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Overview

Tovala brings a new concept to the meal subscription industry. It provides pre-packaged raw, healthy, low-calorie meals. These are cooked in 20 minutes or less in a special Tovala Oven, which scans a barcode on the meal packaging and sets the adequate cooking settings for each meal. The company offers eight meal choices weekly, which include gluten-free and vegetarian options.

About Tovala

Tovala meal delivery service features a weekly menu of eight different pre-packaged meals, of which at least two are vegetarian and three are gluten-free.  All meals are balanced to be between 400-800 calories and can be cooked in the Tovala Oven in under 20 minutes. This makes home-cooked meals easy and eliminates prep time and cleanup.  The meal ingredients are fresh and do not contain preservatives. The salmon is farm raised, the chicken is antibiotic- and hormone-free, and the pork is hormone-free as well. Each meal includes allergen information in addition to its nutritional values.

Apart from Tovala’s meal delivery service, Tovala’s premiere feature is its Tovala Oven, which aims to cook meals at exactly the right time, temperature and mode. The oven boasts toast, steam, bake, broil, reheat, and barcode-scanning modes, along with programmable digital temperature and time displays, and is controlled by the Tovala mobile app. The Tovala Oven barcode scan can be used to automatically set the cooking settings for the Tovala ready-to-cook meals or for all of Trader Joe’s frozen foods with oven/toaster cooking instructions.

Customers may also order Tovala meals through the mobile app. This app lets customers to scan food in the supermarket to make sure it is compatible with the oven. Lastly, the app boasts a library of 60+ recipes to cook from scratch in the Tovala Oven.

Meal Plan Options

Each meal is $12 and serves one person. Tovala offers flexible plans of 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 12 meals a week, which can be easily switched, paused, skipped for a week or more, or just canceled.

Tovala Meal Examples

 



Cost

The Tovala Oven costs $349 and comes with a 180-day satisfaction-guaranteed trial. If customers are not satisfied within that time period, they may return the Tovala Oven for a full refund with free shipping.

Offers

  • $30 off the first order with promo code EFFORTLESS

  • $100 off the Tovala Oven if the customer commits to order 100 meals within 12 months of the Oven purchase.

 What’s Included in the Box?

  • Pre-packaged meals with raw ingredients, ready for cooking in the Tovala Oven

  • 100% recyclable box and meal packaging

Shipping and Delivery

Shipping is free to the 48 contiguous United States for all Tovala products. Meals are delivered once a week on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on where the customer lives.

Support Services

These are available Monday to Thursday between 10 am and 9 pm CT, Fridays from 10 am to 9 pm CT, and Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 6 pm CT.

Customer Insights

Tovala has an A+ rating on the Better Business Bureau and has no customer complaints or reviews. This suggests that customers are satisfied with the company and its products. The company does not have a profile on Trustpilot.

On their website, Tovala features the 90+ customer reviews it has received on Facebook. Facebook users have awarded the company an average of 4.6 stars out of five. Most customers have great things to say about the food’s tastiness, the service’s convenience, and customer service. The website also includes positive quotes from reputable news outlets and websites on the meals’ delicious taste.

Final Thoughts on Tovala

Tovala sets itself apart from other meal delivery subscription services with their convenient, fresh, and ready-to-cook meals that are efficiently cooked in the Tovala Oven. However, Tovala is better suited for those who are not on a budget, as its per meal price is on the higher end of the spectrum of the industry standard, and the oven is a hefty separate and necessary one-time purchase.

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  • Healthy, ready-to-cook, pre-packaged meals
  • No preservatives and fresh ingredients
  • Cook in 20 minutes or less in a Tovala Oven that comes equipped with a scanner
  • All meals have between 400-800 calories
  • Weekly menu of eight meals, including vegetarian and gluten-free options
  • No long-term commitments
  • Free shipping available to all the contiguous 48 states
  • Eco-friendly packaging
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Latest Tovala Reviews

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Roberta L

1/8/2024
Your initial advertising does not mention (that I could find) that your home router must be graded 2.4 ghz. My router is 5Ghz and I cannot use the bar code. I've not contacted Verizon because I anticipate becoming bogged down in their tech lingo. I use my oven and find it does a fine job. But I feel I'm not getting the full potential of the oven. Discovering this glitch was a great disappointment.

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BK

11/9/2023
The intended service is quite convenient, and the online ordering of weekly meals is mostly well done. The food is OK, it's from blah to quite good. I found it fun to have a fluctuating variety of meals each week. The instructions provided with each meal package are nice too. However, I canceled the plan since their delivery provider was fully involved in the experience of being fully inept. Twice so far they have shown that the delivery was complete when it actually wasn't. I didn't find their support chats helpful because real solutions weren't achieved, but the "people" were polite. The Tovala service is a bit pricey and I'd expect their food to always be excellent (it's OK) and... Read More

Mike B

9/15/2023
The Tovala oven and esp. the meals are great! Wish I had discovered them sooner.

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Gary S

3/9/2023
I am 80 years old, and no longer have the stamina to stand in prep and chill in the kitchen. I love my Tovala meals. I feel it’s very economical, because if I had to buy all of the grocery items to prepare the menus they give it would still be more of a cost.

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Chris s

3/8/2023
Shipping is not free. Shipping costs $9.99 which is similar to other services .

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David H

10/24/2022
these Nazis charge me 250 to cancel because I have ALS and i cannot eat solid food anymore.

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Teresa G

6/14/2022
I can honestly say that the response from customer service is prompt - BUT, via email ONLY. No people. No phone number. I guess it's the new trend in "customer service." I have returned the microwave oven. The food is abominable. I am at a loss to understand how anyone can truly say the meals are tasty. The pasta is like "baby food," mushy and overcooked. what finally got me to cancel the service, though, is the chicken. I eat a LOT of chicken. It's my go-to source of protein. I also eat beef, fish, rabbit, not pork, but I eat mostly chicken. My nose told me that there was something "off" about the chicken. I decided to let it sit - after cooking - in my fridge for a day, to... Read More

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Harry D

3/24/2022
So far the actual deliveries have been fine. Hoping that there will be meals created with less sodium and cholesterol. The meals are very delicious though.

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Josh B

12/3/2021
My first delivery was great, however they ignore food allergies so beware of that. If you say you cant eat a certain food item, they will send it anyways. They also use FedEx as their only shipper and meals would arrive days late. My latest order was packed so poorly, none of the meat was cold. It was on FedEx’s truck for 2 days and 2 day old warm chicken and pork is a recipe for food poisoning. You can only get ahold of them via online chat and there is no after hour support. If you want to cancel, you must contact them on line. This company has a long way to go with how they package the food, be open to other shipping methods, and do better quality control. Many of my meals were... Read More

sarah.cat.cantrell

10/25/2021
I had multiple meal deliveries that were late, resulting in the meals being warm and unsafe for consumption. After 4/5 deliveries I asked to cancel my subscription since I was simply having to throw away all the contents of the box every time. Tovala told me that it would be $200 to cancel my subscription and that I was required to purchase one more meal delivery to meet the 6 deliveries agreed to in the fine print. This is fraudulent. They are charging consumers for meals they acknowledge are consistently delivered late and not safe for consumption

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Carl J

9/9/2021
I had hoped to buy 3 or 4 meals. Are they each $12? How do I pick out ones to try? Carl

latemarch

8/16/2021
The oven is a toaster oven with the addition of steam. Works well and can easily be used as a toaster oven for anything that you would use a toaster oven for. The steam keeps the humidity level up inside the oven which helps in transfer of heat to whatever you are cooking. Combined with the convection fan it means that most things cook faster. Toast on the other hand is slower (5 min.) but comes out with a firm crunchy outside and soft inside...perfect! It's not really an air fryer but close. Toasted ravioli come out great. We are a retired couple and cooking has become, as we have aged, somewhat troublesome. This has been a real help as the meals require very little prep and very... Read More

ctpride65

8/13/2021
Fed Ex doesn't always deliver on time and you get spoiled meals in the mail.... YIPPEE..... Look Elsewhere, this service is flawed

Steve W

7/17/2021
This is not an A Plus group. They have no grasp of getting Fed Ex to deliver the meals safe and on time in North Carolina.

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James M

7/6/2021
Seems like a scam to me since they want to sell your THEIR oven and won't even tell you the meals until AFTER you give them your credit card and purchase/sign up

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Sarah

5/6/2021
Absolutely fantastic experience for me. The price is on the high side, but is offset by the fact I buy a lot fewer groceries. Meals are delicious, hot, and have a huge variety of choices. Perfect for a single person who is just done with the hassle of cooking for one. Oven has replaced toaster and microwave in my kitchen. Customer service was easy to reach by online chat and resolved my one problem in minutes.

dianmarchese5

5/5/2021
Prices are very reasonable. Set-up of oven was easy. Menu is varied. Ordering is simple. Delivery is on time. Meals take seconds to be oven ready. Food is delicious! I haven’t eaten this good since I was able to cook for myself. Been doing it for about 6 months (3-6 meals a week) and I haven’t had a meal I didn’t like! I LOVE this plan!!! I couldn’t be happier with my decision to try it.

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SUNNIEMISHK

3/31/2021
WE CANNOT LOG INTO YOUR WEBSITE FOR SOME UNKNOWN REAson your teck people have yet to unravel so we cannot pick or choose our meals so today we received 4 meals all different in get this my husbands name paul palmer how ?????? are we going to resolve these issues can u pause the meal delivery till all this is resolved P L E A S E ??????????????????

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Jay S

1/5/2021
The dishes taste ok at best, definitely don't worth the high costs and you also have to pay a steep fee upfront for that overpriced oven! I've tried quite a few...from Hello Fresh to Home Chef, doorDash, uberEats, grubHub, multiple local deliveries, and I'd rate Tovala at the bottom of my list, no doubt! Not to mention, trying to get a refund from them...a really painful process to go thru to say the least!

Aria O

3/2/2020
Absolutely horrible experience. I paid for 10 meals and only received 4. Went on online chat for support, said they would get back to me in a day, never did. I emailed support, never got a response. Tried calling their telephone number, "all agents are busy, leave a message." Then they first refused to refund my money, only wanted to give me a credit towards more meals. I had to threaten to call my credit card company to get them to give me a refund. I wrote a negative review on their site, and they removed it! Don't believe all their positive reviews because they remove the bad ones! Very dishonest company.

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