These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door. Plant-Based meal kit services are a modern miracle for vegetarians and vegans, who usually aren't afforded the same conveniences as meat eaters or those without dietary restrictions. We at WIRED love meal kits, because they're all about modern convenience--you can eat what you want, even if you're on a specialty diet or have strong food preferences, without ever leaving your house. Gone are the days of grocery shopping and scouring online for recipes; these contemporary plant-based meal kit services do the heavy lifting for you using curated menus and algorithms, with choices for both premade microwavable meals and kits where you do the cooking yourself. Some plant-based meal kit services, like Hungryroot, use AI customization to curate menus based on your specific tastes. Others, like Daily Harvest, have a set selection of choices so you can always keep your freezer stocked with plant-based, gluten-free meals to have on hand. I'm vegan, so I know how difficult it can be to find new recipes that will actually taste good without breaking the bank. Plus, plant-based meal kits are a great way to try out new foods and recipes, especially if you're looking to switch to a healthier diet in the new year.

One of WIRED's Favorite Chef Knives Is Free With a HelloFresh Membership The 8-inch Zwilling Four Star chef's knife is an excellent carbon steel blade that retails around $100. It's free with some food. I don't know if a good knife is hard to find. But they usually cost at least a hundred dollars, so it's worth noting when HelloFresh is offering one of WIRED's favorite chef's knives for the low, low price of free. This is the time of year when a lot of the best meal kit deals start to happen. And so if you hang around for three weeks of meal delivery service from HelloFresh, your third box will include delivery of a Zwilling Four Star 8-inch chef knife, a $100-plus carbon steel blade that WIRED reviewer Molly Higgins lists as her runner-up favorite blade overall--and her favorite carbon-steel for most people.

These vegan meal kits and delivery services bring preprepared meals and meal kits to your door. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Vegan-specific meal kit services are a modern miracle for vegans, who usually aren't afforded the same conveniences as meat eaters or those without dietary restrictions. We at WIRED love meal kits, because they're all about modern convenience--you can eat what you want, even if you're on a specialty diet or have strong food preferences, without ever leaving your house. Gone are the days of grocery shopping and scouring online for recipes; these contemporary vegan meal kit services do the heavy lifting for you using curated menus and algorithms, with choices for both premade microwavable meals and kits where you do the cooking yourself. Some vegan meal kit services, like Hungryroot, use AI customization to curate menus based on your specific tastes. Others, like Daily Harvest, have a set selection of choices so you can always keep your freezer stocked with vegan, gluten-free meals to have on hand.

We've seen AIs create music, pornography and art. The Estonian startup Yummy started off creating a meal-kit startup, but along the way created an AI that can create and adapt recipes based on your taste and dietary restrictions, complete with AI-generated images of what your dishes might look like. "Imagine a world where you would not have to spend years of your life on deciding what to eat, search for recipes, research nutritional information and health benefits, follow diets and do grocery shopping," says co-founder and CEO Martin Salo in an interview with TechCrunch. "Imagine we solve this complex problem on your behalf, based on your personal preferences -- and got it right every time." The co-founders of the company started Clean Kitchen together in Estonia back in 2020.

We've seen AIs create music, pornography and art. The Estonian startup Yummy started off creating a meal-kit startup, but along the way created an AI that can create and adapt recipes based on your taste and dietary restrictions, complete with AI-generated images of what your dishes might look like. "Imagine a world where you would not have to spend years of your life on deciding what to eat, search for recipes, research nutritional information and health benefits, follow diets and do grocery shopping," says co-founder and CEO Martin Salo in an interview with TechCrunch. "Imagine we solve this complex problem on your behalf, based on your personal preferences -- and got it right every time." The co-founders of the company started Clean Kitchen together in Estonia back in 2020.

Grocery store chain Stop & Shop announced today that it will begin testing driverless grocery vehicles in Boston starting this spring, combining the hype of autonomous delivery cars, cashier-less stores, and meal kits into one experimental pilot. The launch is part of a partnership with San Francisco-based startup Robomart, whose vehicles will cart around Stop & Shop items like produce, convenience items, and meal kits to customers' doorsteps. The electric vehicles will be temperature-controlled to keep produce fresh, and controlled remotely from a Robomart facility. Customers can hail the mini grocery stores via an app, on an interface which feels a lot like calling an Uber. Once the vehicle arrives, customers can unlock the doors, and the items they grab are tracked with RFID and computer vision technology.

The 25 most popular things our readers bought this year (so far) (Photo: Reviewed.com) If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA TODAY's newsroom and any business incentives. It's been a heck of a shopping year thus far, and it's only going to ramp up during the holiday season. So we thought it'd be fun to see all of the wonderful things our readers have bought so far in 2018. With the incredible sales we've seen on popular products and the crazy prices of Amazon Prime Day, we have quite the hodgepodge of items on this list.

Every part of the U.S. has a different local term for a convenience store: the bodega, the corner store--even "the Wawa," a chain name that Northeasteners use generically. Now Amazon wants to extend its brand to the notion of a grab-and-go shop with Amazon Go, a store that literally lets you grab and go. On Monday, more than a year after the company unveiled the concept and began a beta-test phase open only to its own employees, the first Amazon Go in Seattle will welcome all shoppers. In December 2016, when the company first teased the automated store–which eliminates cashiers and checkouts in favor of AI and cameras that detect the products you select--it said that it was coming in early 2017. Last March, however, the Wall Street Journal's Laura Stevens reported that Amazon was having trouble getting its "Just Walk Out" technology to work as the place filled up with customers.

One of the hottest areas for subscription services right now are ingredient and meal-kit delivery services. Two of the companies in this space – Blue Apron and Plated – were both in the news. Blue Apron went public last year, raising $300 million in the process, and Plated was acquired by the grocery chain Albertsons. These companies make weekly deliveries of pre-measured ingredients with recipes and instructions on how to put the meal together. These meal-kit services have distinctive supply chains and difficult forecasting issues.

One of the hottest areas for subscription services right now are ingredient and meal-kit delivery services. Two of the companies in this space - Blue Apron and Plated - were both in the news. Blue Apron went public last year, raising $300 million in the process, and Plated was acquired by the grocery chain Albertsons. These companies make weekly deliveries of pre-measured ingredients with recipes and instructions on how to put the meal together. These meal-kit services have distinctive supply chains and difficult forecasting issues.