Two Ways To Automate Your Performance Nutrition Needs

Have you ever needed a quick healthy snack before a run or workout, just to realize you have literally nothing lying around? It’s honestly embarrassing how many times this has happened to me, especially on busy days when I’m in a huge hurry to squeeze a run in before a meeting, or more often, before dark. Because I’m what my mother would call “an utterly helpless single, male” - which I will now translate into normal, less offensive speak as, “not a good planner” - I went on the lookout for a couple of services that could make my active lifestyle a little more convenient.

Enter a couple of my new favorite services, which are similar to one another in many ways, but below I'll break down the core differences and hopefully give you an idea of which will be the best fit for you.

Kona Kase

Who’s it for? The dabbler. The sampler. The super-busy lifestyle automator. The laissez-faire healthy nutrition seeker.

Kona Kase offers a simple monthly box of nutritional products, delivered right to your door, for a flat rate of $17/month. The box is fully curated by the active nutrition experts at Kona Kase each month, so all you have to do is sign up, sit back, and wait for your satisfying samples to come to you. There’s no picking and choosing, no product browsing and ingredient reading, you just trust their experts and automate your healthy lifestyle for you. Each box might include a combination of gels, bars, or granola, all from hand-picked, high-end performance nutrition brands, and all on the cheap. It’s pretty cool.

Now, for a lot of you, this is utterly awesome. But, I know some of you out there are thinking, “dude, I have specific needs, and I want to choose exactly what I get each month.” I hear you customizer. I hear you too control freak. And even you, committed brand loyalist. Luckily, if you want to get a little more involved in your monthly performance nutrition, there’s a perfect product for you too.

The Feed

Who’s it for? The customizer. The picky eater. The control freak. The super-inquisitive ingredient nerd. The committed brand loyalist.

The Feed is honestly, a strikingly similar concept to Kona Kase, but with one or two key differences. Yes, you can just sign up and get a box of the same good stuff each month, but to me, their offering is really about the browsing and customizing of your monthly box of goodies. So instead of curating exactly what comes in your monthly box for you, the folks at The Feed curate an entire store of high-quality performance nutrition products, letting you pick and choose exactly what comes each month.

They provide reviews of the products and detailed descriptions of how and when to best consume each item, and they usually include a pretty entertaining first-hand blurb explaining exactly why they think each product is especially awesome. And these people make it clear that they are serious about performance, so you can rest assured that their every review is to be taken seriously.

So which do I recommend? To be quite honest, both of these services are dynamite for their own reasons. See my descriptions above of what personality types each service is best for, then do yourself a favor and sign up for the one that fits you the best. You can thank me later.