Mindful Chef alternative
Save favourite meals, set servings, and build one list for your preferred supermarket.
Basket List is a planning and shopping-list app. It does not deliver or pre-portion ingredients.
“Now I just select the recipes I want for the week and they're added to my Basket List, neatly categorised and ready to shop.”
A delivered box can be useful for discovery and convenience. Once you know the meals you want to repeat, you may prefer to choose the shop, brands, pack sizes and produce yourself.
Basket List keeps the reusable part of that workflow: recipes, servings and one organised shopping list.
Use the same plan at an online supermarket, a local shop or wherever suits the week.
Scale each saved recipe for the people eating it before the ingredients reach the list.
Decide where organic matters, swap ingredients, and choose pack sizes that work for your household.
Mindful Chef supplies a menu and sends the selected ingredients. Basket List starts with recipes you save and prepares the supermarket list instead.
Shopping yourself gives you control over brands, pack sizes, substitutions and offers. It also means doing the shop and portioning ingredients yourself.
Compare costs using your real meals and usual supermarket. Recipe choice, household size, delivery, offers and waste all change the result.
Meal choice
Mindful Chef: choose from its menu. Basket List: choose from your saved recipes.
Ingredients
Mindful Chef: supplied in the box. Basket List: bought and portioned by you.
Shopping choice
Mindful Chef: selected suppliers. Basket List: any supermarket, market or local shop.
Weekly effort
Mindful Chef: order and unpack. Basket List: generate the list and complete the shop.
You know which healthy meals work for you. This just makes it easier to shop for them.
Step 1
Add the meals your family loves: Mindful Chef favourites, recipes 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 Waitrose, Tesco, Aldi, or wherever you prefer. Pick organic if you want to. Tick items off as you go and share the list with your household in real time.
The valuable bit of Mindful Chef is knowing your week is sorted with healthy meals. That doesn't change. You still pick meals, still get the full ingredient list, still know exactly what to buy.
What changes is where the food comes from. You choose the supermarket and compare the real basket cost for your recipes, brands and household.
Bonus: you get to choose your own organic brands and pick produce that actually looks good to you.
Meal planning
Mindful Chef: picks meals from a set menu each week. Basket List: you pick from your own saved recipes.
Shopping list
Mindful Chef: no list because ingredients arrive in a box. Basket List: builds your list in seconds from your chosen meals.
Where you shop
Mindful Chef: their suppliers only. Basket List: any supermarket, market, or farm shop you like.
Cost comparison
Mindful Chef: the box price. Basket List: your chosen ingredients plus the app plan, so the result depends on your shop.
Your own recipes
Mindful Chef: limited to their menu. Basket List: add any recipe you want, from any source.
People who value healthy meal planning but want more control over ingredients, servings and where they shop.
You love the clean, gluten-free meals but want more control over the weekly spend. Basket List lets you plan similar healthy dinners, choose your own supermarket ingredients, and decide where organic matters most.
After months with Mindful Chef, you have your favourites sorted. Save them once, build your weekly list in under a minute, and compare the supermarket version for your own household.
Mindful Chef picks the ingredients for you. Some people want to choose their own organic brands, shop at their favourite store, or swap in seasonal produce. Basket List gives you the list. You decide the rest.
Even with Mindful Chef's eco efforts, recipe boxes still come with a lot of packaging. When you shop yourself, you buy only what you need and cut down on single-use wrapping.
Try it for free
Same healthy meal ideas, your choice of shop, and a clearer way to compare costs.
No card needed. One plan covers your whole household.
It can, but there is no single saving that applies to every household. Compare the recipes, pack sizes, offers, delivery fees and ingredients you actually choose.
You control the recipes and ingredients. Save the meals that suit you, then choose the produce, brands and substitutions at your preferred shop.
No. You shop yourself. Basket List helps you save recipes and build the shopping list; it does not deliver ingredients.
Create a cookbook, import or add your first recipe, then select meals and set servings to build a shopping list.
Yes. One cookbook, shared between everyone. Same recipes, same lists, no extra charge.
14 days, full access, no card.
