Hungryroot alternative
Hungryroot fills your cart. We send a chef who cooks it.
4.9 ★ · 35K+ dinners cooked
Two ways to handle dinner
Hungryroot is groceries plus quick recipes in one weekly delivery, around $9 to $11 a dinner serving. Good if you still want to cook. Livin is a vetted chef who cooks the meals you choose, fresh in your kitchen, with macros computed from USDA data on every dish. One saves you the store. The other saves you the stove.
| What we compared | Livin | Hungryroot |
|---|---|---|
| Who's cooking | ||
| Model | LivinA chef cooks your chosen meals in your kitchen | HungryrootGroceries and recipes delivered, you cook |
| Who does the cooking | LivinYour chef, shopping through cleanup | HungryrootYou, every meal |
| What you eat | ||
| Meal quality | LivinChef technique, cooked fresh the day you eat | HungryrootQuick-assembly recipes, most under 15 minutes |
| Variety | Livin450+ dishes you choose from | HungryrootWide catalog, but ingredient bases repeat |
| Nutrition data | LivinComputed from USDA data, per dish | HungryrootStandard packaged-food labels |
| What it asks of you | ||
| Allergies and hard-nos | LivinYour chef cooks around them at the ingredient level | HungryrootYou filter the catalog and check labels yourself |
| Weekly effort | LivinPick your meals, the chef handles the rest | HungryrootEdit the cart, unpack, cook, clean |
| Coverage | LivinAtlanta and Los Angeles | HungryrootMost of the US |
| What it costs | ||
| Per plate | LivinAround $26 a plate. | HungryrootAbout $9 to $11 a serving for dinners Free shipping over $70, otherwise $6.99 |
Hungryroot details verified July 2026.
Now, the easiest part of your day: dinner.
Fresh, not frozen.
Your chef shops for fresh ingredients, with your household's preferences and needs as their guide.
Cooked in your kitchen.
No commissary. No ghost kitchen. No meal kit box. Your stove, your standards, your table.
This month, your chef is making
Real dishes from the current menu. Customizable, with USDA-verified nutrition on every plate.
“For the first Sunday in like a year, I don't feel exhausted. I actually went outside and played with my boys. It was awesome! This is truly the best thing I've spent money on in a long time! Best. Service. Ever!”
— Crystal, Executive and Mom of Twins
Be honest with yourself
Stay with Hungryroot if
You actually enjoy the cooking and just hate the shopping. You want groceries and snacks in the same box, a per-serving price near $9, and national delivery. You live outside Atlanta or Los Angeles. For a shop-for-me service at grocery prices, Hungryroot is hard to beat.
Switch to Livin if
You liked Hungryroot for killing the grocery run, but you are still cooking every night and it shows. You want dinner handled, not just delivered. You have allergies or hard-nos you would rather hand to a person than manage with filters, and you want to pick meals with the macros visible on every dish.
It gets better every week
A box is the same on week one and week fifty. Livin learns. You give feedback, your profile updates, next week is sharper. Same chef or a new one.
- 01
We learn your household.
Allergies, picky eaters, the way your Tuesdays go. We build your profile before anyone steps in your kitchen.
- 02
We propose your menu
Each week, dinners built for your household. Keep what we send, swap a dish, or send us a request.
- 03
Your chef handles the kitchen
Shopping, cooking, cleanup. Plus heating notes so the rest of the week is easy.
- 04
We keep tuning
You give feedback. We update your profile. Sometimes a new dish. Sometimes a new chef. Either way, next week is sharper.
Who's behind it
“I built Livin so dinner could feel like an actual part of life again, not a thing to survive.”
Erica
Founder of Livin
A chef who learns your household. Not a box from a menu.
Get StartedFrequently asked questions
- It depends on which chore you want gone. If it is shopping, another grocery-delivery service does the same job. If it is cooking, Livin is the step up. You choose meals from 450+ dishes, and a vetted chef cooks them fresh in your kitchen, working around your allergies and dietary needs. Livin serves Atlanta and Los Angeles.
- For a lot of people, yes. Dinners run about $9 to $11 a serving, the quiz builds your cart, and recipes are fast. The trade-offs are that you still cook everything, the recipes lean simple, and carts auto-fill if you forget to edit them. If cooking is the part you want gone, it is the wrong tool.
- Mostly no. Hungryroot is groceries plus quick recipes, so nearly everything needs cooking or assembly. Livin works the opposite way. Your chef cooks your chosen meals fresh in your kitchen each week, so dinner is done when they leave.
- Hungryroot lets you filter the catalog by dietary preference, and you check the labels. With Livin, you set your allergies, dietary needs, and hard-nos in your household profile, and your chef cooks around them at the ingredient level.
- Livin runs about $26 a plate, roughly double a Hungryroot dinner serving once you count your time. The difference is what is included: a vetted chef shops, cooks your picks fresh in your kitchen, and cleans up. Hungryroot delivers the ingredients. Livin delivers the finished dinner and your evening back.