The Mealime Alternative for Walmart Shoppers

Mealime's closing page says the app “will be discontinued as of October 21, 2026,” and points users to Meals Hub, which it describes as available in Albertsons Companies grocery apps and run by the same team. Albertsons acquired Mealime in 2021. According to the same page:

• Meals Hub is free, including the recipes that used to sit behind Mealime Pro, and it carries every Mealime recipe.
• Pro subscribers won't be charged again before the shutdown.
• Mealime doesn't describe moving your account — you sign in to an Albertsons Companies store app and set preferences again.
• All Mealime personal data is deleted when the app shuts down.
• Without an Albertsons Companies store nearby, you can still browse recipes, build meal plans and generate shopping lists in Meals Hub.

Mealime's own getting-started guide says it “integrates with Kroger, Walmart Grocery, Amazon Fresh and Instacart.” Its Walmart flow walked you through your list one ingredient at a time, searched Walmart for each one, and had you pick the product and amount before checking out. Meals Hub replaces that with shopping inside Albertsons Companies apps. Nothing on the closing page describes a way to send a Meals Hub list to Walmart — so if Walmart is where you buy groceries, a list is the most Meals Hub can give you.

Every competitor cell below comes from that company's own website or help center, checked October 12, 2026 (see Sources).

The column that matters most for a Mealime refugee is the middle one. eMeals, Samsung Food and Plan to Eat keep the Mealime shape — you choose recipes from their catalog or your own, they make a list, and they help you hand it to a store. MindyCart changes who does the deciding and the shopping: you describe the week, Mindy plans it, and the Walmart cart is already built when you open the link.

• You shop Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME or another Albertsons Companies store: use Meals Hub. It's free and has all of Mealime's recipes.
• You want to stay free: Samsung Food's meal planner is free and lists Walmart among its US stores. Meals Hub is free too, though for a Walmart shopper it stops at a list.
• You split groceries across several stores: eMeals works with Walmart, Kroger, Amazon Fresh, Instacart, Albertsons and Safeway, and Plan to Eat hands lists to grocery services. MindyCart is Walmart only.
• You mostly want a recipe box: Plan to Eat is built around saving recipes from any website and planning them on a calendar, for $5.95 a month or $49 a year.
• You want to pick every product yourself: eMeals' review-then-add screen and Samsung Food's product matching keep more of that in your hands.

Mealime's recipes themselves aren't disappearing — Mealime says all of them continue in Meals Hub, and its recipe pages are on mealime.com/recipes today. What goes away is your account: your favorites, plans and settings. The closing FAQ says all personal data is deleted at shutdown, that preferences have to be set up again in Meals Hub, and it doesn't mention an export tool. So before October 21, 2026:

1. Open your Favorites tab and decide which recipes you'd actually cook again.
2. Save a link to each one. On iPhone, Mealime's help center says you can open a recipe, tap the more button and use the share icon. Send the link to yourself or a notes app.
3. Print or save to PDF anything you want offline. Mealime says printing works from its web app (not the phone apps) via the printer icon below a recipe's instructions.
4. Screenshot the rest. A screenshot of the ingredient list and steps is enough to rebuild a recipe later.

1. Save your favorites first (links, printouts or screenshots — see the steps above).
2. Sign up with Google or email, set how many people you cook for (1–8), and pick your Walmart store by ZIP code.
3. Add the recipes you can't live without. Paste a link into the chat, or add a recipe from text or photos in your recipe library.
4. Tell Mindy about the week — how many dinners, cuisines you like, anything to avoid, and which of your saved recipes to include. Add staples and extras while you're there (“grab a bag of chips”).
5. Approve the plan. Mindy merges shared ingredients into one list by grocery section. Remove what you already have, adjust quantities, mark items organic.
6. Start shopping and go about your day. Mindy builds the cart at your Walmart store in the background and sends you a link when it's ready.
7. Claim the cart on Walmart.com, review it, and check out with pickup or delivery. Then cook from the recipe cards on your phone.

New to the flow? See how MindyCart works or a real priced week in the $100 Walmart meal plan.

• Best meal planner that shops Walmart — the wider ranking of Walmart-capable planners
• MindyCart vs eMeals — the head-to-head with the other Walmart one-tap option
• The meal planner that fills your Walmart cart — how the plan-to-cart pipeline works
• Walmart meal plan on a budget — a real, itemized low-cost week

All checked October 12, 2026. Prices and features change — check each service's own site before you subscribe.

• Mealime shutdown date, Meals Hub, Pro billing, data deletion, Meals Hub sign-in and no-Albertsons-store FAQ: mealime.com/closing
• Mealime's Kroger, Walmart Grocery, Amazon Fresh and Instacart integrations and its Walmart flow: Mealime getting-started guide
• Sharing and printing Mealime recipes: Mealime sharing help and Mealime printing help
• eMeals Walmart iOS flow: eMeals support; grocers, price and 14-day trial: emeals.com
• Plan to Eat price and trial: plantoeat.com/pricing; grocery-service handoff: Plan to Eat help
• Samsung Food US stores: Integrated Stores; free planner: samsungfood.com/meal-planner; Samsung Food+ price: Samsung Food help

This page is published by MindyCart, one of the options it compares. MindyCart is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Walmart, Mealime or Albertsons Companies. Competitor facts come from each company's own pages, linked above. Read our editorial policy for how we compare products.