My Mexican Menu

My Mexican Menu sells cooked Sonoran-style Mexican food by the dish, vacuum sealed and shipped frozen so you reheat it at home. It calls these "Mexican Meal Prep Kits," but they are prepared food, not raw ingredients and a recipe: the FAQ says the "Vacuum sealed food, is ready to be reheated."

The business is tied to a restaurant group in Tucson, Arizona. The home page says its flavors inspire "our menu and our four Mexican restaurants here locally found in Tucson, AZ," and local orders are picked up at the group's Copal location on East Broadway Blvd. The FAQ says the food is "inspired primarily by Sonoran cuisine and flavors," sourced "from local vendors and farms."

How ordering works

This is a shop, not a subscription. You add dishes and sides to a cart, choose how you want them, and pay once. Nothing recurs, and the site has no plans, boxes or weekly menus to manage. The collection page puts it in one line: "Order individual dishes or buy in bulk."

There are 3 ways to get the food, according to the home page: "local pickup, local delivery, and shipping options." For pickup, the FAQ says you pick "Local Pickup" at checkout and the order is ready "in about 24 hours," with a confirmation email and text when it is. Local orders get 5% off with the code LOCAL.

The FAQ says there is no minimum order, "but we do recommend ordering enough to make your shipping worth it." Tortillas and buns can be ordered on their own, and the FAQ says those "can be shipped 7 days a week."

The home page advertises "Bulk Deals Available" and a program that pays customers to post the food on social media, and there is a contact form for franchise or commercial orders.

What it costs

Prices are on every product, and they are regular prices rather than a first-order promotion. From the Our Most Popular Dishes collection, which showed 14 items in stock:

• Red Chili Beef/ Chile Colorado, $19.00
• Quesa-Birria Tacos 6 pack, $25.00
• Breakfast Burritos, from $10.50 - $12.00
• Meat by the Pound, from $14.00 - $16.00
• 6 Rolled Tacos/ Flautas, $15.00
• Sonoran Hot Dog Kit- 8 Dogs, $32.00
• Elote/Corn Ribs, $15.00

Sides and staples run $5.00 to $12.00: Mexican Rice- 16oz, Sonoran Style Frijoles- Beans 16 ounces and Enchilada Sauce- 32oz at $9.00 each, a salsa at $7.00, Sonoran Hot Dog Buns- 8 count at $8.00, tortillas from $5.00, and a Tortilla Warmer at $6.00. The Homemade Mexican Ice Cream is $12.00 a pint.

Shipping is the big variable. Every page carries the banner "Free shipping on orders over $300," and the FAQ says orders over $300 get free 2-day shipping. Below that, you pay for shipping, but the site doesn't publish the rates; you see them at checkout.

The food itself

The menu reads like a Tucson restaurant freezer: chile colorado, birria tacos, rolled tacos, breakfast burritos, beef and other meats by the pound, and the full Sonoran hot dog setup with its soft buns. The bun product page promises "a fluffy, cloud-like texture and a subtle sweetness," and gives 2 reheat methods, a damp paper towel in the microwave for 15-30 seconds or a steamer on the stove.

Tortillas come in corn, an 18 inch flour and a 6 inch flour. The salsa comes as Mild Red or Habanero Lime (listed as Cilantro Habanero in the selector), which the site calls "Our most popular salsa!" The ice cream comes in 4 flavors: Churro, Nutella, Elote and Prickly Pear (Cactus Fruit), each "a four-ingredient" pint, with Elote named as "our most popular ice cream flavor."

Reheating is the whole point. The FAQ says "All our meals come with instructions on how to reheat your food," and adds "We also have reheat videos for every dish."

The site makes no diet claims, and there are no vegan, gluten-free or low-carb labels anywhere on it. The pitch is flavor and convenience. Beyond the reheat notes and the ingredient descriptions on individual product pages, you get the food and the story of where it comes from.

Who it reaches

The shipping line is precise: "We ship to the 48 continental US states. Sorry Hawaii and Alaska." Food is packed "frozen" with "dry ice and gel packs (you can reuse these)," in "a reusable thermal container," and arrives in vacuum sealed bags.

The FAQ is specific on timing too. Orders go by UPS, USPS or FedEx, with "Express" orders via FedEx or UPS, and you choose overnight or 2 day delivery. It ships Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with Thursday "only if overnight is selected, otherwise it will ship on Monday."

On storage, the FAQ says unopened bags last "up to 7 days" in the fridge and "up to 4 days" once opened, and recommends eating the food "within 2 weeks of receiving your order," with packaged dates on every label.

Tucson customers can skip shipping entirely with pickup at Copal or local delivery, though the site doesn't define the delivery area. The product pages note that local orders are "packaged fresh, refrigerated, and ready for pickup," while shipped orders "will arrive frozen, ready for reheat."

What the site leaves open, and who it suits

A few things are unsettled. Most items do list a weight or count (16oz rice and beans, 32oz enchilada sauce, an 8-count of buns, a 6-pack of tacos, an 8-dog hot dog kit, a 12-pack of tortillas, a 1-pint of ice cream), but the chile colorado, breakfast burritos and elote/corn ribs are priced with no stated weight or count, so it is hard to tell how many people $19.00 of chile colorado feeds. There is no nutrition or allergen information. Shipping costs below $300 only appear at checkout. And a few product pages disagree with themselves: the tortilla page is titled "Tortillas- 12 Pack" but its description calls it a "24-pack," the bun page says "8 count" and also "Each pack contains 6 buns," and the salsa is sold as "10oz" while the box contents line says "8oz."

My Mexican Menu suits anyone outside Arizona who misses Sonoran food and has freezer room for a large order, since the $300 free-shipping line rewards stocking up. Tucson locals get the easiest version, with pickup, delivery and 5% off. It doesn't suit a small household wanting a single dinner shipped across the country, anyone who needs nutrition or allergen detail before ordering, or a cook looking for a kit with raw ingredients.