How Much Does Little Spoon Cost Per Meal, Delivery Included

The site answers this with one number, and it is the cheapest number available anywhere in the range.

So how much does Little Spoon cost per meal is really four questions, because the brand sells four meal ranges at four different rates, and the gap between the cheapest and the dearest of them is wider than most people expect. Here is each one with delivery counted in.

Four Ranges, Four Prices

Three ninety two at the cheap end on purees, $8.28 at the dear end on packed lunches.

Babyblends are the purees and the cheapest thing sold here, at $4.28 on the 14 blend box and $3.92 on the 28, while Biteables and Plates share a structure running from $7.74 on an 8 meal box down to $6.49 on 24.

Lunchers, the packed lunch range, are the dearest of the four at $8.28 a meal on a 7 pack and $7.92 on a 14 pack, which is the smallest tiering discount anywhere in the brand.

That is $3.92 to $8.28 inside one brand, which is 111.2% between the cheapest and dearest meal. A per meal price quoted without naming the range is close to meaningless.

The Advertised Price Is the Bulk Price

Six forty nine a meal arrives at a 24 meal box size, not at the entry level.

The Plates page says starting at $6.49 per meal. In most categories a starting price is what the smallest purchase costs. Here it is the opposite.

The smallest box size we found figures for is 8 meals at $7.74 a meal, and the advertised $6.49 only arrives once you are ordering 24 meals a fortnight.

That is $1.25 a meal, or 16.1%. Nothing dishonest is happening, since starting at does describe the lowest price in the range, but it is not what a new customer trying a small box will pay.

Lunchers tier more gently at 4.3% between their two box sizes, and Babyblends sit between the two at 8.4% between 14 blends and 28, so the size of the bulk discount itself varies by range.

Then There Is Delivery

Ten dollars a delivery, twice a month, which is $20 a month and $240 a year.

The delivery charge never appears in a per meal price anywhere, and on a small box size it is comfortably the largest distortion in the whole calculation.

Ten dollars spread across an 8 plate box is $1.25 a meal, or 19.3% on top of $6.49. Spread across 24 plates it is $0.42, or 6.5%.

So a small order gets punished twice over, once on the higher per meal price the small box size carries and again on the larger share of a flat delivery charge that each meal in it has to absorb.

One honest note. Published delivery charges differ across the sources we read, with older write ups quoting $5 and $6 by range against a recent one quoting $10, and we have used the most recent figure we could find rather than the friendliest. Check your own cart.

The Numbers With Delivery In

From $4.28 a meal on bulk purees up to $9.71 on the smallest Lunchers box, which is 2.27 times.

This table answers the question properly, and every figure in it is the published box price plus a $10 delivery charge divided by the number of meals in that box.

Bulk Babyblends land at $4.28 delivered, which matches the undelivered price of the small box exactly, so doubling the order buys the delivery.

A 7 pack of Lunchers delivered is $9.71 a meal. That is 2.27 times the cheapest delivered meal in the same brand.

1. Name the range before quoting any per meal price
2. Order the largest box size you will actually eat
3. Count the delivery charge as part of the price
4. Compare against what you spend now, not a pouch

What It Costs a Month

Two purees a day is about $235 a month. Three Plates a day is about $584.

A per meal figure is easy to wave away as small change. A monthly one built from the same number tends to settle the argument.

Two Babyblends a day at $3.92 is $7.84 a day, or about $235 across a 30 day month before delivery. Three Plates a day at $6.49 is $19.47, or about $584.

Add roughly $20 a month of delivery charge to either, which comes to about $240 across a year.

Almost nobody runs a child's whole diet off this service, so the sensible move is to take the box size that covers the meals you genuinely struggle to make and shop for everything else.

Where Published Figures Disagree

The per meal price for this brand is reported inconsistently right across the internet, which is a good part of the reason the question keeps getting asked in the first place.

One widely cited write up gives Babyblends at $3.50, $3.20 and $2.75 while a recent review gives $2.96 to $4.04, and toddler meals appear as $5.00 to $6.50 in one place and $5.83 to $7.50 in another. None of those are wrong, because they were accurate on different dates at different box sizes and some fold in a first box discount.

Build a cart, get to the final screen, and read the per meal price the checkout gives you rather than trusting any article on the subject, including this one.

Final Verdict

Six out of ten on pricing clarity. The honest answer to how much does Little Spoon cost per meal is a range, not a figure. Purees are $4.28 to $3.92 before delivery and $4.28 at the best box size with delivery in, which is genuinely competitive. Plates and Biteables run $7.74 down to $6.49, Lunchers $8.28 down to $7.92, and the advertised $6.49 requires a 24 meal box size. A $10 delivery charge twice a month adds $1.25 a meal on the smallest box and $0.42 on the largest, which is the figure nobody quotes and the one that decides whether a small trial box feels fair.

FAQs

What is the cheapest Little Spoon meal?

A Babyblend on the 28 blend box at $3.92, or $4.28 a meal once a $10 delivery charge is spread across it.

Why is the advertised price $6.49?

Because that is the Plates rate at the largest box size of 24 meals. The 8 meal box works out at $7.74 before delivery.

How much is delivery?

Recent figures put it at $10 per delivery with two deliveries a month, so about $20 a month and $240 a year. Older sources quote less, so check your cart.

What do Lunchers cost?

$8.28 a meal on a 7 pack and $7.92 on a 14 pack, which makes them the dearest range per meal.

Does a bigger box size save much?

On Plates it is 16.1% a meal, on Babyblends 8.4% and on Lunchers 4.3%, with a flat delivery charge spread thinner on top of all three.