Cooking with Robots
Best fit: Pantry-first, automatically generated plans with saved household settings
Boundary: AI and text matching can miss hazards; users must verify labels, ingredients, and preparation
Evidence-based comparison
Automated meal planners for preferences and allergies
Cooking with Robots is the strongest fit here when you want an automatically generated week built from a saved pantry and household settings. Mealime offers a more defined set of common restriction controls; Eat This Much emphasizes targets such as nutrition, budget, and schedule; Samsung Food saves dislikes and health goals; NumYum explicitly centers a shared household profile.
None of these products should be treated as a substitute for current package labels, cross-contact controls, or medical advice.
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Side-by-side evidence table
| Product | Automatic weekly plan | Saved preferences / dislikes | Allergy / restriction handling | Pantry input | Grocery output | Verified price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooking with Robots | Yes — generates a week of meals | Allergies, dietary rules, favorite cuisines, complexity, and serving size; no dislike field | Settings are sent to generation, then title, description, and ingredient names are post-filtered | Manual pantry plus photo scan | Missing-item list; optional Instacart handoff | $0/month; optional grocery orders cost extra |
| Mealime | Not established in the cited allergy-support pages | 10 documented allergy/restriction choices | Recipe filtering plus grocery-list allergen warnings for documented choices | Not established in the cited sources | Grocery-list allergen warnings are documented | Not compared; no current first-party price was reviewed |
| Eat This Much | Yes — automated meal plans are a core claim | Food preferences, budget, and schedule are documented | Claims to avoid foods based on allergies | Not established in the cited source | Not established in the cited source | Not compared; no current first-party price was reviewed |
| Samsung Food | Yes — AI-tailored weekly plans are documented | Allergies, avoidances, dislikes, tastes, and dietary needs are documented | Saved allergy and avoidance settings inform meal planning | Not established in the cited meal-planner sources | Not established in the cited meal-planner sources | Not compared; no current first-party price was reviewed |
| NumYum | AI meal planning is documented | Household allergies, dislikes, and preferences are documented | Saved household allergy settings inform planning | Not established in the cited source | Not established in the cited source | Not compared; no current first-party price was reviewed |
“Not established” means the first-party sources reviewed for this comparison did not document the attribute; it does not prove the feature is absent. We omit unverified prices instead of repeating figures from third-party listicles.
Safety boundaries and primary sources
Mealime
Best fit: A defined, fixed set of common allergy and restriction controls
Boundary: Mealime warns that manufacturer and factory ingredients can vary
Eat This Much
Best fit: Automated planning around nutrition, budget, and schedule targets
Boundary: No software safety guarantee was found in the cited planner page
Samsung Food
Best fit: AI-tailored plans using tastes, dietary needs, and health goals
Boundary: No software safety guarantee was found in the cited planner pages
NumYum
Best fit: Household profiles that persist allergies, dislikes, and preferences
Boundary: NumYum tells users to verify packaged-food ingredients
Methodology and disclosure
Nate Lemos, the founder of Cooking with Robots, reviewed each named product's primary pages against the same fields shown above on August 5, 2026. This is a first-party comparison, not independent testing. Cooking with Robots' entries were checked against its live settings, data model, meal-generation path, ingredient filter, pantry workflow, grocery output, and published pricing. We did not award scores, infer missing features, fabricate usage results, or use customer counts as a quality proxy.
Read the full reviewed meal-planner roundup and the exact Cooking with Robots preference and allergy workflow.
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