Healthy eating day in and day out is not easy. In fact, depending on your lifestyle, it can be downright hard! Junk food is tempting, cheap and easy to find on every counter and corner. Conversely, vegetables and whole grains need to be washed, chopped and cooked. There’s shopping and cleaning…you know the drill.
But with all that said, our lives depend on us taking the time and making the effort to eat real food more often. Lucky for us, we have quite a few options when it comes to having healthy meals delivered in San Diego! Depending on your lifestyle and what you’re looking for in the moment, here are our top picks to make healthy eating a little easier.
One-Off Order: I need healthy meals delivered in San Diego … NOW!
If it’s Wednesday afternoon and you need healthy lunch like, right now, then using an App like Postmates is your best for menu delivery services. Once you download the app, you can search for any of your favorite restaurants in San Diego. We are always inspired by what Cafe Gratitude is serving up in their vegan bowls!
Meal price: $17 (Humble Bowl)
Delivery fee: $3.99 + $2.4 Taxes and Fees
Total for one portion: $23.39
Order time frame: In under an hour
Pros: No planning ahead required, just order and you’re on!
Cons: It’s on the pricier side, but that is a price we’re used to paying for convenience (and good health).
Execute Someone Else’s Plan: Deliver an ingredient box to me next week.
Meal kits are all the rage now and for good reason. They get real ingredients into your house and require zero recipe searching, list making or time spent looking for parking at the market. You’ll eat fresh food and experience the joy of having cooked your own meal. We are also often inspired by the delicious vegan creations from Purple Carrot!
Meal price: $72 per week for 3 meals for 1-2 people.
Delivery fee: Free
Total for one portion: $12.00
Order time frame: Pick your meals and it will come once a week after you get going.
Pros: Time saver, yummy, fresh food that you cooked (which is a con to many!)
Cons: It might be over a week before you get your first order depending on when you order, still have to cook for about 30-40 min (which is a pro to many!)
Execute Your Own Plan: Deliver these specific ingredients to me soon
One tool we have really come to love and use weekly for delivery of ingredients to our kitchen is Instacart! You can shop and order exactly what you need from 13 different grocery stores in San Diego, including Whole Foods, Jimbos, Gelsons, and Jensens Foods. You just shop for your ingredients in the app, add them to your cart, select a delivery date and time and your goods will be on their way to you!
Meal price: TBD on what you’re cooking
Delivery fee: $7.99 for one hour, $5.99 for two hour delivery. Or you can pay $149 for the year and have unlimited 2 hour delivery for free for orders over $35. Plus there is an optional 10% service fee (not a tip) and a variable tip you can choose to pay. There can also be a slight mark-up in the actual pricing of ingredients depending on where you shop.
Total for one portion: TBD on what your cooking + how much you ordered.
Order time frame: Within one to two hours.
Pros: You do not need to go to the store and you’ll get exactly what you want in a matter of hours.
Cons: It can be an expensive way to get what you already know you need.
Heat. Eat. And Enjoy: Healthy meal prep delivery for the entire week.
We can’t pretend that we’re not biased here. We know there are dozens of company’s to choose from for healthy meal prep delivery in San Diego. But of course, we would not have opened our kitchen if we didn’t feel like we could bring something new to the table. At the Clean & Colorful Kitchen we cook tasty, healthy and convenient meals that are veggie-centric and designed to help you feel your best from the inside out.
Meal price: $11.00-$13.00 depending on the protein source.
Delivery fee: Free pick up in our kitchen in Mission Hills or $10 for delivery Sunday or Monday.
Total for one portion:$11.00-$13.00
Order time frame: Order by Friday at 1pm for pick-up/delivery Sunday at 7pm.
Pros: We do all the planning, shopping, chopping, cooking and cleaning. We change our menu each week so you don’t have to think and you’ll never get bored. Our food is interesting, delicious and will help you glow from the inside out … day in and day out.
Cons: Again, we can’t even hide the fact that we love what we do. We are honored to serve so many San Diegan’s food we know is making a difference in their life not just today, but for years to come.
Best Healthy Meal Prep Delivery Services in San Diego Summary
Depending on your lifestyle, how much planning you have time for, how much cooking you want to do and how much money you want to spend, you can see there are still plenty of options to help make healthy eating easier … every single day. Let’s toss the excuses to the side and make fresh food consumption a priority. Our lives depend on it.
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We live in a society that makes eating healthy difficult and expensive while it’s very easy to stuff yourself full of cheap junk food. It’s no secret that eating fresh, healthy, veggie heavy food takes commitment and a little bit of work. There is planning, shopping, chopping, cooking, and cleaning involved.
But if you’re like most of us and your days are filled with non-stop activities and obligations, finding an hour a day to cook a fresh meal can be a serious challenge. And if you don’t want to eat out every day and you’re not down for being at the mercy of the drive thru or vending machine, then mastering meal prep is your best line of defense!
Whether your meal prep strategy involves making it yourself or ordering from a company like the Clean & Colorful Kitchen, here are a few things to consider as you get started.
What is Meal Prep?
The idea of Meal Prep is essentially batch cooking or cooking in bulk. Instead of cooking a different (or the same) meal every day, you can maximize your time in the kitchen and cook about three times as many meals with the same time investment. Over half of the work involved in cooking is the shopping, set up and clean up and when you only have to do that once, you’ve automatically saved yourself at least 3 hours per week.
After you cook your meals, you portion them out into single containers and store them for up to a week in your refrigerator or months in your freezer. The idea is simple, and it works! Whether it’s lunches or dinner you struggle with, an meal prep strategy is the best way to support your busy, healthy lifestyle.
How To Meal Prep For Yourself
It’s simple really, and if you have the time and/or love to cook, this can be an awesome weekend activity! All you need is a plan for what you’re going to eat all week, great recipes, a trip to the market, a few hours in your kitchen, meal prep storage containers and some good music and you’re set! Here is a great recipe to meal prep in bulk. It is one of our most popular recipes!
Time: 2 hours 40 min (includes shopping and cleaning!)
Ingredients (and cost):
1 lb organic chicken breast ($8.99)
3 lbs broccoli – ($6.57)
2 lbs cauliflower ($3.98)
2 cloves garlic ($.79)
.75 oz sesame oil ($.84)
1 tsp sea salt ($.05)
2 tbsp black sesame seeds ($.94)
3 tbsp corn starch ($.21)
8 oz oranges ($.95)
6 24-oz meal prep containers ($6)
Note: all ingredient cost is price per portion used, not for the portion you may have to purchase.
Orange Chicken Sauce
2 oz tamari ($1.12)
1 oz fresh ginger ($.28
1.5 oz sesame oil ($1.68
6 oz orange juice ($.48)
1 oz honey ($.51)
1 tsp sea salt ($.05)
2 cloves garlic (free)
Directions (and expected time):
Shop: 30 min
Preheat oven to 375 + set up: 5 min
Prepare the orange chicken sauce by adding all ingredients to a blender for 60 seconds: 15 min
Dice the garlic and ginger: 7 min
Core and shred the cauliflower: 15 min
Hand chop the broccoli into florets: 15 min
Slice chicken into 1/2 x 2″ strips and add to a bowl and coat with corn starch and salt then bake for 20-25 minutes, until reaches internal temperature of 165: 10 min
Slice the oranges into wheels (optional): 3 min
Pan fry the cauliflower in 1 tbsp sesame oil: 10 min
Steam the broccoli until soft, but still crunchy: 7 min
Toss cooked chicken in Orange Sauce: 3 min
Fill each plate with 3/4 cup cauliflower rice to left then 1 cup broccoli to the right then top with chicken and orange slice. Drizzle with remaining sauce: 15 min
Clean up: 25 min
For about a 2.5 hour investment over the weekend, you can easily have lunch or dinner on hand all week long and less than $6 per entree. You can hardly leave your office to grab a junky meal through the drive through every day of the week for that price and time commitment. When you look at it this way, meal prep is a no-brainer!
Ordering Meal Prep San Diego Style
Now that you are sold on investing in Meal Prep, it’s time to consider if that is a sustainable, realistic strategy for you. Here is what you need to consider:
Do you enjoy cooking? Or is it something you consider to be work?
Do you have time on the weekend to spare? Or are you weekends just as busy?
Do you cook good food? Or have you struggle even when you follow the recipe?
Do you have an archive of healthy recipes? Or do you tend to cook the same ones over and over?
Do you mind eating the same entree every day of the week? Or do you need more variety?
If you answered YES to the first question in each of the scenarios above: Get your your recipe guide, create a shopping list, block some time and get cooking!
If you answers YES to the second question one or more times in the scenarios above: Consider ordering meal prep from our Clean & Colorful Kitchen. Our goal is to make sustainable healthy eating, easy. We cook tasty, healthy and convenient meals for you over the weekend and you can have them on hand all week long. It’s as simple as 1. 2. 3…
Pick your food: You can order as little as 3 entrees per week from our kitchen or you can order enough breakfasts, lunches, dinners, soups, salads, snacks, and smoothies so that you never have to step foot in your kitchen.
Get your order: You can pick up for free in our kitchen in in Mission Hills or we can deliver it to you Sunday or Monday depending on where you live for just $10.
Heat, eat and enjoy: All week long. No shopping, no chopping, no cooking, no cleaning. Easy peasy.
Isn’t Ordering Prepared Meals Expensive?
Just in case you’re wondering, let’s get this out there right now. Ordering prepared meals from our kitchen is more expensive than doing it yourself. As is any professional job vs DIY. But if you consider the ease, variety and simple pleasure of having all your food prepared for you, it’s more than worth it.
The bottom line:Let’s be real, if you don’t absolutely love the process of cooking, you have to consider the cost of your time. If you make more than $15 per hour, you should definitely consider outsourcing your meal prep.
Meal Prep San Diego Summary
Whether you cook for yourself or you order from our kitchen, getting cracking on a realistic meal prep strategy can be life changing. What we do everyday is 110% more important than what we do only when we’re highly motivated. I’ve seen too many clients start their meal prep strategy and find great success for a few weeks. Only to fall victim to their life’s inevitable challenges and old habits sneak back in.
Why not let this be the time you make sustainable change that supports your ultimate health and happiness. Order now! If you’re new to our kitchen, be sure to use discount code CCK15new to take 15% off your entire first order!
Love it or hate it, a well prepared detox kit can be a gateway to the healthy lifestyle you’ve been looking for. Let us help you explore the benefits of eating more plants and less processed junk!
When people hear the word “detox,” they can have all kinds of different emotional responses based on what the word means to them.
For some, it’s a scary term full of restrictions, hunger, mood swings and unsustainable and potentially dangerous results.
For others, it’s exciting! A chance to learn new things, give your body a rest, super-charge it with nutrition, improve health, feel great and let’s be real … lose some weight!
And for some, it’s a lot of work! Shopping, chopping, juicing, blending, steaming, boiling … it can be a grind and hours of work to get your veggies ready to help your body detox all week long.
To us at the Clean & Colorful Kitchen, it means giving your body a chance to rest by feeding it only real, whole, clean, unprocessed, made from scratch food. It also means giving your lifestyle a rest, because we can keep you out of the grocery store and the kitchen from one day to an entire week because we can make a prepared detox kit just for you!
We’ve slowly been expanding our weekly menu to provide more options and flexibility. We just shuffled the deck a little and added new prepared detox kit options to our menu to simplify your life and boost your health at the same time. We do love the win-win combo!
Whether you’re too busy or you just feel gross, a prepared detox kit may be the perfect solution!
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The Best Healthy Meal Prep Delivery Services in San Diego
/in Uncategorized /by teresaHealthy eating day in and day out is not easy. In fact, depending on your lifestyle, it can be downright hard! Junk food is tempting, cheap and easy to find on every counter and corner. Conversely, vegetables and whole grains need to be washed, chopped and cooked. There’s shopping and cleaning…you know the drill.
But with all that said, our lives depend on us taking the time and making the effort to eat real food more often. Lucky for us, we have quite a few options when it comes to having healthy meals delivered in San Diego! Depending on your lifestyle and what you’re looking for in the moment, here are our top picks to make healthy eating a little easier.
One-Off Order: I need healthy meals delivered in San Diego … NOW!
If it’s Wednesday afternoon and you need healthy lunch like, right now, then using an App like Postmates is your best for menu delivery services. Once you download the app, you can search for any of your favorite restaurants in San Diego. We are always inspired by what Cafe Gratitude is serving up in their vegan bowls!
Execute Someone Else’s Plan: Deliver an ingredient box to me next week.
Meal kits are all the rage now and for good reason. They get real ingredients into your house and require zero recipe searching, list making or time spent looking for parking at the market. You’ll eat fresh food and experience the joy of having cooked your own meal. We are also often inspired by the delicious vegan creations from Purple Carrot!
Execute Your Own Plan: Deliver these specific ingredients to me soon
One tool we have really come to love and use weekly for delivery of ingredients to our kitchen is Instacart! You can shop and order exactly what you need from 13 different grocery stores in San Diego, including Whole Foods, Jimbos, Gelsons, and Jensens Foods. You just shop for your ingredients in the app, add them to your cart, select a delivery date and time and your goods will be on their way to you!
Heat. Eat. And Enjoy: Healthy meal prep delivery for the entire week.
We can’t pretend that we’re not biased here. We know there are dozens of company’s to choose from for healthy meal prep delivery in San Diego. But of course, we would not have opened our kitchen if we didn’t feel like we could bring something new to the table. At the Clean & Colorful Kitchen we cook tasty, healthy and convenient meals that are veggie-centric and designed to help you feel your best from the inside out.
Best Healthy Meal Prep Delivery Services in San Diego Summary
Depending on your lifestyle, how much planning you have time for, how much cooking you want to do and how much money you want to spend, you can see there are still plenty of options to help make healthy eating easier … every single day. Let’s toss the excuses to the side and make fresh food consumption a priority. Our lives depend on it.
Meal Prep San Diego: DIY Meal Prep vs. Healthy Meals Delivered
/in Uncategorized /by teresaWe live in a society that makes eating healthy difficult and expensive while it’s very easy to stuff yourself full of cheap junk food. It’s no secret that eating fresh, healthy, veggie heavy food takes commitment and a little bit of work. There is planning, shopping, chopping, cooking, and cleaning involved.
But if you’re like most of us and your days are filled with non-stop activities and obligations, finding an hour a day to cook a fresh meal can be a serious challenge. And if you don’t want to eat out every day and you’re not down for being at the mercy of the drive thru or vending machine, then mastering meal prep is your best line of defense!
Whether your meal prep strategy involves making it yourself or ordering from a company like the Clean & Colorful Kitchen, here are a few things to consider as you get started.
What is Meal Prep?
The idea of Meal Prep is essentially batch cooking or cooking in bulk. Instead of cooking a different (or the same) meal every day, you can maximize your time in the kitchen and cook about three times as many meals with the same time investment. Over half of the work involved in cooking is the shopping, set up and clean up and when you only have to do that once, you’ve automatically saved yourself at least 3 hours per week.
After you cook your meals, you portion them out into single containers and store them for up to a week in your refrigerator or months in your freezer. The idea is simple, and it works! Whether it’s lunches or dinner you struggle with, an meal prep strategy is the best way to support your busy, healthy lifestyle.
How To Meal Prep For Yourself
It’s simple really, and if you have the time and/or love to cook, this can be an awesome weekend activity! All you need is a plan for what you’re going to eat all week, great recipes, a trip to the market, a few hours in your kitchen, meal prep storage containers and some good music and you’re set! Here is a great recipe to meal prep in bulk. It is one of our most popular recipes!
Great Meal Prep Recipe: Sexy Orange Chicken
Ingredients (and cost):
Note: all ingredient cost is price per portion used, not for the portion you may have to purchase.
Orange Chicken Sauce
Directions (and expected time):
For about a 2.5 hour investment over the weekend, you can easily have lunch or dinner on hand all week long and less than $6 per entree. You can hardly leave your office to grab a junky meal through the drive through every day of the week for that price and time commitment. When you look at it this way, meal prep is a no-brainer!
Ordering Meal Prep San Diego Style
Now that you are sold on investing in Meal Prep, it’s time to consider if that is a sustainable, realistic strategy for you. Here is what you need to consider:
If you answered YES to the first question in each of the scenarios above: Get your your recipe guide, create a shopping list, block some time and get cooking!
If you answers YES to the second question one or more times in the scenarios above: Consider ordering meal prep from our Clean & Colorful Kitchen. Our goal is to make sustainable healthy eating, easy. We cook tasty, healthy and convenient meals for you over the weekend and you can have them on hand all week long. It’s as simple as 1. 2. 3…
Isn’t Ordering Prepared Meals Expensive?
Just in case you’re wondering, let’s get this out there right now. Ordering prepared meals from our kitchen is more expensive than doing it yourself. As is any professional job vs DIY. But if you consider the ease, variety and simple pleasure of having all your food prepared for you, it’s more than worth it.
The bottom line: Let’s be real, if you don’t absolutely love the process of cooking, you have to consider the cost of your time. If you make more than $15 per hour, you should definitely consider outsourcing your meal prep.
Meal Prep San Diego Summary
Whether you cook for yourself or you order from our kitchen, getting cracking on a realistic meal prep strategy can be life changing. What we do everyday is 110% more important than what we do only when we’re highly motivated. I’ve seen too many clients start their meal prep strategy and find great success for a few weeks. Only to fall victim to their life’s inevitable challenges and old habits sneak back in.
Why not let this be the time you make sustainable change that supports your ultimate health and happiness. Order now! If you’re new to our kitchen, be sure to use discount code CCK15new to take 15% off your entire first order!
Order Your Prepared Detox Kit from the Clean & Colorful Kitchen Today
/in Uncategorized /by teresaLove it or hate it, a well prepared detox kit can be a gateway to the healthy lifestyle you’ve been looking for. Let us help you explore the benefits of eating more plants and less processed junk!
When people hear the word “detox,” they can have all kinds of different emotional responses based on what the word means to them.
For some, it’s a scary term full of restrictions, hunger, mood swings and unsustainable and potentially dangerous results.
For others, it’s exciting! A chance to learn new things, give your body a rest, super-charge it with nutrition, improve health, feel great and let’s be real … lose some weight!
And for some, it’s a lot of work! Shopping, chopping, juicing, blending, steaming, boiling … it can be a grind and hours of work to get your veggies ready to help your body detox all week long.
To us at the Clean & Colorful Kitchen, it means giving your body a chance to rest by feeding it only real, whole, clean, unprocessed, made from scratch food. It also means giving your lifestyle a rest, because we can keep you out of the grocery store and the kitchen from one day to an entire week because we can make a prepared detox kit just for you!
We’ve slowly been expanding our weekly menu to provide more options and flexibility. We just shuffled the deck a little and added new prepared detox kit options to our menu to simplify your life and boost your health at the same time. We do love the win-win combo!
Whether you’re too busy or you just feel gross, a prepared detox kit may be the perfect solution!
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