Simply Fit Meals

Hey (TP) Trieu,
Yes, we also were upset when we left the austin market, unfortunately it was a decision we had to make. Thanks again for your and Emily’s support in the past and we were happy to continue shipping meals to our House Account customers long after we shut the doors in Austin.
As I explained to you in the several emails that you received. You did redeem the full value of your account with us and there was no refund to issue, let alone meals to deliver. Outlined in the dates I sent to you, you had your last order delivered to our Austin drop off site, but you never picked up the meals. You never explained to us why you didn’t picked them up and we didn’t find out until the last day that the meals were considered «fresh».
An unfortunate incident that you didn’t pick them up on time and $ 100 of meals spoiled. That was your last delivery which would have exhausted your account, but we offered to deliver to you one more time, even though it was a sizable order.
We understand you were frustrated when you forgot to pick up the meals. Sorry we couldn’t issue the refund on an account that had a $ 0 balance.

I have a house account for $ 500 and no one told me they closed in Austin.
What am I supposed to do now?
Are they just going to keep my money?
Hopefully they will contact me and refund it…

Hey Patrick and Chris, you still owe us delivery on the last batch of meals we ordered. Stop avoiding my calls.
Buyer beware. We prepaid on a house account and since their business sucked so bad in Austin and could not survive against the competition they moved to a bigger market. At the same time they abandoned their customers who prepaid. They have not delivered the last batch of meals they owe me and they won’t refund the remaining balance.
What a bunch of jokers.

I picked up a coupon at a triathlon and after my son was born, we decided to sign up after it was difficult to eat right and healthy with much less time. Gotta say Im a believer! I guess I just was not able to eat enough before, because my energy levels have shot up tremendously. I am now able to train more and generally have more energy in the day than I did before.
The stir fry salmon is my favorite dish and I also eat many of the Mediterranean salads.
The 10ks are almost too big on rest days for me but 10k meals are just right after a hard hour workout and the 5k are great portions for lunch. (I am 165 5’11).

This is one example of a Groupon introducing me to something I want more of — sometimes that backfires on a business! I went in to redeem an about-​to-​expire Groupon I’d bought months earlier for $ 25 worth of food. And I went back the next week and bought three times that much.
Very well seasoned meals — I was really impressed with the assertive flavors (although I do wonder about the sodium content of the meals — calories, fat, carbs and protein content are given but not sodium, and the flavor makes me worry that it’s high). I’ve had the turkey eggplant lasagna, bison meatball spaghetti, chicken primavera pasta, huevos ranchero, green chile chicken enchiladas, salmon, turkey meatloaf, Thai meatballs and I think a couple of others. The 5k size is plenty, the 10k is definitely too much for one meal. They aren’t meant to be frozen but I had to freeze some and they reheated just fine. Staff are really nice; parking is tight in that little center but I’ve been able to find a spot each time right in front. I haven’t figured out their cooking schedule because I’ve only been on Mondays — one, there was little selection and the other, about three times the selection.
I’m definitely going to use them again.

I love Simply Fit Meals. The prices are reasonable, and the food is good. From the pictures on the website I was a little apprehensive because the portions looked small, but I was surprised when I picked up my first order how large they are. I am a smallish (125 – 130 lbs) 21 year old girl, but I don’t exactly eat like one and I couldn’t finish a few of the meals because they were so filling. I think there would be plenty of guys who would be fine with the 5k meals.
The first meal I tried from Simply Fit Meals was the turkey meatloaf and I was blown away by how much flavor it had. I think that whether you are a health nut or not, there is something on the menu that you would enjoy. I think it just makes it even better that you are getting such a good and filling meal for less than 400 calories for much of the menu.
As for the service, the owners/​managers were very friendly. For one order I had placed, they were out of stock of one of the items that I ordered, so they replaced it with another meal but still gave me what I had originally ordered once they had it.
I think the whole concept of Simply Fit Meals is a good idea, and its services are ideal for people like me. I’m a student, I’ll be living alone next year, most of us don’t really have the time too cook ourselves «real» food all the time. I’m so glad that there is this healthy alternative to all of the fatty unhealthy restaurants on the drag now.
I’d especially recommend this place to dorm dwellers, especially those of the Castilian since it’s RIGHT across the street from there. I know back when I was living in a dorm, it was annoying that I didn’t have a kitchen to cook in. This place is a nice reprieve from cafeteria food and all you need is your microwave to enjoy it. =)

OK I’ll rip this off like a band aid and cut to the bad part first.
I came into this place like on an early Wednesday evening. Maybe 5:30ish? I had a groupon and was ready to cash in… but. wait a minute, where is all the food…
The fridges were sparsely filled with a few things here and there. The girl at the counter was very friendly and apologized for not having as much stocked in the fridges. «We’ll have more tomorrow, when more stuff gets cooked.» OK, no problem I thought. I’ll just come another time.
2 months later, right before my coupon expires. I make the trek yet again to campus to visit Simply Fit Meals (I live as South as you can get in Austin, so I had this place on my list of weekend errands). This time on a Sunday afternoon around 2 PM. The fridges are STILL pretty empty.
Prior to, I took the time to peruse the website and maybe get an idea of what I might want. Any adobo pork tenderloin? nope. chicken stir-​fry? nope. turkey eggplant lasagna? zilch. green chicken chile enchiladas? nada. Quadruple Boo!
I make due with what is left and end up with the Chicken Florentine, Spaghetti and Bison Meatballs, and a Turkey Ragu. Another thing that kind of irked me was the expiration date on a lot of the items. Many expiration dates had me good for only 2 days. Kind of tough if you were to plan on getting dinner meals for the whole week ahead.
OK so there you have it. 2 visits with slim pickin’s and the latter visit with me noticing the short expiration dates.
The food itself was actually pretty good. Now if only there could be more selection and fresher food (most places like Simply Fit Meals, once cooked is good for at least 4 days I think? I could be wrong).
I could see this place being great if you were to pre-​order everything in advance, but for drop in visits you are better off if you plan on eating your meal that day or soon after. Just hope that you visit on a «jackpot day» (Jackpot day being the day they restock the fridges).
I’ll visit again sometime. maybe when I’m feeling lucky and hopefully score one of those missing dishes I missed the 1^st 2 times around.

Wish they had more seating, and normal cokes/​diet sodas. If they did, I’d probably eat there 5 days a week! I just don’t like feeling like I’m sitting on top of the employees, and only water? Really? Who drinks water?! I’ll go next door and get a huge, carcinogenic Diet Mt. Dew to go with my healthy lunch, thanks.
I really like the food, except they don’t have the shrimp dishes anymore. They really understand that you need a higher protein/​calorie ratio than you get most places. Minimum 1 gram per 10 calories, please, and at least 35 grams per 5K serving. Some of us are trying to lose fat here, not muscle! I am so grateful for the nutritional information. PLEASE KEEP IT UPDATED AND ACCURATE! Nothing irks me more than inconsistent nutritional info. And trust me, if you have good reliable info, I will be one million gajillion times more likely to patronize your establishment.
My two food gripes: two servings of vegetables, please, which means a whole cup of cooked veggies, and if the dish is supposed to come with sweet potatoes as the starch, please don’t sub brown rice! Half the reason I buy your meals is that you use sweet taters as your starch. If I’d wanted rice, I could go to an Asian place.
What’s yum: chicken chili, meatloaf, pork loin (brown rice & all!), chicken kebabs, and bison meatballs & s’ketti.
Must check out new offerings ASAP!

Finally! Home-​cooked, healthy, well-​portioned, locally sourced meals I can pick up for any and everyone in my family. We spent as much as we would have on good pizza ($ 26) for 4 FRESH and balanced meals that re-​heated very well. The veggies stayed crisp! I would love to see even more local ingredients and vegetarian options, but other than that — this place is perfect! The turkey loaf was the best I’ve had and the «5K» portion was enough food for even a man.

I just started the Simply Fit | Camp Gladiator 21 days to fit challenge. So far the meals have been excellent, fresh, healthy food ready to eat. I am losing weight and feel faster already and it’s only day 4 — more to come.

Healthy food, very filling and pleasantly lacking in additives and preservatives! The Chicken Marinara is awesome!

VERY impressed with this place! The service is great but I am more impressed with the quality of food since it is so hard to find a place that actually cares about our health, puts what they say they are putting in their food as well as preparing it the way they state they are.
Too many food establishments compromise your health for the FLAVOR of the food just so you keep coming back. This food is flavorful in it’s most natural state. It makes you enjoy the food for what it is instead of how much sodium is in it.
I’ve had a few meals that are very delicious but I must say that the Salmon meal I had was SPECTACULAR! It was the best cooked piece of salmon I think I have ever had… melted in my mouth.
On another note, I am in the health and fitness field and own a boot camp business… this place gets my approval and will recommend to all of my clients in their quest for health. If all my clients would eat foods like this, it would make me look good! It’s not about losing weight, but about your overall health and Simply Fit Meals is on your side!

A friend’s brother is one of the owners of this new ready to go healthy food business which just opened near the UT campus. We were given two free meals to try by our friend – the Bison Spaghetti and Chicken Chili. Both were delicious. I loved the chunky chili with chicken, tomatoes, green chilies, kidney beans and black beans. Bison has almost no fat yet the bison meat balls were big, soft and tasty served with whole wheat spaghetti and fresh broccoli.
All the food products are organized under «Jump Starts», «Daily Fuel», «Greens», and «Snacks and More». You can choose from three serving sizes: «5K», «10K» and «Marathon». Photos and further information on this local business and the nutritional meals can be found at:
Delivery is available.