The Organic Dish provides easy and delicious, fresh, natural and organic "make-your-own" meals and dinner kits for vegetarians and omnivores in Boulder, Colorado.
We want your experience with us to be as easy as possible. If you have a question, choose a help topic below to get more information or use the search box to find the answer.
If you do not see your question listed, please do not hesitate to contact us online or call us at 1-800-408-5905 – we’re here to help and always glad to hear from you.
The Organic Dish is an organic meal preparation service where you can pick-up pre-assembled frozen organic dinners that can be cooked at any time without the hassle of going grocery shopping, preparing ingredients, and cleaning up. Our goal is to enrich your life by making cooking nutritious organic meals easier, more efficient and fun.
Find out more about the different services we offer.
Yes, we do. You can buy gift certificates online or you can call (1-800-408-5905) or email (mail@theorganicdish.com) us – we’ll send you and/or the recipient the certificate via email along with an online redemption code, so you (or she or he) can use it online or at our kitchen.
Our kitchen is located at 2690 28 th Street, Suite F in Boulder.
Each meal has a different price, just like menu items in a restaurant. Our regular organic dinners serve 2-3 people and range in price from $17 to $34. Our large organic dinners serve 5-6 people and range in price from $32 to $60. That means our meals range from $5–$9 per serving, but premium entrées can cost as much as $12 per serving.
For the exact prices of each meal, please look at our monthly menu.
You can buy online, via fax (1-888-413-5910), or via phone (1-800-408-5905).
We accept VISA™, MasterCard™, American Express™, Discover™, Debit/ATM Cards, PayPal™, cash and personal checks.
Yes, we deliver every week within Boulder County ($10) and Denver ($15). If you order your organic dinners online by Tuesday, we will deliver them on Thursday evening between 5 and 7 PM in Boulder county, and on Monday between 10 AM and 12 PM in Denver.
If nobody is going to be home during delivery hours, please leave a cooler outside for us.
Pick-up orders are available Thursdays and Fridays between 10 AM and 6:30 PM and Saturdays between 10 AM and 2 PM, and Grab n’ go organic meals can be picked up any time during regular kitchen hours at our kitchen at 2690 28th Street, Suite F in Boulder, Colorado.
Yes. The image on our home page shows a meal kit with easy cooking instructions right on the box. The next image shows the organic meal that was contained in the box 10 minutes later.
You can email us, call us at 1-800-408-5905, or fill out a contact form in the "Contact" section of this website. We look forward to hearing from you.
Since we are operating in a temporary facility, our store/kitchen hours (and do-it-yourself session times) are limited:
| Tuesday | 10 AM–6:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 10 AM–6:30 PM |
| Thursday | 10 AM–6:30 PM |
| Friday | 10 AM–6:30 PM |
| Saturday | 10 AM–2 PM |
Despite our limited store/kitchen hours, our business hours are 8 AM–8 PM, Monday–Friday. If you want to get in touch with us, please don’t hesitate to contact us online or call us at 1-800-408-5905 and we’ll get back to you as quickly as possible (usually within 1 hour during business hours).
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Each month we offer a new selection of 12 or more organic dishes to choose from, including 4–7 vegetarian meals. Almost all of our meals can be modified (at no additional charge) to accommodate a variety of dietary restrictions (i.e. no gluten, no dairy, etc.).
We rarely repeat any item more than twice per year unless there is particularly high customer demand.
We offer fun and hassle-free culinary adventures. The dishes each month incorporate a range of cuisines and ingredients. We also combine a variety of cooking styles utilizing your oven, range, grill (you will still be able to pan-fry the recipe if you don’t have a grill), stock pot and crock-pot (slow cooker). At The Organic Dish you can try dishes based on cultures from around the world and from right here in Colorado without having to buy several different spices or ingredients just to make one dish.
Each regular organic dinner serves 2 to 3 people (depending on individual appetites), and each large organic dinner serves 5 to 6 people.
No. But the majority of our meals can easily be refrigerated (or frozen) after cooking and re-heated in a microwave – that way our regular meals (2-3 servings) can take care of dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow for one person.
Yes. We offer at least 4–7 vegetarian meals each month.
Yes. Only a few of our organic vegetarian meals contain dairy products (we usually prefer olive oil and soy-based products), and the ones that do can often be made without to accommodate a vegan diet.
Yes. All of our rice is whole grain, and we have whole grain pasta, couscous, and bread available on request.
No. Our meals are about 95% organic. There are some ingredients that are either not available organically (e.g. salt, water), or we cannot find a cost effective and reliable source (e.g. mirin – Japanese cooking wine). If one of our dinners contains non-organic ingredients, they will be clearly indicated in orange on our monthly menu.
In an effort to keep our prices reasonable, we have decided to use all natural (i.e. non-organic) beef, poultry and pork. That means the animals are raised without antibiotics and growth hormones and they are never fed animal byproducts. In addition, our beef is grass fed for maximum flavor. We buy our beef from Coleman™ Natural Beef, our poultry from Wisdom’s Natural Poultry and our pork from Long Family Farms in Eaton, Colorado.
We use wild fish in all of our recipes. While this adds some cost to our fish dishes, we believe it is the right choice to make for our health and the health of our environment.
Logically you might think farm- or ocean-raised fish would be better for our environment and better for us. But we have learned that farm raised means the fish don’t get lots of swimming room, are prone to disease (and therefore fed antibiotics) and can get out and infect the fish in the wild. They are also high in mercury.
Salmon, for example, is an incredibly healthful fish full of omega 3s. Since Farmed Salmon are fed pellets instead of what they eat in the wild three elements are affected.
Yes. While some of our organic meals are one-pot meals and do not need side dishes (stews, soups, etc.), other meals are not complete unless they are paired with just the right side dish. For example, most of our organic dinners include a starch (rice, potato, pasta, etc.) and a seasonal vegetable, such as carrots, kale, spinach or broccoli.
Our organic meals can be kept frozen for 3-5 months.
No. Do not microwave the Ziploc™ bags or corn containers. We recommend letting your meals defrost in your refrigerator for 24–48 hours. If you want to speed up the process, we suggest using a cold water bath – just put the Ziploc™ bags in a large bowl in your sink with cold water circulating/flowing around them.
Yes. The nutritional information is based on individual servings (unless otherwise stated). For example, if one meal was divided into 6 equal portions, the nutritional information would be correct for one portion.
To view this information, go to our monthly menu and click on the show nutritional information link.
We do not specifically offer "low-carb" meals. But if you are trying to decrease your carbohydrate intake, you can review the nutritional information on our monthly menu and choose meals which are either lower in carbohydrates or can be easily modified by making small substitutions or by omitting some of the higher carbohydrate ingredients.
We do not specifically offer "low-fat" meals. But we use low and non-fat ingredients where we can without compromising taste. But if you are watching your fat intake, you can review the nutritional information on our monthly menu, and choose meals which are either lower in fat or can be easily modified by making small substitutions or by omitting some of the fattier ingredients.
Many of our organic meals are naturally gluten free, and some others can be made gluten free with simple substitutions (rice pasta for regular pasta, rice for couscous). Please take a look at the nutritional information and ingredients of the menu items on of our current monthly menu and don’t hesitate to contact us to review recipe ingredients over the phone (1-800-408-5905) or email.
We can make many substitutions when you place a pick-up order or come to our kitchen for grab n’ go meals.
Your (and your family’s) health and safety are of the utmost importance to us. We work hard to address the concerns of customers with food allergies and other health issues. We encourage you to take a look at the nutritional information and ingredients of the menu items on of our current monthly menu. In addition, we can also review recipe ingredients over the phone (1-800-408-5905) or online. However, given the close proximity of our work stations, it is impossible for us to guarantee that cross-contamination of products will not occur. Therefore we must ultimately leave it up to you to determine whether our organic meals and the environment in which they are prepared will work for you.
No. We do not use preservatives in our organic dinners, but there may be a small number of prepared ingredients (i.e., condiments, sauces, soup stock, etc.) used in our recipes which may contain preservatives or monosodium glutamate (MSG).
If you have concerns regarding preservatives or MSG please contact us online or call us at 1-800-408-5905 prior to ordering, and we will review each meal’s ingredients with you. This will give you the information you need to decide which meals you should select.
In short our privacy policy says that we will collect information from you that we deem necessary to conduct our business. It also says that we take the trust you place in us very seriously, and that we will never rent, sell, or otherwise share your information with third parties unless required to do so by law.
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