If you're like me, you loathe doing meal prep every week and often end up making food choices that are bad for your health or expensive because you once again neglected to keep your stash of fridge food going. And so maybe you have come to the conclusion it would be better to pay somebody else to do the prep so you always have tasty meals ready for you. I did some research on local places that do this, sharing this in hopes that somebody else finds it useful. If anybody has experience with these places or other places they suggest, I'd love to hear about them.

Prices shown are approximate. Note that I am using "serving" like the USDA uses it. A chipotle burrito, for reference, is around two "servings".

Ivys Cooking ($6-$15/serving, free delivery, minimum spend $14) http://www.ivyscookin.com

Pickup weekly (Wed) or get free delivery (Thurs), “home-cooked meal” vibe but still very professional. Minimum order of one meal (two servings). Great vegetarian options. Also offers additional "product boxes" you can add to your order for $10 and some items like jam, jellies, etc.

$28 for Entree of 2-4 generous servings ($7-$14/serving)

$38 Family Size (4-6 servings) - $38 ($6-$10/serving)

Sprout Kitchen (willamette and 25th) sprout-kitchen.com ($6.50/serving, minimum spend $13)

New restaurant w/ meal plan option focus on modern/gourmet. Each meal is around 2 servings. $13 each so $6.50 per serving. While food has some focus on being healthy, surprisingly no vegan or vegetarian options when I looked. Pickup weekly.

Glenwood Restaurant (25th and Willamette) ($5.25/serving, $21 minimum spend) https://www.glenwoodrestaurants.com/

Choose from one of two meal combos each week, with vegetarian option available.

$21 and designed to ‘feed a family of four’ so let’s assume that’s $5.25/serving.

Chipotle Catering (several locations) ($4.50/serving, minimum spend $90)

Thought I'd consider this one as well for fun. Good veggie options. $8.50/burrito if you order 10. Each burrito is two servings. So that’s 4.50 per serving. Or you can order a bunch of ingredients and put them on tortillas of your choice (taco or burrito). This is $12.00 “per person”, which I’m going to assume is two servings, so $6/serving. Minimum order is a $90-$120 depending on which boxes you get. Of course, a single burrito is $9.85 so you're not really saving much with their catering options. With some creative use of gift cards you could probably get yourself a 10-20% discount here as well.

Honorable mention:
Erin’s table (local meal kit service) https://www.erins-table.com/faq