Family Meal Plans
Feeding four or more is where meal services either earn their price or fall apart. The companies in this category sell family-size plans, four servings or more per recipe, kids' menus, or meals they present explicitly as dinners for a household. Meal kits dominate, because a family recipe spreads the shipping and packaging across more plates, but prepared and frozen family trays appear too. Compare the price per serving at the four-person size rather than the headline rate, check how many recipes a week the plan allows, and look for mild or kid-picked options if you have fussy eaters.
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Cook-at-home meal kit with 100+ weekly recipes and market items, plans for 2 to 6 people, and weekly delivery everywhere in the US except Alaska and Hawaii.
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Budget cook-at-home meal kit with 35+ weekly recipes, plans from $5.99 per serving plus a flat $10.99 shipping fee, delivered across most of the continental US.
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Budget cook-at-home meal kit with 100+ recipes a week, 2-person or 4-person plans of 3 to 6 meals, and meals from $5.99 per serving.
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Weekly meal kit with 100+ menu items, prepared meals and a Market, launched in 2016, with up to $329 off the first 5 boxes and skip, pause or cancel anytime.
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Meal kits with the prep already done, so sauces and slow-roasted meats arrive ready and dinner takes about 15 minutes, delivered across the contiguous US except Montana.
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Fresh, mostly-prepped meals that cook themselves in the Tovala Smart Oven with a barcode scan, from $8.99 per serving on two-packs plus $10.99 shipping.
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Meatless frozen meals, from $11.99 veggie bowls to $24.95 family trays that serve 4, plus pizzas, soups, oat bowls and smoothies, with no subscription required.
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Chef-cooked, flash-frozen meals in boxes of 10, 20 or 30 with no subscription, from $8.99 a meal, shipped on dry ice from 3 kitchens to the continental US.
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Frozen scan-to-cook meals from $11.49 each for the Suvie countertop robot, which keeps food chilled and then cooks it on schedule, with deliveries every 1 to 4 weeks.
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South Dakota company shipping flash-frozen gourmet, family-style and special-diet meals nationwide on dry ice, with gourmet meals from $13.99 and senior meals from $10.99.
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Sprinly cooks fresh, never-frozen vegan and gluten-free meals from organic ingredients and ships them weekly across the US, including Hawaii and Alaska, in 6, 12 or 18-meal plans.
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Monthly sets of 10 hand-prepped raw freezer meals for the slow cooker or flat top, from $199 a set, shipped frozen on dry ice anywhere in the US.
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Dietitian-built freezer meals, assembled raw and frozen for your slow cooker or pressure cooker, delivered across the Intermountain West from about $3.48 per serving.
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Frozen soup dumplings, potstickers and Chinese noodles from the team behind a Bellevue restaurant, shipped Mondays and Wednesdays with free shipping over $99 and optional subscriptions.
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A Long Island meal prep chain selling portioned, high-protein ready meals from $11.99, sold in its stores, delivered locally, or shipped by UPS to the 48 states.
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A family-owned Kansas City meal prep company delivering fresh, never-frozen high-protein meals around the metro on Saturdays and shipping by UPS, with a $129.99 five-day plan and no subscription.
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SmashMeals
NewA dedicated gluten-free kitchen in Kingsport, Tennessee, cooking macro-labeled meals, with GLP-1 and high-protein plans, local Tri-Cities delivery and $30 FedEx Ground to 30 states + DC.
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Bellingham meal kit built from 80+ Pacific Northwest farms, packed and hand-delivered the same day across the Seattle, Portland and Bellingham areas.
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Independent Minneapolis meal kit at $13.75 per serving, with scratch-made sauces and a seasonal weekly menu, delivered free in the Twin Cities and across the Upper Midwest.
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Dixon, California kitchen cooking organic paleo meals, delivered around Sacramento and the Bay Area and shipped by GLS across California, with subscriptions from $90 for 5 meals.
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Cook-at-home vegetarian Indian meal kits for 2 or 4, with pre-measured spices and cut vegetables, on monthly plans for Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
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La Habra kitchen cooking Korean soups, stews, banchan, kimchi and marinated BBQ meats, delivered by its own drivers in LA and OC and by FedEx overnight nationwide.
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New York importer of Italian pantry goods selling shelf-stable meal kits for risotto, pizza, spaghetti and pesto, from $40.97, with a subscribe-and-save option and free shipping over $75.
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Family-run Cajun and Creole cook-at-home kits from Scott, Louisiana, sized for 8 to 15 people and shipped frozen with free 2-day delivery.
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Billings seafood retailer selling frozen seafood boil kits, ready-to-bake dinners and wild-caught fish, shipped by UPS and FedEx to the lower 48 states.
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Georgia pie bakery shipping handmade savory dinner pies and dessert pies frozen on dry ice nationwide, with a Southern Supper Box of 3 meals for $124.95.
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Weekly tiffin boxes of cooked, vegetarian-leaning Indian home-style dishes you pick yourself, from $89.99 a week for 1 person with free delivery.
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A New Jersey tiffin service shipping cooked North Indian meals in pouches, with plans from $85 plus shipping and a menu that changes every Thursday.
