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New Feature: Seamless Instacart Integration for Your Meal Plans

At Member Kitchens, we’re dedicated to making life easier for food content creators and their audiences. That’s why we’re excited to announce our newest feature: Instacart integration!

This enhancement allows your audience to send ingredients directly from your custom meal plans into Instacart for quick and easy grocery shopping. It’s the ultimate tool to simplify meal planning and elevate your subscribers' experience.

Why Instacart Integration Is a Game-Changer

1. Simplifies Meal Planning

Most food bloggers rely on static PDFs for their meal plans, requiring users to manually sort out ingredients. With Instacart integration, subscribers can move from planning to shopping with one simple click, eliminating unnecessary steps.

2. Saves Time for Your Audience

Subscribers can avoid the hassle of creating their grocery lists. By linking directly to Instacart, they can review, adjust, and purchase everything they need within minutes.

3. Adds Value to Your Subscription

This feature transforms meal planning into an intuitive, modern experience, helping your service stand out and offering even more value to your subscribers.

How Instacart Integration Works

  1. Select Recipes or Meal Plans: Subscribers choose their preferred meals for the week.
  2. Send Ingredients to Instacart: With one click, the ingredient list is sent to Instacart, ready for shopping.
  3. Shop with Ease: Subscribers can customize their cart, select delivery or pickup, and let Instacart handle the rest.

Benefits for Food Bloggers

  • Increase Retention: By solving a major pain point—grocery shopping—you’ll keep subscribers coming back for more.
  • Attract New Subscribers: Promote the Instacart feature as a unique benefit to draw in more users.
  • Streamline User Experience: Stand out in a crowded market by offering a seamless, modern meal-planning process.

How to Enable Instacart Integration

  1. Log in to your Member Kitchens Dashboard.
  2. Enable the Instacart integration in your settings (App station > Settings > Meal plans)
  3. Share the feature with your audience through email, social media, or blog updates.

For a detailed guide, visit our documentation.

Why It Matters

According to recent reports, 43% of U.S. consumers now use online grocery services (source). With grocery shopping increasingly moving online, this integration ensures your meal-planning service meets evolving consumer needs.

The Future of Meal Planning

At Member Kitchens, we’re always looking for ways to improve your experience as a food content creator and provide more value to your subscribers. Instacart integration is just one of the many ways we’re helping you succeed.

Member Kitchens—because your audience deserves better, and so do you.