Head to head
Dear DietvsPickle
Dear Diet is cheaper on every calorie tier they both sell — by ₱128 a day, which is about ₱2,781 a month. Here is the whole thing, row by row.
21 against 15 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.
Dear Diet
You live in one of the 16 areas both reach
₱128 a day cheaper at the same calories. If they reach you, Dear Diet wins on price.
Dear Diet
You live in Angono and Navotas
Pickle does not deliver to Angono and Navotas. A cheaper plan that never arrives costs infinity a day.
Pickle
You live in Taytay (Rizal)
Dear Diet does not deliver to Taytay (Rizal). A cheaper plan that never arrives costs infinity a day.
Dear Diet
You are eating balanced eating and keto
Pickle sells neither. Their range is heart-friendly, diabetic-friendly, high protein and low carb, so on this axis it is not a comparison, it is a single option.
Pickle
You are eating heart-friendly, diabetic-friendly and low carb
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
₱765cheapest plan, per day
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's is balanced eating, the other is not
₱650
₱650 a day, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱217 a meal₱765
₱3,825 for 5 days, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱255 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₱861
₱4,303 for 5 days, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱287 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₱937
₱4,686 for 5 days, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱312 a mealTop of each rangeDifferent food entirely
₱4,200
₱4,200 a day, 15 meals · ₱280 a meal₱1,496
₱7,481 for 5 days, 3 meals + 1 snack · ₱499 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
16 areas — compare on price
- Caloocan
- Las Piñas
- Makati
- Mandaluyong
- Manila
- Marikina
- Cainta
- Antipolo
- Muntinlupa & Alabang
- Parañaque
- Pasay
- Pasig & Ortigas
- Quezon City
- San Juan
- Taguig & BGC
- Valenzuela
Dear Diet only
2 areas — no choice to make
- Angono
- Navotas
Pickle only
1 area — no choice to make
- Taytay (Rizal)
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 Pickle is one of them.