The 6 Best Meal Delivery Services for Families (2025)

As a parent of two young kids, that hour between walking in the door and getting dinner on the table is the most chaotic part of my day. But the best meal delivery services for families can make the process a whole lot easier. Because whatever your household’s dietary restrictions or preferences—and no matter how much or how little cooking you actually want to do—a family-friendly meal kit subscription will lighten your load by taking the thought, grocery shopping, and some or all of the prep out of mealtime. Depending on the meal service you choose, you can get hella snacks too.

Our top picks:

• Best meal kits for big families → HomeChef
• Best for snacks and super-quick prep → Hungryroot
• Best for vegetarian families → Dinnerly
• Best organic meal kits → Green Chef
• Best selection → HelloFresh
• Best for babies and toddlers → LittleSpoon

Watch a video of tester Emily Farris working her way through these meal kits…

About Home Chef: Home Chef is a traditional meal kit service that sends pre-portioned ingredients and easy-to-follow, family-friendly recipes that make it easy to get a fresh meal on the table in 15 to 30 minutes. The portion sizes are large, the meal plans are customizable, and you can select your meal kits based on dietary needs and preferences.

Why we picked it: If you have a lot of mouths to feed, Home Chef is a great option, because the more meals you order, the more budget-friendly it becomes. Though Home Chef isn’t the most affordable meal kit on the market (that would be EveryPlate ), it comes pretty close if you order from the Family Menu . Home Chef’s standard meals are two servings each and, on average, cost $7.99 to $9.99 per serving; but when you order from the Family Menu, meals are just $6.99 per serving, no matter how many you get (customizations like swapping your protein may come with an upcharge).

Our review: FooddeR and Epicurious contributor Adam Campbell-Schmitt tried Home Chef and found the recipes to be simple and kid-friendly enough to please his tough critics. When another colleague tested Home Chef recently, her favorite meal was a pork chop with mashed sweet potatoes. She also noted that many of the recipes had an old-school, nostalgic feel (think meat wrapped in puff pastry) that reminded her of the dinners she ate as a kid.

In addition to the meal kits, you can choose from Home Chef’s Fast & Fresh options: oven-ready entrees and other fully cooked meal options that make it possible to get dinner on the table even quicker. Home Chef also offers a selection of add-ons like extra protein, soups, salads, snacks, and desserts.

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The best meal service for snacks and super-quick prep: Hungryroot

About Hungryroot: More of a grocery delivery service store than a traditional meal kit service, Hungryroot offers a large selection of high-quality ingredients (often semi- or fully cooked) and packaged items that can be thrown together for super-quick, satisfying dinners for two or four people. In addition to the ingredients intended for meals, you can also get many of your other groceries from Hungryroot, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, poultry, pantry staples and snacks—so many great snacks!

There’s a pretty lengthy survey at sign-up to help the system learn your preferences. Then, you can narrow down your options by using Hungryroot’s impressive number of filters for cuisines and dietary restrictions, including pescatarian, high-protein, carb-conscious, dairy-free, tree nut–free, and even diabetes-friendly. And if you or your kids hate something, you can add it to your “never send” list.

Why we picked it: There are few things I dislike more than grocery shopping with my two young kids—which is why I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of money on weeknight food delivery. It’s also one of the many reasons I love Hungryroot . And the kit’s convenience extends to its prep: It’s not uncommon to enjoy your first bite within 10 or 15 minutes of beginning your cook. For example, this kid-friendly chicken quesadilla recipe uses precooked, seasoned chicken and takes just 10 minutes start to finish.

Our review: Setting your preferences and selecting your groceries is a little tedious at first, but once you get rolling with this service, it’s great. The ingredients are high-quality and many of the condiments, salad mixes, and other packaged foods are Hungryroot’s own brand (I’m kind of obsessed with their almond chickpea cookie dough, which is safe and delicious to eat raw). But you’ll also find brands you see in the grocery store, like Kevin’s Natural Foods . In fact, the Kevin’s Korean BBQ-Style Beef with broccoli florets (which arrived trimmed) is one of my favorite Hungryroot meals.

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About Dinnerly: Dinnerly is Martha & Marley Spoon ’s more affordable sister meal kit service, and while it doesn’t have Martha Stewart’s name attached to it, it does have more than 100 meals on its weekly menu, including a variety of tasty family-friendly vegetarian and vegan meals. Dinnerly is also comparatively more affordable than the popular plant-based meal delivery service Purple Carrot , which offers only 12 delicious meals to choose from each week.

Why we picked it: In addition to the usual categories like low-calorie, quick-and-easy, and low-carb, Dinnerly gives you the option of setting your preferred menu to vegetarian and “picky eater approved.” According to the website, these are “crowd-pleasing recipes for eaters who avoid spicy food and prefer familiar ingredients.” The kind of recipes that might live in the middle of this Venn diagram are cheesy baked pastas, veggie burgers, vegetarian burrito bowls, quesadillas, and pizza.

In addition to the meal kits, you can also order from Dinnerly’s impressive add-on market for extras like Roberta’s pizza, heat-and-eat breakfast items, microwavable vegetarian meals, produce, plant-based proteins, sides, desserts, and some kid-friendly snacks.

Our review: Every time I’ve made a Dinnerly meal, my kids have enjoyed not only eating, but also helping prepare the family-friendly kit. And even though I’m not a vegetarian, I appreciate that you can replace the protein in many of the meat-heavy recipes with Impossible Foods ’ plant-based proteins.

Elise Portale, contributing social media manager (and also not a vegetarian) who tried Dinnerly recently, says her favorite meal was a vegetarian option: a spinach salad with lentils and roasted carrots.

When I tested Dinnerly 's orange tofu and green beans at home, my dish ended up looking exactly like the picture—a good sign that this meal kit’s instructions lead you in the right direction.

Emily Farris

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The best organic meal kits for families: Green Chef

About Green Chef: According to its website , Green Chef is the first CCOF (California Certified Organic) meal kit company, and the service offers a variety of meal types with organic as well as locally and sustainably sourced ingredients. Green Chef also caters to a variety of special diets—including keto, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, Mediterranean, low-calorie, and high-protein—and when you sign up, you can set your preference to “healthy meal kits for families.”

Why we picked it: Green Chef is a high-end meal kit service that prioritizes sustainability and quality ingredients. So if your goal is to feed your family organic home-cooked meals—but you don’t want to spend hours in the kitchen every weeknight—this is a great option.

Our review: In repeat testing, many Bon Appetit staffers have found that these meals do take a little more work and time—and produce more dirty dishes—than other kits on this list, but the selection is impressive and the recipes are reliable. When senior service editor Kelsey Jane Youngman tested Green Chef recently, she appreciated that the ingredients were organized by recipe and that the instructions were easy to follow, thanks in part to pictures on the recipe cards. Her favorite meal was the Italian Turkey Stuffed Squash Boats (ground turkey beefed up with bulgur and kale then spooned over roasted zucchini).

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The best meal kit selection for families: Hello Fresh

About HelloFresh: HelloFresh was one of the first meal kit delivery services to hit the market (it’s actually been around longer than BlueApron and Sunbasket ), and it has a huge weekly meal selection.

Why we picked it: Every week, you can choose your family meals from more than 100 options —which means that no matter what your household does or doesn’t like to eat, there’s sure to be a recipe or three you can all agree on. Once you’re signed up, it’s easy to make your weekly selections by filtering the menu options by category: meat and veggie/carb-conscious meals, veggie and plant-based meals, quick-and-easy meals, and pescatarian meals. And, of course, there’s also a category for family-friendly meals, which are “kid-tested” and “picky eater approved.”

Our review: A handful of FooddeR staffers have tried HelloFresh over the last few years and our testers have all been happy with the large portion sizes, fresh ingredients, and the add-on options, which include proteins, smoothies, snacks, and desserts. Most recently, Maria Paz Mendez Hodes, director of creative development, tried Hello Fresh, and though she wasn’t cooking for a crowd, she enjoyed preparing each meal and appreciated that the 30-minute recipes took a "real" 30 minutes.

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The best meal delivery service for babies and toddlers: LittleSpoon

About LittleSpoon: There seems to be a meal service for nearly every diet and wellness trend ( paleo , keto , smoothies , grain bowls , etc.). And if you want to outsource wholesome food for your small children and do absolutely no meal prep, there’s a service for that too! Little Spoon’s offering of snacks and nutritious meals for kids of all ages, starting with organic purées , baby cereal , and puffs for the earliest solids stage, are selected with guidance from registered dietitians, pediatric nutritionists, and other feeding experts. As your littles get bigger, you can introduce new flavors and textures through healthy meals like kid-friendly smoothies (in a pouch, of course!) and three-course finger-food dinners made with whole, organic ingredients. There are even premade meals for bigger kids; think Lunchables, but made with premium organic ingredients. And yes: There are noodles too.

Why we picked it: Like meal kits for adults, you can personalize your kids-only subscription to fit your family’s dietary preferences and you can filter different meal options based on common kid allergens like tree nuts, shellfish, and gluten. Little Spoon also makes it easy to pause or skip your subscription and to adjust the quantity and frequency as needed.

Our review: Packaged snacks aside, I feel like this meal service is really best for babies and toddlers, because the simpler preparations are what Little Spoon does best. Some of the big-kid entrées are trying to do too much and there’s a chance older, pickier kids will find at least one thing on the plate to hate. That said, everyone in my home (including me) really loved every element of the Sunny-Butter Chicken , a limited-time collaboration with Brooklyn Delhi —especially after I put the veggie turmeric poppers in the air fryer to crisp them up.