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Alger Heights · Grand Rapids · Made From Scratch Daily

Clean, healthy meals, made with love & ready when you are.

Grab lunch from the deli case, take dinner home tonight or get a week of meals delivered on Wednesday. Everything is made from scratch with whole ingredients and local meats. Nothing hidden.

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Open Mon–Fri 10am–6pm · Wednesday delivery · At all 4 Harvest Health stores

Making Thyme Kitchen fresh-to-go deli case stocked with prepared meals A scratch-made entree from Making Thyme Kitchen
Madefrom scratchsince 2005
Lunch
Grab & go, stocked dailyFresh salads, sides and ready-to-eat entrées in the case by 10am.
Dinner
Take it home tonightOven-ready entrées that go from our fridge to your table. Heating instructions right on the label.
Your week
Wednesday deliveryPre-order from the monthly menu and we bring it to your door.
The Making Thyme Kitchen storefront in Alger Heights, Grand Rapids
The Deli · 2409 Eastern Ave SE

Lunch is solved. Dinner is too.

Our Alger Heights store is stocked fresh every single day. Stop in, grab what looks good and get on with your day. No ordering ahead, no fuss. Just good food, made by hand, ready to go.

  • Fresh salads & sides by the poundDaily
  • Ready-to-eat & heat-and-eat entréesDaily
  • Oven-ready entrées for tonight or the freezerStocked
  • Soups that change with the seasonSeasonal
  • Fresh-baked cookies & sweetsWhile they last
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On the menu

This month's menu is in season.

Our entrée menu rotates every month and the deli case changes with the seasons, so there's always a reason to stop back in.

Butter Chicken Meatballs
Heat & Eat

Butter Chicken Meatballs

Citrus Herb Chicken with Cilantro Orange Rice
With Rice

Cilantro Orange Chicken

Broccoli Cheddar Quiche
Veg

Broccoli Cheddar Quiche

Spinach Ricotta Lasagna Rolls
Oven-Ready

Spinach Lasagna Rolls

See the Full Menu
The Making Thyme Kitchen fruit and vegetable mural and sign on the building
Three ways to get it

However your week looks, we've got you.

Detail of the Making Thyme Kitchen mural
The Deli

Stop in today

Stocked daily with fresh salads, sides, entrées and cookies. Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm in Alger Heights. Free parking out front.

A Making Thyme Kitchen green meal delivery bag
Delivery

To your door, Wednesdays

Pre-order from the monthly menu and we deliver within 13 miles. Free within 2 miles, $75 minimum. Pickup available Wed–Fri.

Harvest Health Foods store interior
Harvest Health

At all four locations

Find a fresh selection of our products at Harvest Health Foods in Eastern Ave, Cascade, Hudsonville and Holland.

What we stand for

Clean food. Clean conscience.

What we leave out matters as much as what we put in.

Made from scratch

Sauces, marinades and stocks included. No preservatives, no hidden sugars, no additives.

5,000+ lbs

of organic waste composted every year. Our daily trash is down to one small bag.

Local first

Locally raised meats, organic produce and fresh herbs from partners like Mud Lake Farms.

Since 2005

Cooking for Grand Rapids families, new parents, busy couples and everyone in between.

The Making Thyme Kitchen building in Alger Heights
Our kitchen

A neighborhood kitchen, made from scratch.

Making Thyme Kitchen has been cooking for Grand Rapids since 2005. In January 2026, longtime owners Karen and Ken passed the kitchen to Kelly Smallegan-Maas, and we're continuing that tradition with the same from-scratch cooking, whole ingredients and locally raised meats, now with a renewed focus on quality and simplicity.

We are not a factory and we are not a chain. We are a small kitchen and store in Alger Heights, making real food the slow way for families and neighbors who want something good without the work.

We'd love to feed you.
A bag of fresh prepared meals from Making Thyme Kitchen
Give a gift

Send a little love, by the meal.

New baby? Hard season? Just because? A delivery of fresh, oven-ready meals is care you can taste. Gift certificates available in any amount. Stop by or call 616-822-0706.

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