Dinnerly Meal Kit Review (2026): Hearty Meals on a Budget

Dinnerly does not feel to me like a budget meal kit. Although, of course, it is in fact the budget option from Martha Stewart–endorsed meal delivery service Marley Spoon (7/10, WIRED Recommends). Each Dinnerly portion costs between $6 and $10 a portion, less than the top-end meal delivery services that tend to start at $12 and work their way up.

And yet here I am, eating a generous heaping of lemon-butter shrimp atop a bed of zesty, garlicky spinach and creamy mashed potatoes. I've even got a little lemon wedge on the side. It's a middle-class-fancy kind of life.

So why is Dinnerly cheaper, if it's not skimping on the shrimp? In part, by keeping the ingredient list a little shorter. Meal kits are, by their nature, complex engines of supply-chain logistics. When I tested my ability to make meal kit meals cheaper than what arrived in the box, it was always sauces and spices that launched my meal costs into the stratosphere.

Photograph: Matthew Korfhage