Trying to make the healthiest food choices can be challenging, but Splendid Spoon is a convenient way to introduce yourself to plant-based smoothies, soups and grain bowls from the comfort of your home. Their mission is clean, delicious eating with the most nutritious ingredients that are low in sugar and sodium while also being tasty. If you’re trying to change your dietary habits but don’t have time or an idea of where to start, read my Splendid Spoon review because one of their three plans could be just right for you.
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With 15 different smoothies and 30 bowls of soups or grains, Splendid Spoon can simplify food prep and healthy meal ideas for breakfast, lunches to dinner, especially when you’re busy. The Splendid Spoon plans range from $65.00 for a weekly delivery of five smoothie choices. The second plan is $95.00 for a mixture of a weekly delivery of five smoothies and five soups or grain bowls. Then you also have the option of ordering, five smoothies, five bowls and one day of soup reset that has light soups for $135.00 per week.
Though there were a lot of tempting choices to pick from, here is what I selected from Splendid Spoon for this review for my five smoothies and five bowls. For smoothies, I picked out the Mango Guava, Dragon Fruit, Mint Chip, Strawberry Goji, and Blueberry Coconut flavors. My five bowl options were the Aloo Gobi Quinoa Bowl, Vegetable Bolognese, Cuban Black Bean, Green Goddess Quinoa, and the Kabocha Congee bowls.
Out of the Splendid Spoon smoothies, my favorite was the mango guava in this review. It was thick, fruity with that dominant peach-like mango flavor to the underlying banana and guava that was delicious. I did add a little milk to thin it out half of the bottle at a time. Believe it or not, I tried half of that one day for lunch and was full until dinner.
The Blueberry Coconut smoothie had grittiness, probably from the pea powder protein and a tad too much cinnamon in my opinion. After all, this Splendid Spoon smoothie had five grams of protein from that pea protein and cashew butter.
Dragon Fruit smoothie had pineapple juice to the dragon fruit, raspberries along with less pea protein at four grams per serving. This one was fruity, thinner but had more tartness. I think that I would have preferred it with more sweetness from pineapple or blending in bananas.
The Mint Chip smoothie was quite tasty as well with its mix of banana, Swiss chard, almond butter, baobab powder, cacao nibs, and peppermint among its other ingredients. I also added some milk to thin the thickness from its seven grams of protein per serving. The cacao nibs were a nice chocolate to mint touch to this smoothie.
My last smoothie was the Strawberry Goji choice. It has lots of strawberry coming through with only a slight coconut flavor with cashew butter in this one. This is another very thick smoothie due to its six grams of pea protein. I prefer adding some milk to this one as well. However, I must say that drinking a half of these thicker pea-protein smoothies did keep me full until the next meal. I started to drink some for breakfast and others for lunch. These really reduced the need to nibble on anything in between meals.
As to the bowls from Splendid Spoon meal delivery, I will start with the Green Goddess Quinoa. This is one of the grain bowls with quinoa, spinach, broccoli, kidney beans, asparagus, peas, and slivered almonds. I made the mistake by thinking that I could eat this entire container for dinner. Do not try this because it is just entirely too much food. Divide into two servings as the packaging suggests. To be honest, it had a little more lemon juice and needed some salt according to my taste buds. Just sprinkling just a bit of salt did seem to round out the flavor more to my liking.
The Vegetable Bolognese had mushrooms and wild rice in a tomato base. Of the five bowls, this was my least favorite. I think it could have used more seasoning.
The Kabocha Congee is a stew bowl with squash, coconut milk, brown rice, onions, pumpkin seeds, etc. To those ingredients, it also has a surprising blend of cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. Usually, I do not care for dessert spices in entrees. But I enjoyed the way the ingredients complimented each other so beautifully.
Next, I sampled the Aloo Gobi Quinoa bowl that has an Indian influence. This one has quinoa, potatoes, cauliflower, mushrooms, peppers and more along with turmeric and curry powder. Since I love Indian dishes, this one went over well with me.
The last Splendid Spoon bowl for this review was the Cuban Black Bean. I never tasted plantains in a dish before so this was a new experience. The taste reminded me of sweet potatoes, but the brown rice, black beans, kale, tomatoes with lime juice and the seasonings such as chipotle powder, cumin, oregano, etc. gave this dish a kick of zesty flavor that I enjoyed. In fact, this one was my favorite of the grain bowls.
Finally, Splendid Spoon also sent along two of their Wellness shots for aiding the immune system. They are also meant to help give your body an instant restart when tired or feeling like you are coming down with an illness. The first one was Ginger & Lemon flavor, which also has oregano and orange as well as the ginger and lemon. It does heat the throat to the chest as it goes down. Drinking it really does seem to give you a jolt of extra energy when I tried it after finishing with a day of cleaning and laundry. The second was their green Detox Shot to flush the body of its toxins with kale, apple juice, spirulina, apple juice, aloe juice, and moringa. If you love green drinks, then you will like the taste.
Getting your taste buds adapted to wholesome plant-based foods without sugar and salt can take some time to adjust if you’re used to eating our typical American diet. However, cut back on some of refined foods, sugars and salt each day will change your taste buds perception of those healthier foods that you introduce them too.
If you are trying to change your diet for a healthier, plant-based one, then Splendid Spoon is a great option that can help put you on the road to wellness. In fact, first time subscribers can save $110.00 off your first three boxes on plans $100+ with coupon code SPLENDID10 if you go through my link. Check this meal planning service out for a convenient meal delivery solution.
These sound like great products! I think I would really like the smoothies.
I have never heard of Splendid Spoon before this. My daughter and I eat plant based and we would certainly love to try this!