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Martha&Marley Spoon offers easy to cook meals though its meal kit delivery services. Its meal are chef-designed recipes and comes with free weekly delivery services to your home’s doorstep. Each meal kit comes with a step-by-step recipe card that makes home cooking quick and convenient. Martha&Marley Spoon lets customers decide which meal they want delivered by sending them emails with meal choices 10 days before the delivery date.
About Martha&Marley Spoon
Martha&Marley Spoon lets consumers experience an easier way of cooking and preparing their meals in the comfort of their home. This can be a huge timesaver by simply eliminating the need to shop and prepare the ingredients. Its chefs are constantly developing and perfecting dishes before publishing this in their weekly menus.
There are two meal box options offered to customers. These are the 2-person box and family box. Each meal plan can be scheduled as to how many nights a week a client requires the service. Their 2-person box is an ideal choice for 2 adults while their family box is more suitable for 2 adults and 2 children. With their flexible subscription, customers can decide which weeks they would like to receive their orders and only pay for what they get. They can also go to their online account and switch weeks on an off as well as plan meal deliveries for up to two months in advance.
Meal Subscription Services
Two-Person Box
- Dinners for two
- Choices of 2, 3, or 4 meals per week
Family Box
- Dinners for 2 adults and 2 children
- Choices of 2, 3, or 4 meals per week
How Much Does It Cost You?
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Meal Plan Type |
Two-Person Box |
Family Box |
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Cost for 2 Meals Per Week |
Price Per Serving: $12 Price Per Week: $48 |
Price Per Serving: $9.50 Price Per Week: $76 |
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Cost for 3 Meals Per Week |
Price Per Serving: $10.25 Price Per Week: $61.50 |
Price Per Serving: $8.90 Price Per Week: $106.80 |
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Cost for 4 Meals Per Week |
Price Per Serving: $9.50 Price Per Week: $76 |
Price Per Serving: $8.20 Price Per Week: $131.20 |
*Prices are subjected to change without prior notice
What’s Included in the Box?
- Step-by-step recipe cards
- Seasonal, organic, and sustainable ingredients
- Chilled recipe box with dish bags
- Pre-portioned and fresh ingredients
Shipping and Delivery
Martha&Marley and Spoon offers free weekly delivery for all their meal plans and ships to almost all US states. Their delivery days and time varies on their customer’s location. Consumers can see what days are available in their area by going to “Pricing” section of Martha&Marley Spoon’s website and by entering their zip code.
Upon delivery, Martha&Marley Spoon uses cool packs for the ingredients to be kept cool. Parcels will never be on the road for longer than 24 hours that’s why customers can ensure optimal freshness from their order.
Support Services
- Telephone Support
Final Thoughts on Martha&Marley Spoon
Martha&Marley Spoon is a good place to shop for good tasting meals with flexible subscription options. They offer clients the option of selecting from its list of new recipes weekly, which is a better option compared to standard meal delivery services which come with limited meal options. Overall, one of the best meal delivery services that offer a good mix of recipes at competitive prices.
- 20 new recipes every week
- Chef-designed recipes
- Free weekly delivery
- Skip a week anytime
- Comes with step-by-step recipe cards
- Flexible subscription
- Featured in The New York Times, Living, Today, Fortune, and Epicurious
Latest Marley Spoon Reviews
I have used many meal plan services/boxes and this was by far the worst not only pricey, but they sent me rotten food and then they refused to give me a refund only a credit. Why would I even consider doing that?
My favorite is Home Chef.
I have tried Hello fresh and Every-plate prior to trying Marley Spoon. It is by far the worst quality of all 3 for me. The box arrived on a Friday and I opened it immediately to put away. The cucumber was too soft and mushy to even use. The zucchini skin was brown and macerated. The inside was edible when I did the recipe. The surface of both lemons is mushy and brown as well. So far the chicken breast I am cooking is some of the poorest quality I have seen and that is just one recipe. Have not even tried the other 2. This is they way they arrived in my box Friday. I have pics if you like. All pantry ingredients are fine. All the fresh ingredients are not to my standard. Thank... Read More
We were excited about our first order. Delivery never arrived. Called customer service the following day and was told it would be arriving a day late. Was not thrilled as food comes on ice and one more day seemed risky. Called back the following day and now having trouble getting full refund. Extremely disappointed. We have used other food delivery services and never experienced such poor customer service.
I was hesitant starting with this service, but now I am very glad that I did. The variety of meals is excellent, meeting my dietary needs just fine. Also, the portions are just right. Instructions are very easy (never more than 6 steps) and the way everything is packed, there is no waste whatsoever. You will have to chose your meals about two weeks in advance - but that is fine with me.
Overall, I am very happy and would highly recommend this meal (make at home) delivery service.
The service was recommended to me by a friend. Unfortunately, 3 of the 4 boxes had issues. The first never arrived. The second had packages that had opened during transit and had to be thrown out. The final package arrived 48 hours late and the ice had completely melted, causing the meat to become warm. The entire box had to be thrown out. For the two boxes with delivery issues, both times the website said the boxes had been delivered timely and in the correct place on the website when that was not true. Customer service was not helpful and is currently insisting that I pay for the upcoming box because I didn't cancel quickly enough (I canceled within 5 min of seeing the last box... Read More
I have received 3 meals/week for 5 weeks. Weeks 1 and 2 were great. Week 3 I received chicken that had a tiny hole in the package which caused raw chicken juice to leak all over my refrigerator. I emailed customer service and they quickly responded to refund me the cost of that meal. Week 4 I received rancid chicken thighs and shrimp that reeked of ammonia. Customer service offered me a credit of $18 for the chicken and $11 for the shrimp, making it the most expensive produce I've ever purchased (I paid $75 for those two meals), plus a trip to the grocery store to buy replacement chicken and shrimp just to salvage those meals (so completely losing the convenience factor). This week I... Read More
I tried this delivery service for several weeks. Menu items were a little strange, It seemed as though they were just trying to be different. The third week They couldn’t find my house, and kept the supposedly refrigerated food to deliver more than 24 hours later. When the food arrived it was still somewhat cool, but box it clearly been through some distress. Pasta was broken open, several vegetables were smashed. Martha and Marley seems to think that throwing loose vegetables into a box is a good way to preserve them. I have tried three other meal deliveries, and no one has package things as poorly as this. Having trade hello fresh, blue apron and Sunbasket, Blue apron seems to have the... Read More
I picked this meal service because of Martha and thought that if she was associating with a meal service brand then it must be good. At first it was! ... then each of the following weeks it got worse and worse. Week 1: Everything looks beautiful and tastes awesome. Week 2: The produce looks terrible and is rotten in places. Edible after cutting off the icky. Week 3: Oh, my herbs got soaking wet in transit and are now gooey piles. A basil based pasta dish didn't taste great with no fresh basil. No biggy, this is the first week of the new shipping of produce set up, they'll learn. (This is when I started trying to get in touch with the company. I have still received no response.) Week 3: I... Read More
I decided to order because of Martha Stewart and I like her recipe also. It seems obvious that money is being cut by using old produce. Most of the produce in the box I would not buy at a grocery store. Ever. It isn’t ok to give refunds as an alternative to providing a fresh, quality product and experience. I decided to try because of “Martha Stewart” name, which I guess comes at such a high cost there isn’t any left for the actual food. I know that she loves fresh organic foods but this company is not like her. My first order- old vegetables like showing brown color. Second order- smashed sour cream on the old vegetables. Third order- it was ok Forth order- old vegetables and... Read More
I decided to order because of Martha Stewart and I like her recipe also. It seems obvious that money is being cut by using old produce. Most of the produce in the box I would not buy at a grocery store. Ever. It isn’t ok to give refunds as an alternative to providing a fresh, quality product and experience. I decided to try because of “Martha Stewart” name, which I guess comes at such a high cost there isn’t any left for the actual food. I know that she loves fresh organic foods but this company is not like her. My first order- old vegetables like showing brown color. Second order- smashed sour cream on the old vegetables. Third order- it was ok Forth order- old vegetables and... Read More
I gave two stars because when you actually receive your meals, most of the recipes are quite good and easy to follow. However, this is only when you receive your meals. I was a Marley Spoon customer for a little over two years. There were too many times where ingredients were missing from meals or when they forgot to pack an entire meal altogether. Sometimes a month would go by and there were no problems, but then you would get 4-5 weeks in a row where there was an issue with the order. But then several months ago, things got worse, and there were weeks where we didn't receive our order at all. The worst part was that Marley Spoon would never contact us to apologize and let us know our... Read More
MarleySpoon is terrible. I have been charged for 3 boxes and only received one. The food in the box I did receive was not very good. I have tried Home Chef and Simply Fresh and they are both better than MarleySpoon. Home Chef ingredients and meals are far superior.
Food packaging open on arrival, poor quality of food (welted everyone), box wasn't sealed properly and meat was all room temp. Customer service was completely useless. There are a ton of these services and one's way better, even if Martha isn't involved. Run run run from these people
Placed my subscription order at 12:57am on April 28th. and by 1:30am (33 minutes later) I had completely canceled the service and received the confirmation email, after I discovered they were going to keep charging me and sending food boxes whether I wanted them or not. I did not care for their recipe selection the first week and tried to reduce the meals from 3 a week to 2 meals a week, but a pop up box came up and said they would not make the changes until AFTER the first box had been delivered as ordered. That ticked me off a little. I then tried to pause delivery of my first box until I could discuss the matter with them and the next pop up box stated they would pause the service... Read More
Tried the service for 4 weeks. The first shipment had a single, minorly damaged good inside. The second week there were multiple damaged goods including a package of fish that had failed along one of it's sealed sides. The third week there were yet again multiple damaged items. At this point, an email was sent using the address provided in their contact us info page and no representative response was ever received. The fourth week had yet again multiple damaged goods including another fish package that had failed and coated everything in the box. Every shipment received out of the Tracy, CA distribution center for the Martha & Marely Spoon service has had damaged goods. The service was... Read More
So far, not good. I’m only on the second week of meals. I selected a Wednesday delivery. First box arrived a day late, nearly thawed, with two ingredients unusable. One of the cold packs leaked on all bottom ingredients. Luckily, they were rinse-able. This week, again FedEx delayed delivery by a day, only to re-delay again another day. The whole box will be spoiled as they don’t seem to refrigerate delayed boxes. At least with Hello Fresh, UPS seemed to refrigerate their delayed packages as they still arrived fresh and cold, with cold packs intact.
After trying Marley Spoon, I intend to try other services. The food is OK, but at a good cafeteria level. While the quality of the food they send is good, I ended up each week with a lot of disposable packaging, as everything is individually wrapped, in addition to the large box. The time listed is unrealistic, at least for me. I found that the recipes were not as clear as I needed, and although they claimed it would take 30 minutes to cook the dish, we were two people working on the dish and it took us almost an hour. The website is not easy to navigate. They provide automatic choices, and the customer can make changes. In my case, I looked at their recommendations, which... Read More
The recipes were good but the customer service was terrible. I kept getting boxes that were missing the main ingredient - like pork for my pork tacos! And they would only refund me for "the ingredient" not the missed meals. So I kept having to run to the store for the missing ingredient. What's the point of a delivery meal system if you have to run to the store every time you get a box?!
On my second box, I was missing the two main ingredients for 2 of the 3 meals: the pork for pork tacos and the cheese ravioli for a ravioli dish! Needless to say, I couldn't make the dishes. Unfortunately too, I'd planned my grocery shopping around this box, so didn't have much else as a backup. In this time with the pandemic, quick trips to the grocery store don't happen. All the customer service offered me was a $25 credit toward my next box. $25 doesn't even cover the two meals, and when you don't get the food, a refund should be issued rather than a credit. Terribly disappointed. I've tried most of the other companies: Hello Fresh, Sun Basket, Blue Apron, etc., and this is by far the... Read More
Yes, I've had problems with missing ingredients and late delivery but...the recipes are AMAZING!!!! I am not kidding, this is the BEST meal subscription service I have had so far. I can't quit. They have improved somewhat and I am hoping it will continue to get better because about 90% of the time, the meals are DYNAMITE! Better than most of the 5* restaurants we have been to. I have also learned a lot about layering flavors, etc. I am literally praying that they get better at packaging and delivery because I will cry if I have to stop this service. My husband and I are addicted to the quality ingredients they send (most of the time) and the creative and flavorful recipes.
Horrible- don’t order for 4 people- they consistently short you and only send for 2- so you end up going to the store anyways. Really hard to get through on phone. Also not so fresh... wasn’t fresh to begin with but when your order gets delayed somewhere overnight, it’s downright wilted and brown.... perhaps not safe? It’s a great idea. Nice graphics but really doesn’t deliver.
Looking at all the negative comments, I am wondering - are we talking about the same service? Our box is always promptly delivered and complete. The meals are delicious and we especially enjoy the variety. We have used a couple of other meal kit services but grew frustrated with the lack of vegetarian choices. I can't recommend Marley Spoon more highly!! FIVE STARS.
missing some small stuff in package from time to time. Last delivery missed two meats out of 3 receipies (steak and pork) and they only refunded me $20. Said I can reuse the rest stuff once I buy meats myself. Very mean, compared with other meal kit vendor.
If I could give zero stars I would. They were downright awful. I had to reroute a package to a FedEx holding facility because I moved and the package never arrived. Marley Spoon had the audacity to blame me. Even though FedEx said Marley spoon could easily file a claim as they realize they make a mistake and the shipper-Marley Spoon- is only one that can file it (which I’m guessing they intend to do anyway and pocket my money and fedex’s money) Marley spoon wouldn’t refund my money. Made me pay for a package that never arrived. They obviously have questionable practices and horrible customer service. It’s pretty amazing, actually. Zero accountability. They weren’t only unhelpful, they were... Read More
I have ordered many food boxes and was looking forward to trying this one. First, I couldn't see the meals until after they charged my card for the first box and I couldn't cancel it before it shipped. When I did see the meals, I couldn't eat any of them. Since I had to pay for them, I sucked it up and chose 3 that might partially fit to my diet. My box was a day late and I was never notified that it was going to be late. When I opened the box, the pizza dough for one recipe was leaking and all over the other products. Cheese for the pizza was missing. I called customer service and they refunded part of my order and said they hoped I would try them again. Quite honestly, the meals I did... Read More