L360’s Priya Raj delves into the meal delivery services promising to keep you on track with your health goals, without a pot or pan in sight.
January has arrived, and with it comes the familiar urge to hit reset on our eating habits. How better to start than with meal prepping?
Here’s the issue. I, for one, appreciate variety in my diet. Sure, I can make peace with leftovers for lunch, but for dinner too? Absolutely not.
Whether you’re cooking for one, as I am, or keeping a whole family fed and watered, buying ingredients and cooking unique meals every day can become expensive, time-consuming and wasteful if ingredients aren’t used before their sell-by date. And if you’re on a fitness journey in 2026, the tedious task of measuring out every ingredient and plugging it into a calorie or macro tracking app is something you may prefer to avoid. Luckily, there’s a magic solution.
Enter: meal prep delivery services. These clever companies have transformed healthy eating from a weekend chore of shopping, chopping and cooking into something as simple as opening your fridge or freezer.
I’ve rounded up L360’s favourite meal prep services from across the UK, so you can spend less time stressing over cooking your meals and still make good on your promise to eat better in 2026.
The top meal prep services in the UK
Frive
Best for: whole foods
Frive has built a reputation for meals delivered directly to your door up to twice weekly. The menu changes every week, so there’s no risk of being stuck in a rut with your meals. Choose a three-day meal plan from £35 per week, a five-day plan from £52 and a six-day plan from £60 — prices vary depending on how many meals you’d like per day.
Whether you’re eating low-carb, sticking to a vegan diet or just trying to eat more balanced meals, Frive has it covered.
Read more: Is the Frive meal delivery service worth it?
Price: from £35 per week for a three-day plan.
DabbaDrop
Best for: an Indian twist
If you’ve seen Lily Baria’s tiffin chronicles on TikTok, this is how to recreate the experience in the UK. For £30, you can receive a four-tier dabba (metal lunchbox) packed with a salad, curry, dal and rice, serving two people. The menu changes weekly and takes inspiration from the tiffin culture that exists through South Asia and beyond.
If you want to try out the DabbaDrop service first, you can do so with a one-off offer. Unlike other meal prep services, you can opt for one tiffin a week, perfect for those nights when you’re too tired to cook, but don’t want to resort to ordering a takeaway.
Price: From £30 for one four-tier dabba.
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Cook
Best for: frozen meals
In the cold winter months, a buddha bowl or salad won’t necessarily satisfy your cravings for a healthy-but-hearty meal, which is where Cook can come in. Unlike most services, Cook delivers meals frozen rather than fresh, so you can stock up the freezer and enjoy them whenever you want.
The range is enormous, ranging from chicken, ham and leek pie or Thai curry to veggie options like a portobello mushroom wellington and an indulgent roasted vegetable lasagne.
Cook provides full nutritional information for each meal — ideal if you’re trying to hit a certain calorie or protein intake.
Price: starting from £38.23 for seven meals.
Simmer
Best for: value for money
You’ve probably seen Simmer all over your TikTok feed, and the service has built a cult following on social media for good reason.
Its menu, which features dishes that contain 30-50g of protein, rotates weekly and while its selection isn’t as extensive as some other services, the value is hard to beat.
Options include a roast chicken dinner, complete with roast potatoes and gravy, and Korean barbecue chicken mac and cheese.
Choose from meat-only, vegan-only or a mix of both, as well as a portion preference between standard, large and lean (a lower calorie, high-protein meal).
Price: starting from £30.87 for six meals.
Prep Kitchen
Best for: tracking macros and high protein meal prep
When on a fitness journey, whether for weight loss or otherwise, the concept of tracking every gram of protein or carbohydrate can quickly become tiresome.
With Prep Kitchen you can choose your goal — weight loss or muscle gain — and have meals delivered to help you reach it.
Choose from classics like sausage and mash or Bolognese, as well as red Thai curry or peri peri chicken. You can also opt for extras like chicken wings or protein brownies for those late-night cravings.
Price: from £69.50 for 10 meals.
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The Good Prep
Best for: work lunches
Deciding what to eat for lunch when you’re in the office can be a hard task. You might settle on a or Pret sandwich, but find the costs quickly add up and you’re never satiated after eating. But don’t fret, as The Good Prep has the answer.
The company has devised a five-day meal plan with breakfasts, lunches and snacks designed to keep you full and energised throughout the day — no afternoon energy dips here. Some breakfast options include Biscoff protein pancakes and chorizo egg muffins. Lunch, on the other hand, has some mouthwatering favourites like chicken katsu curry and rice and dan dan turkey mince noodles.
Price: starts at £83.75 per week, with the option to add snacks.
Foodery
Best for: Halal meal prep
This HMC-certified Halal meal-prep service is ideal for spice-lovers. Choose from mild, medium, spicy and very spicy dishes designed to rival your favourite takeaways.
Foodery options include Mongolian beef and veg noodles, firecracker chicken, butter chicken and much more. With prices starting from £5.43 per meal, this is one of the most affordable options in our roundup.
Each meal is under 500 calories and contains between 30-45g of protein, perfect for a new year’s health reset.
Price: from £44.94 for six meals.
Feature image: Frive
