Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes

I’ve had Mealime for a little bit over two years and upgraded to the premium option to test it out. Personally, I can do without it, BUT it was really nice to have that many more options available! BLUF: Kid friendly, budget friendly, easy to make recipes, and plenty of free options! My thoughts after about 75 different meals made are below: The Pros: - Every meal is explained in detail how to prepare and in what order to do everything. - Serving sizes are included -Meals are extremely easy to prepare and can have substitutions for almost everything. -KID FRIENDLY! My daughter loves going through and choosing what she wants to make and then making it herself and it turns out just as if I made it! - Combined shopping list is my favorite feature. It add totals of each meal together of the same ingredient instead of having to do the math yourself or it being listed twice. Being able to look at home and check off what I already have before going to the store makes it sooooo much easier too! The Cons: I have none. Even it having a “Pro” feature isn’t a con to me because there are already so many options to choose from the free plan.

June 2026 update: updates are still coming infrequently, and the latest update crashes often. If it’s another two or three months before an update that hopefully fixes it, my decade plus of using this service is probably coming to an end. —— Mealime was acquired in March 2022. That’s also the same time that they stopped updating their blog. I’ve been a paying customer of their service for over 13 years and use it daily, but it has gone downhill since they got acquired. The iOS app has stagnated, and updates (which are the only way that new recipes appear in the app) went from being almost every week to months apart. You’ll probably see an old response from the developer from a couple of years ago claiming this was “fixed”, but if anything, the new recipe drops have become more and more infrequent. I can’t name a single major new feature that the app has rolled out since 2022. It’s still does what I need it to, but I no longer tell all my friends and family about it. What used to be a solid 5/5 excellent service is now solidly in “meh” territory. I keep hunting for a replacement and will probably drop my subscription at some point.

Haven’t had the will or brainpower to cook more than bare minimum for survival for while now. This was so easy. I had food for the entire week Sunday- Sunday and actually had solid meals. My grocery budget increased a bit but there were not any wasted ingredients and I felt the difference of actually having eaten during the day.