Boxes (Meal Kits)

A Box (Meal Kit) is a group of recipes you want to cook together: a week of dinners, a meal-prep Sunday, a dinner party, anything. Magic Meal Kit combines the ingredients across every recipe in the Box into one shopping list, then you can send it to Instacart or Apple Reminders.

Free accounts get one Box. Pro removes the limit.

Create a Box

On the Boxes tab, tap +. Give it a name, pick the recipes you want in it, and save. You can also start an empty Box and add recipes later.

Add or remove recipes

From a Box's detail screen, tap Add Recipes. The picker is sorted by ingredient overlap: recipes that share the most non-pantry ingredients with what's already in the Box appear first. The matching ingredients are listed under each recipe so the overlap is obvious. This makes it easy to build a Box around a few staples (celery, carrots, onions) and have it suggest recipes that reuse them.

To remove a recipe, tap − on its servings stepper until servings reach 0. The recipe drops out of the Box and the shopping list updates.

Scale per recipe

Each recipe in a Box has its own servings stepper. Tap + or − to cook 2 servings of one recipe and 6 of another in the same Box. The combined shopping list recomputes after a brief pause and per-serving nutrition stays accurate. The choice is remembered for next time.

Smart ingredient combining

Ingredients are merged across all recipes in the Box, on-device:

• 3 cloves garlic + 2 garlic cloves becomes 5 cloves garlic.
• Quantities convert smartly when it makes sense: garlic cloves roll up into heads, celery stalks roll up into bunches.
• Each ingredient shows which recipes contributed to it.

Pantry items

Tap the checkbox next to any ingredient to mark it as a pantry item: salt, olive oil, spices, anything you already have. Pantry items move into their own section so the shopping list is just what you actually need to buy. Tap again to move it back.

Order or shop

When the list looks right, scroll to the bottom of the Box for two shopping options:

• Shop with Instacart: opens an Instacart shopping list for one-tap pickup or delivery from your store.
• Export to Reminders (iOS only): drops the list into Apple Reminders so you can check items off in-store.

For details on each, see Grocery shopping.

Duplicate or archive

From a Box's more menu (•••):

• Duplicate: copy the Box (recipes, servings, and pantry flags) under a new name. Use this to reuse a lineup with tweaks.
• Archive: hide the Box without deleting it. Toggle Show archived in the Boxes filter menu to find archived Boxes and unarchive them.

Need help?

Email support@magicmealkit.com and we'll get back to you.