Questions
Everything you might ask
How the weekly menus and cart fill work, which stores and devices we support, real grocery pricing, and how we handle your privacy.
The basics
What is Satiafy?
Satiafy is like a meal-kit service without the box. Every week it sets you a menu of complete dinners, builds one shopping list, and can load that list straight into your grocery store’s online cart. You buy the ingredients at your normal store at the store’s own prices, so you get meal-kit convenience without the meal-kit markup.
How is this different from a meal kit like HelloFresh or Chefs Plate?
Meal kits ship you pre-portioned food and charge a premium per serving for it. Satiafy doesn’t ship anything and doesn’t mark up your groceries. You get the same “someone already decided dinner and it’s ready to cook” feeling, but you shop at your own store at real grocery prices, which is usually far cheaper.
Do I still have to cook?
Yes, but the deciding, listing, and shopping are done for you. Each meal comes with step-by-step photo instructions, exact cuts and timings, like a meal kit, so cooking is low-effort even on a weeknight.
How do the weekly menus work? Can I control what shows up?
Set your diet, servings, and stores once, and a full menu of dinners is set for you each week. Keep the whole week as planned, or swap, re-pick, or customize any meal. The menu also leans toward what’s genuinely on sale, so the meals tend to be cheaper without you doing anything.
Do the meals repeat? How much variety is there?
There’s a large recipe box and the menu rotates, so you’re not eating the same five dinners. Recipes are also chosen to share ingredients across the week, so the other half of that bunch of cilantro gets used instead of wasted.
Can I see the recipes before I sign up?
Yes. The full recipe box is free to browse, along with the sale finder and price tracker, with no account needed.
How the pricing and cart fill work
How do you know the prices at my store?
We read the public shelf and sale prices from your stores’ own online listings every day, one store at a time. So when a dinner shows a price, it reflects what that item actually costs at your store this week, not a national average or an old flyer.
Can I compare an ingredient's price across stores?
Yes, that’s the free price tracker. Search any ingredient and see its current price at every supported store, which store is cheapest this week, and how the price has moved over time. It’s one of the things that sets us apart: most planners show a single price, or none at all.
How does the cart fill actually load my cart?
The browser extension works inside the session you’re already signed into at the store, and adds each matched item to that store’s own online cart, the same way clicking add-to-cart would. It is not Instacart: no per-item markup, no middleman fees from us. You review the cart and check out on the store’s site, where its usual pickup or delivery options (and any store fees) apply as normal.
Why do some cart fills take longer than others?
Save-On family stores accept the whole list in a few quick requests, so those carts fill in seconds. Loblaw banners (Superstore, No Frills, Loblaws, Your Independent Grocer) only accept items one at a time, and when something is out of stock at your store we also try substitutes one at a time, so a 30-item list can take a couple of minutes. Safeway, Sobeys, Thrifty Foods and FreshCo carts fill on Voila, the Sobeys family's online store. Voila also adds one item at a time and checks each item's availability at your pickup store first, so those fills take a couple of minutes too. Metro and Food Basics carts also fill one item at a time on the banner's own site. The progress counter keeps moving the whole time; leave the tab open and it will finish.
How do you decide whether to split my list across stores?
You’re in control. On the shopping list you pick up to three stores; we price the whole list at each one and show what a split saves next to shopping mostly at your favourite. If the second stop is only saving pocket change, you’ll see that and can keep it to one trip.
How do you work out the price per serving?
We price every ingredient a recipe uses at your store’s current shelf price, scale it to the amount the recipe actually calls for, add those up, and divide by the servings. A 900 g pack of chicken thighs at $11.99 works out to $1.33 per 100 g, so a recipe using 400 g is costed at $5.33 of chicken. If your store doesn’t carry something, we fall back to the cheapest price we can see for it anywhere we track and mark that dinner’s price as an estimate, so a missing item can never make a dinner look artificially cheap.
How do you know a store product is the ingredient a recipe asks for?
Every store listing is matched to our ingredient list by name, brand, category and size, using rules written per ingredient rather than a generic text search. Guards block the lookalikes that fool plain search: corn removers are not corn, a bread knife is not bread, and canned fish “in olive oil” is not olive oil. Matches are reviewed by hand and rejections stick. When we can’t confidently match something we leave the line unpriced and flag it on your list rather than guess, because a wrong ingredient is worse than a missing price.
How do you calculate the discounts and savings you show?
A discount is the store’s own sale price against its own regular price for the same product: a $6.99 item on sale at $3.49 is 50% off. We don’t invent reference prices or compare one store’s sale to another store’s regular price to inflate a saving. A dinner’s saving is that same recipe costed twice, once at this week’s prices and once at regular prices, so it only counts sales on ingredients the dinner actually uses. Where a store publishes an end date we keep it, so expired deals drop off instead of lingering.
Why is my cart total more than the per-serving prices add up to?
Per-serving prices count only what each recipe actually uses: if a dinner needs 30 ml of soy sauce, it’s costed for 30 ml. But stores sell whole bottles, so the cart buys full packages and the checkout total is higher than the menu math. The difference isn’t lost, it’s the rest of the bottle, bag, or jar in your kitchen, and the weekly menu deliberately reuses partial ingredients across dinners so those leftovers get eaten.
Are the meals really cheaper than a meal kit?
Usually much cheaper. Meal kits add a premium per serving to ship you pre-portioned food. With us you pay the shelf price at your own store, and the weekly menu leans toward what’s genuinely on sale, so a week of dinners typically costs a fraction of a meal-kit box.
Stores, cart fill, and devices
Which stores are supported?
One-click cart fill works at all fifteen stores we track: the Save-On-Foods family (Save-On, Fresh St. Market, PriceSmart Foods, Urban Fare, IGA), the Loblaw banners (Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills, Loblaws, Your Independent Grocer), the Sobeys family (Safeway, Thrifty Foods, Sobeys, FreshCo), whose shared cart lives on Voila, and Metro and Food Basics. Anywhere else, you can take a printable or emailed checklist. We’re adding stores as we grow. See the supported stores page for the current list.
How does the one-click cart fill work?
The optional browser extension adds the groceries from your plan into a store’s online cart. At Save-On-Foods and Fresh St. Market you sign in to your own store account first, and it adds items to your own cart in your own session. You always review the cart and check out yourself on the store’s website. We never place the order for you.
What devices does the cart fill work on: phone, tablet, or desktop?
The one-click cart fill runs as a browser extension. On a desktop or laptop it works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, or Firefox. On Android, Firefox for Android installs the same extension. On iPhone and iPad you use the emailed or printable checklist instead, or add items in the store’s own app. The planning, menus, recipes, and list all work on any device.
What if I don't have an online grocery account?
You don’t need one to use the meal planner or the checklist. You only need to be signed in to a store’s website if you want the extension to fill that store’s online cart. For an in-store shop, take the aisle-friendly checklist.
What happens if an item is out of stock or can't be added?
The cart fill flags anything it can’t add and, where possible, notes a substitute so you can decide. Because you review the cart before checkout, nothing is bought without your say-so.
My store isn't supported. Can you add it?
We’re expanding coverage across Canada. Send us the store and your city from the feedback page and it helps us prioritize where to add cart fill next.
Prices, plans, and privacy
How accurate are the prices?
We update prices from public store listings regularly, but they’re estimates and can lag or differ from what you see in store. The price you pay is always set by the retailer at checkout. Treat our totals as a close guide, not a guarantee, and confirm at the store.
How much does it cost, and is there a free trial?
The sale finder, price tracker, recipe box and weekly menu planning are free. The subscription covers the shopping part (cart fill and the printable, emailed list), costs a low monthly price, and the first month is on us. See the pricing page for current rates. You can cancel anytime.
What's the difference between the free tools and the subscription?
Free covers the planning: browse recipes, see what’s on sale, track any grocery price, and build your weekly menu with its shopping list priced across your stores. The subscription is the shopping part: one-click cart fill, the printable and emailed list, and saved menus.
Can I set dietary preferences, allergies, and servings?
Yes. Set your diet (for example vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian), allergens to avoid, and default servings once, and your weekly menu is built to fit. You can adjust servings per meal too.
Is my grocery-store login safe? Do you see my password?
Yes, it’s safe, and no, we never see your store password. The extension works within the login session you already created in your own browser. Your store login stays on your device and is never sent to or stored on our servers. See our Privacy Policy for the details.
Are you affiliated with the grocery stores?
No. Satiafy is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any grocery retailer. We show store names and prices only to tell you where an item is sold. Prices and availability are the store’s own.
Do you sell my data?
No. We don’t sell your personal information or run third-party ad trackers. We collect only what we need to run the service, see the Privacy Policy.
Where do you operate?
We track live store prices in Greater Vancouver, BC and London, Ontario today. You can sign up from anywhere in Canada and use everything: the menus, recipes, shopping list, and cart fill all work wherever you are. Outside our two priced regions the price estimates just may not match your local shelves until we track stores near you. We’re expanding region by region.
How do I cancel?
Cancel anytime from Settings; your subscription stays active until the end of the current billing period. You can also delete your account entirely, which removes your data from our active systems.
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