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Who could say no to a fresh food delivery that is affordable and yummy?! Take a look at the Dinnerly recipe service and create easy weeknight dinners with this meal service subscription box. Grab a promo code for a free weekly meal box!

Is taste important to you? Do you crave more time? Will you change your dinner routine for the convenience of food arriving at your front door? If you are looking for affordable weeknight cooking and delivery service with fresh ingredients and simple recipes, take a look at Dinnerly Meal Delivery Service.

What is Dinnerly?

Dinnerly is a meal delivery subscription dinner box. The meal service brings recipes with fresh ingredients straight to your door for unfussy, affordable weeknight dinners. Dinnerly supplies everything you need to prepare quality, delicious, home-cooked meals that require no planning or shopping.

Customer benefits include a choice of  100+ unfussy weeknight meal choices.  Each simple recipe includes pre-portioned ingredients and will take 30 minutes or less to prepare and cook (often less!) Often the meal subscription service works straight with the farmer suppliers and small organizations, making veggies fresh. Fresh ingredients = lots of taste!

Dinnerly can be shipped anywhere in the United States.

How does Dinnerly work?

The dinnerly website is very clear and easy to navigate. To get started you need to set up your account with your location and the number of people you plan to feed each week.

To get started…

Choose Your Meal Size. To begin, choose the number of people and choose the number of meals. You can choose 2 or 4 people. You can choose up to 6 meals a week. Don’t worry you can adjust this each week when you are choosing your recipes.

Enter Your Location. Enter your zip code for shipping options.

Choose a Delivery Day. There are a few options for your delivery day based on your zip code. Your box will arrive between 8 am and 9 pm.

Dinnerly boxes are designed to keep your produce fresh and refrigerated items chilled during their journey to your doorstep. Once your box is delivered, you should unpack your cardboard box as soon as possible and place its contents in your refrigerator (or freezer.)

How much does a Dinnerly subscription cost?

The price of this fun meal service will vary. For most users, portions will be around $4.99 – $7.00/serving. When choosing your Dinnerly meals, there are a few meals that might have upcharges for premi-YUM ingredients or dietary restrictions including grass feed beef, gluten-free, shrimp, seafood, steak, etc. As a counter, there are also a few options where the price of the portion is reduced.

For a pricing example, I feed a family of seven on 4 person box.  (I will share later how I do this.) On average, I have four meals arrive each week. A four-meal week with a portion of four people costs me $94.24 plus $11.99 shipping.  That is less than $25/meal for a freshly cooked meal for my family. This pricing did not include any special offers or up chargers. This was $5.89.

Dinnerly pricing varies on two things:

1. The number of meals ordered a week.
2. The number of servings for each meal.

Dinnerly Cost

Look at this price chart for the dinnerly cost per serving based on the number of servings and meals.

With this chart, you can see that the dinnerly cost is as low as $4.99 per person. This is because Dinnerly only lets you get meals for up to four people. But I get a meal for 7 people… So really, I stretch the dinnerly price to as low as $2.85 per person (plus any add-ons I get from my grocery store.)

I have found a way to get the Dinnerly cost down to $2.85 a person!

Why was this pricing worth it?

• It gave me time as did not have to meal plan.
• It offered convenience as did not have to grocery shop.
• Everything was at my front door on a date I chose.
• I was offering my family a variety of recipes (instead of the same old recipe.)
• I can quickly see nutrition facts including calories, fat, and dietary details.
• I had dinner on the table in less than 30 minutes.

At a low price of (as low as) $4.99/serving (or a Dinnerly price of $2.85), this was totally worth it and a very affordable meal kit.

Can I edit my recipes?

Yes, choose the weekly recipes you want! There are plenty of different meal options and varieties from Mexican, to Asian, Italian, and more. Dinnerly will suggest weekly menus, but you can edit your dinnerly offers each week. Add more or fewer recipes to your box depending on how many days of the week you need to cook.

I have dietary needs.

If you have dietary restrictions, Dinnerly has solutions. The meal plan recipes can be sorted and you can search among super recipes for vegetarians, gluten-free diets, and healthy living.

Are the recipes hard to make?

No.

I could stop with no but I will offer you more details. I seriously hate coking. It creates a mess and requires culinary creativity. These recipes dummy it down in a quick 20 to 30 minutes. The instructions are easy to read. The tastes are really great. I actually feel amazing at the end of the process. Having cooked dinners from a meal box for almost five months I actually feel like I have acquired a few culinary talents (nothing I ever desired to achieve.)

Can you pause your subscription?

Yes! Are you traveling or extra busy for one week? You can pause your subscription or skip a week. Customers can cancel at any time, there are no commitments to stay.

I have canceled ordering meals during Thanksgiving week or family travel.

I have more than four people in my family.

When you create a dinnerly subscription, you can choose a 2-person meal or a 4-person meal. If you have more than four people in your family, there are a few options. Simply order the same meal multiple times and get up to eight services or add ingredients to your grocery shopping.

I do the latter. Each week after I choose my recipes for the following week, I know what will be included in my dinnerly shipment. Based on these easy dinner recipes, I use my grocery delivery service to order extra ingredients like meats,  starches, or vegetables. My kids eat A LOT and it’s not uncommon for us to have a small portion of leftovers because I added extra chicken, pasta, or even broccoli to a weeknight recipe.

Easy Weeknight Recipes with Meal Subscription

Weeknights are full of activity mixed with the anticipation of getting to bed at a reasonable time and restarting the next day. Because of the hustle and bustle of the evening, having an easy weeknight recipe is very important.

Dinnerly has changed our evenings in the fact that I am not chasing fast food or going crazy repeating the same ole recipe. I simply open my phone, choose a recipe from my box for the night and grab the ingredients from my fridge.

The ingredients in dinnerly recipes are often about 5 to 7 items. Fewer ingredients plus a few steps. The steps are never longer than six easy steps. The directions are well-written and easy to follow.

Highlights which make these easy weeknight meals…

• Recipes 30 minutes or less
• Portioned ingredients
• Simple recipe instructions
• Reused pans and bowls for easy cleaning
• Easily accessible ingredients
• Few complaints
• No grocery shopping

Often easy weekend night super of put on repeat. You know how to do it with the back of your hand and your family tires of this easily. When I open a dinnerly recipe, I have no idea where to begin but the six steps don’t cause me much stress. They are easy-peasy and all create new or familiar flavors we love.

In five months there might be five recipes we have repeated. Some recipes are similar tasting but each is new.

Adding to Subscription Box Meals

Dinnerly includes all the key ingredients you need to prep your meal. However, it’s very easy to add your ingredients to a Dinnerly recipe. Recipes only feed up to four people and I have a family of 7 (you do the math.) I could easily order another four-person recipe but that cost adds up. Instead, this non-chef tries this trick – ordering extra ingredients.

Because Dinnerly requires you to choose recipes in advance, I know what is coming the following week. So instead of duplicating my order, I order a few of the key ingredients in my grocery delivery service and add these staples to the easy Dinnerly recipe I plan to cook that week. Typically the items I add to recipes are meat, veggies, or starches. For example extra ground beef, extra pasta, or extra pasta.  If we are really in need of more food (which is rare), I make a side salad, a bread loaf, or a fruit salad.

If you do not wish to order extra food from your local grocery store, during your meal subscription checkout, Dinnerly has the option to add these extra products. These extra meat items or sides are sometimes at a lower price than most grocery stores.

In addition to adding more to the main course, during dinnerly checkout, you can add fun dessert recipes, snack bars, or already-prepared meals.

Recipe Ingredients

When cooking Dinnerly dinner recipes, there are a few pantry staples you will want to have around your house. These items are not shipped but are common cooking ingredients in most homes.

Kitchen staples you should have in your home include…

• Eggs
• Red Wine Vinegar
• White Vinegar
• Cooking Oil
• Olive Oil
• Sugar
• Flour
• Butter
• Salt
• Pepper
• Garlic
• Mayonaise

These key ingredients will be included in many of the subscription box Dinnerly recipes but not in your subscription box.

Dinnerly Recipes PDF

Dinnerly does not include recipes in their box. They include recipe ingredients but no recipe cards. Rather the menu planning Dinnerly website has a digital recipe box.

The first week I received my box my heart began to race because I was looking everywhere for dinner instructions. However, I quickly realized how easily I could locate the dinnerly recipes in the app on my phone.

Since the dinner recipes are available on both a Google play store and Apple Store Dinnerly app, you can easily look at digital recipe cards on your phone. However, if you want printable dinnerly recipes, follow these steps for your Dinnerly recipe PDF.

1. Sign in to Dinnerly.
2. Go to the order tab.
3. Click the image of the recipe you want to print.
4. Click the “click for cooking instructions” button.
5. A recipe card PDF will open.
6. Print this printable recipe PDF.

Save these recipes in a recipe binder. This will save money on printer ink and paper later as in the future you can repeat these dinner recipes and easily refer to your dinnerly menu recipe printables.

Of course, there is no need to print your recipes. You can view the cooking instructions right on your smartphone.

Dinnerly Review

Now you want the Dinnerly review? Let me give you my personal Dinnerly experience. I am sure you likely saw a few of my perceptions through the explanations of this meal kit delivery service.

If I may be very honest, I hate cooking. I hate baking. I hate mess. Being in the kitchen includes all of that. Regardless of my distaste for cooking, dinnerly has given me a positive experience.

I started a Dinnerly subscription in August. By February, I was still using the weekly meal delivery service. That’s a really long time (at least for me.) I have tried meal kit services like (Hellofresh or Home Chef) before and never committed to more than a three-week trial. This is dedication through half of a school year and I have no intention to stop. I bet you I make it this entire school year because of how useful it is for me.

What I love about Dinnerly Meal Subscription…

Dinnerly does my grocery shopping. I find it very helpful that the meal service does the grocery shopping for me. Besides using cooking staples (I already have) and adding a few extra items to my grocery list, I am no longer collecting ingredients at the grocery store for my family’s meals.

Dinnerly plans my meals. Dinnerly weekly offers suggestions for kid-friendly meals based on my history and saves and reviews. The menu planner eliminates the difficult planning and offers me weekly ideas. I can quickly confirm what I want to keep on my family’s menu and replace (or erase) what I do not want. This might take me 5 minutes each week.

Dinnerly tastes good. Not one time did my family not love one of the dinnerly supper recipes. I never had to toss a meal. Ingredient quality is there and you cook with fresh ingredients which add plenty of flavors. Does my family have different taste buds? Yes. That being said, there are times that a couple of picky eaters did not favor a dish but for the most part, at least five people like what I have made (that’s a huge accomplishment.)  Most of the time it’s all seven that like the delivered meals as I cater recipes to my family’s taste buds. My husband, who used to order individual meal services, stopped his delivery service and now eats what I cook. Hear me out, it wasn’t awful before it was just not food he wanted. He loves the meals now.

Dinnerly gives me confidence. Confidence in the kitchen was not something I was looking for. I could seriously care less. But I find as I cook more and order more dinnerly meals, I kind of understand the art of cooking. Sorry, I hate to be cliche. But I am learning how to substitute things or add slight variations to improve the preferences of my family/s likes. This was not a skill I had before. I also love the mechatronic pat on my back I get from my family when they say “yum!” or “so good!” (It’s quite frequent.)

I have used dinnerly not only for my immediate family (did I mention I have seven) but also for the extended family that has visited as guests. They loved the meals too. When guests come, I either order double the recipe or I just make adaptions like adding extra rice, sides, or meats.

In fact, this easy and low-cost meal service is mother-in-law approved! My MIL, who I find to be the best home chef ever, totally loved the convenience and cost of this meal service. She is a person who can run to the grocery store and create a five-course dinner with little or no direction. She’s creative with ingredients and flavors and really loved each of the meals I made for her when she visited.

All in all – time, taste and convenience have won me over to use this company week after week after week!

More Dinnerly Reviews

I wanted to supply you with other voices too! It’s important to read reviews before a big purchase like this. Google reviews actually has over 2,000 dinnerly reviews that show 4.5 stars.

Read some of these reviews of Dinnerly. I will share the good and the bad so you can see a variety of what people are sayings.  Pay attention to the bars. Over 2,000 reviews and that’s a pretty heavy 5-star line.

Every meal has been so delicious and my kids love them too! Also, I always have leftovers so the portions are a great size for a family of 5! I would recommend it to anyone.

We received our first Dinnerly box and it was better than expected! The shrimp bake in foil was amazing! We are now on week 3 of our Dinnerly subscription and we have Tuesday as our delivery date but every week thus far we have received an email update on Tuesday that due to unforeseen circumstances, our order will be delivered one day late. We still have our date set on our profile to Tuesday, but have not received our box on Tuesday. Other than this faux pas, the items shipped and quality are excellent & the recipes are very easy and quick!

Please note: I (Ashley) had a shipment issue like Tifnie and Dinnerly refunded me the full box.

There are some really cool recipes! They use less plastic than some of the other companies. You do not get printed recipe cards which is very annoying to me. There are also no pictures on the recipe instructions online, which as a visual learner is sometimes difficult.

Please note: I understand Dawn’s frustration. I wish I had printed cards too. You can print off your online account if this is important to you. Otherwise, use your app.

We’ve done a bunch of meal services but hands down love Dinnerly the best. We love the wide range in vegetarian and chicken options as our family doesn’t eat much beef and pork. Even when forgetting to select meal the options picked are amazing and meet our dietary restrictions. Good produce and great price for the value.

I thought it was important to also give you a 1-star Dinnerly review so you can also read a negative Dinnerly review in addition to the positive dinnerly reviews.

My experience with Dinnerly started out fine. I enjoyed the convenience of planned meals with simple recipes and ingredients delivered. The recipes were down to earth and for the most part worked well for my family of picky eaters. However, over the past year there have been issues with quality, condition and missing ingredients. It was easy to let the little things go by at first. A smashed tomato, meat package leaks, smashed bread, a seasoning left out, the wrong meal sent, etc. Most recently, it was moldy bread and brown basil with pictures attached. I complained a total of 3 times and within a week each time received partial credit for the problems. I didn’t complain each time there was a problem because I didn’t want to mess with it or I would forget. Most of the time, I could use something I had on hand as a substitute. The frustration and disappointment level is just too much for the amount of money I pay for a service to reduce stress and make life easier. I contacted the company on Monday with the attached pics expressing the problems I have had and asked for a full box credit if they would like me to continue the service. On Friday, they offered to credit one meal instead of the box so I cancelled my subscription. I don’t have time to complain with almost every box and the one meal credit wasn’t enough to compensate for the issues in the past or time in the future needed to deal with ingredient problems. Six days ago I received an email requesting that I leave a review, so here it is. I gave three stars to be fair, but if you use this service be prepared to be flexible and have some extra ingredients on hand. If your experience is anything like mine, you will need them. Edit: Changed to a one star based on response below. Obviously, I have already given them feedback directly and they chose not to keep me as a customer.

You can even review Dinnerly too.

Dinnerly Promo Code

Ready to try these well-rounded and restaurant-worthy recipes?

If time and convenience are important to you, I have an exclusive money-saving offer for you! Save with this Dinnerly Voucher. With this Dinnerly savings, you will get the following offer.

• Up to $100s in savings off 5 boxes
• Save a percentage off the first box and other percentages off future boes.
• Super simple recipe instructions

PROMO CODE FOR DINNERLY: Use our exclusive Dinnerly code AFF140W for $140 off up to 5 boxes at checkout. Please note the code is constantly changing. This link will give you the most recent code.

Please note: This promo is frequently changing per season and per holiday. Regardless, for trying just your first box you can have incredible savings!

This dinnerly coupon code requires no commitment—just free meals and nice savings. Oh… and maybe a few super simple recipe instructions that will create family-friendly dinners everyone will love.

Please let me know if you have any further questions!

THIS IS THE MOST RECENT DINNERLY PROMO CODE

Free Dinnerly Box

Once you sign up for Dinnerly and enjoy its rewards, sign up to 10 friends with a free Dinnerly box. Sharing is caring but you will not get any rewards or benefits by sharing.

The promo code above, however, will save them more for the long run – an 8-box delivery. However, if they just want to give it a “try”, they can grab one Dinnerly box free via you. However, if they are committed the Dinnerly coupon promo code is a better choice for saving more money. If they get the free box, they will not be able to use the exclusive code later for savings.

This will give you a free box and them a free box. Win – Win.

Give it a try today and let us know how it goes!

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Our Pinterest community and I would love to see how this worked out for you. Share your Dinnerly experience. Let others know your Diinnerly review, favorite family recipes, and overall results.  Leave a comment here or on Pinterest!

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Last Updated on June 19, 2024 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living