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7 best healthy food options in Cincinnati, Ohio
Two Clean Eatz cafes, three farmers markets and a smarter grocery run. Here are 7 ways to eat healthy in Cincinnati without cooking every night.
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Healthy food Cincinnati locals rely on
The short answer
The 7 best healthy food options in Cincinnati are Clean Eatz weekly meal plans, the Clean Eatz cafe, Grab 'N' Go meals, a week of meals prepped for you, three local farmers markets, smart grocery and salad bar runs, and catering for your office. Five come out of our kitchens. Two help you shop smarter on your own.
Search "healthy restaurants Cincinnati" and you'll get a long list of places to try once. That's fine for a Saturday. It doesn't fix a Tuesday. If you want healthy places to eat Cincinnati wide, you need something you can repeat, at a price you can repeat, on a night you don't feel like cooking.
This list starts with what we make at our two Cincinnati cafes, on Harrison Ave and in Eastgate. Then it moves to the markets and grocery aisles. If your last search was "healthy places to eat near me," the first four picks are the quickest.
- 01Clean Eatz weekly meal plans
- 02Clean Eatz cafe bowls, wraps and smoothies
- 03Grab 'N' Go meals for lunch
- 04Meal prep without the Sunday cooking
- 05Cincinnati farmers markets
- 06Grocery store produce and salad bars
- 07Healthy catering for offices and teams
Cincinnati on Wikipedia puts the metro at over 2.3 million people across three states.
Clean Eatz Cincinnati weekly meal plans
Best forOne weekly order that covers most of your lunches and dinners.
Clean Eatz Cincinnati weekly meal plans give you fresh, portioned meals for the week, with no subscription and macros on every label. You choose. We cook. You heat and eat.
Here's how a week runs. Every Tuesday at 8 AM Eastern, the new week's menu posts online. You order between Tuesday and Sunday, then pick it up at your Clean Eatz Cincinnati cafe. Pickup days vary by cafe, so check your cafe's page before you plan around one.
The more meals you order, the less each one costs:
| Meals a week | Price per meal | Week total |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | $8.89 | $44.45 |
| 10 | $7.99 | $79.90 |
| 15 | $7.69 | $115.35 |
| 21 | $7.19 | $150.99 |
Most meals land under 500 calories.
Not sure what to choose? The 5-meal bundles choose for you: GLP-1, Builder, Shred and Favorites. The Builder adds an extra 2 oz of protein to each meal. Shred holds each meal to about 25g of carbs. The GLP-1 bundle is high protein and low carb, built to keep you full.
Bundle prices vary by cafe, so check yours at checkout.
Clean Eatz cafe bowls, wraps & smoothies
Best forEating out without guessing what's on the plate.
When "healthy restaurants near me" is the search and you want a hot plate today, the cafe is the pick. Both Cincinnati cafes have a dine-in menu, and you can also order online for pickup.
| Cafe | Address | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Eatz (Harrison Ave) | 5770 Harrison Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45248 | Green Township, west of downtown |
| Clean Eatz Eastgate | 4450 Eastgate S Drive, Suite 205, Cincinnati, OH 45245 | Union Township, Clermont County |
Hours change, so check the cafe page first. North of town or across the river? Try our Montgomery, West Chester Township or Newport, Kentucky cafes.
On the board: build-your-own bowls, burgers, wraps, flatbreads and meltz. Makin' Muscle plates, kids meals, smoothies and protein drinks round it out. Gluten-free, keto and high-protein eaters all have choices. Browse the full cafe menu before you go.
Here's how to order a bowl that works. Start with the protein. Then ask for extra vegetables and pick one base, like brown rice, quinoa or sweet potatoes. Ask for sauce in a side cup. You decide how much lands on the bowl.
To skip wheat, swap in a lettuce wrap or a base of brown rice, quinoa or sweet potatoes. Our cafes do handle wheat and other allergens, so tell your server about any food allergy before you order. Flavor comes from fresh herbs, since our kitchens run on a "No Salt in the Kitchen" rule.
One more reason to eat in: Rewardz. Every dollar at the cafe earns a point. Trade 150 for a free smoothie or iced coffee, or save to 300 for a free small bowl or cauliflower pizza.
Grab 'N' Go meals for a fast healthy lunch
Best forBusy days when lunch has to happen in ten minutes or less.
For a healthy lunch Cincinnati workers can grab with zero planning, walk into either cafe and open the Grab 'N' Go freezers. There's no order window and no wait. You pick, you pay, you leave.
Inside you'll find frozen breakfasts, lunches, dinners and cauliflower crust pizzas, with Low Carb, Vegetarian, Extra Protein and Basic meals to pick from. Our lean muscle guide lists Bro Meals with 43g to 52g of protein, so check the cooler if you train hard.
No thawing needed. Straight from frozen, a meal takes 3 to 4 minutes in the microwave, checked every 30 seconds. A 400-degree oven crisps a cauliflower crust pizza in 7 to 9 minutes. Give it 5 minutes to cool.
The smartest move is to stock the office freezer. Buy three or four at once. Now "healthy lunch near me" is twenty steps away, not a drive across town.
They count toward Rewardz too, at 1 point per $1. Save up 1,200 points and you get 5 free Grab 'N' Go meals. Points expire a year after you earn them, and rewards depend on what your cafe has.
Meal prep Cincinnati without the Sunday cooking
Best forPeople who like the idea of meal prep but hate losing a weekend afternoon to it.
Meal prep Cincinnati style can skip the batch cook entirely: order the week from Clean Eatz and spend your Sunday on anything else. No grocery run. No five pans. No guessing at portions.
A normal prep day means shopping, chopping, cooking and dishes. Then you eat the same chicken and rice five days running.
Now price out 10 meals instead: two a day, Monday through Friday, at $7.99 each. That's $79.90 for the week. The menu changes weekly. See how weekly pickup works and pick your meals.
You can make it fit your diet, too. Every order has a special request option. Pick low carb and we trade the grains for green veggies and cauliflower rice. Pick extra protein and you get 2 more ounces of it. Or pick both. For stricter needs, our Custom Meal Plans at cleaneatz.com/custom cover a full range of options.
Get meals into a fridge set at 40°F or colder the moment you're home. The FoodSafety.gov cold storage chart says cooked meat and poultry keeps 3 to 4 days refrigerated, so freeze anything you won't eat by then.
Frozen meals stay safe at 0°F. The chart lists 2 to 6 months for best quality, and we say our meals are good for six months. Salads are the exception. Eat them within three days, and don't freeze them.
Reheating takes about 2 minutes in the microwave with one corner of the lid cracked open. Keep going in 30-second bursts until the center reads 165°F, then give it a minute to rest.
Searching "meal prep near me" from the north suburbs? Our Montgomery and West Chester Township cafes offer weekly meal plans too.
Cincinnati farmers markets for fresh produce
Best forFilling your fridge with fruit and vegetables straight from the people who grew them.
Findlay Market, the Northside Farmers Market and the Hyde Park Farmers Market let you buy from local growers on a Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday. Pick the one that fits your week.
| Market | Where | When |
|---|---|---|
| Findlay Market | Over-the-Rhine, 1801 Race Street | Tuesday to Sunday all year, farmers market on weekends |
| Northside Farmers Market | Jacob Hoffner Park, 4109 Hamilton Ave (April to October) | Every Wednesday, all year |
| Hyde Park Farmers Market | Hyde Park Square | Sundays, May through October |
Findlay Market is the big one. It's Ohio's oldest continuously operated public market, just blocks from downtown. The indoor market is open Tuesday through Sunday all year, and a year-round farmers market joins it on Saturdays and Sundays.
Northside is the midweek pick. It runs every Wednesday, all year. The winter market runs November through March, and its site lists that location as to be announced, so check before you go.
Hyde Park is a Sunday market on the square, and its season ends in October. Reading this late in the fall? Put it on next spring's calendar.
Buy only what you'll eat in the next few days. Then pair it with your meal plan. An apple and a few sliced peppers turn a prepped lunch into a bigger one.
Grocery store produce & salad bars
Best forCheap, flexible meals on the weeks you're happy to do a little assembly.
The grocery store keeps produce on hand every day, not just market day. Kroger, headquartered right here in Cincinnati, is an easy place to stock up.
Grab fruit you can eat without a knife, like bananas, apples and clementines. Add salad greens and two or three vegetables you actually like.
Use the shortcuts. Pre-cut vegetables cost more but get eaten. Frozen vegetables last for months, so keep a few bags of plain ones with no sauce. Add a microwave pouch of brown rice and dinner is half done.
Salad bars can go wrong fast, so build the plate on purpose. A few scoops of creamy salads and croutons and you've got a heavy lunch that looks light.
Use the Harvard Healthy Eating Plate as your map. Fill half the container with vegetables and fruit. Give a quarter to protein, like grilled chicken, fish or beans. Give the last quarter to a whole grain. Potatoes don't count as vegetables on that plate.
Pick an oil-based dressing and put it in a side cup. Dip your fork instead of pouring. Treat mayo-heavy salads as a topping, not a base.
Healthy catering for Cincinnati offices & teams
Best forFeeding a room of coworkers who all eat a little differently.
Clean Eatz catering brings our perfectly portioned plates to a whole group, from a small office lunch up to a big event. Nobody has to pick at a pizza box or skip the meal.
Order wrap platters, snack trays, build-your-own bowls or desserts. A bowl bar is the easy win for a mixed crowd, since everyone builds what they need.
A few tips before you order Clean Eatz catering. Ask your team about food allergies first and tell us when you order. Pick more than one protein so there's a real choice. And order a little extra. Leftover wraps make tomorrow's lunch if they hit the fridge within 2 hours.
Running a wellness challenge at work? Stock Grab 'N' Go for the rest of the week.



