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Australia's meal delivery scoreboard

Every meal delivery service. One honest, living score.

Star ratings disagree, go stale, and hide whether a company is getting better or worse. We weigh every dated review across four platforms — then order the meals ourselves — and publish one score per brand that moves with the evidence.

See the 42 brands we track Read the methodology
42
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Under watch — live review data across ProductReview · Google · Trustpilot · YouTube

The Meal Prep Score

A rating that moves with the evidence, not the marketing.

Aggregate every platform

Weekly snapshots of each brand's rating and review count from ProductReview.com.au, Google and Trustpilot — dated, attributed and linked to the source.

Weight by recency

Recent reviews count for more. A brand coasting on its 2022 reputation drifts down; one that fixed its delivery problems visibly recovers. We show the trend, not just the number.

Order the meals ourselves

Kitchen scale out, labels checked against claims, delivery condition photographed. Our test rubric feeds a fixed share of every score.

Publish the working

Every score page shows its sources, snapshot dates and a changelog of what moved. The formula lives on the methodology page — published before any score.

Sample verdict · format preview
8.2/10
▲ trending up · 90-day 8.5

Verdict: every brand page opens like this — the weighted score, its direction of travel, what reviewers keep praising and keep complaining about, and what we found when we ordered it ourselves. Dated, sourced, and rewritten every week the data moves.

Illustration of the format only — no scores are published until a brand clears our data threshold. No placeholder ratings, ever.

Coverage

Every corner of the market, not just the big four.

Ready-made, meal kits, weight-loss programs and diet-specific kitchens — the national names and the state-based specialists they compete with.

9 brands tracked

High-protein & fitness
5 brands tracked

Plant-based
16 brands tracked

Everyday & healthy

From family dinners to dietitian-designed ranges and seniors/NDIS specialists.
3 brands tracked

Keto & low-carb

The dedicated keto kitchens — a category no review site currently covers properly.
3 brands tracked

Weight-loss programs

Structured programs where the meals come with a plan attached.
6 brands tracked

Meal kits

Cook-it-yourself boxes, from premium to budget.

First-hand testing

We order what we score. Receipts included.

Aggregated stars can't tell you if the chicken arrives warm or the "35g protein" survives a kitchen scale. So a fixed share of every score comes from our own orders:

  • Weights checked against the label, meal by meal
  • Delivery condition and temperature on arrival
  • Days of use-by life left when the box lands
  • Price per meal and per gram of protein, verified on a stated date
  • Photos of what actually turned up — published with the review
Opened insulated meal delivery box with sealed meal containers and ice packs
EVERY TEST PHOTOGRAPHED · PUBLISHED WITH THE SCORE
Kitchen scale weighing a meal portion beside a notebook on a testing bench
THE TEST BENCH · SCALES DON'T DO MARKETING

No score without receipts

Brands stay "Tracking" until the data clears the bar.

A score publishes only once we hold 200+ aggregated reviews, two consecutive weekly snapshots and a completed first-hand test. Until then, no number — because a placeholder rating is just a guess wearing a costume.

Read the full methodology →

Fair questions

Asked and answered.

Why should I trust a site with affiliate links?

Because everything that could bias us is disclosed, and the one thing that can't be bought is the score. Commission relationships appear nowhere in the scoring formula, and the formula is public. Full details on How we make money and in our FAQ.

Where do the ratings come from?

From the platforms Australians actually review on — ProductReview.com.au, Google, Trustpilot and YouTube — each shown with its source, review count and capture date, combined under a published recency-weighted formula, plus our own hands-on testing.

When do the first scores land?

As each brand clears the data threshold: 200+ aggregated reviews, two weekly snapshots, one completed first-hand test. The roster and each brand's status live on Brands we track.

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