Feel like you're out of time, energy and appetizing ideas when it comes to feeding your family? Kids meal delivery services can help by taking stress out of mealtimes.
There are options for all kinds of kids, from picky eaters who would rather clean their room than eat a piece of broccoli to those with adventurous palates who can't wait to try new flavors and spices, to those with dietary restrictions and food allergies.
Even better? There are a number of choices for children of all ages. There's even a meal delivery service designed for infants spanning six to 14 months, which makes introducing your baby to their first solids easy (and nutrient-rich).
So, whether you're feeding one tiny mouth or a multitude, this list of nutritious, delicious, and reassuringly reliable meal delivery services and subscriptions for babies and kids will have your whole family looking forward to their next meal.
Kids Meal Delivery Services
1. Yumble
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What You Get: Yumble is a kids meal delivery service specializing in fully-prepared kid-friendly made with seasonal, fresh, natural, and nutritious ingredients.
Yumble's balanced recipes are so delicious, your child might not even realize they're getting a generous serving of nutrient-rich vegetables with every bite. When possible, Yumble uses organic produce and humanely-raised, antibiotic and hormone-free meats.
Here's how it works: Choose whether you'd like to receive 6 meals per week (good for 1 kid), 12 per week (recommended for 1-2 kids), or 24 meals per week (for 2-3 kids), then head over to their menu to explore what's being offered.
Recent dishes include a cheesy veggie casserole with broccoli and corn (a gluten-free option packed with calcium, fiber, and Vitamin C), pizza bagel and veggies (which can be served warm or cold), garden vegetable chili and quinoa (a vegetarian meal which features tomatoes, squash, carrots, beans and lentils).
Want to know more about what to expect? Our recent Yumble reviews should help.
Age range: 12 months to 12 years, with an emphasis on children ages 3 to 6 years old
Dietary restrictions: All Yumble foods are free of peanuts and tree nuts, but they are not made in a nut-free kitchen. Some meals are marked as being free of milk, gluten, soy, eggs, or are vegetarian, but the kitchen is not entirely free of these ingredients.
Cost: Starts at $47.94 per week. Sign up here.
2. Yumi
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What You Get: Starting the process of introducing your baby to solid foods? Yumi provides baby food in the form of healthy purees and finger foods to ensure your child's experience includes organic, non-GMO, low-sugar and allergen-free options.
Everything Yumi makes is organic free of the eight most common allergens (milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, crustacean shellfish, wheat, and soy). Their menu includes 70 options that rotate weekly, and are made fresh in California each week.
First-time eaters may receive thinner, single-ingredient purees like tasty dragonfruit and butternut squash. For infants six months and older, there are thicker options like Japanese sweet potato and pear. After seven months, more ingredients are introduced, like purple sweet potato and blackberry and chickpea and carrot.
Yumi features a number of options across infancy, divided into stages. Single-ingredient purées for four month olds and up, multi-ingredient smooth purées for seven month olds and up, multi-ingredient chunky purées for nine month olds and up, and bites/puffs for 11 month olds and up.
All foods are delivered in 4.5 oz. recyclable jars. Check out our Yumi review to learn more.
Age range: 6 to 14 months
Dietary restrictions: All Yumi foods are free of milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, crustacean shellfish, wheat, and soy.
Cost: Starts at $35 per week (1 meal per day at $4.30 per meal). Sign up here.
3. Little Spoon
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What You Get: Little Spoon is a baby food subscription that provides fresh, allergen-free purees that are made with organic ingredients.
Little Spoon's recipes (which are designed by experts) feature over 100 organic ingredients and are designed to make the transition to solids simple for you and enjoyable for your child. Their Babyblends (which are chunky purees) collection have previously featured carrot mango coconut milk turmeric, spinach mango banana hemp, kale white bean and pear basil.
They also offer Boosters, which contain vitamins and probiotics in powder form, meant to be added to your baby's food to help build brain function, stave colds away, promote gut health, and improve immune strength.
Here's how it works: You'll take an introductory quiz to indicate your child's allergies and known favorite flavors, and Little Spoon will create a meal plan for you. They encourage trying a variety of their offerings to expose your child to a number of different flavors and help them build their palate.
Deliveries are shipped every two weeks. You can learn more about Little Spoon here.
Age range: 4 months and up
Dietary restrictions: All Little Spoon foods are free of milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, crustacean shellfish, wheat, and soy, however their facility does produce other foods which do contain allergens.
Cost: Plans starting at $13.88 per week. Sign up here.
4. Nurture Life
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What You Get: Looking to the whole family? Nurture Life is a meal delivery service that creates pre-portioned, nutritionally balanced meals for kids four months to 13 and up (that means adults, too).
Meals (like chicken biryani with organic veggies and brown rice and cheesy pesto tortellini with chicken, among all others) are prepared fresh using in-season and locally sourced ingredients when available. All recipes are free of artificial colors and flavors, trans fats, and high fructose corn syrup.
Here's what you and your family can expect come mealtime with Nurture Life. For babies 10 to 24 months, there are dishes like pureed tofu, sesame, soy, carrot and zucchini. Toddlers (ages 1-4 and up) will be excited to try meals along the lines of BBQ pulled pork with cornbread muffin and carrots, while kids (ages 5-11 and up) can look forward to offerings like Teriyaki salmon with rainbow veggie rice. And for teens and adults (age 13 and up), classics like chicken parmesan await.
Nurture Life also offers healthy snack add-ons (2-4 servings each), which, like the meals offered, are designed by pediatric dietitians. Want to learn more? Read our Nurture Life reviews.
Age range: 4 months to 13+ years
Dietary restrictions: The Nurture Life kitchen is free of peanuts, tree nuts (except coconut), and shellfish. The kitchen does contain coconut, dairy, eggs, fish, soy, and wheat.
Cost: Prices start at $6.89 per meal. Sign up here.
5. Raised Real
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What You Get: Backed by science, Raised Real specializes in organic, plant-based food for babies and toddlers.
All meals average less than 5g of sugar and are made from real fruits and vegetables, then flash-frozen to maintain freshness.
Here's how it works: While all the menu items are available to explore on their website, Raised Real has subscribers take a quiz to tell about your child's age and food preferences, and they'll select meals to send you. The thinking behind their approach is to help expand your baby's palate and expose them to a multitude of healthy ingredients.
Recent dishes include hearty breakfast oats with acai, banana, raspberry and cranberry seed oil (which is loaded with fiber and antioxidants), and anytime meals like red pepper paired with black beans, cumin, cilantro and avocado oil.
An added bonus? Raised Real subscriptions includes access to the Real Hotline, which you can text with questions about nutrition and food for your baby, or as they say, "if you just need a pep talk." They also offer exclusive discounts to partners like ezpz and more.
Age range: 6 months to 2 years
Dietary restrictions: Every Raised Real meal is gluten-free, and free of milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, crustacean shellfish, wheat, and soy. Some meals contain coconut.
The Cost: Starts at $65.88. Ships every two or four weeks. Sign up here.
6. Cerebelly
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What You Get: Created by a neurosurgeon, Cerebelly creates farm-fresh, nutrient-rich organic baby food blends packaged in pouches.
The minds behind Cerebelly's menu include pediatricians, nutritionists, and food scientists, who created baby food that'll provide nutrition to help support your baby's growing brain and body. These blends — like pea spinach pear, black bean sweet potato and carrot chickpea — are suited to baby's first solids and developing toddlers alike.
Here's how it works: You'll start by taking a quiz that shares info about your child's developmental milestones and then be shown a variety of recommendations that provide nutrients specific to your kid's age and development window. You can add their suggestions to your box or customize based on your child's preferences. Boxes are delivered every two weeks and come in 14, 28, 42, or 56 packs.
Age range: 4-6 months to toddlers and young children
Dietary restrictions: All Cerebelly foods are free of milk, eggs, shellfish, fin fish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans, however Cerebelly foods are manufactured in a facility that uses tree nuts for other products.
Cost: Starts at $40.46 every other week Sign up here.
7. Kids Snack Box
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What You Get: With Kid Snack Box, snacktime might become your child's favorite part of the day.
This monthly subscription box for kids features five to eight healthy snacks (like SkinnyPop popcorn, crunchy mini-cookies from Enjoy Life, and organic squeezable applesauce from North Coast). All selects are approved by Kid Snack Box's in-house dietitian/nutritionist. Past deliveries have also included granola bars (you might catch yourself sneaking a mini KIND bar out of your child's stash), fruit and veggie pouches, portable nut butters, and more.
Pack them in your child's lunchbox, keep a few in your car or tote them around in a purse or bag to prevent anyone from getting hangry.
Age range: Toddler and up
Dietary restrictions: Gluten-free and nut-free options available
Cost: Starting at $15 per month. Sign up here.
Creative Food Subscriptions for Kids
8. Foodstirs Baking Kits
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What You Get: Foodstirs has simplified organic baking in a fun, family-friendly way.
These baking kits are a great way to keep little hands busy (and bellies full) with easy, delicious recipes. Foodstirs pride themselves on being a “junk-free bakery,” and do so by using clean ingredients and less sugar in their kits. They’re also kosher and have been verified by the Non-GMO Project.
These brownie, cake, and cookie mixes feature high-quality, pre-made mixes that have no preservatives or artificial ingredients, so you can expect to see ingredients like organic heirloom flour, all-natural food dyes, and fair trade chocolate.
Some recent kits have featured colorful unicorn pops, galaxy-inspired doughnuts (which we recently made, read our Foodstirs review here) and a stack of rainbow pancakes.
All of Foodstirs' offerings are as creative and cool-looking as they are delicious, so fire up your Instagram because you can expect to receive kits for everything from decorated summery sugar cookies to Halloween-themed, spooky sweets.
Age range: 6 years and up
Dietary restrictions: Nuts aren't used in any Foodstirs recipes, however dry mixes are prepared and packaged using equipment that may come into contact with tree nuts, as well as egg and soy. Currently, only their Organic Vanilla Frosting Mix is gluten-free. All recipes are kosher.
Example recipes: Snowman frosted sugar cookies, firecracker treat pops, little monster cupcakes
The Cost: $25.99. Order a Foodstirs kit here.
9. Baketivity
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What You Get: If your child is eager to get into the kitchen, Baketivity is a great way to begin.
Designed to help you connect with your children over a fun activity, each month Baketivity delivers pre-portioned ingredients needed to bake one batch of something delicious like red velvet cupcakes, whoopie pies, chocolate chunk cookies, cinnamon buns and bagels.
Every box includes an ingredients list, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, and an activity book to make the kid-friendly kitchen operation educational. Each month's recipe is pre-determined and available to view on the Baketivity website, so you can plan your subscription accordingly.
Want to learn more? Read our Baketivity reviews.
Age range: 4 to 10 years
Dietary restrictions: All recipes are certified kosher. Wheat-free and gluten-free options are available. Baketivity does not accommodate nut allergies at this time.
Cost: $34.95 per month. Save with longer subscriptions. Sign up here!
Meal Delivery Services Designed for Kids and Adults
10. Home Chef
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What You Get: Home Chef makes getting dinner on the table look easy.
With its rotating menu and fresh ingredients, this meal delivery subscription can feed a family of two, four, six or eight with well-rounded recipes.
Home Chef meals (which can include delicious dishes like crispy oven-baked chicken, cheeseburger flatbread and Thai pork rice bowl) take roughly 30 minutes to prepare. You'll choose what to feed your family from a weekly rotating menu of dinners that range from simple and delicious (think breaded chicken and a veggie) to elevated and adventurous (like savory and sweet brown sugar and bacon glazed scallops).
This meal delivery subscription service also offers oven-ready recipes, 15-minute meal kits, grill-ready meals for summer, and protein pack add-ons with varieties of meat and fish.
Curious if your kid will go for it? Read our Home Chef reviews to learn more.
Dietary restrictions: Vegetarian, calorie-conscious, carb-conscious, and under 30-minute meals are available using the filters in the upper-right-hand corner. All meals are prepared in the same kitchen.
Cost: Meals start at $6.99/serving. Sign up here.
11. Sun Basket
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What You Get: Sun Basket provides families with quick recipes made from simple, healthy ingredients, using fresh organic fruits and veggies and responsibly sourced meat and seafood.
Recent dishes include a filling turkey bolognese with penne rigate, zucchini, and peas, lemony Mediterranean chicken with baby broccoli, artichokes, and olives and nutrient-rich rainbow quinoa-black bean tacos with guacamole and cabbage slaw.
These meals make clean eating fun by providing you with bright, colorful produce and fresh takes on familiar recipes, like classic chili but with a dollop of Greek yogurt or a creamy penne dish with almonds mixed in.
Our advice? Make a Sun Basket meal for dinner, then heat up leftovers for lunch. Want to learn more? Check out our Sun Basket reviews.
Dietary restrictions: paleo, gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, Mediterranean, and pescatarian options available.
Cost: Plans start at $10.99 per serving. Sign up here.
12. Splendid Spoon
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What You Get: Splendid Spoon is a meal delivery service that specializes in nutrient-rich smoothies, soups and bowls.
All of their dishes are plant-based, vegan, gluten-free, and made with GMO-free ingredients. When selecting meals, there are more than 50 options to choose from, so you'll be hard-pressed to ever have the same thing twice. Recent offerings include the energy-boosting chocolate cherry smoothie, a vegetable bolognese bowl (a plant-based take on a classic pasta dish) and a Tex-Mex inspired brown rice taco bowl topped with crunchy pepitas.
And in the spirit of saving even more time, their soups and smoothies are designed to be enjoyed cold (which kids will love), so there’s no cooking required. Learn more by reading our Splendid Spoon reviews.
Dietary restrictions: While all Splendid Spoon products are plant-based, vegan, gluten-free, soy-free, and made with GMO-free ingredients, their foods are processed in a facility that sometimes handles common allergens including but not limited to: dairy, eggs, fish, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, and soy.
Cost: Starts at $65 per week. Sign up here.
13. Daily Harvest
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What You Get: Daily Harvest makes eating healthy on-the-go easy for kids and adults.
This weekly or monthly healthy food subscription service delivers you pre-portioned food (that's unrefined, vegan and made with mostly organic ingredients, including superfoods) in convenient travel cups, so you can throw them in your purse, backpack or slip them into the cupholder in your car for easy snacking.
While this vegan meal kit delivery service started out by offering soups and smoothies, they've expanded their menu to feature harvest bowls, flatbreads, chia bowls, oat bowls, lattes, ice cream and energy balls.
Recent nutrient-rich options from Daily Harvest include organic spinach and shiitake mushroom grits harvest bowl, black sesame and organic banana smoothie, mulberry and dragonfruit oat bowl and sweet potato and wild rice hash.
Curious about what else is on the menu? Read our Daily Harvest reviews.
Dietary restrictions: All recipes are plant-based, vegan, and gluten-free. Some are soy-free (these options are indicated clearly). Please note everything is made in a facility that processes dairy, nuts, soy, and gluten.
Cost: Items range from $5.99 to $8.99. Sign up here.
14. Freshly
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What You Get: Freshly is a prepared meal delivery service sending pre-cooked dishes that can be prepped in about three minutes.
Meals like cauliflower-shell bolognese with ground beef and Italian cheeses (that'll warm you up on a cold, blustery day), due South BBQ beef with butternut mac and collard greens, spicy Italian sausage and herby potatoes with kale sauté are great options for children and adults.
There's a number of options for all kinds of palates. It's easy to tell what's spicy and what dietary needs are addressed in every recipe.
Freshly also has a way of sneaking veggies into their meals in creative and yummy ways, too, which can come in handy for children and adults alike.
Want to learn more? Read our Freshly reviews.
Dietary restrictions: All meals are gluten-free, peanut-free, and refined-sugar-free. Some meals are dairy-free, low-carb, and low-calorie.
Cost: Starts at $46 per week. Sign up here.
Quick and Affordable Meal Delivery Services for the Entire Family
15. Everyplate
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What You Get: Everyplate is a family-friendly meal delivery service that sends you all the ingredients you need to compile simple, classic recipes.
Choose from 13 different meals (like saucy chicken and pepper stir fry, loaded baked potato chowder, sweet potato and pepper quesadillas) that change each week (though subscriber favorites occasionally cycle back in), all of which only require six steps to prepare.
This a great option for parents who have a little extra time to prepare hot lunches or dinners, but without the time-consuming step of going to the grocery store.
Dietary restrictions: Everyplate does not cater to specific dietary preferences nor restrictions (in an effort to keep costs low), but they do clearly indicate allergen information on their recipe detail pages and physical recipe cards.
Cost: Starts at $4.99 per serving. Sign up here.
Check out our Everyplate reviews for more info! Ships to most of the continental US.
16. Dinnerly
What You Get: Dinnerly is a meal kit subscription that's suited for adults and families alike.
They are known for their simple meals, each using six high-quality ingredients like antibiotic-free chicken and free-range ground beef, to make dishes in 30 minutes or less. Past dishes include garlic knot cheese ravioli with marinara dipping sauce, BBQ beef and mashed potato casserole with cheddar cheese and cheesy salsa chicken with bell pepper and steamed rice.
Their recipes arrive digitally and guide subscribers to make simple meals that are sure to please even the pickiest eaters. As you browse recipes to choose, be sure to select their kid-friendly option to see what they suggest. Want to find out more? Read our Dinnerly review.
Dietary restrictions: Vegetarian and dairy-free options are available, however meals are not made in an allergen-free kitchen.
The Cost: $68.87 per week for the Family Box. Sign up here.
17. Gobble
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What You Get: Gobble is a time-saving meal delivery kit that will help you get dinner on the table in just 15 minutes.
And while you'll save time, you won't have to sacrifice flavor. Some of Gobble's recent meals include a tasty saag chicken with basmati rice and Indian cucumber salad, hearty Swedish meatballs with glazed carrots and herbed spaetzle and the vegetarian-friendly Mediterranean vegetable platter with hummus and za'atar flatbread.
Your box will arrive with all of the ingredients needed to make your meals not only pre-portioned, but also chopped and marinated, so instead of spending time in the kitchen, you can spend time where it matters most: with your family. When applicable, this subscription sets you up to simply combine, cook, serve, and enjoy.
When selecting your meals, be sure to look out for options marked "kid-friendly." Want to learn more about how Gobble works? Read our Gobble reviews.
Dietary restrictions: Vegetarian, dairy-free, nut-free, and gluten-free options are available using the filters on the site, but meals are not made in an allergen-free kitchen.
Cost: $11.99 per serving. Sign up here.
18. Tiller & Hatch
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What You Get: Want to put your pressure cooker to good use? Tiller & Hatch sends chef-prepared, flash-frozen family meals with restaurant-quality ingredients that are made to be prepared in a pressure cooker.
Designed to feed four to five people, Tiller & Hatch will have your family asking for second servings thanks to their artisanal pastas, rustic stews, and hearty dishes.
Pop dishes like delicious chili mac with beef, tikka masala with chicken, Southwest style minestrone soup with meatballs into your pressure cooker and you've got meals ready to serve and eat, all in a matter of minutes.
Cost: Starts at $65. Sign up here.
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