What are New Zealand’s best-value meal kits? We crunched the numbers

PremiumUpdatedNikki BirrellNZ Herald·6 Aug, 2026 09:00 PM7 mins to readThe best value meal kit depends on your household's make-up, habits and preferences.The best value meal kit depends on your household's make-up, habits and preferences.Meal kits promise to save supermarket trips, food waste and the nightly mental load of deciding what to cook. What they don’t necessarily promise is to save money.

And working out which offers the best value is harder than the enticing “from $X per plate” figures