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Blue Apron alternatives: a weekly box with a price you can add up

Blue Apron sells its meal kits and prepared meals dish by dish, with a shipping fee on each order unless you pay for Blue Apron+, and no fixed weekly box. People who leave it usually want a weekly box at a price they can see first, a lower rate per serving, or another way to order without a plan. The table prices three dinners for two at the services that sell a fixed box.

The same box elsewhere: three dinners for two, at full price
ServiceBoxPriceOrdering
EveryPlate3 recipes for 2from $41.94 $6.99 a serving, before shippingWeekly plan · skip any week
Home Chef3 recipes for 2from $47.94 $7.99 a serving, before shippingWeekly plan · skip any week
HelloFresh3 recipes for 2$70.93–$79.93 $11.82–$13.32 a portion with shippingWeekly plan · skip any week
Dinnerly3 recipes for 2$83.92 $13.99 a portion with shippingWeekly plan · skip up to 8 weeks ahead
Purple Carrot3 recipes for 2$91.50–$97.50 $15.25–$16.25 a portion with shippingWeekly plan · skip any week
Marley Spoon3 recipes for 2$93.92 $15.65 a portion with shippingWeekly plan · skip any week
Green Chef3 recipes for 2Price after you enter a ZIP codeWeekly plan · skip any week

A weekly box with a set price

Dinnerly and Marley Spoon publish the whole price of every box, shipping included, and EveryPlate, Home Chef and Purple Carrot state a price per serving. Each sends a box every week until you skip it, so choose one whose cutoff you can keep: every service’s ordering rules.

Still without a subscription

CookUnity sells a one-time order of prepared meals, and Daily Harvest a curated box once: meal kits without a subscription.

The shipping fee

Blue Apron+ includes shipping for a monthly fee, and CookUnity’s UnityPass drops its delivery fee for a fee every 28 days; the billing guide says when each pays for itself: memberships.

Before you leave Blue Apron

An order already processing or shipped cannot be cancelled, and cancelling Subscribe & Save, its recurring orders, does not stop one already being processed: how to skip, pause or cancel Blue Apron.