(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA In health, one of the hottest diet trends is easy; there's no cooking, no calorie counting, and no meetings. Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl says it helped one celebrity with a major transformation.Ricki Lake is showing off her new figure in Us Weekly, going from 250 pounds to 123.After years of yo-yo dieting, she says she finally found the solution -- an L.A. home delivery diet plan called Fresh Dining.Every morning, meals for the day, about 1,200 calories are dropped off.There are dozens of similar plans, sales reaching $800 million.Ronna Hall gets the zone diet delivered to her home in Penn Valley."It's a salmon salad sandwich, everything is very fresh and has a lot of flavor," Ronna said.The zone diet balances portions of protein and carbohydrates. Jennifer Aniston reportedly lost 30 pounds on the zone diet.Ronna lost eight pounds the first two weeks."I think it makes it a lot easier because it's quick, you know what you're going to have for that day, and you don't have to think I have to go to the market, get this and plan," Ronna said."In general, I think home delivery meals are underused," Dr.

Epicurious.Com Picks eDiets(R) as Best Diet Meal Delivery Service

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As more and more dieters turn to meal delivery services as a convenient way to eat well and lose weight, eDiets is earning national recognition for raising the bar on what consumers can expect in taste and nutritional value. eDiets today announced that Epicurious.com, the award-winning food website, has selected eDiets as the winner of a test of the country's leading diet delivery programs. eDiets was selected for taste, nutrition, a wide range of meal choices and its personalized diet and fitness program over ZoneChefs(R), PureFoods(TM) Fresh LowCarb, Jenny Craig(R) Jenny Direct and NutriSystem(R)*.

For as little as $15.95 per day, eDiets delivers fresh chef prepared meals each day, customized to their food preferences.

Diet Delivery

(Don't hold your breath - Batali and Ducasse likely won't join the ranks of diet delivery services but some of these chefs certainly aim to emulate their
tastiness.)

The Importance of Eating Earnestly
We sampled the food from three different diet delivery meal plans: Zone Chefs, 5 Square Meals and Nutrisystem. A variety of factors were considered when sampling the fruits (vegetables, proteins and carbs) of each program.

Here’s the scoop on poop for the home gardener

It's recommended that when adding manure to your garden you add a good 3 inches and work it in. Manure is excellent for improving soil texture and adding trace nutrients such as boron, iron, sulfur, copper and magnesium, which are often not available in bagged fertilizers.