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How Our Clean Meal Prep Facility Keeps Your Food Safe

11/02/2021 no comments admin Categories Post

How Our Clean Meal Prep Facility Ensures Safe, Fresh Meals Every Week

When it comes to meal prep, most people think about ingredients, macros, or calories. But what’s often overlooked—and just as critical—is the cleanliness of the facility where your meals are prepared. At Meal Prep Sunday, we don’t just focus on taste or convenience. We’ve built our entire operation around clean meal prep standards to give you peace of mind, consistent freshness, and safe, ready-to-eat meals every single week.

 

Let’s take a look behind the scenes at how our clean kitchen, advanced packaging systems, and strict food safety protocols ensure your meals are not only delicious but handled with the highest standard of care.

Why a Clean Meal Prep Facility Matters

A truly clean meal prep environment is foundational to everything we do. Whether you’re working toward fitness goals, eating for energy, or just trying to avoid unhealthy takeout, the last thing you want is to worry about how your meals were handled.

 

Our commitment to cleanliness and organization isn’t just about optics—it directly protects you from foodborne illnesses, cross-contamination, and spoilage. In fact, our facility meets or exceeds industry standards for meal safety, cleanliness, and food preservation.

Inside Our Industrial Doyon Oven

Chef placing fresh meals into oven for safe, clean preparation

Our meals are cooked to perfection in our industrial-grade Doyon rotisserie ovens, which ensure even heat distribution and precision cooking. This type of oven offers pulse steaming, which keeps proteins juicy on the inside while finishing them with a flavorful exterior.

This matters for clean meal prep because:

  • It ensures internal temperatures are met to kill bacteria

  • Moisture retention preserves freshness without preservatives

  • Our team uses calibrated thermometers to verify safe cooking

The result? Juicy, flavorful proteins that meet both taste and safety expectations.

Sealed for Freshness: Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP)

Organized industrial fridge at Meal Prep Sunday – San Diego meal prep storage facility

Ever wonder how our meals stay so fresh without using preservatives or freezing? The answer lies in our Multivac T-300 sealing system, which uses Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP). This advanced technique removes oxygen and introduces gases like nitrogen to extend shelf life naturally.

Why MAP matters for clean meal prep:

Kitchen staff cleaning food prep station to maintain clean meal prep standards
  • Reduces the presence of bacteria and mold
  • Protects meals from oxidation (which leads to spoilage)

  • Keeps your food clean, safe, and intact during transit

We vacuum-seal each container and use BPA-free, recyclable packaging for an eco-conscious and health-forward experience.

Industrial Refrigeration to Lock In Quality

Immediately after sealing, meals are moved into our industrial-size refrigerators, which operate under HACCP-monitored systems to ensure all food is stored below 41°F—the critical temperature threshold for food safety.

Our refrigeration systems:

  • Include KE2 controllers for automated defrost cycles and minimal fluctuation

  • Rapid-cool meals within 30 minutes to lock in texture and flavor

  • Prevent the growth of foodborne pathogens like Salmonella and Listeria

This tight temperature control is what keeps our clean meal prep truly fresh from production to your doorstep.

Sanitation & Hygiene Protocols

Employee sanitizing kitchen surfaces for safe, hygienic meal preparation

Clean meal prep doesn’t stop with the equipment. It’s also about the people and systems behind the scenes. Our kitchen staff follows a rigorous sanitation protocol that includes:

  • Color-coded cutting boards to prevent cross-contamination

  • Disposable gloves, changed frequently between tasks

  • Hairnets, face masks, sleeves, and aprons to eliminate physical contaminants

  • Hand washing and sanitizing stations at every prep point

Each workstation is sanitized after every production round, and deep-cleaned weekly to maintain pristine conditions.

Clean Facility = Clean Food

We clean our facility from top to bottom, twice daily. This includes:

  • Floor-to-ceiling sanitization of the kitchen

  • Steam-cleaning ovens and cooktops

  • Organizing and deep cleaning cold storage areas

  • Sanitizing reusable items like trays and equipment

Why? Because the cleaner our environment, the safer your food. Every week, our team is trained and re-trained on cleaning protocols to uphold our gold-standard kitchen environment.

Meet the Team Behind the Clean

Meal Prep Sunday kitchen team meeting to review clean meal prep protocols

None of this would be possible without the passionate, highly trained staff at Meal Prep Sunday. We work with experienced chefs and kitchen professionals who genuinely care about what goes into your meals and how they’re handled.

Our team operates with a high-performance, low-ego mindset. That’s why we display every team member on a wall between our kitchen and office—a reminder that clean meal prep is powered by great people.

Safe, Fresh, and Clean—Delivered to Your Door

Employee packing clean meal prep containers in sanitized kitchen

Our customers trust us because we don’t just claim to offer safe food—we prove it through action. From the second your ingredients arrive to the moment you open your delivery bag, every step of our process is designed for clean, safe, and reliable meal prep.

So whether you’re fueling for a workout, feeding your family, or simplifying your week, you can rest easy knowing that Meal Prep Sunday delivers clean meal prep with care and consistency.

Ready to experience food safety you can taste?