Meal Prep · Santa Ana
(714) 260-3696
Meal prep in Santa Ana, cooked on a scale.
We have run a red oak fire on the corner of 4th and Sycamore since 2017. The meal prep comes out of the same kitchen, on the same fire, one cook a week — and every meal lands inside a band we print on the lid.
Why here and not a national box
Most meal prep that reaches Orange County is cooked somewhere else, frozen or chilled hard, and trucked in. Ours is cooked on Monday morning eleven miles from wherever you live and handed to you on Tuesday. Nothing is ever frozen.
The part that matters more: we publish the numbers and hold to them. Every meal is 50–60 g of protein and 400–600 calories. Not an average across the menu, not a target — a band, on every single meal, weighed on a portion scale at the station and printed on the box. If you track what you eat, you can stop estimating. We are the only operation in Orange County that publishes a guaranteed band, and it is the one thing about this business we will not bend.
The rest is technique. Everything is built against the fifth day, not the first plate. Salsa ships in a sealed cup so it never sits on the protein. Nothing on the plate wilts — no lettuce, no slaw, no avocado. Cabbage and zucchini are salt-drained before roasting. The tri tip is pulled at medium rare because your microwave is going to cook it a second time.
Picking up in Santa Ana
Where
The black and green food truck on the corner of 4th and Sycamore — 401 N Sycamore St, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Come to the window and give the name on the order. It is the same truck, the same window, the same people.
When
Tuesdays, 8 AM to 2 PM. Order and pay by 6 PM Saturday — we buy against the exact count on Sunday, so the cutoff is real. We cook Monday morning and pack cold.
What it costs
Nothing. Pickup is free, which over a year is worth about $130 against a service that charges delivery on every box. If you work downtown or drive Fourth Street, this is the cheapest way to buy it.
Delivery across North OC
$10 flat, dropped off Tuesday, anywhere in the zone below. Not per mile, not per box — $10. Text or call after you order and we set it up.
Just outside it? Call anyway. If you are close to the line or you are ordering alongside a neighbour, we will usually make it work.
What it costs, honestly
Landed cost per meal — what you actually pay once delivery is in the number. Competitor figures are their published prices plus their published delivery fee, checked September 2026.
| Plan | Per meal, landed |
|---|---|
| Culinary Curators — first box of 10 | $9.00 |
| Culinary Curators — 10-meal box, picked up | $12.00 |
| Culinary Curators — 10-meal box, delivered | $13.00 |
| A typical OC service — 16-meal plan | $11.61 |
| A typical OC service — 12-meal plan | $12.82 |
| A typical OC service — 8-meal plan | $14.24 |
| A typical OC service — 5-meal plan | $16.99 |
All our prices are before Santa Ana's 9.25% sales tax, which checkout adds. We are not the cheapest food in Orange County and we are not trying to be — there are marketplace cooks at $8 a plate. We are the cheapest one that guarantees what is in the box.
Gyms, trainers and offices
If you run a gym or coach clients in Santa Ana, Tustin, Orange, Garden Grove or Anaheim, we do a standing Tuesday drop. We bring a cooler at a set hour, your members who pre-ordered take their boxes, we leave. You host nothing, stock nothing and handle no money.
For trainers writing nutrition plans, the printed band is the useful part — you can prescribe a number of meals instead of a number of grams and know it lands. Call or text (714) 260-3696 and we will bring a few by for you and your coaches first.
Questions people actually ask
See this week's six meals.
The full menu, with the calories and protein for every dish, is on the main page. First box of ten is $90 for new customers, $120 after that, both plus tax.
401 N Sycamore St, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Pickup Tuesday 8 AM–2 PM · $10 delivery in North OC