Ready Meals and Meal Deals in the UAE

On a busy weekday, the cheapest cooked lunch in a UAE supermarket is not in a restaurant at all — it is in the chilled aisle, in a plastic tray with a film lid. A single supermarket ready meal costs AED 14.25 to AED 27.75 for a standard 350–450g main on the listings checked for this page: AED 14.25 for a 400g chicken biryani at LuLu and AED 18.89 to AED 20.99 for 400g chilled mains at Carrefour at the value end, AED 24.25 to AED 24.75 for Spinneysfood mains, and AED 22.50 to AED 27.75 for FineFOOD mains at Waitrose, with sandwiches and wraps from AED 8.99, salads from AED 5.00, and 1kg family trays at AED 66.75 to AED 70.00. Genuine meal-deal bundles turn out to be rare: the only family bundle listed on a retailer’s own site is a AED 35.00 biryani bucket meal at LuLu, and no retailer in this comparison publishes a British-style main, snack and drink deal at one set price. Subscription meal plans are a separate market with separate maths — published prices start at AED 735 a month, a two-meal-a-day plan costs AED 899 a month at the cheapest provider that itemises its meals, and the effective cost per meal runs from about AED 13.88 on a three-meal plan to AED 52.00 or more per main meal on premium lunch-and-dinner plans. This page keeps those three layers strictly apart, names the channel behind every price, and shows the working wherever a monthly plan price has been turned into a per-meal figure.

Last updated: 11 November 2026. Every price below was checked on the retailer’s own listing or the meal-plan provider’s own pricing page on 11 November 2026; where a figure comes from a delivery-platform listing for the same retailer, or from a retailer’s page that could only be retrieved in search results, the text and the data behind this page say so. Promotional prices are never presented as standard prices — where a page shows a struck-through price, this page quotes the list price and names the lower figure as a promotion. Supermarket ready-meal ranges change with seasons and store formats, so treat the shelf price on the day as the final word on any single item.

What does a single ready meal actually cost?

The honest answer is a range, because the UAE’s supermarkets price the same idea — one cooked main, ready to heat or eat — at three different levels. At the value end, LuLu sells a 400g chicken biryani under its Tamoosh label for AED 14.25 on its own site, and Carrefour’s chilled iQuality range, made by MAM Foodco and sold as ready-to-eat meals, prices a 400g chicken biryani at AED 18.89 and a 400g penne carbonara at AED 20.99, both including VAT. In the middle, Spinneys’ own Spinneysfood range prices its 450g chicken korma and rice at AED 24.75 and its 400g shepherd’s pie at AED 24.25, with a bolognaise tagliatelle and a butter chicken and rice also listed at AED 24.25. At the premium end, Waitrose’s FineFOOD range prices most 400g mains — butter chicken curry, spaghetti bolognese, chicken katsu curry — at AED 27.75, with a tomato and mozzarella gnocchi and a chicken and mushroom fettuccine at AED 22.50 and a 370g kung pao chicken at AED 23.00. A household comparing like with like should compare the 400g trays: AED 18.89 at Carrefour, AED 24.25 at Spinneys, AED 27.75 at Waitrose for the same weight of cooked food.

Weight is the detail that makes these prices comparable, and every price in this section is a per-pack price with the pack weight stated, exactly as the retailer publishes it. Where a retailer also publishes a per-kilo or per-100g figure, it is worth reading alongside: Carrefour itself prints AED 47.23 per kg under its biryani, and Spinneys prints AED 5.39 per 100g under its tagliatelle. Those unit prices are the fastest way to spot a small pack wearing a small price — a 160g tuna salad can look cheap at the till and still be the dearest food on the shelf per kilo, as the salad section below shows. Family-size trays change the maths again: Waitrose sells 1kg lasagne and cottage pie trays at AED 66.75 to AED 70.00, which divides to AED 16.69 to AED 17.50 per 250g quarter — simple arithmetic on the published pack price, shown as an illustration, not a retailer price — undercutting every single-serve premium tray on this page.

One caution applies to two Spinneys figures: the chicken korma and shepherd’s pie pages, opened for this article, were marked unavailable at the moment while still publishing their prices. The prices are real and match the rest of the range, but this page makes no claim that those two trays were in stock on the day they were checked.

How do the supermarkets compare on chilled and frozen mains?

Retailer	Item (pack)	Price (AED)	Channel
LuLu	Tamoosh Chicken Biryani 400g	14.25	Retailer’s own listing (search results)
Carrefour	iQuality Chicken Biryani 400g	18.89	Retailer’s own listing (opened)
Carrefour	iQuality Penne Carbonara 400g	20.99	Retailer’s own listing (opened)
Waitrose	FineFOOD Tomato & Mozzarella Gnocchi 400g	22.50	Retailer’s own listing (opened)
Waitrose	FineFOOD Kung Pao Chicken 370g	23.00	Retailer’s own listing (opened)
Spinneys	Spinneysfood Shepherd’s Pie 400g	24.25	Retailer’s own listing (opened)
Spinneys	Spinneysfood Chicken Korma and Rice 450g	24.75	Retailer’s own listing (opened)
Waitrose	FineFOOD Macaroni Cheese 360g	25.75	Retailer’s own listing (opened)
Waitrose	FineFOOD Butter Chicken Curry 400g	27.75	Retailer’s own listing (opened)
Waitrose	FineFOOD Beef Lasagne 1kg (family tray)	70.00	Retailer’s own listing (opened)

Read the table as a ladder, not a league table. The bottom rungs are rice-based meals produced at scale for the local market — biryani in two different retailers’ ranges — and the top rungs are imported-style European and premium own-brand dishes. Nothing in the ladder suggests the dearest tray is three times as filling as the cheapest: the weights cluster tightly between 360g and 450g. What changes up the ladder is brand, cuisine and store positioning, which is why the same household can treat Carrefour and LuLu as its weekday default and Waitrose and Spinneys as an occasional upgrade without changing how much food it buys. Households building a weekly shop around these trays will find the wider basket context in our guide to groceries and supermarket costs, where the ready-meal aisle sits alongside the staples it replaces.

The FineFOOD prices above come from Waitrose’s frozen ready-meals shelf; its chilled shelf could not be read with names and prices together for this article, so no chilled Waitrose main is quoted. The frozen shelf alone establishes where Waitrose sits on the ladder: its price points (AED 22.50, 23.00, 25.75, 27.75) repeat consistently across dishes.

What do ready-to-eat salads, sandwiches and wraps cost?

Below the mains sits the lunch layer: food that needs no heating at all. Carrefour’s ready-to-eat range is the most itemised in this comparison. Sandwiches and wraps on its own site run from AED 8.99 — a 300g falafel wrap, a 170g chicken mortadella sandwich and a 150g chicken mayo sandwich all sit at that price — through a 260g chicken Caesar wrap at AED 13.99 and a 280g tuna mayo sandwich at AED 14.99, up to a 215g turkey cheese sandwich at AED 15.99. Its salads and bowls include a 300g Greek salad with feta at AED 15.49, a 294g salmon poke bowl at AED 16.49 and a 160g ready-to-eat tuna salad at AED 14.29. That last item carries the unit-price warning from the section above: Carrefour itself prices it at AED 89.31 per kg, nearly double the per-kilo rate of its own biryani, because the pack is small. Small ready-to-eat pots are convenience food, and they are priced per minute saved, not per gram.

LuLu’s salad bowls show the widest channel split in this whole article, covered in full in the channel section below. On LuLu’s own Kitchen pages, 400g bowls run from AED 16.90 for a Greek fresh salad bowl through AED 19.20 for a fresh vegetable bowl to AED 22.30 for a chef salad bowl, with a chicken Caesar bowl listed at both AED 19.45 and AED 22.40 on two different LuLu pages. On LuLu’s grocery listings on a delivery platform, the same-named 400g bowls run from AED 8.90 to AED 18.90, and a 200g tabouleh costs AED 5.00 to AED 5.98 depending on the store listing. LuLu’s own branded 160g corn and tuna salad, opened on LuLu’s own site, costs AED 12.30. Spinneys, by contrast, prices a small 160g tuna and sweet corn sandwich at AED 22.25 — more than any Carrefour sandwich, wrap or salad in this comparison, and a reminder that at the premium end a sandwich can cost as much as a mid-range main. Waitrose’s superfood salad with salmon, 250g, is listed at AED 32.75, the dearest single salad checked, though its listing was marked unavailable when retrieved.

For a worker buying lunch five days a week, this layer is where the money is. Five Carrefour wraps at AED 8.99 cost AED 44.95 a week; five premium salads at AED 22.40 cost AED 112.00. The gap — roughly AED 67 a week, close to AED 290 a month — is why the lunch layer deserves the same scrutiny as any subscription.

Is there really such a thing as a supermarket meal deal?

Mostly, no — and this section exists to say that plainly, because shoppers arriving from countries with a fixed-price meal deal expect to find one. None of the four retailers in this comparison — Carrefour, LuLu, Spinneys, Waitrose — publishes a named bundle that combines a main, a snack and a drink for one set price on the pages checked for this article. No such deal has been constructed here by adding a sandwich, a crisps packet and a drink together, because the total of three shelf prices is not a meal deal; it is a shopping list. If a retailer launches a genuine bundled deal, it will appear as a single listed bundle price, and that is the only form in which this page will ever quote one.

What does exist is narrower and mostly sits at LuLu. On LuLu’s own site, the Chicken Biryani Bucket Meal is a true family bundle at AED 35.00 for one set: the fuller of LuLu’s two listings describes 2kg of chicken biryani with raita, pickle, pappadam, mini gulab jamun and a 1-litre soft drink. A second LuLu listing for the same product at the same AED 35.00 describes the contents more briefly, and the disagreement is recorded in the data behind this page rather than smoothed over. At AED 35.00 for a 2kg biryani set built for sharing, the bucket undercuts four single biryani trays from any retailer in the table above — four LuLu trays alone would cost AED 57.00 — and it is the closest thing to a family meal deal that a retailer’s own site publishes here.

The second group of bundles belongs to LuLu’s in-store cafe, sold through a delivery platform rather than on LuLu’s own site, and it is labelled that way wherever it appears. The cafe’s combos each combine a main with fries and a soft drink at one listed price: a wrap combo at AED 23.00, a crispy chicken strips meal at AED 25.00, and two zinger sandwich combos at AED 26.00 and AED 27.00, with a kids’ chicken burger meal at AED 15.00. These are cafe value meals, not chilled-aisle deals, and their prices are platform menu prices. Spinneys’ kitchen menus on a delivery platform carry a combo deals heading, but the items under it were sold out with no price shown when checked, so no Spinneys bundle price is quoted. Carrefour sells a family pizza feast product, but no price could be verified from its page, so none is quoted either. A household hunting for a deal should therefore look for sharing formats — bucket meals, family trays, cafe combos — rather than expecting a packaged lunch deal that this market, on the evidence checked, does not offer.

What do subscription meal plans cost per month?

Meal plans invert the supermarket logic: instead of paying per tray, a household pays per month and the provider cooks, portions and delivers daily. The published monthly prices checked for this article span a wide band. The lowest headline is a starting price of AED 735 a month at Delicut, whose own site does not state how many meals a day that starting price buys — it is a floor, not a comparable plan, and it is treated as one here. The cheapest fully itemised plans come from Vitabites: AED 899 a month for two meals a day plus a salad over 24 days, AED 999 a month for three meals a day plus a salad over 24 days, and AED 999 to AED 1,099 a month for plans that add snacks over 26 days. Fittmeals publishes starting prices from AED 989 a month for its vegetarian plan and AED 1,055 for its balanced and weight-loss plans, rising to AED 1,385 for its all-access plan, though the meals-per-day configuration behind each starting price is not stated on its order page. Health Road names AED 1,445 a month for its weight-loss plan and AED 1,530 for its bodybuilding plan, with a simpler plan starting at AED 800.

Above AED 2,000 a month, the offer changes character: fewer, larger, goal-specific meals with consultation and customisation built in. Fuel-Up by Kcal starts its customised plans at AED 1,999 a month. Mind Body & Soul prices lunch and dinner, five days a week with a free daily snack, at AED 2,080 a month for weight loss, AED 2,195 for lifestyle and AED 2,310 for its athletic plan — the same page’s frequently asked questions mention lower starting figures that no itemised plan on the page matches, so only the card prices are quoted here. Kcal’s weight-loss plan, covering three meals and two snacks a day, five days a week for 20 days at 1,000 to 1,400 calories, shows a list price of AED 3,175 struck through with AED 2,499 currently displayed; following the rule this page applies everywhere, AED 3,175 is the list price and AED 2,499 is a current promotional display, not a standard tariff. Two providers price per meal instead of per month: Right Bite starts at AED 22.00 per meal for its essentials plan, AED 26.00 for weight loss, AED 32.00 to AED 33.00 for low-carb and high-protein plans and AED 42.00 for its GLP-1 support plan, with the monthly total depending on the meals, calories and length chosen; Meals On Me starts its lunch and dinner plans at AED 32 per meal and its goal-based plans at AED 42 per meal on its own landing page. Households weighing a plan against home cooking should set these figures beside the basket costs in our budget meals guide, and beside tiffin services, which solve the same weekday problem on a different model.

What does a meal plan work out to per meal?

A monthly price means little until it is divided by the meals it buys, and this page only performs that division where the provider publishes both the price and the meal count. Vitabites is the cleanest case. Its two-meal plan delivers 48 meals a month for AED 899: AED 899 divided by 48 equals AED 18.73 per meal, with a daily salad on top. Its three-meal plan delivers 72 meals for AED 999: AED 999 divided by 72 equals AED 13.88 per meal — the lowest effective per-meal cost in this comparison, and lower than a single premium supermarket tray. Its snack-inclusive plans work out at AED 19.21 per main meal (AED 999 divided by 52 meals) and AED 14.09 per meal (AED 1,099 divided by 78 meals), with snacks and salads additional in both cases. The pattern is the opposite of the supermarket ladder: on a plan, adding a third daily meal lowers the cost of every meal, because the delivery and kitchen costs are already covered.

The premium end divides very differently. Mind Body & Soul’s plans deliver lunch and dinner five days a week; at 20 delivery days in a four-week month, that is 40 main meals, so the weight-loss plan’s AED 2,080 divides to AED 52.00 per main meal, the lifestyle plan’s AED 2,195 to AED 54.88, and the athletic plan’s AED 2,310 to AED 57.75 — with a free snack daily on top of each, as published. That per-meal figure assumes four full weeks of delivery days, and it is stated as an assumption, not hidden. Kcal publishes its own division: AED 125 a day for three meals and two snacks across 20 days, which matches AED 2,499 divided by 20 at the currently displayed price; at the AED 3,175 list price the same day of food divides to AED 158.75. Right Bite and Meals On Me need no division — their per-meal starting rates are the division, already done by the provider — but a starting rate is a floor: three Right Bite essentials meals a day at AED 22.00 would be AED 66.00 a day before any upgrade in plan, calories or protein, and the final monthly total is only fixed when a plan is built. Delicut, Fittmeals and Health Road publish monthly prices without the meal counts needed to divide them honestly, so no per-meal figure is calculated for them anywhere on this page. A plan that will not say what its starting price buys should be compared on its itemised plans only, after the build, never on its headline.

Set against the supermarket, the crossover is easy to locate. A AED 24.25 supermarket main on 20 workdays costs about AED 485 for one meal a day, with no salad, snack or delivery included; a three-meal plan at an effective AED 13.88 per meal covers three meals a day for AED 999 a month. The plan is dearer in total and cheaper per meal, and it removes shopping, cooking and portioning entirely — which is the actual product being sold. Anyone whose real alternative is delivery apps should also run the comparison in our guide to food delivery app costs, where the per-order fees that plans avoid are laid out in full.

Does where you buy change what you pay for the same food?

Yes — for LuLu salads, the channel changes the price more than the product does. LuLu’s own Kitchen pages price a 400g Greek fresh salad bowl at AED 16.90, a chef salad bowl at AED 22.30 and a fresh vegetable bowl at AED 19.20. LuLu’s grocery listings on a delivery platform price the same-named 400g bowls at AED 10.00, AED 15.90 and AED 8.90 respectively in one store listing — in the vegetable bowl’s case, less than half the own-site price. A second platform store listing prices the Greek bowl at AED 16.90, matching the own-site price exactly, and puts a quinoa power salad at AED 13.00 against AED 11.96 in the first listing, and tabouleh at AED 5.98 against AED 5.00. Even LuLu’s own site disagrees with itself: its chicken Caesar bowl is AED 22.40 on its Kitchen page and AED 19.45 on its own product page. None of these figures has been averaged or “corrected” here; they are quoted as a range with the channel named, because that is what a shopper actually faces — the price depends on which doorway into the same retailer the order goes through.

The practical habit follows directly: for a named LuLu bowl, check the retailer’s own site and its platform grocery listing before buying either — the saving was up to AED 10.30 on a single bowl in the listings checked. The street-level prices in our street food guide and the counter prices in our guide to eating out are the outside options that discipline both supermarket and platform prices. Platform prices also sit under platform rules — minimum baskets and delivery fees can return at checkout part of what a lower shelf price saved — so the comparison that counts is the final total for the same basket, in both channels, on the same day.

How can a household keep ready-meal costs down?

Buy the 400g tray, not the 160g pot, when the meal is the point. Unit prices expose the difference: a biryani at AED 47.23 per kg against a small tuna pot at AED 89.31 per kg, both on the same retailer’s own site. Small pots are for snacks and desk drawers; a lunch bought by weight belongs in the larger format.

Use family trays and bucket meals for family dinners. A 1kg tray at AED 66.75 to AED 70.00 or a sharing bucket at AED 35.00 feeds several people for less per portion than any single-serve tray on this page. The format, not a promotion, is where the saving lives — which is why it survives after promotional prices end. For the same sharing idea in a restaurant, our buffet prices guide prices eat-all-you-can meals from AED 25 per person.

Keep the weekday default at the value end of the ladder. A AED 14.25 to AED 20.99 default tray with a premium tray as a weekly treat costs a household far less than a premium default with occasional restraint. The same principle runs through the rest of the food shop, from the bakery counter in our bakeries and desserts price guide to the staples basket — defaults decide budgets, treats do not.

Divide any meal plan before judging it. Ask two questions of every plan: how many meals, over how many days, for this price? If the provider publishes both, do the division shown in this page. If it publishes only a starting price, treat the headline as advertising and judge only the built plan’s final total.

Match the solution to the meal, not the month. Ready meals solve tonight; tiffin solves the workday lunch; a plan solves every meal for a defined goal over a defined month. Households that assign each format to the job it is cheapest at — trays for busy evenings, a plan only for a focused goal period — spend less than households that let one format drift into covering everything. For the seasonal equivalent — hotel and home iftars during Ramadan — our Ramadan iftar prices guide covers the same question for the fasting month.

Frequently asked questions

How much is a ready meal in a supermarket?

On the listings checked on 11 November 2026, a standard 350–450g main costs AED 14.25 at LuLu, AED 18.89 to AED 20.99 at Carrefour, AED 24.25 to AED 24.75 at Spinneys and AED 22.50 to AED 27.75 at Waitrose. Sandwiches and wraps start at AED 8.99 at Carrefour, salads at AED 5.00 on a LuLu platform listing, and 1kg family trays cost AED 66.75 to AED 70.00 at Waitrose.

Is there a main, snack and drink meal deal like in other countries?

Not on the pages checked. None of Carrefour, LuLu, Spinneys or Waitrose publishes a named bundle combining a main, a snack and a drink at one set price. The genuine bundles that exist are sharing formats — a AED 35.00 biryani bucket meal on LuLu’s own site — and cafe combos with fries and a drink, such as LuLu’s in-store cafe combos at AED 23.00 to AED 27.00 on a delivery platform.

What is the cheapest meal plan?

By headline, Delicut starts at AED 735 a month, but its site does not state how many meals a day that price buys. The cheapest fully itemised plan checked is Vitabites at AED 899 a month for two meals a day plus a salad over 24 days — AED 18.73 per meal — and its three-meal plan at AED 999 a month works out lowest per meal, at AED 13.88. Right Bite’s cheapest starting rate is AED 22.00 per meal.

Is a meal plan cheaper than buying ready meals?

Per meal, it can be: a three-meal plan at an effective AED 13.88 per meal undercuts every supermarket main in this comparison. Per month, the plan costs more in total — AED 999 against roughly AED 485 for one supermarket main on 20 workdays — because it covers three meals a day, delivered, with no cooking. Premium lunch-and-dinner plans divide to AED 52.00 or more per main meal, dearer than any tray on this page.

Why is the same salad priced differently in two places?

Because the channel prices it, not just the retailer. LuLu’s own site priced a 400g Greek salad bowl at AED 16.90 while its grocery listing on a delivery platform priced the same-named bowl at AED 10.00 in one store and AED 16.90 in another, and LuLu’s own site priced its chicken Caesar bowl at both AED 19.45 and AED 22.40 on different pages. Check both channels for the same basket before buying.

Are promotional ready-meal prices included in this page?

No. Promotions are never quoted as standard prices here. Where a page shows a struck-through pair — as Kcal’s plan page does, with AED 3,175 struck through and AED 2,499 displayed — this page quotes the list price and names the lower figure as a promotion. Expired catalogue offers, including a past Carrefour catalogue’s half-price deli meals, were dropped entirely.

Sources

Carrefour UAE — iQuality Penne Carbonara 400g chilled ready meal, AED 20.99 (retailer’s own listing, opened): https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/ready-meals/iq-penne-carbonara-400g/p/1604147
Carrefour UAE — iQuality Chicken Biryani 400g, AED 18.89 and AED 47.23 per kg (retailer’s own listing, opened): https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/ready-meals/iq-chicken-biryani-400g/p/1604140
Carrefour UAE — Kallimanis Mexicana Tuna Salad 160g, AED 14.29 (retailer’s own listing, opened): https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/ready-to-eat/kallimanis-mex-tuna-salad-160g/p/2213175
Carrefour UAE — ready-to-eat sandwiches, wraps, salads and poke bowl range, AED 8.99–16.49 (retailer’s own listing, opened): https://www.carrefouruae.com/mafuae/en/sandwich-bap/turkey-and-cheese-croissant-140g/p/2219052?offer=offer_carrefour_
LuLu UAE — Corn Mix Tuna Salad 160g, AED 12.30 (retailer’s own listing, opened): https://gcc.luluhypermarket.com/en-ae/lulu-corn-mix-tuna-salad-160-g/p/2627043
LuLu UAE — Tamoosh Chicken Biryani 400g, AED 14.25 (retailer’s own listing, search results only): https://www.luluhypermarket.com/en-ae/tamoosh-chicken-biryani-400-g/p/1167688
LuLu UAE — The Kitchen salad bowls, AED 16.90–22.40 (retailer’s own listing, search results only): https://gcc.luluhypermarket.com/en-ae/campaign/lulu-kitchen-omn/
LuLu UAE — Chicken Caesar Salad Bowl 400g product page, AED 19.45 (retailer’s own listing, search results only): https://gcc.luluhypermarket.com/en-ae/chicken-caesar-salad-bowl-400-g/p/874901/
LuLu UAE — Chicken Biryani Bucket Meal, AED 35.00 per set with contents listed (retailer’s own listing, search results only): https://gcc.luluhypermarket.com/en-ae/chicken-biryani-bucket-meal-chilled/p/1726126
Talabat — LuLu Hypermarket ready-to-eat salads listing, AED 5.00–18.90 (delivery-platform listing for the retailer, search results only): https://WWW.TALABAT.COM/uae/grocery/791554/lulu-hypermarket-muhaisnah-4/ready-to-eat/salads?aid=1260
Talabat — LuLu Oasis Cafe menu, combos AED 15.00–27.00 (delivery-platform listing for the retailer, search results only): https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/661370/lulu-oasis-cafe-al-hili?aid=1872
Spinneys UAE — Spinneysfood Chicken Korma and Rice 450g, AED 24.75 (retailer’s own listing, opened): https://www.spinneys.com/en-ae/catalogue/spinneys-food-chicken-korma-and-rice-450g_1159/
Spinneys UAE — Spinneysfood Shepherd’s Pie 400g, AED 24.25 (retailer’s own listing, opened): https://www.spinneys.com/en-ae/catalogue/sf-shepherds-pie_19298/
Spinneys UAE — Spinneysfood Bolognaise Tagliatelle, AED 24.25 and AED 5.39 per 100g (retailer’s own listing, search results only): https://www.spinneys.com/en-ae/catalogue/sf-bolognaise-tagliatelle_19301/reviews/add/
Spinneys UAE — Spinneysfood Sandwich Tuna and Sweet Corn 160g, AED 22.25 (retailer’s own listing, search results only): https://www.spinneys.com/en-ae/catalogue/sf-tuna-scorn-sandwich-160g_15800/
Waitrose UAE — FineFOOD frozen ready meals range, AED 19.75–70.00 (retailer’s own listing, opened): https://www.waitrose.ae/en/catalogue/category/frozen/ready-meals_838/
Waitrose UAE — Superfood salad with salmon 250g, AED 32.75 (retailer’s own listing, search results only): https://www.waitrose.ae/en/products/superfood-salmon_21077/
Vitabites — meal plans, AED 899–1,099 per month with meals and days itemised (meal-plan provider’s own pricing page, opened): https://www.vitabites.kitchen/
Delicut — plans from AED 735 per month, FAQ (meal-plan provider’s own pricing page, opened): https://delicut.ae/how-it-works
Fittmeals — plan starting prices, AED 989–1,385 per month (meal-plan provider’s own pricing page, opened): https://fittmeals.ae/en/order
Health Road — meal plans, Weight Loss AED 1,445 and Bodybuilding AED 1,530 per month (meal-plan provider’s own pricing page, opened): https://www.healthroad.store/pages/meal-plans
Mind Body & Soul (Frappy) — Weight Loss AED 2,080, Lifestyle AED 2,195 and Athletic AED 2,310 per month, lunch + dinner 5 days a week (meal-plan provider’s own pricing page, opened): http://www.frappy.ae/
Fuel-Up by Kcal — customised meal plans from AED 1,999 per month (meal-plan provider’s own pricing page, opened): https://fueluplife.com/en-ae/
Kcal — Weight Loss plan, AED 3,175 list struck through with AED 2,499 displayed, AED 125 a day, 20 days, 3 meals + 2 snacks a day (meal-plan provider’s own pricing page, opened): https://kcallife.com/get-started-v2/
Right Bite — meal plans from AED 22.00 to AED 42.00 per meal by plan (meal-plan provider’s own pricing page, opened): https://rightbite.com/en-ae/subscribe-to-a-plan
Meals On Me — Lunch & Dinner plans from AED 32 per meal, Goal-Based plans from AED 42 per meal (meal-plan provider’s own pricing page, search results only): https://hellomealsonme.com/landing-page1

How we checked: every figure in this article was retrieved on 11 November 2026, retailer and provider pages first. The three layers — single ready meals, retailer bundles and subscription plans — were researched separately and are never merged: a bundle appears only where a single bundle price is publicly listed, and no bundle was constructed by adding separate items together. Where the same item carries two prices across channels, or on two pages of the same retailer’s site, both prices are reported with the channel named rather than averaged. Promotional prices are never presented as standard prices: a struck-through pair is quoted at its list price with the displayed figure named as a promotion, a limited-time plan rate is excluded from the standard rates, and an expired catalogue offer was dropped entirely. Per-pack and per-100g bases are kept exactly as published; the only conversions are per-meal divisions of meal-plan prices, each shown with its maths and, where a four-week month is assumed, with that assumption stated. Four pages that could not be opened in this run because the retrieval service hit a rate limit are labelled “search results only” wherever their figures are used.