Head to head
Dear DietvsHealth Kitchen Manila
Health Kitchen Manila is cheaper on every calorie tier they both sell — by ₱43 a day, which is about ₱934 a month. Dear Diet is also the wrong answer for 25 areas Health Kitchen Manila reaches, because it does not deliver there. Here is the whole thing, row by row.
21 against 76 plans•Prices last read 2 Nov 2026•Compared on the published arithmetic
The short answer
Which one, and for whom
There is no overall winner, because “overall” is not a thing anyone buys. These are the situations that actually decide it.
Health Kitchen Manila
You live in one of the 18 areas both reach
₱43 a day cheaper at the same calories. If they reach you, Health Kitchen Manila wins on price.
Health Kitchen Manila
You live in one of 25 areas only Health Kitchen Manila reaches
Dear Diet does not deliver to 25 of the 43 areas between them, including Bocaue (Bulacan), Marilao (Bulacan), Meycauayan (Bulacan) and Santa Maria (Bulacan). A cheaper plan that never arrives costs infinity a day.
Dear Diet
You are eating balanced eating
Health Kitchen Manila sells no such plan. Their range is diabetic-friendly, keto, low carb, high protein, PCOS-friendly and plant-based, so on this axis it is not a comparison, it is a single option.
Health Kitchen Manila
You are eating diabetic-friendly, low carb, PCOS-friendly and plant-based
Dear Diet sells none of those. Their range is balanced eating, high protein and keto, so on this axis it is not a comparison, it is a single option.
Row by row
Everything we hold on both
₱650cheapest plan, per day
₱249cheapest plan, per day
Read the surcharge row carefully. Every city where Health Kitchen Manila charges one is a city Dear Diet does not reach at all, because Dear Diet’s zone sits entirely inside theirs. So the fee never decides between these two — it decides between Health Kitchen Manila and nothing.
Like for like
The same calories, priced against each other
Matched by calorie tier, because that is the only honest pairing. Both quotes are printed so you can check the division yourself.
1,200 kcalNot a clean match — Dear Diet boxes 5 days, Health Kitchen Manila 5
₱650
₱650 a day, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱217 a meal₱630
₱3,150 for 5 days, 3 meals · ₱210 a meal1,500 kcalNot a clean match — Dear Diet's is balanced eating, the other is not
₱730
₱730 a day, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱243 a meal₱690
₱3,450 for 5 days, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱230 a meal1,800 kcalNot a clean match — Dear Diet's is balanced eating, the other is not
₱800
₱800 a day, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱267 a meal₱750
₱3,750 for 5 days, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱250 a meal2,000 kcalNot a clean match — Dear Diet's is balanced eating, the other is not
₱870
₱870 a day, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱290 a meal₱810
₱4,050 for 5 days, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱270 a mealTop of each rangeDifferent food entirely
₱4,200
₱4,200 a day, 15 meals · ₱280 a meal₱1,950
₱9,750 for 5 days, 3 meals · ₱650 a mealA calorie tier is the only pairing that compares food rather than packaging, and it is also where the axis stops helping: two plans at the same calories built for different goals are not substitutes, and no arithmetic will make them so.
Coverage
Where the price stops mattering
Coverage is the filter no round-up article offers, and on this pairing it decides more orders than price does.
Both deliver here
18 areas — compare on price
- Caloocan
- Las Piñas
- Makati
- Mandaluyong
- Manila
- Marikina
- Cainta
- Angono
- Antipolo
- Muntinlupa & Alabang
- Navotas
- Parañaque
- Pasay
- Pasig & Ortigas
- Quezon City
- San Juan
- Taguig & BGC
- Valenzuela
Dear Diet only
None
Dear Diet’s zone sits entirely inside Health Kitchen Manila’s. There is no address where Dear Diet is your only option of the two.
Health Kitchen Manila only
25 areas — no choice to make
- Bocaue (Bulacan)
- Marilao (Bulacan)
- Meycauayan (Bulacan)
- Santa Maria (Bulacan)
- Bacoor (Cavite)
- Cavite City (Cavite)
- Dasmarinas (Cavite)
- General Trias (Cavite)
- Imus (Cavite)
- Kawit (Cavite)
- Noveleta (Cavite)
- Rosario (Cavite)
- Silang (Cavite)
- Tanza (Cavite)
- Trece Martires (Cavite)
- Binan (Laguna)
- Cabuyao (Laguna)
- Calamba (Laguna)
- San Pedro (Laguna)
- Santa Rosa (Laguna)
- Rodriguez / Montalban (Rizal)
- San Mateo (Rizal)
- Taytay (Rizal)
- Malabon
- Pateros
Both lists are the providers’ own claims, copied from their order pages. We have not test-ordered to the edges of either zone — see what this gets wrong.
Limits of this page
What a head-to-head cannot settle
The comparison is incomplete
- Neither side has any diner figures at all. Both are under our 30-report floor, so neither on-time nor food figure publishes for either. Everything above is what we can check ourselves.
- Neither calorie figure is tested. Both are the provider’s own number.
- Prices were last read on 2 Nov 2026. None of the seven providers we track publishes a machine-readable feed, so either of these could have moved since.
And what it will never settle
Whether you will like it. We do measure taste — a fixed question, aggregated, with the base printed — but a percentage is a crowd, and repetitive chicken breast ends one person’s month and bothers another not at all. How taste is counted, and what the figure misses.
Still no star ratings and no written reviews. What we claim to know is what a day costs, whether it turns up when they said, whether diners called the food good and what they flagged, whether the portion matched, and whether the people who ordered it ordered again. Six figures and a price, each with its base printed.
Comparing a different pair? Pin any two plans on the home page and the same rows appear side by side. Written head-to-heads exist for every pairing of the seven providers we track — Dear Diet and Health Kitchen Manila is one of them.