Too lazy or unskilled to cook? A new D.C. service will deliver pre-prepared meals to your door once a week for quick re-heating. Calling themselves FitMeal, they bill their service as a “simple convenient solution to eating healthy food.” How does it work? Customers order either individual meals ($5.50 to $8.50 each) or a planned menu ($70 to $112 per week) at the beginning of each week. Then on Sunday or Monday they get their food delivered for the week anywhere in downtown D.C. (“north to Chevy Chase, west to Georgetown, and east to Capitol Hill and south to the National Mall”) or pick it up at a conveniently undisclosed location, and then re-heat their meals when they’re ready to eat. The company promotes themselves as serving healthy cuisine with “natural and unrefined” ingredients. The entrees for this week are dishes that wouldn’t take long to cook at home, ranging from “Sauteed Peppers and Mushroom over Chicken with Wild Rice” to “Sundried Tomato, Olive, Basil Compote Cod over Whole Wheat Pasta with Asparagus.” The apparently new service is conspicuously missing any information about which downtown kitchen is producing their meals, and their website is linked to by only one other site – Zipcar, where they’re listed as a partner.

If you still prefer a little assembly to your meals, the Peapod service will deliver your Giant groceries in D.C. for $10 if your order is between $50 and $75, and for $6 if you order over $100 of groceries. Washingtonian Magagazine profiled Giant’s Peapod home delivery last August, and decided that despite some service quirks, overall it was worth it:

“After two tubs of sour cream showed up spoiled, ordering dairy seemed a bad idea. But the half gallons of Horizon Organic milk were fine, as was the cottage cheese. There was one occasion when we got a bag of Excedrin and cat food we hadn’t ordered, which would have been okay except we were missing things as well: The Excedrin people probably got our Stonyfield Farm yogurts.”