About mealkit.help

The question this site exists to answer

Almost every meal kit advertises a headline price per serve, and almost none of them tell you what that becomes over fifty-two weeks with delivery counted and the discount removed. That is the number this site produces, and it is the only headline on the result page.

Where a provider does not publish enough to give a settled number, the result is marked as a lower bound rather than completed with a plausible-looking guess. A calculator that fills gaps looks more useful and is less trustworthy, which is the wrong trade for a figure you are about to budget a year around.

What it does

• Costs the ongoing weekly, monthly, yearly, per-person and per-serve figures for a box size and recipe count a provider actually sells.
• Separates the food cost from delivery, and separates delivery that is included, delivery that is a published fee, and delivery the provider never published.
• Compares every provider that publishes that exact combination, and lists the ones that cannot with the reason each one cannot.
• Lets you model an introductory offer with your own figures, and shows the ongoing figure beside it so the discount never becomes the headline.
• Prints the source and the check date for every figure, and shows where a provider contradicts itself.

What it deliberately does not do

• It does not rank meal kits, name a best box, or publish a review or a score. Nobody here has eaten any of them, so a taste or quality verdict would be invented.
• It does not publish discount codes, claim a lowest price, or apply an introductory offer on your behalf. No offer could be verified from a first-party page on 2026-10-04.
• It does not take a commission from any link. Provider pages appear as citations and are marked as citations, so you can check a number at source. Independent is a fact here, not an adjective.
• It does not tell you a box is deliverable to your address, or offer a postcode check. Coverage is per provider, per area and subject to change; the provider's own check is the current answer.
• It does not give medical or dietary safety advice, take a health record, or tell you a menu is right for a condition. Where a provider publishes a vegetarian or plant-based menu, this site records that fact and nothing more.
• It does not collect anything: no email, no postcode, no cookies, no analytics on the calculator, no chatbot.

How a price gets in here

1. A provider's own Australian plan or help page is read, and the number is copied with the wording it came in. Nothing is taken from a comparison site, a coupon page or memory.
2. The figure is stored in src/lib/providers.mjs with its URL, the quoted sentence and the date it was read. If a figure has no source string, it does not go in.
3. Unit tests check the arithmetic against known combinations, including the cases where a provider cannot price a box at all.
4. A re-check updates the figures and the date together. Until that happens, the date on /sources/ is the honest answer to how old this is.

2 providers publish a full price table and are compared directly. Providers that publish only a starting price are listed but left out of comparisons, because giving them a grid would mean inventing it.

Who runs this

mealkit.help is operated by Unilink, an Australian digital business. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any meal kit provider, and no provider has reviewed or approved anything here. If a provider asks for a correction, it is made on the same terms as any other reader's: checked against the provider's own current page, with the date updated.

If something here is wrong

Providers change prices without notice, so the most likely error is a figure that has moved on. Check the provider's own page first; if it still disagrees with this site, the correction belongs in the source data, and the date beside it should move with it. Everything this site decides rather than cites -- which price is the headline, how a month is worked out -- is listed on the sources page so it can be argued with directly.