The Best Baby Food Subscription Services and Plans

One of the many food delivery companies out of California, Los Angeles–based Yumi is the brainchild of a former investment banker and business journalist. It's billed as a 'science-based meal delivery service' that uses organic, nutrient-rich ingredients to support a baby's mind in their formative first thousand days. Yumi Baby Food's opening menu includes single-ingredient purees (carrots, black beans, broccoli, etc.) and exotic blends like sweet potato, red bell pepper, apple, chard, and quinoa. They're low in sugar and free of common allergens. Yumi foods come in 4.5-ounce recyclable jars. And you can even get blends created by chefs, for toddlers with discerning palettes. Subscription plans range from 8-24 meals per week, and start at $35 for one meal per day. Yumi delivers to the 48 contiguous states.

This is a plan for older kids, toddlers and up. You pick a plan that suits you and choose from the weekly menu; there's even an option for picky eaters. Each box contains fully-prepared and ready-to-heat meals, and options range from classic cheese ravioli to organic gluten-free chicken nuggets. If you go with the 12 meals per week option, you'll pay $6 per meal.

These baby food pouches hit all the buzzwords: Organic, vegan, non-GMO, dairy free, gluten free, with no sugar added. You can choose between 10 different flavors, including sweet potato mango, white bean apple pumpkin, and spinach apple sweet potato. And per the brand, the food was designed specifically to support baby brain development until age three. Pouches start a $2.60 but get progressively cheaper the more you buy. A package of 56 pouches cost $123.

The founders of Little Spoon promise fresh, nutrient-rich, non-heat-pasteurized baby food. Blends like carrot-pear, banana-mango, and pea-pear-mint are customized by age (and your kid's preferences), are delivered every other week. Subscriptions are based on the meals you want per day: $3.49 per jar for one a day, $3.21 per jar for two a day, and $2.74 per jar for three a day. Their most popular plan, two meals per day, nets out to $45 per week. And because they believe not only in truth in advertising, but also that babies should eat from a spoon rather than suck from a pouch, each container comes with a little spoon to take on the go. The brand delivers nationwide.

This family-owned brands specialized in pure fruit and vegetables that are regeneratively farmed. Meaning, they're better for the planet. Sample blends include mango, carrot, banana, or pear, or apple, sweet potato, and beet. Each pouch is organic, vegan, non-GMO, and recyclable.

Finger foods are messy, sure, but they also teach kids to feed themselves. And they expose them to different textures. Tiny Organics offers plant-based finger foods that are made fresh and shipped frozen. There's a quinoa, mushroom, and fennel blend. Or a kale and quinoa bowl. Among many other concoctions we want to eat ourselves. The meals last 3 months in the freezer, or 3 days in the fridge, and are ideal for babies 8 months and older. The meals do not contain milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, or soybeans; the brand delivers to the 48 contiguous states. The meals cost $5.49 each, or $4.69 if you buy 24 at once.

Raised Real, an organic plant-based food subscription, sends flash-frozen foods to your door and lets you do the steaming and pureeing. It was founded by a dietician, Michelle Davenport, and former executive of culinary startup Orange Chef, Steven Kontz, and aims to 'send the healthiest, easiest meals to make for your tiny humans.' Meals range from simple strawberries and quinoa up to more elaborate packages of peas, zucchini, hemp seeds, basil, and avocado oil. You can get a dozen a week for $66 or two dozen for $120, with per-meal prices of $5.50 and $5, respectively; the brand delivers to the 48 contiguous states.

You're covered whether you need new baby food flavors to please an infant still doing purées, or bigger meals for a 1-year-old, as plans are broken down by age: Babies (6, 8, and 10 months), toddlers (1 to 3 years old), and kids (4-14). Baby meals start a $6.89, and they have a $39 order minimum. Meals include everything from ground beef and carrot puree to steamed Norwegian salmon, English peas, golden potato, and dill! Dinners, delivered nationwide, are ready to reheat and serve.