EatPal vs Yummly: Meal Planning for Selective Eaters
Yummly is a recipe discovery engine. It searches a very large recipe index, learns what you like, and filters on diet, allergy and ingredient.
Yummly is a search engine for recipes and a good one. EatPal is a plan for a child who refuses most of what those recipes contain. Plenty of families use both.
Side by side
| What is being compared | EatPal | Yummly |
|---|---|---|
| Core job | Expand what one child will eat | Help you find a recipe you will want to cook |
| Breadth of recipes | Focused set built around simple, low-sensory-load foods | Very large index spanning most of the web's recipe publishersYummly wins this one |
| Personalization signal | A child's logged acceptances and refusals | Your taste preferences and saved recipes |
| Feeding-therapy method | Food chaining and graded exposure are the product | Not a goal of the product |
| Sensory detail on foods | Taste, texture, temperature and appearance recorded per food | Ingredient and dietary tags |
| Progress over time | Acceptance trends and diet expansion charted per child | Saved recipes and cooking history |
Prices are deliberately not listed here. They change often enough that any number on this page would be wrong within a quarter. Check Yummly and our pricing page.
Choose Yummly if
- You want to browse and discover recipes. Yummly's index and its recommendation quality are far ahead of anything EatPal offers here, and that is the whole point of the product.
- You are cooking for yourself or for adults.
- You want ingredient-level search across the whole recipe web rather than a curated set.
Choose EatPal if
- Finding recipes is not your problem. Getting your child to eat one is.
- You need to know which of the last twenty exposures worked and what to try next.
- You want a plan built from the foods your child already trusts.
Try it on your own child's food list
The quiz takes a couple of minutes and tells you which feeding pattern you are actually dealing with before you pay for anything.