Gousto alternative
Basket List lets you save your favourite Gousto recipes and shop for the ingredients yourself. Same meals, any supermarket, and your weekly food bill drops by the cost of the subscription.
Gousto is great at the start. New recipes every week, no thinking required, everything lands on your doorstep. But give it six months and you notice a pattern: you're ordering the same 10 to 15 meals every time, the weekly bill hasn't gone down, and you're basically paying a premium for convenience you no longer need.
Once you know what you like, you don't need the box anymore. You just need a quicker way to buy the ingredients.
At £3 to £4 per serving, a family of four doing five meals a week pays £60 to £80. That's £3,000 to £4,000 a year on dinners.
Gousto has around 75 options a week, but you're stuck with their menu. No family favourites, no recipes from cookbooks or other sites.
Everything comes from Gousto's suppliers. You can't grab the Aldi deal or pick up that nicer chicken from the butcher.
Gousto advertises from £2.99 per serving, but that's the smallest box. Most households pay more. Five meals for four people runs £60 to £80 a week — that's £3,000 to £4,000 a year just on weeknight dinners.
A chicken stir-fry that costs £3.50 per serving from Gousto? Under £1.50 with ingredients from Aldi. The recipes are identical. The markup is the only difference.
The typical saving is £25 to £40 a week. Your regular shop goes up slightly, but nowhere near the cost of the subscription. Over a year, that's £1,000 to £1,500 back.
Gousto (2 people, 4 meals)
Around £30 to £35 per week. Works out at £3 to £4 per serving.
Gousto (4 people, 5 meals)
Around £60 to £80 per week. Costs more as you add meals or servings.
Supermarket shop with Basket List (4 people, 5 meals)
Around £35 to £50 per week for the same meals. You choose where to shop and what to spend.
You save the subscription cost
Your regular shop goes up a little, but nowhere near £60 to £80. The net saving is typically £1,000 to £1,500 a year.
You already know what your family eats. You just need a faster way to get the ingredients.
Step 1
Add the recipes your family loves — Gousto favourites, meals from cookbooks, or your own creations. Include the full ingredient list so you never have to look them up again.
Step 2
Choose what you want to cook, set how many people you are feeding, and Basket List builds your shopping list. Shared ingredients are merged so nothing is doubled up.
Step 3
Take your list to Aldi, Tesco, Lidl, Sainsbury's, or wherever has the best prices. Tick items off as you go and share the list with your household in real time.
The best thing about Gousto isn't the box. It's having your meals sorted and knowing what to buy. That's the genuinely useful bit.
Basket List keeps that part. You still pick meals, still get a full ingredient list, still know exactly what to buy. You just buy it yourself at normal prices.
What you lose is the doorstep delivery and the pre-portioned sachets. What you gain is the subscription cost back and the freedom to shop wherever you want.
Meal planning
Gousto: picks meals from a set menu each week. Basket List: you pick from your own saved recipes.
Shopping list
Gousto: no list — ingredients arrive in a box. Basket List: builds your list in seconds from your chosen meals.
Where you shop
Gousto: their suppliers only. Basket List: any supermarket, market, or online shop you like.
Cost (family of 4, 5 meals)
Gousto: £60 to £80 per week. Basket List: £35 to £50 for the same meals.
Your own recipes
Gousto: limited to their menu. Basket List: add any recipe you want, from any source.
Usually people who've been on Gousto for 6+ months. They've found their favourites, they're not discovering new recipes anymore, and the weekly cost is getting harder to justify.
You like the meals. You don't like spending £60 to £80 a week on them. Same dinners, supermarket prices.
You've been on Gousto long enough to know your top 15. Save them once, build a list in 30 seconds, cancel the box.
You want to pick your own fruit, choose your own brands, and grab whatever's on offer. Basket List gives you the list — you decide where to take it.
Those little pre-portioned sachets and ice packs generate a lot of waste. Shopping yourself means buying what you need without the extra packaging.
Try it free for 14 days
Same meals, your supermarket, a fraction of the cost. Cancel the box, keep the recipes.
No card needed. One plan covers your whole household.