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Me Time Meal: a fresh single-portion Cantonese bento, delivered across Greater Vancouver

One box, one proper meal: a main, vegetables and rice, cooked the same morning in Richmond and delivered chilled to the door. No shopping, no chopping board, no sink full of pans.

  • Three boxes, one meal
  • Less oil & salt, no MSG
  • Monday to Friday
  • Delivered across Greater Vancouver
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Me Time Meal single-portion bento from Julia's Kitchen in Richmond, BC: a main dish, vegetables cooked that morning and rice in three boxes, less oil and salt, delivered across Greater Vancouver on weekdays
One weekday Me Time Meal: a main dish, vegetables and multigrain rice.

Me Time Meal (一人便當) is a single-portion weekday bento from Julia's Kitchen, a home-style Cantonese kitchen in Richmond, British Columbia. Each meal is three boxes: one main dish chosen from the two on that weekday's menu, vegetables cooked the same morning, and the day's multigrain rice, chosen over white rice as the healthier daily staple. Every Me Time Meal is cooked fresh in the morning, delivered chilled across Greater Vancouver from Monday to Friday, and ready to steam or microwave. Cooking is deliberately lighter on oil and salt, with no MSG and no additives, so that a good meal stays easy to eat every day.

What is in a Me Time Meal box?

One box, three parts, and nothing left to decide at seven in the evening. Every Me Time Meal is packed the same way: a main dish, vegetables and rice, chilled and ready to reheat.

  1. A main dish, chosen from two

    Home-style Cantonese cooking, with Taiwanese, Hakka, Japanese and Thai dishes coming round in the rotation.

  2. Vegetables, cooked that morning

    Cooked the morning of delivery rather than blanched days ahead and held.

  3. The day's multigrain rice

    Multigrain instead of white, on purpose: more fibre and more bite for a meal eaten every day. No choosing needed.

Two mains every weekday
Each day's menu offers two main dishes, and one of them comes in the box.
Cooked fresh each morning
Made to order in the Richmond kitchen rather than cooked in bulk and held.
Less oil, less salt, no MSG
No additives either. Seasoned for food that gets eaten every day.
Delivered chilled, ready to reheat
Steam the box or microwave it whenever hunger arrives.
Around fifty dishes a month
Roughly fifty different dishes come through a typical month, so the week does not repeat itself.

Why is eating well alone so hard?

Cooking for one has the worst effort-to-reward ratio in the kitchen. Recipes serve four, a bunch of greens turns yellow before anyone reaches the end of it, and half a packet of everything sits in the fridge as a small daily reproach. So the evening ends in takeout, and takeout is a fast way to eat more salt than anyone planned to: most people in Canada eat more sodium than they need. A Me Time Meal takes the whole calculation away. One box arrives chilled, dinner is already decided, and the portion is the portion, so nothing wilts in the fridge and nothing is thrown out.

Who is Me Time Meal for?

Me Time Meal suits anyone who would eat better if a good meal simply arrived. Five kinds of people order it most weeks.

  • Seniors living alone

    A hot, properly cooked meal arrives without a trip to the shops, an hour at the stove or a sink full of pans afterwards. That matters more with age, not less: healthy eating gets harder as appetite fades and preparing food takes more effort, which is why Me Time Meal keeps the seasoning light and the vegetables cooked that morning.

  • Busy professionals

    Dinner is settled before the working day starts, so a late finish does not turn into fried takeout at nine. Me Time Meal runs Monday to Friday and is ordered a week ahead, which means the whole week is handled in one phone call.

  • Anyone cooking for one

    One box is one portion, so there is no half a cabbage going soft and no fourth night of the same stew. Every Me Time Meal is cooked as a single serving in the Richmond kitchen rather than spooned out of a family-sized tray.

  • Students far from home

    Home-style Chinese food without a kitchen, a rice cooker or an afternoon of cooking. The main changes every weekday and roughly fifty different dishes come through a typical month, so a Me Time Meal week does not get boring by the third one.

  • Health-aware eaters

    Less oil, less salt, no MSG and no additives, with vegetables cooked the same morning they are delivered. Me Time Meal is seasoned for food eaten every day rather than food meant to impress once, and the rice is multigrain rather than white, for a little more fibre in a meal eaten every day.

How does a week of Me Time Meal work?

Ordering Me Time Meal takes four steps, once a week. The menu goes up, the order goes in, and the boxes arrive chilled from Monday to Friday.

  1. See the week's menu

    The coming week is posted a week at a time, with two mains for each weekday.

  2. Order by the week

    Call or send a message with the days wanted and any foods to avoid. Earlier is better, because places are limited by what one kitchen can cook in a morning.

  3. Cooked in the morning, delivered chilled

    Everything is cooked the same morning in Richmond and delivered across Greater Vancouver, Monday to Friday, with no service on statutory holidays.

  4. Steam it or microwave it

    The box waits in the fridge until it is wanted, and reheating takes minutes.

Why less oil and less salt?

Food built to be eaten every day has to be seasoned differently from food built to impress once. Less oil, less salt, no MSG and no additives is what lets the same kind of meal come back tomorrow without feeling heavy. Home-style Cantonese cooking makes that straightforward: steaming, braising and poaching draw flavour from ginger, black bean, shiitake and soy rather than from a heavy hand with the salt. Vegetables cooked the same morning still taste of themselves, so less is needed to make them taste of anything at all.

A week of Me Time Meal single-portion bento boxes from Julia's Kitchen in Richmond, BC: seven home-style Cantonese meals with less oil and salt, delivered across Greater Vancouver

What do people ask before ordering?

Who is Me Time Meal for?

People who would eat better if a good meal simply arrived. In practice that means seniors living alone, professionals who get home late, students, health-aware eaters, and anyone for whom cooking a single portion is no longer worth the effort. Me Time Meal is one box, one meal, ordered by the week.

How do I order, and how far ahead?

Me Time Meals are ordered by the week, in advance. Call the kitchen or send a message on WhatsApp or Instagram with the days wanted. Each meal is cooked to order in the morning rather than made in bulk, so the kitchen needs the numbers before the week begins.

What is in a Me Time Meal box?

A Me Time Meal is three boxes: one main dish chosen from the two on that weekday's menu, vegetables cooked the same morning, and the day's multigrain rice, a healthier choice than white. Every meal arrives chilled, ready to steam or microwave.

Do you cook every day?

The kitchen cooks weekdays, Monday to Friday, with no service on statutory holidays. Me Time Meal menus are published a week at a time, so the two mains for each day can be read before anything is ordered.

I have an allergy. Can you work around it?

Say so before ordering rather than after. Some things the kitchen can adjust and some it cannot, and it is better for everyone to know which is which up front. The same goes for anything a doctor has asked to be avoided, so ask before the week's Me Time Meal order goes in.

Where do you deliver?

Me Time Meals are delivered across Greater Vancouver: Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Surrey and New Westminster. Every box leaves the Richmond kitchen chilled and arrives Monday to Friday. For an address near the edge of that map, call and ask.

How do I reheat a Me Time Meal?

Steam it or microwave it. A Me Time Meal arrives chilled rather than hot, so it waits in the fridge until it is wanted and reheating takes minutes. Nothing else needs doing, and there is nothing to wash afterwards.

How do I get on next week's list?

Calling is the fastest way to order, and a message on WhatsApp or Instagram works just as well for a question. Say which days are wanted, and Julia's Kitchen will put a Me Time Meal down for each of them.