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for Diet Chef Hamper

Rating Summary based on 33 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		12
  • 4 Stars
    		6
  • 3 Stars
    		0
  • 2 Stars
    		3
  • 1 Star
    		12

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  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    cosworthbabe

    4 Stars The Diet Chef hamper...an easy weight loss solution? Review with images 03/12/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy, minimal preperation, convenient

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Fairly expensive

    Introduction Firstly, let me apologise for another lengthy review (for those of you who read my Cambridge Diet review, you’ll know by now that I love a detailed review!). I understand that ‘short and sweet’ reviews are normally preferred but I wanted to ensure that I captured everything necessary in this review for anyone thinking of trying Diet Chef. I have included everything that I would have liked to know before I started out and even if it helps just one person make an informed decision, then the time spent writing will have been worth it! If you make it to the end, congratulations! If ... more
  • 54 of 54 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    paulathomson89

    2 Stars Diet Chef? You will lose weight as the food goes straight in bin! 28/10/2009
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages You don't really have any cooking to do

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Everything, horrid food, expensive

    Diet Chef Hamper I seen the diet chef website online and thought i'd give it a go. I've been trying to lose weight for about a year now since i had my daughter Sky and thought it would be a good way to try and get the weight off. I was wrong! What is Diet Chef? Diet Chef is an online service that prepares all your healthy weight loss meals for you and sends them to you via courier. You are then meant to heat the food up in a microwave or pot on the stove. The pack consists of a breakfast, porridge or granola, soup or a shake for lunch and then a meal for dinner. They also provide you with one ... more
  • 34 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 orlando-revisiting

    Member since 07/08/2010

    Reviews written: 30

    4 Stars The most successful diet I have done Review with images 19/11/2011

    Advantages Advantages The weight came off.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Got bored with packaged foods.

    I am just coming to the end of my 'Diet Chef' hampers. I signed up for two months, and due to having had some weekends away, it has been extended by a couple of weeks. I am a calorie counter, but despite only wanting to drop a stone in weight, I found that the 1500 calories per day that was recommended everywhere was not making me drop. So I went down to 1000 - still no weight loss. I have previously been signed up to Tesco Diet on the internet, but found that I strayed too much, as it was too tempting to forget. In desperation in August, I went onto the Diet Chef website. I was able to assess ... more
  • 26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 3 kat74_uk

    Member since 22/02/2003

    Reviews written: 47

    2 Stars Diet Chef Danger! 18/09/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Good food, easy to cook

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Dangerously low calorie intake, doesn't work!

    How I came to going on this diet I put on weight a few years ago- I found that my usual ways of losing weight by cutting down on what I ate- didn't work, I tried several diets- nothing worked- I went on Atkins- lost a stone in 6 weeks & then for health reasons- began weight watchers diet- I ended up losing 2 ½ stone in total. A while later- I put half of it back on, and tired the weight watchers diet again- but wasn't losing anything- I then saw the 'Diet Chef' diet- recommended in the daily mail, it sounded so easy & reasonable I thought I would try it. The way it works & What you get for ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Joseph_85

    1 Star Horrific Food 17/02/2010
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages You can cancel.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The taste, rat meat, smell, price, everything!

    I used diet chef 1 year ago to lose 1 stone. It worked, no question, but the food was not great, but hey, I lost a whole stone! Over Xmas I put on some weight (like most people), and decided to give diet chef a go again, BIG MISTAKE. Unlike the first time, when I could just about stomach the food, this time it was absolutely horrendous. Let me break it down - Shakes - Vomit in a carton. Chalky, terrible aftertaste, just grim. Soups - I tried the tomato soup, took one mouthful and chucked the rest in the bin. The other soups followed the same fate. The smell, the taste.....grim grim grim ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ThatBloke

    5 Stars Great option - effective if you understand how it works 05/07/2011

    Advantages Advantages Very, very simple - great for those too busy (or lazy) to cook healthy food while dieting

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Your first hamper options could be hit or miss - you wont like everything so plan accordingly!

    I'm now approaching the tail end of my 2nd month on the Diet Chef programme, and for me at least, it has been extremely successful so far. I'm a 6'2" 30 year old guy, which may be of interest to some as many reviews of these weight loss programs are from women, so I thought a young males perspective might be useful. I started out at 19st 10lbs (~127kg), and have thus far dropped to 17st 9lbs. Thats a lot in two months by anyones reckoning. I have a largely sedentary job being sat at a desk most of the day, and am embarressed to say I do not take regular exercise. I was panicing about ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    silversurfer12345

    1 Star Misleading at best - dangerous at worst 07/05/2011

    Advantages Advantages er...none

    Disadvantages Disadvantages costs money and still leaves you having to count calories

    I think some of the "reviews" may not be genuine is my humble opinion, some seem to be too glowing and I feel the hand of DC in there somewhere, but I could be wrong. My gripe with DC is not that the food doesn't taste great, it really doesn't, but then I didn't expect pre-packaged food to taste great, there are obvious limitations and the balance between freshness and the preservation of the contents will always impinge on the taste. I have had better, I have had worse is all I can say. My big complaint is the fact that they claim to count the calories and that was the big sell for me. I have ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    cammy789

    4 Stars Diet Chef -first diet that I have found easy 07/02/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages The food is tasty; easy to prepare, portion controlled and does not contain a load of preservative

    Disadvantages Disadvantages more expensive than cooking from scratch , a very small proportion of meals not tasty

    After years of gradually putting on weight I decided that it was time to do something about it. I have tried other diets in the past and found it difficult to stick to them . I am used to cooking everything from scratch and do not use ready made meals so.I was a bit sceptical at first as everything was prepared for you. I looked up reviews from here, read magazine and newspaper articles and compared different diet sites but decided to take the plunge as this seemed the best value for money. The lunch and dinner food is pressure cooked and sealed in individual pouches to preserve the food. The ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    cashbacking

    1 Star AWFUL, Disgusting food. 02/02/2010
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Cheap and tasteful IF you eat VERY poor quality food.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Disgusting food, high price for below standard quality food.

    I saw a TV ad for DietChef and thought I'd give it a try. Unfortunately, I chose the two month option which has cost me £380. As soon as I unpackaged the first months worth of food I immediately realised I'd made a terrible mistake. The food is all vacuum packaged and I was shocked to see food which should usually go in the fridge and last only a couple of days, could be stored at room temperature for more than a YEAR!!!!!! Clearly, this means the food's full of preservatives and other nasty stuff in order to keep the food for so long at a temperature it wasn't originally supposed to be kept ... more
  • 10 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 joanna1911

    Member since 21/10/2004

    Reviews written: 37

    4 Stars Diet Chef - definitely worth a try 12/11/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages 'No brainer' calorie counting

    Disadvantages Disadvantages A bit on the bland side

    I hate cooking and planning meals and I wanted to lose a stone so I thought I would give diet chef a try. It is an online diet service that you can order direct and is also available through QVC. You order a hamper online and the food is delivered direct to home or work. A day's food would consist of Porridge or granola for breakfast, soup or a shake for lunch, and a hot meal at night, all delivered in pouches to heat up in the microwave. You also receive a selection of snacks, fruit bars and oatbakes. You can either order pay as you go, a month at a time or if you want more than a month's ... more
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