Tom Brady’s quirky diet is now a prepared meal plan

Tom Brady is the latest person to jump on the "prepared meals" bandwagon.

If you listen to podcasts, you’ve probably heard ads for prepared meals. If you get emails from Groupon, you probably get emails about prepared meals. Basically, everyone is talking about the prepared meals market.

You know them more so by their names like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. The next big name in the prepared meals market could be Purple Carrot. Why is that? Well, Tom Brady of all people is now endorsing them.

According to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, Tom Brady’s next endorsement venture is the “plant-based meal company Purple Carrot of Massachusetts.”

The announcement was made Tuesday and included the news of a new line of TB12 meals that go along with the quarterback’s crazy diet. We don’t know how much Brady is getting paid to do this, but we do know how much consumers will have to pay to eat like Brady.

The package comes in at $78 per week, $10 more than Purple Carrot’s typical plan, and includes six meals. That comes out to $13 per meal.

The other two plans listed on their website are cheaper, but don’t give you as many meals. The one to two person plan is $68/week and includes three meals that are two servings each. The three to four person plan is $74/week and includes two meals that are four servings each. If you did order either of those for one person and had a ton of leftovers, they come out to six and eight meals per week respectively, making them more cost efficient than the TB12 package.

However, the reason why Brady’s plan is more expensive is the food is higher in protein, gluten-free, and has will have less soy and refined sugar. On top of that, none of the recipes call for dairy products, eggs, seafood, meat, or processed foods.

“Eating meals just like the ones we’ll send out to our customers has really helped me stay at the top of my game,” Brady said in a statement.

“There’s an importance in authenticity here,” Purple Carrot founder and CEO Andy Levitt said. “Every meal that is designed is approved by Tom and his team, and Tom will get a box of meals to his home that is exactly what the people who order his meals get.”

The phrase for Brady’s line is “Eat Like a Goat,” partially because it’s such a plant-based plan and also because like it or not Brady is the GOAT (Greatest of All Time).

While Brady endorsing the product might not make it sell more in places like Texas or Washington, it’s important to keep in mind Purple Carrot is based out of Massachusetts, so naturally, Patriots fans are expected to be a key consumer of the product.

“Roughly 75 percent of those that order with us are female,” Levitt said. “We think having Tom will make it more likely that we’ll get some more men subscribing because they feel that connection to him. That being said, there’s a lot of women out there that want their significant other to be like Tom, too.”

If you want to eat like Tom Brady, you can sign up for the TB12 plan right here.

On a similar but separate note, I’m still waiting to get my hands on the Michael Phelps Olympic diet plan.

Back in 2008 when Phelps became an international sensation at the Beijing Summer Olympics, more than a couple people wrote about his diet, including the New York Post.

During the lead-up to those Olympics, Phelps would eat an incredible 12,000 calories per day compared to just 2,000 for the average person of his age.

Here’s a brief breakdown of Phelps’ diet, which would probably cost just a bit more than $78 per week.

Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions, and mayonnaise. After those sandwiches, he would have two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, grits, three pieces of French toast with powdered sugar, and then three chocolate-chip pancakes to finish things off.

Lunch: A pound of pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo, and then energy drinks totaling an additional 1,000 calories.

Dinner: Another pound of pasta and a pizza with another 1,000 calories in energy drinks.

Forget the TB12 package, I’d like to see a Phelps meal plan you can make at home. Then again, it’d probably be $400/week for six meals that serve 8-10 people.

[ESPN]

About David Lauterbach

David is a writer for The Comeback. He enjoyed two Men's Basketball Final Four trips for Syracuse before graduating in 2016. If The Office or Game of Thrones is on TV, David will be watching.

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