Local Effort Cooperativealways mostly local

weekly meals —

A week of real food, cooked for you

From a few dinners a week to complete meal replacement — wholesome, home-cooked meals from high-integrity Midwest ingredients, delivered to your door every week.

dinners from $18 a person · breakfasts from $13.50 · $10 weekly delivery

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Prefer to plan every detail? Take the full intakeMeal prep customers are co-op members — see what membership means
A week of Local Effort meals

recent menus —

What clients have eaten lately

These are real recent examples. Your weekly menu is shaped around your household, preferences, dietary needs, and what Minnesota farms are producing.

Week of July 5/6see menu

Dinners

  • Pulled pork with cabbage, rainbow chard, potato salad or rice, and pickles
  • Nam tok waterfall beef with sticky rice, shiso, cucumbers, and marinated sirloin
  • Dan dan noodles with minced pork, chili oil, sunflower seeds, green onion, and braised choy — gluten-free where appropriate

Kids

  • Squash fritters
  • Strawberry crêpes

Snack

  • Mango coconut sticky rice
Week of June 28/29see menu

Dinners

  • Zabuton roast, pot-roast style, with new red potatoes and green bean casserole
  • Mango-glazed BBQ chicken with green bean salad and new potato salad
  • Pork loin over quinoa with prunes and snap pea salad

Lunches

  • Niçoise salad with lettuce, marinated fish, egg, olives, and green beans
  • Poke bowl with sushi rice, sesame, mustard kimchi, tuna or salmon, cucumber, and radish
  • “Ikea” lunch with meatballs, gravy, jam, mashed potatoes, and English peas

pricing —

What a week costs

dinners, per adult
family rate (3+ adults)$18
two adults$45
solo$24
other meals, per adult
breakfast$13.50
lunch$18
delivery
flat weekly delivery, Twin Cities metro$10

Kids are priced by age. A solo plan lands around $82 a week including delivery.

questions —

Before your first week

How does the first week work?answer

You sign up here, we email the intake form, and we talk once — household size, what you like, what you cannot eat, and which day works for delivery. Your first delivery is usually the following week.

What does a week actually cost?answer

Dinners are $18 per adult at the family rate (3+ adults), $24 solo, $45 for two. Breakfasts are $13.50 per adult and lunches $18. Delivery is a flat $10 a week. A solo plan lands around $82 a week including delivery.

Do I have to take every meal, every week?answer

No. Some households take three dinners a week, some replace every meal. You set the number and can change it week to week.

Can you cook around allergies and diets?answer

Yes — gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, and allergy-safe cooking are routine for us. Dietary needs go on the intake form and stay on your household file.

Do I need to be a Localist member?answer

Yes. Meal prep customers are co-op members first — it is how we plan, buy from local farms with confidence, and pay our worker-owners fairly. Membership is $45/month or $375/year, and it is waived for anyone for whom the cost is a barrier.

Where do you deliver?answer

Across the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro. If you are on the edge of the metro, ask — we will tell you honestly whether we can reach you well.

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