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My name is Christine Marquette and I'm a registered dietitian with the Austin Regional Clinic,
and I'm going to talk to you about vegetarian diet delivery programs. These particular service
programs, the main ones that offer vegetarian options would be Nutri-Systems, Diet to Go,
and Chef's Diet. Nutri-Systems actually advertises themselves as being the major diet delivery
service program that offers pre-packaged vegetarian options. By pre-packaged they mean they have
sixty different options available that are complete meals, such as vegetarian chili,
vegetarian lasagna, breakfast items such as waffles as well as desert items. And again,
they have a variety of sixty different options to choose from. Diet to Go also has a variety
of vegetarian options, and they advertise theirs as being lacto-ovo, meaning they could
have dairy products and they might have eggs in them as well. These particular meals are
actually prepared meals that are not necessarily pre-packaged, meaning it's more of a home
cooked type meal. And you have a variety of options to choose from. Theirs range anywhere
from ten to twenty dollars, depending on how many meals you choose. Whether you choose
two meals a day, or three meals a day, or meals plus snacks. The cost will vary. They
do offer incentives such as free meals....or discounts based on the number of meals that
you purchase. Chef's Diet is another program that offers vegetarian options, but it's based
on Doctor Sear's Zone Diet, meaning that it's forty percent carbohydrate, thirty percent
protein and thirty percent fat. And again, with the vegetarian options, to have that
much fat it's going to include a lot of things like nuts and seeds as well as avocado as...as
a main source of fat. But they do have that option as well. And similar to the other programs,
a variety of costs depending on how many meals you choose to purchase. So those are three
of the major diet delivery service programs that offer vegetarian options.