Offers
What a first-order offer really changes
An introductory offer changes a small number of weeks, not the price you live at. On 2026-10-04 all three providers we could price advertise introductory pricing, and none of them published the discount amount or the number of weeks it lasts in a form we could quote. So this site never shows you an offer figure of its own. It shows the ongoing price, and lets you cost the offer you were actually shown.
What we could verify, and what we could not
Here is the honest state of the offer terms for each provider we could price, read on 2026-10-04. The “amount” and “weeks” columns say what a first-order calculator would need and whether the provider published it.
| Provider | Discount amount | Discounted weeks | Post-offer price |
|---|---|---|---|
| HelloFresh | Not published | Not published | Published (the plan table) |
| Dinnerly | Not published | Not published | Published (box prices) |
| My Foodie Box | Not published | Not published | Not published (starting price only) |
Three blank cells in a row is the finding, not a gap in this page. HelloFresh, Dinnerly and My Foodie Box all advertise introductory pricing, but on 2026-10-04 none of the pages we could read published the discount amount or how many weeks it lasts. We do not guess. Pick an offer below to model it yourself.
Cost the offer you were shown
You usually see an offer in an email or at checkout, in dollars off and weeks. That is your number to enter, not ours — so the calculator has an offer field where you type the discount and the number of discounted weeks, and it subtracts them from the ongoing figure to show what the discounted weeks cost. The ongoing figure stays on screen either way, because it is the one that recurs.
If there is no offer, say so and the ongoing figure becomes the only figure. If you were shown an offer and do not want to type it in, the ongoing figure is still correct — it is simply the price after the offer is gone.
Two ways a discount gets misread
Per serve versus per box. A “50% off” on a per-serve price is half the food cost of the whole box, not half of one serving. On a 4-person, 5-meal box that is a difference of $95.90, not $4.80.
Off versus percentage. Providers in this market advertise both forms. $40 off a $90 box is a 44% discount; $40 off a $240 box is 17%. The percentage is the number that tells you whether the offer matters, and it is the one this site’s arithmetic needs you to compute rather than assume.
The cutoff date is the part people miss
The offer matters only if you are still subscribed when it expires, and the expiry is a date you have to know before you sign up. Each provider publishes its own cutoff, and this site quotes them rather than summarising them into a single rule:
- HelloFresh: Make sure you update your account before 11:59 PM (Sydney time) Tuesday, the week before delivery. Provider’s own cancellation page
- Dinnerly: Payment is processed 3-6 days before delivery, and you can edit up to 11:59 pm the day before the payment is processed. Provider’s own cancellation page
- My Foodie Box: We deliver weekly, but you can skip a week or cancel anytime, before the weekly cut-off on Mondays at 11:59PM (AWST). Provider’s own cancellation page
Note the difference in kind: HelloFresh’s cutoff is a fixed weekday and time before the week’s delivery; Dinnerly’s is tied to when payment is processed, which is 3–6 days before delivery. One is a calendar deadline, the other is a window that moves with your delivery date. Neither is a number this site can turn into a date for you, because we do not ask for your postcode or delivery day.
What to do with this
Treat the introductory offer as a trial, and decide against the ongoing price. If the ongoing figure is already more than you would spend on groceries, the offer is not saving you anything — it is delaying a decision you would otherwise make today. The how this works page sets out the rest of the rules the calculator follows.
Offer terms change frequently and are often account-specific. Everything on this page was read from the providers’ own public pages on 2026-10-04; this site did not sign up to any of them and does not know what offer any individual account would be shown. Treat the table above as evidence that the amounts are not publicly stated, not as evidence that offers are small.