HelloFresh alternative

A HelloFresh alternative when you want more control over the shop

Basket List is for people who like planned dinners but want reusable recipes, supermarket choice, and less subscription lock-in.

Save the meals you repeat, pick what you are cooking this week, set servings, and generate one shopping list for any supermarket.

Basket List is independent and not affiliated with HelloFresh.

What Basket List helps with

  • Keep planned dinners without a recipe-box subscription
  • Save recipes you want to cook again
  • Scale servings for each meal
  • Use any supermarket or online shop

Why people look beyond HelloFresh

Planned dinners are useful. Lock-in is less useful.

HelloFresh can make weeknight cooking feel organised. Basket List is for the point where you want that organisation around your own saved recipes and supermarket shop.

You want to reuse favourites

Save the meals that worked well and bring them back without hunting through old cards or links.

You want more control

Choose the supermarket, brands, produce, substitutions, and quantities that suit your household.

You want one household list

Plan meals and share the same live shopping list with whoever is doing the shop.

Saved meals

Build your own repeatable cookbook

Basket List works best when you save the dinners your household actually wants again. They might be recipe-box-style meals, family favourites, or recipes from public websites.

Once saved, those recipes can be picked for any shop. Set the servings, generate the list, and reuse the same meal next time without rebuilding the ingredients.

Shopping anywhere

Generate the list yourself and choose where it goes

Basket List does not send ingredients. It gives you one organised shopping list built from your chosen recipes.

That list can go to Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury's, Asda, Waitrose, Morrisons, an online shop, or wherever suits the week.

How Basket List replaces the list-building part

It is intentionally simple: keep the recipes, make the list, shop where you like.

Save your repeat meals

Import public recipe URLs or enter recipes manually.

Pick the week

Choose the dinners you want from your saved cookbook.

Scale servings

Set each recipe for the right number of people.

Generate one shop

Use one combined list for the supermarket and share it with your household.

Plan meals, shop anywhere

Try a reusable meal-planning workflow built around your recipes.

Start with a few dinners you already know you like.

HelloFresh vs Basket List

Both support planned cooking at home, but the shopping model is different.

Feature
HelloFresh
Basket List
Meals
Pick from HelloFresh's menu
Pick from your saved recipes
Ingredients
Ingredients are delivered in a box
You generate the list and shop wherever you prefer
Supermarket choice
Not part of the box workflow
Use any supermarket or online shop
Serving changes
Based on the box order
Set servings per recipe before generating a list
Saved recipes
Centred on the service's meals
Kept in your own cookbook
Cost model
Recipe box order
Basket List subscription, no ingredient delivery

Plan meals, shop anywhere

Try a reusable meal-planning workflow built around your recipes.

Start with a few dinners you already know you like.

Frequently asked questions