein you need to thrive. Check out the wide range of Soulara’s product offerings here.

I chose the 18-meal plan, which equates to $9.55 per meal. If you purchase fewer meals, the price increases, with the most expensive plan being the 7-day meal plan at $12.30 per meal. This is still very good value when compared to vegan ready-made meal service Garden of Vegan, whose meals start from $14.95. Soulara’s menu was very easy to navigate – the menu is split into four categories; ‘Breakfast’, ‘High Protein’, ‘Calorie Controlled’ and ‘Main Meals’. Soulara’s ‘Calorie controlled’ meals were created in collaboration with chefs and dietitians, to provide lower-calorie meals that don’t sacrifice flavour. The ‘High Protein’ meals have at least 20g of protein per serve and contain complete protein combinations in each meal (all nine essential amino acids). I was immediately impressed by the high protein content. 

There were around 40 meals to choose from on the menu, slightly less than what is offered by Garden of Vegan and about the same as Herbidoor. There was nothing I didn’t want to choose! Even the names of the meals were enticing such as ‘Mindful Moussaka’ – they evoked a feeling of ‘health and wellness’. I selected a range of meals from across the menu, including one breakfast option. 

Soulara gives you the ability to exclude items on the menu by ‘tree nuts’, ‘sesame’, ‘soy’, ‘alcohol’, ‘gluten’, ‘peanut’ ‘chili’, ‘garlic’ and ‘onion’. Whilst Garden of Vegan and Herbidoor offer similar menu filters, the option to exclude alcohol was something I have not seen before, and I think it is a great idea. Like Garden of Vegan and Herbidoor, each menu item had the total calories, protein and carbohydrates listed, which was very helpful to see when selecting meals. You can check out our Nutritionist reviews of Garden of Vegan and Hebidoor on here.

Once I had chosen my 18 meals, I was notified that they were being prepared and awaited my delivery on the following Wednesday.