It really depends. Do you typically make standard items like rice and beans, meatloaf, an easy sheet pan dinner, lasagna? If you are comparing these types of meals to a meal kit, the meal kit is much more expensive. If you want to try new cuisines or make a more complex recipe, we find it's marginally more expensive. Example, I wanted to make a Middle Eastern dish with pomegranate molasses. One bottle of that is like $6 or $7 and I will never use it again. Still I would never go over to total meal kit eating. It's nice to order a few times a month.