WhichMealKit

Compare meal kits
& prepared meals

The right dinner box starts with how many people you feed, how much you want to cook, and how often you want it.

01

Cooking for a larger household

Dinnerly & Marley Spoon

Both offer 2-, 4- and 6-person boxes with 2–6 recipes. Start with the box you can actually use.

Choose a family box

What matters at your table?

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02

Four prepared meals for one person

CookUnity

Start at four single-serving meals. Factor and Splendid Spoon start at six.

Compare prepared portions
03

A one-time order

Blue Apron, Dinnerly, Marley Spoon & CookUnity

All offer a one-time path. Blue Apron separates a la carte orders from optional autoship.

Compare ordering commitments
04

Cook on some nights, heat meals on others

Sunbasket, Purple Carrot, Blue Apron, Home Chef & HelloFresh

Choose a mixed service, then check whether the prepared choice is a plan, box selection or add-on.

Compare cooking and prepared options
05

Room for a longer break

Sunbasket, CookUnity & Dinnerly

Sunbasket allows a pause up to 12 weeks; CookUnity, eight. Dinnerly lets you schedule skips eight weeks ahead.

Compare pause and skip rules
06

Dinner for one, without a second portion

Factor, CookUnity, Splendid Spoon & Purple Carrot

Single-serving prepared choices avoid the built-in second portion of a two-serving meal kit.

Plan meals for one
07

Plant-based meals, cooked or prepared

Purple Carrot, Green Chef & Splendid Spoon

Choose mixed formats, cooking-only or prepared meals. Menu labels do not establish allergen safety.

Compare plant-based formats

Ingredients to cook.
Or meals to heat.

A mixed service can offer both, but its kit and prepared boxes may have different portions, prices and minimums.

Choose your cooking effort
A meal kit delivers measured ingredients and a recipe card, and you chop, cook and wash up. A prepared meal arrives cooked, and you heat it and eat.Meal kitUnpackChopCookWash upPrepared mealUnpackHeatTwo steps instead of four.
Same dinner on the table. The work before it is the decision.

Same portion count. Different work before dinner.

Make the numbers fit your week

Find a box for your household

Set people, meals, portions for later and ordering commitment. See which boxes fit those choices.

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Work out the ongoing bill

Use your current cart to separate shipping, fees and introductory discounts. Compare four deliveries, not a pretend month.

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Before your first box

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