COMPARISON
My Fitness Chef vs. Platera: which one suits your week
My Fitness Chef is a kitchen that publishes the macros of every dish and ships frozen food to most of the country. Platera is a marketplace where you compare kitchens in your city with their prices in plain view. Each one lets you calculate something different.
My Fitness Chef details checked in August 2026 on their public pages.
My Fitness Chef and Platera solve the same week from opposite ends of transparency. One tells you exactly how much protein is in each dish and does not tell you what it costs. The other starts from the assumption that price is the first thing you want to see.
This guide compares what each one publishes, explains what you can and cannot work out before committing, and closes with the questions that help when a service keeps its prices out of sight.
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Side by side
| Criterion | My Fitness Chef | Platera |
|---|---|---|
| Model | One kitchen with its own catalog | Several kitchens in your city in one place |
| Published price | No, the pricing page asks for a username and password | Yes, each kitchen publishes its own |
| Minimum order | 5 dishes | Whatever each kitchen asks |
| Variety | Between 20 and 25 options, with 27 dishes listed on the menu | As many kitchens as are open in your city |
| Published macros | Yes, protein, fat, carbohydrates and calories per dish | Depends on the kitchen |
| Direct coverage | Mexico City, Pachuca and Puebla | City by city, starting with Guadalajara |
| Courier coverage | 29 states via DHL or FEDEX | Not applicable, delivery is local |
| Customization | None, no dish is modified | Depends on the kitchen |
| Shelf life | 7 to 10 days refrigerated, up to 3 months frozen | Depends on the kitchen |
| Order cutoff | Before noon, for Tuesday or Sunday delivery | Whatever each kitchen publishes |
| Customer service fee | Not published | None |
My Fitness Chef figures taken from their public pages in August 2026. Their price list requires a login, so that row is deliberately left without a number.
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What My Fitness Chef is
My Fitness Chef is a balanced-meal kitchen selling two things: complete dishes with their protein and sides, and 300 gram portions of protein on its own for anyone who would rather build the plate themselves.
The menu is organized into two tracks, LEAN OUT and MUSCLE UP, and lists 27 dishes with names like Mexi Chipotle Chicken, Lemon Pepper Salmon and Tex-Mex Beef Bowl. The site describes between 20 and 25 options being available.
What they do better than almost any other service in the country is publish the numbers. Every dish carries protein, fat, carbohydrates and calories. The ranges run from 21 to 66 grams of protein and from 146 to 647 calories per dish. If you count seriously, that saves you writing to ask and lets you plan a week in a spreadsheet before spending a peso.
In exchange there is no customization of any kind. Their own page says so plainly: no dish is modified, because they are produced in volume. What you see is what arrives.
Their coverage is the widest of the three brands we have compared. They deliver directly in Mexico City, Pachuca and Puebla, and ship to 29 states through DHL or FEDEX. The food keeps for 7 to 10 days refrigerated and up to 3 months frozen, which is exactly what makes sending it that far possible.
The minimum order is five dishes and the cutoff is noon, with delivery on Tuesday or Sunday depending on where you live. Miss the cutoff and your order moves to the following week.
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What you can calculate and what you cannot
We cannot work out a cost per meal for you here, and the reason is itself the most useful fact in this guide: My Fitness Chef does not publish its prices. The pricing page on their site asks for a username and password.
Across all their open pages exactly one price appears, $195, and it belongs to a single item on the menu. Treat it as a rough sense of scale rather than the cost of a typical dish. Anyone who tells you confidently what an order of five dishes costs, without having logged into an account, is guessing.
Two things are worth separating here. Not publishing prices does not mean being expensive, and it is not unusual in this market either: plenty of kitchens sell over WhatsApp and quote on the spot. What it does mean is more specific, which is that you do your comparing after registering rather than before.
And that is the odd symmetry of this service. You can calculate your week's macros to the gram before creating an account, which almost nobody else lets you do. You cannot calculate your spend. Most prepared meal services do precisely the opposite: an enormous price on the front page, and the grams only available if you message and ask.
If you are the sort who decides by numbers, it is worth knowing which number you get to see first. With My Fitness Chef you will know your protein before you know your total. With most kitchens on Platera it runs the other way and price comes first.
Dishes with macros
27
With protein, fat, carbohydrates and calories.
Protein per dish
21 to 66 g
The range published on their menu.
Public prices
1
A single price visible without logging in.
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What Platera is
Platera does not cook and has no menu of its own. It is where the kitchens in your city publish what they already sell, with their delivery zone, their days, their frequency and their prices, so you can compare them without messaging each one.
The most direct difference from a service that keeps its list hidden is that here the price is part of the listing rather than something that appears after you register. Finding out what a kitchen charges should not cost you an account or a WhatsApp message and a wait.
That price is also pinned: inside Platera it has to match what the kitchen charges over WhatsApp or in person. It is a condition of the agreement, and it exists so that finding someone through Platera is never more expensive than having found them yourself. Customers pay no service fee; the commission comes from the seller.
Where Platera loses to My Fitness Chef is in two concrete places. Delivery is local, so there is no way to send you frozen food in a state where no kitchens have opened yet. And macros depend on each kitchen: some publish them and some do not, while My Fitness Chef publishes all of them.
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What to check when the price is not published
It happens often and it is not always a bad sign. These are the questions worth settling before you register an account or send a first message, so the quote does not arrive with nothing to compare it against.
Find the minimum before the unit price
A five-dish minimum tells you more than it looks like: it is the real size of your first purchase. Even without knowing the price per dish, knowing there will be five lets you ask straight out for the total.
Ask for the total, not the price per meal
This is the question that prevents surprises. A per-dish price nearly always looks reasonable; the total of the minimum order with delivery included is the number you will actually pay.
Confirm whether delivery is separate
Especially when the food travels by courier. A service can charge little per dish and put refrigerated shipping on top, and that changes the comparison entirely.
Check whether anything about the dish can change
Some kitchens adjust portions or leave an ingredient out, and some produce in volume and change nothing. Neither is wrong, but it is better known in advance than on delivery day.
Ask how long the food keeps
Refrigerated, frozen, and how many days of each. That decides whether you can order for two weeks or have to order every Friday, which in turn changes the shipping cost per meal.
Locate the order cutoff
A noon cutoff with delivery fixed to certain days is a calendar constraint, not a food one. If your week does not start at that hour, that service will be fighting your diary permanently.
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What each is good and bad at
My Fitness Chef
For
- Macros published for every dish, uncommon in Mexico.
- Between 20 and 25 options, with 27 dishes listed.
- Reaches 29 states by courier.
- Up to 3 months of frozen shelf life.
- Two clear tracks depending on your goal.
Against
- Prices cannot be seen without logging in.
- No customization of any dish at all.
- Five-dish minimum per order.
- Noon cutoff and delivery only on certain days.
- Direct delivery only in Mexico City, Pachuca and Puebla.
Platera
For
- Prices visible without an account or a quote request.
- Several kitchens in your city comparable side by side.
- The same price you would pay that kitchen directly.
- Home cooking made for your own city.
Against
- Local delivery, with no courier shipping to other states.
- Macros depend on each kitchen and not all publish them.
- In cities that have only just opened there is little to choose from.
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Which to choose
If you count macros seriously, My Fitness Chef will give you more useful information up front than almost any other kitchen in the country. Being able to see protein and calories for 27 dishes before registering is a real advantage and it deserves credit.
If you live in a state with no local kitchens, there is not much to debate either: frozen courier shipping solves a problem local delivery cannot. Platera does not compete there.
If the first thing you want to know is what you will spend, though, the order of things will grate. You will have to register in order to compare, and comparing after registering is more work than it sounds when you are looking at three services at once.
And if what you want is food from your city, made by someone from your city, with the price visible from the first moment, that is exactly what Platera is built to give you.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does My Fitness Chef cost?
They do not publish it. Their pricing page asks for a username and password, and across their open pages a single price appears, $195, belonging to one item on the menu. To learn the cost of an order you have to register or ask over WhatsApp.
What is the minimum order at My Fitness Chef?
Five dishes. You can repeat the same dish as many times as you like within that minimum.
Where do they deliver?
Directly in Mexico City, Pachuca and Puebla. To the rest of the country they ship via DHL or FEDEX, with coverage stated across 29 states.
Do they publish macros for each dish?
Yes, and it is among the best things they do. Every dish on the menu carries protein, fat, carbohydrates and calories, with ranges from 21 to 66 grams of protein and from 146 to 647 calories.
Can you order a dish without one of its ingredients?
No. Their page states that no modification or customization of any dish is made, because they are produced in volume.
How long does the food keep?
From 7 to 10 days refrigerated and up to 3 months frozen, which is what allows them to ship it by courier to other states.
How is Platera different from My Fitness Chef?
My Fitness Chef is one kitchen with its own catalog, published macros and prices behind an account. Platera is a marketplace where several kitchens in your city publish zone, days and prices in plain view, and you compare before paying.