How to order Meal Delivery Services in Japan

Cooking meals everyday is one of the chores that could make you tired.

From thinking menus, going shopping, cooking, and to cleaning up...

There might be a myth that Japanese people cook everyday, but there are a lot of meal delivery services/subscriptions in Japan and in deed a lot of people use those services.

Are you tired from working full time everyday?

Are you a tired mama taking care of your little one(s)?

Are you tire of eating food from convenience stores?

Are you interested in trying new and healthier food?

If YES, consider trying a meal delivery service!

Basically, there are 2 types of meal delivery services.

【Meal Kit】includes recipes and ingredients, and contains only the necessary amount of fresh vegetables, meat, and other ingredients.

Many meal kits are provided by food delivery companies and are popular because they save time for shopping.

【Frozen Bento】is boxed lunch that are packaged one meal at a time and can be frozen.

The frozen meals last longer and can be easily defrosted in the microwave or by boiling water when you are ready to eat.

An increasing number of services offer nutritional advice supervised by registered dietitians.

While you need to know at least some Japanese in order to cook with meal kit following recipes, you don't need to worry about language barrier with frozen bento.

With technological advances, tastes of frozen food has been impressively improved!

In this article, I will introduce meal delivery services focusing on 【Frozen Bento】that suits for foreigners.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Delivery Meal Service (Frozen Bento)

Here are some advantages and disadvantages in general of using frozen bento.

Yes, there are some disadvantages of using frozen bento meal services.

However, you can coodinate your plan based on your need and balance out the advantages and disadvantages.

For example, there are subscriptions available, but you can purchase food as needed as well.

You can decide how often and how many bento you would like to be delivered.

There is a plan that you can choose what you want as well as there is a service that they choose what to deliver.

If you go shopping twice a week spending 30 minutes each time and cook and clean up for 1 hour each day, you can save 8 hours a week from cooking (If you use the service 7 days a week).

Some people even say that they ended up not spending as much for food by using a food delivery service because they stop buying unnecessary stuff by going shopping.

How will your life differ if you use a food delivery service and save some time a day?

Could you spend more time for your hobby, spend more time with your kids, or just relax?

There are just so many services to choose from, let's see some of the frozen bento delivery services!!

For those who are interested in meal kit. refer the article below.

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4 Delivery Meal (frozen bento) services

I will introduce 4 frozen bento services.

Yes, there are so many services available in Japan, but I chose these services to introduce considering what foreigners like.

For example, I excluded the services which offer lots of traditional Japanese foods and which you get food by their choice.

Most of the companies have a trial set to start, so I recommend you to start with their trial set to see if you like their services.

In order to view the websites for the deleivery meal services in English, go to the official websites introduced below, then copy the address.

Open "translate.google.com" in a separate window and put the website address in a search window.

You will be able to see the website in English.

I have tried and found out…
You can't add products to your cart from the page translated by translate.google.com
You have use the original page in order to add items in your cart.
I recommend you to open separate tabs, both original and translated pages.

When registering, you will be asked to put your name twice.
First in Kanji (Chinese Charactor), then Katakana.
In the translated page, it doesn't translate well, but that is what you are requrired.
I would try putting my name in Engish first, then translate it in Katakana and put it in to see if it works.

食卓便 (Shoku Taku Bin)

Shokutakubin offers some courses such as "choice for the week", "choose what you want", "special diet course", etc.

One bento is available from 560 yen, and what makes special for Shokutakubin is that they serve 5 items in one bento.

Those who would like to try their meal can try a "trial course".

Under "Omakase Course", you can find a trial course.

4 meal, 1980 yen, shipping free!

Visit Official Page of 食卓便

Oisix

Oisix is one of the most well know delivery meal services in Japan.

Mainly, they provide meal kits; however, they do have a good amount of frozen meals.

Visit Official Page of Oisix

Since Oisix offers fresh products, meal kits, frozen meals, and more, here is how you get to the frozen meals.

On the offcial webpage in the link above, scroll all the way down till you find "Take a look inside the shop" and click it.

Scroll the top tabs to the left or right and click on "パッと Oisix" . (MOBILE PHONE)

For PC, it appears on the left side of the screen (Patto Oisix).

In order to shop at Oisix, you need to register.

From the page in the link, go to "Take a look inside the shop".

You will find a "log in" icon, then click there.

(You will see "log in" at any other places. Whichever is fine)

After that, follow the instructions in below pictures.

You will get to the registration page, so please register there.

Google translate works fine once you get to the registration page.

When registering your information, the area to add your credit card informaton doesn't appear in the translated page.
Just add inforamtion in the translated page and click proceed.
You will get to Japanese page and there will be an area to add your credit card information (in Japanese).
Choose the company of the credit card from the tab, put card number, your name, expiration date, and security code, then proceed.

For the first time user, you can get great deals (deals vary time to time)

Visit Oisix Official Website

Chefbox

A boxed lunch service supervised by a Michelin-starred chef, with more than 95% of customers saying they enjoyed the food.

Menus will be chosed by the chef with your preference survey.

Google translate doesn't work for this website for some reasons, so please refer to the below article for how to start Chefbox.

Visit Official page of CHEFBOX

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KETOS

Ketos provides nutritionally balanced diet meals supervised by a professional sports trainer and a registered dietitian.

It is unique compare to other meal services because it is a "meal replacement diet".

One of their plan is to provide you 2 meals a day for 2 weeks.

(You can eat anything more than twice a day. No dietary restrictions, just reduced carbohydrates.)

You can try a trial kit from 2,490 yen for 4 meals.

For more details, visit KETOS official website.

Summary of 4 Delivery Meal Services (Frozen Bento)

Refer the below table for a comparison of each service.

Service	Taste	Amount	Price per meal	Choose menus?	Ingredients	Remarks
食卓便	〇	〇	560 yen~	〇	nothing in particular	Supervised by a Registered Dietitian 5 items in one bento
Oisix	〇	〇	680 yen~	〇	fresh, reliable, and safe ingredients	Food Reliability Products available in partnership with restaurants and chefs
Chefbox	◎	◎	885 yen~	△	Ingredients used in restaurants	Cuisines from around the world Supervised by a Michelin-starred chef
KETOS	〇	◎	1245 yen~	×	nothing in particular	Meal replacement diet Supervised by a professional sports trainer and a registered dietitian

Bonus - Traditional Japanese meal- Delivery Services

If you don't mind or like traditional Japanese food, わんまいる "Wanmairu" is the one I recommend.

As a mother, one of the priorities is chosing safe, reliable, and healthy food for kids.

わんまいる offers foods that 100% Japanese products with no synthetic preservatives or coloring.

*Their regular delivery service is popular, but you can also choose meals of what you want (occational order).

Service	Taste	Amount	Price Per Meal	Choose Menu?	Ingredients	Remarks
わんまいる	〇	△	855 yen~	△	100% Japanese products No synthetic preservatives or coloring	Supervised by a Registerd Dietitian and Chef water/hot water thaw

Visit わんまいる Officila Website

Summary

I hope this helps you to know and decide what meal services (frozen bento) you would like to consider.

Service	Taste	Amount	Price per Meal	Choose Menu?	Ingredients	Remarks	Delivery Service	Official Website
食卓便	〇	〇	560 yen~	〇	nothing in particular	Supervised by a Registered Dietitian 5 items in one bento Family ◎	Yamato Redelivery	食卓便
Oisix	〇	〇	680 yen ~	〇	fresh, reliable, and safe ingredients	Food Reliability Products available in partnership with restaurants and chefs Family ◎	Yamato	Oisix
CHEFBOX	◎	◎	885 yen ~	△	Ingredients used in restaurants	Cuisines from around the world Supervised by a Michelin-starred chef Personal	Sagawa Redelivery	Chefbox
KETOS	〇	◎	1245 yen~	×	nothing in particular	Meal replacement diet Supervised by a professional sports trainer and a registered dietitian Personal	Yamato	KETOS
わんまいる	〇	△	855 yen~	△	100% Japanese products No synthetic preservatives or coloring	Supervised by a Registerd Dietitian and Chef water/hot water thaw Family ◎	Yamato	わんまいる