CookUnity - A Chef Marketplace 4+

I’m so grateful I found CookUnity. I had tried EveryPlate and Hello Fresh, which the meals were good, but significantly more time and effort than they let on. I just don’t currently have the bandwidth to do all that right now. I decided to at least TRY a premade meal service instead, although felt a little skeptical that premade meals would be good. I was pleasantly surprised! There are so many tasty options, so many opportunities to try new things from different cultures, so much info about the meals, to assist in making decisions. Nutrition facts, meal descriptions, ingredients list, macro breakdown, and my favorite, ratings and reviews. You can tailor your search results in so many ways, you can save your favorites, you can make multiple preference profiles… the list goes on and on. It can be a little on the pricy side, but if you tend to struggle to plan and/or cook and often end up eating out or getting take out, these will save you some money and some time and trouble. I order them every week now. My husband has plenty of meals for work, my picky teen daughter enjoys picking out which meals she wants for the week, and I have less shopping, cooking, and dishes to do.

I’ve been a customer for a while and Cookunity has become almost a weekly habit for us at this point. The food is the best at-home service out there, which I’d expect with real chefs creating the recipes. We mostly use the App as it’s the most convenient, but also use the site if we are casually browsing the menu together. The App used to crash and give errors at times so we’d have to use the site more, but it’s been better lately which I’m happy about because the App is easier when on the move. We do try to always pick meals ourselves because the few times we missed the deadline we get the same food. If I could give feedback it would be the menu is large which is why we love Cookunity, but we like to try new things and it takes time to browse everything each week. I wish there were more personally curated parts of the menu based on what I select in my eating preferences and what I like. But overall the App is fun and easy and we wanted to say thank you to Cookunity, it’s made our eating lives easier and we love supporting new chefs. Are there ever events at restaurants with the chefs in person?

I started this meal delivery in January 2025. I absolutely love it and would recommend to all! My favorite things are: the quality, variety (I haven’t gotten sick of it yet bc they have so many options!!!), and affordability (comparing to other meal delivery price points). My diet is somewhat restricted in sensitivities to dairy and gluten, but not true allergies, so I can dabble and enjoy so many options in this service. They have the greatest variety I have seen in any service I’ve tried and a lot of healthy options outside and inside of a variety of dietary needs and culinary desires. It’s super fun to compare with my friend in NY (I’m in SF Bay Area), and we don’t have a ton of menu overlap, so we can’t really recommend to each other, though we try, but we can both agree we love all the options! If you’re on the fence, take the leap. You won’t regret giving it a try!