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Mealime closed. Keep planning, and keep your store.
Mealime shut down on October 21, 2026, and with it a lot of weekly routines. Chomp Shopper keeps yours going: plan your dinners, get one aisle-sorted list, and send it to Instacart, where you pick the store you already use.
Free. No account needed to try it.
A week in the meal planner
How the planner starts your week, from today. Change any night.
- TodaySheet-pan chicken fajitas40 min
- TueOne-pot tomato basil pasta30 min
- WedNothing planned
- ThuSalmon rice bowls30 min
- FriPizza nightEvery Friday, nothing to buy
- SatNothing planned
- SunNothing planned
Your store stays your store
Mealime's recipes moved to Meals Hub, which lives inside one grocery company's store apps. That works if you shop there. If you don't, you'd have to choose between your planner and your store. Here you don't.
Switch this week
Step 1: Plan the week. Add dinners in the meal planner, or start from the week it sets up for you.
Step 2: Tick what you have. Anything already in your kitchen stays off the order.
Step 3: Get Ingredients with Instacart. It opens in a new tab, where you pick any store it offers near you.
The list that week makes
Part of the one list for sheet-pan chicken fajitas, one-pot tomato basil pasta and salmon rice bowls:
Produce
- Yellow onions2 meals2
- Garlic2 meals6 cloves
- Bell peppers3
Meat & Seafood
- Boneless chicken breasts1 ½ lb
- Skin-on salmon fillets1 ½ lb
Pantry & Spices
- Jasmine rice2 cups
- Olive oil, ticked: already at home, left off the order4 tbsp
Ticked means it's already in your kitchen, so it stays off the order.
Get Ingredients sends everything not ticked to Instacart. You pick the store there, and nothing is bought until you check out.
What about my Mealime recipes?
We can't bring them over. Mealime said it would delete personal data when it closed, and we never had access to it. Old Mealime share links don't open any more, so pasting them won't work either.
What does work: if you kept a favorite as a screenshot, a printout or a note, add it as a photo (3 a day free) or type the ingredients in. We read the ingredients and the recipe joins your list like any other. With a free account it's kept in My recipes for next time.
What you did in Mealime, and where it is here
The parts of a Mealime week, in the order a week goes.
Planning the week
Open the meal planner- Planned a week of dinners
- Seven days, dinners first. Add any of our dinners to a night, or mark nights off like takeout or pizza night. With a free account, Auto-fill fills the empty nights from your favorites.
- Changed the servings
- Change a meal's servings and the list follows: 6 servings of a 4-serving recipe buys one and a half times as much.
Finding recipes
See our dinners- Picked from a food team's recipes
- Ten weeknight dinners of our own, checked, photographed and written for cooking at the stove, plus one recipe a week we review and score.
- Filtered by diet
- Recipe search has diet and cuisine filters, and there are printable lists for keto, heart-healthy, high-protein, vegetarian and more.
- Recipes from anywhere else
- Paste a recipe link from almost any site, snap a cookbook page, or type it in. It all lands on the same list.
Shopping
Make a list without planning- Got one grocery list and ordered it
- One list sorted by store aisle, amounts from different recipes added together, sent to Instacart in one tap.
- Took the list to the store
- Tick what you already have, or tick things off as you shop. With a free account the list and its ticks stay in step between your phone and computer.
What it costs
Planning, shopping and ordering are free. The meal planner covers the whole week, ordering with Instacart is always free, and you get 3 recipe photos or files a day. If you build a list from recipe links instead of the planner, a free list holds up to 5 recipes.
Premium is $29 a year (or $3 a month). It removes the daily limits and the 5-recipe limit, and keeps every recipe you save. See what's in each plan.
Questions
Do I need an account?
No. You can plan a week, make a list and order it with Instacart without one. A free account keeps your lists and recipes for next time.
Which stores can I order from?
Any store Instacart offers where you live. You pick it on Instacart after you send the list, so you can keep shopping where you already do.
Can I plan around a diet?
Partly. Recipe search has diet and cuisine filters, and there are printable lists for keto, heart-healthy, high-protein, vegetarian, gluten-free and dairy-free eating. We don't filter for allergies, so always check the labels.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. Chomp Shopper works in your phone's browser. With a free account, your list and its ticks stay in step between your phone and computer.
Is Chomp Shopper part of Mealime?
No. Chomp Shopper isn't affiliated with Mealime or Albertsons Companies. We're a separate service that turns recipes into one aisle-sorted shopping list.
Keep your weekly routine
Plan this week's dinners and send the list to your own store in a few minutes.
Sources and notes
- Mealime, Mealime is closing: the closing date, the deletion of personal data, and Meals Hub in Albertsons Companies grocery apps. Checked November 9, 2026.
- Mealime is a trademark of its owner. Chomp Shopper isn't affiliated with Mealime or Albertsons Companies.
- Chomp Shopper earns a commission when you order with Instacart, at no cost to you. Disclaimer