Food & Drink Direct to Consumer

Brandless is a direct to consumer groceries and home essentials company that sells over 300 “brandless” food and household items at the low cost of $3 each. By cutting out the middlemen and unnecessary expenses, Brandless says they’re able to offer high-quality foods and products for far less than the cost of comparable brands without...

IKEA is a Sweden-based direct to consumer furniture and home furnishings brand with hundreds of company-owned stores across the world. IKEA has flexed its worldwide muscle to expand into many other categories, such as office furniture, food, electronics, lighting, mattresses, and much more. They’re one of the most popular brands in the No Middleman directory,...

Blue Apron is a direct to consumer meal delivery service that delivers everything needed to make home-cooked meals, using healthy ingredients sourced directly from farms. The brand has also extended into a direct to consumer wine delivery service, enabling vineyard-direct wines to be paired with Blue Apron meals.

Omaha Steaks is a direct to consumer premium beef and gourmet foods brand. They offer a growing selection of high-quality meats, seafood, desserts, and wines that are delivered directly to you. Of all the NoMiddleman favorite brands, Omaha Steaks is one of the most-seasoned (pun intended!). Founded in 1917, they first began their on-demand meat delivery in...

ButcherBox meat delivery service is a direct to consumer service that selects, freezes, and ships 100% grass-fed beef, organic chicken, and heritage breed pork. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the popular brand offers a monthly subscription service that you can cancel at any time!

Flaviar whiskey club is a direct to consumer whiskey tasting service that was launched by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. The innovative try-before-you-buy service ships small samples of whiskey directly to consumers, enabling you to find your favorite(s) and ensure that your money will be well spent! Flaviar now offers several types of alcohol for sampling...

K & L Wines is a direct to consumer wine brand and monthly wine club based in northern California. They have several affordable options for their wines-of-the-month packages, and a whopping 9,700 wines to choose from!

Crowd Cow is a meat delivery service that connects consumers directly with meat producers and farmers, and offers ala carte meat selections in addition to their meat subscriptions and meat delivery service. This No Middleman favorite offers a wide selection of meats—64 different meat products on their website, on the day of our review! Crowd...

The Fuego Box hot sauce subscription is a popular and fun favorite in the direct to consumer hot sauce category! After evaluating hundreds of hot sauces to find the best of the best, Fuego Box presents it’s whimsically-titled options for your monthly subscription: the Dip Your Toe In ($13/box, one mild-to-hot sauce), the Sauce Lover...

Hungry Harvest is a direct to consumer produce delivery brand that “rescues” produce destined to be thrown away for being too large, small, or odd-shaped. The popular delivery service got a big boost with a successful deal on Shark Tank in 2015. For as little as $15/week, you can get a weekly shipment of produce...

Dirty Lemon is a direct to consumer functional beverage brand that delivers 6-packs of 16-ounce beverages formulated to achieve health benefits such as sleep, detox, energy, and more. Based in New York City, the brand is quite unique in that you can order via text message (which is currently the only way to order it)....

Spinn Coffee is a direct to consumer coffee brand that connects you directly with local coffee roasters. Spinn coffee is then brewed in a very innovative fashion, via the in-home technology of their high-tech coffeemaker and smartphone app. By using the Spinn coffee service and smartphone app, you can “brew delicious coffee from your bed using locally...

Bulu Box is a healthy subscription box containing with vitamins/supplement samples. Subscriptions can be cancelled anytime, and they offer three different types of subscriptions: their classic Bulu Box, the Weight Loss Box, and the Burn Blend Box. The Burn Blend Box contains a 30-day supply of their weight loss product “Shapeologist Burn Blend”, which the...

Sudden Coffee is a direct to consumer instant coffee brand made from 100% coffee that is freeze-dried and mailed directly to you. Their mission is “to make great coffee easier for everyone to experience in today’s busy world.” This popular brand adds no additives to its crystallized, single-origin coffee, and emphasizes their fair trade payments...

Basket is a direct to consumer grocery shopping app that finds the lowest-priced grocery in your area for your total order of groceries. It’s super-simple: you upload your entire grocery list (or maybe the most expensive items you wish to compare), and you can instantly compare your local grocers and online grocers! While the Basket...

Desert Farms camel milk is a direct to consumer camel milk brand. You read that correctly—milk from camels. Desert Farms’ mission is to “promote camel milk as nature’s most wholesome dairy beverage”, and they back it up with the nutritional stats on their Why Camel Milk page. And it’s not just camel milk—Desert Farms also...