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The Box Run Profit Sheet
Vegan Meal Prep Math · Template D · mathworkbook.netlify.app/go/mealprep-profit-sheet
One week
| The book's Freezer Month | Yours | |
|---|---|---|
| Customers × meals each | 12 × 5 = 60 meals | |
| Price a meal; sales | 10; 600.00 | |
| Food | 83.88 | |
| Boxes and labels | 12.28 | |
| Shared kitchen (hours × rate) | 6 × 25 = 150.00 | |
| Freezer shelf (a month × 12 ÷ 52) | 16.15 | |
| Delivery (miles × rate) | 30 × 0.76 = 22.80 | |
| Card fees | 17.40 | |
| Costs | 302.52 | |
| Profit a week (before tax and any wage) | 297.48 | |
| Cost a meal; left a meal | 5.04; 4.96 | |
| Profit an hour | 27.04 over 11 hours |
Fixed costs, the first year, and break-even
| The book's Freezer Month | Yours | |
|---|---|---|
| County health permit | 763.00 | |
| Insurance, a year | 299.00 | |
| Food manager certificate | 179.00 | |
| Business license | 34.00 | |
| Kitchen membership | 150.00 | |
| Insulated bags (4) | 87.96 | |
| Scale | 15.00 | |
| Fixed costs | 1,527.96 | |
| Break-even, weeks (rounded up) | 6 | |
| After 48 weeks, fixed costs paid | 12,751.30 |
Break-even = fixed costs ÷ profit a week, rounded up. Kitchen hours are a step cost: more customers need more hours. Most US states do not allow cooked meals as cottage food; permits, labels and tax are your county's or council's. A worked example with illustrative prices, not a promise.
Free to print and copy for your own kitchen. Print at 100% on US Letter or A4. The worked figures are the book's Freezer Month and Box Run; prices are illustrative US prices from November 2026, without a currency sign.