Single-Person Portions, Solved

Meal delivery is built for households and gym appetites; a shrinking appetite is a party of one, eating a third of what the box assumes. Here’s the portion strategy per service, from a month of weighing everything.

Right-sized out of the box

Factor and BistroMD portion closest to a small appetite — 380–450g plated weight, and crucially, they’re composed meals: eat 60% and you’ve had 60% of everything, protein included. If splitting containers sounds like a chore you won’t do, pick from these two and stop reading.

Big on purpose

Trifecta runs 500g+ — too big for our audience by design, which is exactly why the split strategy works. One meal, two servings, best protein-per-dollar in the category. The rule: split on delivery day, not at the table. Portioning decisions made hungry are not decisions.

Generous but loose

Clean Eatz portions run generous and slightly inconsistent — the same menu item varied up to 80g between weeks. At $9.60 a meal it’s forgivable, but if predictability is what your appetite needs right now, that inconsistency costs more than the discount saves.

The freezer rule

Whatever you order, the freezer is the portion tool: anything split goes straight in, labeled with the protein number, not the dish name. Future-you is choosing between “21g” and “19g,” not between “salmon” and “chili” — and that’s the choice that actually matters.