LeafSide is a revolutionary tool that helps you check off all of your nutritional boxes — just add water & enjoy meals expertly crafted from the highest quality, 100% unprocessed whole plant foods!
“🤗 After just two weeks of both of us eating LeafSide, we feel like a million bucks! We’ve lost weight and our energy is higher.
LeafSide has been, literally, a lifesaver for both of us. We feel so grateful to have this option!”
— Lynn T.
“Where I struggled to lose weight before, I’ve now lost 25 pounds, and my energy has improved by leaps and bounds.” 🌟
— Crystal E.
“A few weeks in, I’ve lost a couple of pounds, and I’m really loving the convenience of these meals. 💖
Very cost-effective compared to before, when I was throwing away produce I never had the time or energy to cook. 😫
This is the ONLY meal-delivery system I have found that is not only plant-based but makes a solid attempt at being SOS-free as well.” 😋
— Dawn D.
LeafSiders enjoy unbelievable results in a matter of weeks. Reliable & healthy meals make it easy to live a healthy lifestyle.
Customized to fit your lifestyle — Just add water, ready to eat in minutes. No planning, no shopping, no prep, no chopping, no cooking.
100% unprocessed whole plant foods, 15-30 select ingredients per meal and an absolutely Clean Label — Real unprocessed foods only. No added sugar, oil, or processed crud.
No fridge needed, for 2-6 months. Easily stored in your pantry, workplace, or travel bag — you’re always just moments away from plant-powered goodness.
Enjoy every bite of filling, complex, satisfying flavors, driven by decades of plant-based culinary expertise — based on leading nutrition science to help you achieve your health goals.
There’s usually no need to count calories when you’re on a high-variety WFPB diet, because unprocessed foods are nutrient- and fiber-rich, enabling your body’s hunger and satiety signals to actually work. ✅
But first, because many people switching to a WFPB diet initially have a hard time getting enough calories, e.g. they may start by eating lots of salad, and not get enough calories, and wonder why they’re often hungry/tired. It takes time to research and understand what fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and other ingredients deliver the most nutrition, so we solve that problem for them.
Second, because LeafSide’s core value is healthy convenience: Thus we deliver a truly complete, organic foods meal (not a snack) that’s ready in minutes. Most other “meal” services will charge you more while only giving you a third of the calories (like 150 to 250 kCal) and nutrition (e.g. only a handful of ingredients, instead of our 20-30) — and that’s simply not enough for a real meal.
Finally, remember that calories are often not equal: 500 calories of donuts and soda has an entirely different effect on your body compared to 500 calories of vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, seeds, whole grains, etc. Most people eating a complete WFPB diet find they don’t really need to count or worry about calories, as the ample fiber in the diet naturally regulates feelings of hunger and satiety. When eating whole plant foods, the body’s natural wisdom takes over to reach a healthy state — as the old (pre-soda, pre-candy-bar) Zen saying goes, “When you’re hungry, eat; when you’re tired, sleep. Fools will laugh, but the wise shall understand.”
With the possible exception of people suffering from advanced heart disease, whose doctors have ordered a low-fat diet for medical reasons like reversing atherosclerosis, the human body needs significant amounts of dietary fat to function properly — the main issue is what kind of fats, from what sources.
As researchers have noted, between the long-lived populations of the “Blue Zones” there is a wide range of fat intakes, from the 10-12% fat of Okinawan diets, to around 30% for some Mediterranean groups like Icaria, or Sardinia. What these long-lived peoples have in common is that the sources of fat are minimally processed, and from plants: nuts, seeds, avocados, or whole olives more than olive oil. Even when oil is used, it’s minimally processed, e,g. made directly from mechanical pressing without further chemical treatments.
The least healthy fat is saturated fat, where the balance of evidence continues to show strong associations with heart disease risk. But even there, the source of saturated fats matter: it’s animal or processed saturated fats that are strongly associated with worsening cholesterol (thus raising heart disease risk), and lipotoxicity (increasing type 2 diabetes risk), while also bringing unwanted toxins like pesticides, growth hormones, glycotoxins, etc. which are stored in animals’ fat cells.
By comparison, plant fats in their whole form are generally clean, and loaded with supporting antioxidants, phytonutrients, and fiber. Even with the whole plant foods containing more saturated fat (e.g. whole coconut flakes), the fiber and other nutrients counteract the typical bad effects of saturated fats. But this kind of “package deal” of foods is not at all conveyed on current food label standards.
There’s still a misconception that going plant-based or vegan means only eating salads; but that’s very far from the truth!
When you eat minimally processed whole plant foods, you can generally indulge yourself in a huge variety of delicious AND maximally nutritious foods: thousands of different fruits, vegetables, beans and legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds, mushrooms, and many different herbs and spices. The number of ways to prepare, cook, and combine WFPB meals is practically unlimited.
Even without using any sugar, oils, or salt (SOS-free), new techniques and recipes are appearing every day, from scores of cultural backgrounds. Deliciously decadent yet healthy recipes abound, like roasted sweet potato wedges dipped in lemon and tahini topped hummus. Or dark raw cacao raspberry cashew-cream “cheeze” cake. There are far more WFPB options than salads, that you can enjoy guilt-free, because they’re truly good for you, and you can rely on your body to signal when it’s had enough.
Unfortunately this term and number on nutrition labels is confusing, and only recently did the FDA revise the label to separately specify “Added Sugar,” i.e. the chemically processed and separated white sugar/fructose crystals of table/refined sugar. LeafSide never uses any kind of added sugar, thus that number is and always will be ZERO on all our products.
The fructose/sugar in LeafSide meals is only in the form of whole plant foods like berries, mangos, bananas, etc. and thus come packaged with nature’s good stuff: phytonutrients, antioxidants, and above all, fiber. This “package deal” nature of real food is still being understood, but it’s already clear that eating whole fruit is good for us, and totally different in effects on the body, than eating the same amount of fructose as table sugar.
Read our more about “Why is the Total Sugars number large? Is there any added sugar in LeafSide meals?” here!
One can lose excess weight in the short-term on a very wide variety of diets, but what matters is keeping the weight off, i.e. long-term, healthy, and ideally easy weight management, where we’d simply eat delicious and nutritious foods until we feel full.
That need for easy long-term weight management implies meals that are nutrient-dense: delivering all the macro, micro, and phyto nutrients needed for good health, while avoiding excess energy-density, i.e. avoiding calorie-rich foods that are nutrient poor and bypass our natural satiety senses (because they have no fiber), like saturated fats from meat and dairy, oils, processed sugar, etc. From epidemiology and clinical research, plant-based diets best fit those requirements.
Only a diversified whole food plant-based menu fits those requirements of high nutrient density while avoiding excessively high caloric/energy density. Put another way, eating minimally processed, fiber-rich foods best allows our natural satiety signals to work, while also being long-term sustainable because 1) the eating guidelines are very simple to follow, and 2) the meals are fully nourishing.
While exercise is certainly recommended to maximize health, and can be a major driver of weight loss, diet is still the primary factor.
You simply have far more control over your food intake, than exercise.
Consider that a single donut 🍩 is 200-300 calories; and you’d need to jog roughly half an hour to burn that off.
In fact, consider the BROAD study, which showed that simply educating participants about the power of a whole-food, plant-based diet led to the largest sustained weight loss (without exercise) in the scientific literature — without the need for calorie counting.
Key Insight: Diet is the Cornerstone of Weight Loss
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For further details on the BROAD study, delve into the original research on PubMed and Nature.
“No more reading labels and the pounds just drop off! Amazing!❤️❤️❤️ (Sounds like a commercial but it’s just my honest review)” 🥰🙏
— Jasmine S.
You’ll find the ingredients and nutritional information for all LeafSide meals here: https://www.goleafside.com/nutrition-summary/
Please note that all of our meals are already and always free of added sugar and oil, and our Sweet-bowls and Smoothies do not have any added salt.
Our Savory-bowls and Soups are low-sodium by default, but for SOS-free eaters (e.g. medically prescribed, or already adapted to no-salt eating), we can omit the sea salt and miso powder in those meals upon request: Just write “SOS-free” in the Order Notes section, or contact our Customer Success team.
Looking for meals that are gluten-free, nut-free, low-fat, soy-free, or SOS-free?
For LeafSide subscriptions, each complete LeafSide meal is initially priced at $9.99, while renewal orders receive a further 10% discount. From the start, we’ve aimed to provide the healthiest meal value available anywhere ✅, at a price that beats most fast/junk food options.
We have 23 meals available, and a 12-item minimum order requirement (total $119.88), but many LeafSiders start with one of each recipe so they can try everything (total $229.77), and confidently select their favorites for their next order .
Please note that loyal LeafSiders with an active subscription receive a 10% discount on all renewal orders, from an already active subscription, making the price per pack only $8.99.
Our shipping fees are $6.99 for orders within the contiguous United States. Shipping to Hawaii and Alaska is $12.99 for up to 24 meals, $34.99 for 25-41 meals, and $49.99 for 42-70 meals.
You’re welcome to get started with your LeafSide subscription by going here: https://www.goleafside.com/order/
Currently, we offer monthly subscriptions (with the option to skip a month) with a 12-item minimum order requirement, but we will have other options with different pricing and minimums available in the future. If you don’t need meals each month, you’re welcome to order, then cancel your subscription immediately afterward.
The first order default includes one of each recipe (23), and while we recommend you try them all to see which ones you like best, you can customize the selections to fit your preferences, as long as you fulfill the minimum order requirement of 12-items.
Although initial orders are priced at $9.99 per pack, active subscribers’ renewal orders receive a 10% discount, $8.99 per pack. 😊
Currently, we offer only month-to-month subscriptions (with a skip-month option) with a 12-item minimum order requirement, but we will have other options with different pricing and minimums available in the future. In the meantime, if you don’t need meals each month, you’re welcome to order and cancel your subscription immediately afterward.
You have the ability to update your selections for your next renewal at any time, and you will receive both a text message and email 48 hours prior to the renewal order processing, so that you have enough time to make any updates before then.
For renewal orders: click on Account (rather than Order) in the topbar, then click ‘My Subscription” (on the left) to see options to update your subscription, including changing the quantities of any LeafSide meal. This process updates your current active subscription, and avoids creating multiple subscriptions (which are possible if desired; click Order to create a separate new subscription).
Due to the low moisture content of our meals, and the use of 100% whole plant ingredients, LeafSide meals are shelf-stable and maintain the best taste and texture for a meal-specific 2-6 month timeframe (see back label) from its creation date, when stored in a cool, dry (non-refrigerated) place. Depending on a specific recipe’s ingredients, the timeframe varies, and is updated based on our ongoing tests of each recipe, and evolving packaging.
Typically, the limiting factor is any higher-fat ingredients used in the meal (nuts, seeds, dates, coconut, etc.). If you want to extend the storage duration, you can put your pack(s) in the fridge, just as refrigerating those higher-fat ingredients would help add several months or more of shelf life. You may even store the meals in your freezer, which is likely to add years of shelf life.
LeafSide meals contain no preservatives or additives! Many of our ingredients are shelf-stable due to a special freeze-drying process that gently removes their moisture content. Freeze-drying maximizes nutrition and keep the ingredients safe to consume, without adding any unnatural preservatives.
All LeafSide meal packs will have a “Created On” date, and also a specific time frame of 2 to 6 months after that date on the back label, to ensure you enjoy the best taste and texture possible.
See below for an example:
Another quick reminder: The best-by time frame of dried foods is very different from an expiration date; the latter is needed for high moisture, perishable products with active microbial risk. By contrast, LeafSide meals are safe to consume weeks or months past the best-by time frame (yes, we’ve tested old meals on ourselves), though taste & texture may decline.
Finally, if you think you’ll need your LeafSide meals beyond their usual best-by time frame, remember that you can always store them in a fridge/freezer, to greatly extend their best-taste/texture lifetime. It’s yet another way to get more value & flexibility from LeafSide, while never wasting food!
Just add water! The majority of our whole plant ingredients are freeze-dried, which maximizes the nutrition and keeps the ingredients safe to consume without refrigeration, nor preservatives.
To prepare LeafSide Sweet-bowls, Savory-bowls, or Soups, you simply pour the meal into a 1-quart bowl, add boiling water, stir, cover, wait 10 minutes..and enjoy! 😋
LeafSide Smoothies are blended with water (or plant milk if you prefer) in a high-speed blender having 800+ Watts or more power.
Preparation instructions can be found by clicking on each meal at this link: https://www.goleafside.com/meals/
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LeafSide 1-Week Meal Plan
