Get Back on Schedule With Local Meal Services

The season of tomato sandwich lunches and popsicle dinners is winding down, and with it comes more responsibilities and fewer daylight hours. Whether you’re looking for single-serving, ready-to-eat meals or prepared dishes to feed the whole family, turning to a local meal service can take one more thing off your plate.

Single-Serving Meals

NUR Kitchen: NUR Kitchen is a family-run Salt Lake City meal delivery service focused on fresh, nutritious, chef-cooked meals made from scratch. You can choose from a lunch or dinner menu. Lunch options feature lighter fare, like salads, while dinner options are a little more hearty. You can also choose portion sizes based on your nutrition goals.

👨‍🍳 Menu Sample: roasted corn salad (lunch), coconut lime salmon (dinner)

Avant: Meals from Avant arrive ready to heat and eat, with no subscription required, although it is an option to save a little money. Its reusable containers are collected, professionally washed and sanitized, reused up to 1,000 times, then recycled. The menu features ready-to-eat meals, as well as bulk proteins, like four servings of grilled chicken, and premade sides to help round out a meal for one or a family.

👨‍🍳 Menu Sample: bibimbap power bowl, Swedish meatballs, lasagna Bolognese

Beehive Catering: Beehive Catering is banishing the sad desk lunch for our friends in Utah County. Its weekday box lunches offer a convenient option for workdays, while family meals feed about five and arrive chilled, ready to reheat for dinner. The lunch menu features a weekly sandwich and a daily entree or salad choice, and each entree is also available daily as a family meal. Consider this my official plea to deliver to Salt Lake County, too!

👨‍🍳 Menu Sample: beef gyudon, braised beef enchiladas, turkey bacon club

Family-Style Meals

Citrus Pear: Citrus Pear meals are designed to feed your whole crew. Meals come assembled and ready to cook in a slow cooker, pressure cooker, oven or on the stovetop, with small and medium family portions available. Generally, these meals are a protein you can serve however your family enjoys it — like enchilada chicken can be used in actual enchiladas, on a taco salad, or served over rice.

👨‍🍳 Menu Sample: garlic parmesan chicken, honey lime ginger pork, carne asada street tacos

Blue Door Kitchen: Blue Door Kitchen lives up to its motto, “We make the meals you'd cook — if you had the time.” Its rotating weekly menu offers customizable family-style portions for two to six people, ready to heat and serve. Choose pickup or delivery, with no subscription required and new menus each week. The meals are simple, crowd-pleasers.

👨‍🍳 Menu Sample: cheese and spinach manicotti, chicken pot pie and biscuits