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Veggie meals to your door

Whether you’re housebound or simply don’t want to cook, have ready- made vegetarian and vegan food delivered to your door! 1 Map of companies Contents Introduction and delivery areas

Introduction 2 For people who are housebound, 1 page 8 18 page 16 Map of companies and unable to cook for health reasons or 2 page 8 19 page 17 delivery areas 3 simply kitchen-phobic, there is no need 3 page 9 20 page 18 4 page 9 21 page 18 Cooking in sickness and in health 4 to compromise on taste or ethics when 5 page 10 22 page 19 Top 10 kitchen gadgets 6 thinking about having meals delivered 6 page 10 23 page 19 7 page 11 24 page 19 to your door. 29 8 page 11 25 page 20 n Hot meals 8 Across the UK, companies are 9 page 12 26 page 21 n 10 page 12 27 page 21 Something more homely 18 offering to send a variety of mouth- 29 29 11 page 13 28 page 22 n Restaurant food 19 watering main meals, sides, soups, 12 page 13 29 page 22 n 35 13 page 14 30 page 23 Ambient meals 20 smoothies and desserts straight to your 10 n 14 page 14 31 page 23 Chilled meals 21 door. These are often hand-prepared, 15 page 15 32 page 24 n Frozen meals 22 with well-considered ingredients, and 10 16 page 15 33 page 24 Supermarket shopping 27 developed by a group of experienced 17 page 16 34 page 25 35 page 25 chefs. Dishes are available with 36 page 26 inspiration from around the globe to 37 page 26 page 27 suit a plethora of palates. Some are 38 delivered as hot, ready-to-eat meals, while others may arrive chilled or frozen. 13 It has never been easier to find 11 14 10 vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free food 4 10 14 14 from the comfort of your own home. 10 14 Tuck in! UK WIDE 10 22 23 24 25 31 14 2 32 33 35 38 37 10 5 10 12 BRITAIN 26 28 30 36 8 10 8 ENGLAND 20 9 SCOTLAND 34 27 19 21 1 7 18 27

27 27 6 NOTES All foods listed in this guide 6 17 16 16 16 are described by manufacturers as 3 6 being made to a vegetarian recipe. 6 Vg Vegan items are denoted by a 15 icon next to the menu. 2 3 • If standing for too long is a struggle, • Packets of pre-chopped vegetables Cooking in sickness try to get more comfy. Take breaks can make things easier if you’re by having a perching stool or chair struggling to chop and peel veg. and in health in the kitchen. If you find the Frozen or tinned vegetables are kitchen counter is too high to reach also available, and will be less As we get older, there are many • Place the items you use most when sitting, try preparing your expensive than chilled. It’s a good reasons why we might struggle with frequently within easy reach, so they food sitting at a kitchen or dining idea to keep some frozen cooking. Because of health conditions are easily accessible. This could be room table. You could even use a vegetables in the freezer for an or disabilities, we may be unable to on the kitchen counter or perhaps in chopping board on your lap if you easy dinner accompaniment, too. stand for long periods of time to a low kitchen cupboard or drawer. don’t have a suitable table. • Try one-pot cooking – less bending prepare food. Or we might wrangle • Some days will be easier than others. • Only cook what you need. If a for the oven and lifting – and it has with pain, movement restrictions, or If you’re having a ‘bad’ day, make recipe serves 4 you can reduce this the added bonus of less washing up! sight loss. Simple tasks that once were sure you have easy food options in. to 1 or 2 servings so you don’t need • Keep it simple. You don’t need to easy, such as opening tins, reaching Doing so will ensure that you have to prepare as much. cook overly complicated dishes with items in cupboards, and chopping food to eat – even if you are unable • But if you have a friend or family lots of ingredients to prepare. The vegetables can become challenging. to cook that day. Items such as member who can help, or you are recipes in VfL’s Take V guide contain Friend of VfL, Gill, says: ready-meals or pre-prepared meals having a ‘good’ day, you could bulk only five ingredients and are low- in the freezer, or tinned soup in the cook a dish so you can freeze the cost, quick, and easy-to-make – “Since I’ve been ill I have found it cupboard, can be helpful. extras. without lacking flavour or nutrition. very hard to deal with cooking our • Try and plan ahead so you know Order your free copy by calling 0161 meals and managing around the what you’re cooking for the week 257 0887. house. I have always cooked from ahead. scratch, which usually involves quite • If you struggle with the food a bit of washing up and clearing shopping, why not get your away… [So] I have been trying to find groceries delivered? See pages 24 quicker, easier ways of doing things and 27. and cooking with fewer ingredients”. • Know your limitations and take breaks. You don’t have to do all the There are many things you can do to food preparation in one go. You can make cooking less challenging and divide it into tasks and do the prep hopefully enjoyable again, and ensure over several hours. you’re still able to prepare tasty, • If you tire or are in pain, try switching nutritious meals. Here are our top tips: tasks. For example, chopping vegetables and peeling vegetables • Declutter your kitchen and just have will use a slightly different what you need to hand. It will be movement, so alternating may easier to stay organised that way, reduce pain and give you a rest. and to find what you need.

4 5 5 Good grip kitchen utensils such as 9 If sight difficulties are affecting your Top 10 kitchen gadgets: potato mashers and hand jugs have cooking abilities, gadgets such as adapted, easier to grip handles. talking scales and liquid level Many tools are available to make For more info see There are also right-angled knives, indicators may help. These will talk kitchen tasks easier – from electric tin www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care- graters and cheese slicers so to you and tell you how much openers, to boards with grips to hold and-support-guide/care-services- you can slice bread, for weight you have on the scales or veg in place, and even auto choppers equipment-and-care-homes/househol example, while keeping your when the mug is nearly full. There or mini food processors for chopping d-gadgets-and-equipment-to-make- wrist in its are also adapted jugs that make the vegetables. You can also get items life-easier natural liquid level easier to see. such as kettle tippers if you struggle to The websites below recommended position. lift the kettle, and audio liquid level by the NHS can give you personalised 6 If grip is a problem, indicators if you have sight problems. advice around what equipment you adapted cutlery is also available Adjacent are some of the places you may find useful. with larger handles and easier grip. can find these useful tools. You may be • asksara.dlf.org.uk/choose_ eligible to receive funding to cover the topic.php?topic_id=1030 cost of such items or home adaptions. • https://www.livingmadeeasy.org.uk/ household/kitchen-and-household- 2266/ Or contact the Disabled Living Foundation helpline on 0300 999 0004.

10 You may find a one pot cooker 1 If opening tins or ring 3 Or why not try a 7 Cooking one- easier than cooking on the hob or in pull cans is a struggle mini chopper or handed? A pan the oven. It can be kept on the there are many tools to food processor? holder can hold counter top so you’re not bending help, including electric You might already the pan in place down to reach the oven or carrying tin openers. You can have one tucked so you can stir a pots to and from the hob. Cooking often go and try these away that you dish safely all the ingredients together in one out first and see which rarely use. It can without the dish saves cooking or draining one you find the most save time and pan moving. vegetables separately. It saves on helpful. effort chopping veg such as carrots 8 A plate the washing up too! 2 If chopping is difficult there are a and . guard, high- variety of chopping boards that can 4 With a kettle tipper sided dishes or partitioned plates hold the item. Some have spikes or you avoid having to can help to avoid spillages and clamps to hold the food you’re pour a heavy make it easier if chopping in place and some are kettle. You could you’re eating aimed more at one- also ensure you with one handed food only boil what you hand. prep. need so it isn’t too heavy to lift.

6 7 1 Bristol City Council 2 County 3 Custom Lunches 4 Dabbawala Enterprise Foods Bristol Community Meals, 21 Chancery 7 Victory Close, Woolsbridge WEBSITE dabbawalayorkshire.co.uk Street, Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS5 OAZ Dukeries Industrial Estate, Worksop, Industrial Park, Three Legged Cross, PHONE 07900 925 525 WEBSITE bristol.gov.uk/social-care- Nottinghamshire S81 7DW Wimborne BH21 6SX EMAIL [email protected] health/bristol-community-meals WEBSITE countyenterprisefoods.co.uk WEBSITE customlunches.co.uk COVERAGE Huddersfield EMAIL [email protected] PHONE 01623 490 015 PHONE 01202 814 963 or 07752 319 520 DELIVERY DETAILS There may be a PHONE 0117 903 1522 or 1520 EMAIL EMAIL [email protected] delivery charge depending on what COVERAGE Bristol [email protected] COVERAGE Local areas of Wimborne. area you live in. Weekly menu is DELIVERY DETAILS Delivery is free, COVERAGE Nottinghamshire DELIVERY DETAILS Every day displayed on their Facebook page 365 days a year. 11.15am–2.00pm. DELIVERY DETAILS Price includes between 11.30am–1.30pm. https://m.facebook.com/dabbawalayo PRICES £5–£6.61 for a meal and dessert. free delivery. PRICES Regular main £7.50 and small rkshire PRICES Standard meal with a dessert main £6.50. Desserts are £1.80. PRICES £5.50 for a curry of the day, Vegetarian and vegan meals are £4.50. Go large meals with a dessert £5.50. choice of rice or roti, and a small pledged, with a 21-day menu cycle that Vegetarian and vegan ready-to-eat hot side salad. “guarantees you will not eat the same The only supplier of hot meals to your meals in two different sizes. A main meal twice during this cycle – home in Nottinghamshire. It delivers sandwich and a soup can also be Fully vegetarian unless you specifically ask for it”. You both hot and frozen meals and can ordered for the teatime meal. kitchen with can also order some ‘grocery boxes’ or also provide hospital hampers and many vegan hospital discharge packs. teatime snack packs. Has a good range SAMPLE MENU options. Food is of vegetarian meals and it also caters • Vegetable pie (with cheese pastry) cooked fresh SAMPLE MENU for ethnic and special diets. and potatoes and veg every day. BREAKFAST • Cauliflower and broccoli bake with • Cereal, fruit juice, yogurt or a piece SAMPLE MENU potatoes and veg SAMPLE MENU of fruit, and croissant • Vegetarian , mashed • Vegetable lasagne, boiled potatoes • Aloo matter • Porridge and fruit juice potato, cabbage and peas and veg – potato and peas in a thick gravy • Omelette, chips, and beans • Cheese and potato pie, sautéed • Cheese and quiche, boiled sauce potatoes and baked beans potatoes and veg • Channa dal – chickpeas cooked MAIN MEAL • Vegetarian Bolognese • Vegetable pasty, mash and baked with fresh and garlic • Vegetarian lasagne, vegetable • Vegetable curry with boiled rice beans • Masala paneer – chunks of Indian curry, macaroni cheese or • Five bean bake, hash browns and peas • Vegetable hot pot, boiled potatoes cheese cooked in a tomato, buttery vegetable bean cobbler • Chickpea daal and veg gravy • Ginger sponge and custard • Aloo palak – spinach and potato DESSERTS • Manchester tart • Raspberry trifle, apple pie and • Sticky toffee pudding and custard custard or treacle tart and custard TEATIME SNACK PACK TEATIME MEAL • Sandwiches with choice of two • Sandwich or salad, and a cake, other items including cakes, crisps, yogurt, cheese and biscuits, cold fruit, fruit pot, cheese and biscuits, dessert or piece of fruit yoghurt or drink • Jacket potato with soup or cake 8 9 5 Easy Living 6 Fairfoods 7 First Choice 8 Gourmet Meal Care Catering Co. Unit 5A, Glan Aber Trading Estate, Vale WEBSITE fairfoods.org.uk PHONE 01384 880 214 Road, Rhyl, Denbighshire LL18 2PL PHONE 07796 774 200 or 01884 Unit 5 Peerglow Estate, Olds Approach, WEBSITE gourmetmealcare.co.uk WEBSITE 34974 Watford, Hertfordshire WD18 9SR COVERAGE Borough of easylivingmealsonwheels.co.uk EMAIL [email protected] WEBSITE firstchoicecatering.co.uk Wellingborough, Dudley, and PHONE 01745 350 506 COVERAGE Devon, Cornwall, PHONE 01923 712 224 or 07885 Northamptonshire. EMAIL Somerset, and Dorset. 641281 DELIVERY DETAILS Delivery is free at [email protected] DELIVERY DETAILS The price for COVERAGE Most parts of the 12.00pm–2.00pm every day. Contact COVERAGE Across North . delivery is 40p per mile. If you live boroughs of Hillingdon and Watford. them to request coverage in other DELIVERY DETAILS Wherever further afield, get in touch for a DELIVERY DETAILS Delivery is free. areas. possible you will be assigned with a minimum order quote. PRICES Two course meal is £9.00. PRICES £5.00 for main meal, £0.50 regular delivery driver you can get for dessert, sandwich £1.50, evening familiar with. Fully vegan caterer delivers food in First Choice Catering Co. cooks hot snack/afternoon tea £2.50. PRICES £4.49 for a hot main meal. large portions suitable for more than vegetarian meals daily so they are fresh. Dessert is £0.99 and platters are £2.99. 5 people. Minimum order is £20 if you Several vegetarian live within a 15 mile radius of SAMPLE MENU menu items, and all Cullompton, Devon. Fairfoods offers a • Cauliflower, cheese & potato bake meals are free from wide range of vegan options. • Vegetable cottage pie artificial additives, • Spinach and sweet potato curry colours, or SAMPLE MENU • Mushroom & mixed pepper flavourings. • 6 x mini garden vegetable & fresh carbonara Easy Living delivers hot food that is basil quiche (£14) Vg • Roasted pepper tart SAMPLE MENU made daily with traditional, home- • 6 x mushroom and charred red • Aubergine, courgette & red • Cauliflower cooking methods. Ingredients are pepper pizza (£9.60) Vg pepper risotto cheese locally sourced to support local • 12 x homemade vegan veggie • Apple pie & custard • Vegetable lasagne business. burgers (£15) Vg • Chocolate fudge cake • Quorn chicken casserole • 28 x sticky hoisin tofu sushi (£16) Vg • Lemon & raspberry sponge • Quorn cottage pie SAMPLE MENU • 24 x smoky tofu bites with thousand • Fruit flan • Vegetable pasta bake • Cheese & beans jacket potato island dip (£10) Vg • Quorn mince chili • Cheese omelette • Mushroom stroganoff • Vegetarian meatballs • Marble cake with custard • Homemade cheese pie • Ginger cake with custard • Quorn roast dinner • Vegetable hot pot • Pineapple sponge • Fruit & cream • Bakewell tart • Angel delight

10 11 9 Hertfordshire ILS 10 ICare 11 Leeds 12 Manav Seva Community Meals WEBSITE hertsindependentliving.org Head Office ICare Group, Building 3 Shree Hindu Temple & Community EMAIL Kincraig Business Park, Blackpool, Presto, Meals on Wheels, Centre, 34 St Barnabas Road, [email protected] Lancashire FY2 0PJ Knowsthrope Gate, Cross Green Leicester LE5 4BD PHONE 0330 200 0103 WEBSITE icarecuisine.co.uk Industrial Park, Leeds LS9 0NP WEBSITE manavseva.co.uk COVERAGE Hertfordshire. PHONE 0845 604 1125 or head office: WEBSITE PHONE 0116 212 2531 DELIVERY DETAILS Meals are 01253 508 277 www.leeds.gov.uk/residents/health- EMAIL [email protected] delivered between 11.30am–2.00pm COVERAGE Local areas of Ayr, and-social-care/adult-social- COVERAGE Leicester. every day throughout the year. Free Glasgow, Leicester, Stafford, care/help-to-live-at-home/preparing- DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery from delivery. Birmingham, Tameside, Wigan, Wirral meals Monday to Friday. PRICES Breakfast £2.95, main meal & Wakefield. PHONE 0113 378 3750 PRICES The price for the set meal is with dessert £4.95 and teatime meal DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery EMAIL [email protected] £5.50. £3.45. every day throughout the year. COVERAGE Leeds. PRICES Main meal is £6.10 including DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery Manav Seva is a fully vegetarian Vegetarian and vegan hot meals. dessert. every day throughout the year. caterer, which provides a variety of PRICES £6.00 for one hot meal and Indian foods. A set meal consists of one SAMPLE MENU Both hot meals and frozen food one dessert. Frozen food prices range main meal, a soup, and a salad. Every • Cheesy vegetable bake options available. Vegetarian and from £2.50 to £3.65 for a main course day it provides a different curry, daal, • Vegetarian casserole vegan options available. and £0.85 to £1.00 for a dessert. rice, Indian sweet and savoury. • Vegetarian pasta bake • Sweet potato and bean chili SAMPLE MENU Leeds Community Meals offers both SAMPLE MENU • Vegetarian cottage pie • Cheesy vegetable bake hot meals and frozen food. • Spinach and aubergine mix curry • Spicy root vegetable curry • Omelette, chips, and beans • Urad daal • Strawberry mousse • Vegetarian pasta Bolognese SAMPLE MENU • Aubergine bharta • Raspberry trifle • Cauliflower and broccoli bake • Vegetarian sausage casserole • Kadhi • Vegetable curry • Cauliflower & broccoli bake • Khicadi BREAKFAST • Vegetarian cottage pie • Vegetable lasagne • Green salad, poppadoms, chapati • Porridge, croissant, snack and • Sweet potato and bean chili • Spicy root vegetable curry a drink • Omelette, chips & beans • Sweet potato and bean chili TEATIME • Jam sponge & custard • Sandwich with a dessert • Rhubarb crumble & custard • Bakewell tart & custard

12 13 13 My Chef 14 Park Care Meals 15 Plymouth 16 Presto Community Meals Berkeley House, Mowbray Drive, Sycamore Centre, Sycamore Rd, WEBSITE getpresto.co.uk Blackpool FY3 7UN Eastwood Trading Estate, Rotherham WEBSITE www.plymouth.gov.uk/ PHONE 01323 643 726 WEBSITE b-c-m.co.uk S65 1EN adultcareandhealth/helpyourownho COVERAGE Deliver hot lunches in PHONE 01253 305 200 or 0800 146 WEBSITE parkcaremeals.co.uk me/plymouthcommunitymeals West Sussex, East Sussex and 330 PHONE 01274 498 877 (Bradford) or PHONE 01752 305 140 Brighton & Hove. COVERAGE North West England. 01709 378 100 (Sheffield) COVERAGE Plymouth. DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery EMAIL [email protected] DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery every day between 11.30am–2.30pm. every day. COVERAGE Barnsley, Bradford, every day. PRICES Subscription prices include a PRICES £5.60 for a ‘value’ 2-course Chesterfield, Doncaster, Rotherham, PRICES A two-course lunch starts main dish and dessert, delivered to meal, and £5.95 for a ‘premium’ Sheffield and areas of Derbyshire. from £6. You also can add a teatime your door hot and ready-to-eat: (larger) 2-course meal. You can also DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery meal for £2.75. 3 meals/week – £24 a week; add a teatime pack for another £2.45. every day between 11.30am–1.30pm. 5 meals/week – £40 a week; PRICES A meal with a dessert costs £6. The meals are 7 meals/week – £56 a week. This family cooked fresh Subscriptions can be paused or business Park Care Meals provides both hot and every day. Call cancelled at any time. has been frozen vegetarian meals. It does not them between serving use any preservatives or additives. 9am and 3pm All food is cooked on-site in its kitchen people for Monday to Friday. and it uses organic, free-range more than 15 years. SAMPLE MENU ingredients. • Cheesy vegetable bake with SAMPLE MENU SAMPLE MENU broccoli & boiled potatoes • Vegetable moussaka SAMPLE MENU • Cheese and onion quiche • Leek & mushroom pasta mornay • Vegetable pie • Mushroom risotto • Spicy bean casserole with seasonal vegetables • Meat-free sausage roll • Butternut squash curry • Spanish omelette • Vegetable curry with rice • Three bean chili • Macaroni cheese • Vegetable lasagne • Vegetarian grill with cauliflower, • Cheese and onion quiche • Vegetable lasagne • Vegetable pasta bake peas & sauté potatoes • Vegetable curry • Cannelloni • Jacket potato with cheese and • Sticky toffee pudding with custard • Vegetable casserole • Cauliflower cheese onion • Apricot crumble with custard • Lemon drizzle cake • Exotic fruits • Butternut squash and butterbean • Coconut sponge with custard • Dorset apple cake • Chocolate brownie stew • Rice pudding with peaches • Rhubarb crumble • Strawberry gateau • Ginger sponge and custard TEATIME SNACK • Stewed apple and rice • Sandwich (white, malted, or brown) with a cake or a muffin

14 15 17 Roast Out 18 Sodexo 19 The Eatery

405 Romsey Road, Southampton Sodexo Home Service, 61 Harewood 14–18 Heralds Way, South Woodham S016 9GJ Ave, Marylebone, London NW1 6PA Ferrers, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 5TQ WEBSITE roastout.co.uk WEBSITE www.housingcare.org/ WEBSITE the-eatery.net PHONE 0238 032 6664 service/ser-info-9704-sodexo-home- PHONE 01245 322 263 EMAIL [email protected] ser.aspx EMAIL [email protected] COVERAGE Southampton. PHONE 0207 402 0785 COVERAGE Essex. DELIVERY DETAILS Daily delivery COVERAGE Many boroughs of DELIVERY DETAILS Delivery is twice between 11.30am–1.30pm. Prices Greater London. daily apart from Sunday (only lunch include delivery. DELIVERY DETAILS Hot meals service). Prices £6 for a ready-to-eat PRICES £5.90 for hot lunch, £3 for delivered daily between 11.45am– hot meal plus a dessert or sandwich. teatime meals, and £1.10 for dessert. 2.15pm. PRICES The price is £6.75 for one The Eatery delivers hot meals both at This family-run main meal and one dessert. Teatime lunch time and early evening so you business delivers meal £3.25. can choose which one is more suitable. some hot vegetarian dishes Sodexo offers SAMPLE MENU daily. It can standard • Jacket potato, cheese & beans provide vegan Western European meals and a wide • Quiche, potatoes & salad meals on request. range of ethnic cultural and religious • Macaroni cheese & veggies meals. • Egg mayonnaise sandwich SAMPLE MENU • Cheese sandwich All hot meals served with potatoes and SAMPLE MENU • Apple pie three veg • Cauliflower cheese • Gateau • Lentil stew • Chocolate pudding • Cheese & onion quiche • Soya chili • Sticky toffee pudding • Macaroni cheese • Cheese omelette • Egg & cheese salad • Chickpeas & spinach curry • Bean burger • Vegetarian sausage casserole • Vegetable bake • Triple chocolate trifle • Fruit crumble with cream or custard • Creme caramel • Apple pie with cream or custard • Raspberry jelly • Steamed pudding with cream or • Crunchy shortcake sundae custard

TEATIME MEAL • A selection of items such as sandwiches, fruit, yogurt, and snacks.

16 17 Something more homely Restaurant food…

Currently two schemes in the UK offer home-cooked food, made by neighbours delivered to you for neighbours. An occasional takeaway meal can be a tasty treat and there are so many 20 Casserole Club 21 Meal Makers vegetarian and vegan options available. Check whether your local Chinese or Thai offers tofu or other meat alternatives. WEBSITE casseroleclub.com WEBSITE mealmakers.org.uk Many Indian dishes are made using pulses such as lentils and chickpeas. Pizzerias EMAIL [email protected] EMAIL [email protected] can do pizzas without cheese (if they don’t have a dairy-free alternative available) PHONE 0141 551 8118 or 0800 783 – just ask for extra veggie toppings instead! In local areas across England, cooks 7770 sign up online while diners are referred 22 Deliveroo Other ways to find restaurants either over the phone or through the Meal Makers is a delivering right now, near you. website. Once appropriately paired Scottish charity that WEBSITE deliveroo.co.uk with one another, the cook prepares an currently runs in: PHONE 0203 699 9977 23 JUST EAT extra portion of food in their own Edinburgh, EMAIL [email protected] home and delivers it to their diner. Dumfries & Galloway, just-eat.co.uk – online orders only A meal share visit usually lasts 30 Glasgow, Fife, North Deliveroo offers minutes and if the diner and the cook Ayrshire, Dundee, Perth your favourite 24 UBER EATS enjoy the experience, they can go on to & Kinross, West Lothian, restaurant’s share more food or they could meet Stirling, Scottish Borders, food, delivered ubereats.com – online orders only someone new. and Renfewshire. Meal fast to your All volunteer cooks have to complete Makers will continue to door. Whether a Disclosure and Barring Service check be rolled out across you’re partial to before they are introduced to diners Scotland, so do contact them to check something at if they now operate in your local area. Wagamamas or Cooks and diners are encouraged to Pizza Express, there are a huge range sign up and are paired up of restaurants using this service. Most appropriately. When preparing their offer vegan dishes too – try out Zizzi’s usual meals, cooks make an extra pizzas made with a mozzarella portion for an older diner who would alternative or the fresh flavours from appreciate home cooked food The Good Life Eatery. delivered to them every now and then. A minimum order price may apply. All cooks have to undertake a The delivery cost should be the same Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) as that normally charged by the Check and take a short food hygiene restaurant. Card payments only. quiz before sharing a meal. Dietary requirements are taken at the point of signing up and will be shared between the cook and the diner. 18 19 25 Box 26 Prep Perfect 27 Shambhu’s

Parsley Box Ltd, Unit 6, Cliftonhall 34 High View Close, Leicester Food North West London Yards, Newbridge EH28 8QN Park, Leicestershire LE4 9LJ WEBSITE shambhus.co.uk WEBSITE parsleybox.com WEBSITE prepperfect.co.uk PHONE 0208 931 0030 PHONE 0800 612 7225 PHONE 0116 276 0222 EMAIL [email protected] EMAIL [email protected] EMAIL [email protected] COVERAGE Addresses in London and COVERAGE UK mainland. COVERAGE Britain. the home counties. DELIVERY DETAILS Free next day DELIVERY DETAILS Delivers Tuesday DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery for a delivery on orders over £19. to Saturday. Minimum order £20. Free minimum order of £200 (North, North delivery on orders over £50. West, Inner North, and Central Parsley Box meals arrive at ambient London areas only). For orders less temperature. The meals do not need to Fresh food is delivered with a cool than £200 and other areas, a delivery be refrigerated or frozen – they can be thermo box so it will be ready to be charge applies. Minimum order £100. stored in the cupboard for up to 6 consumed on arrival, cold or heated. months. Its meals take just minutes to Vegetarian and vegan food available. This fully vegan caterer creates meals heat through. available in individual portion sizes, SAMPLE MENU AND PRICES delivered chilled, that can be stored in SAMPLE MENU AND PRICES • Chocolate protein waffles (£4.50) your freezer. • Chunky vegetable soup (£1.25) • Vegan colour bowl (£5.50) Vg • Mild vegetable chili (£2.99) • Matar paneer, chana & cauliflower SAMPLE MENU • Carrot & swede potato mash (£1.25) rice (£6.00) • Burrito (£6.00) Vg • Tarka dhal (£2.99) Vg • Falafel with carrot & sweet potato • Shambhu’s classic pizza (£8.00) Vg • Sticky toffee pudding sponge (£6.00) Vg • Vegetable samosas (£1.00 each) Vg (£1.25) • Spicy chickpea and spinach stew • Spinach cannelloni (£6.50) Vg • Chocolate sponge pudding (£1.25) (£4.60) • Vegetable biriyani (£6.00) Vg • Creamy rice pudding (£1.50) • Satay tofu (£6) • Spinach and cashew nut rice • Tofu katsu curry (£5.75) Vg (£6.00) Vg • Tangy tofu (£6.50) Vg • Chocolate fudge slice (£2.00) Vg • Chocolate and orange vegan cheesecake (£3.00) Vg

20 21 28 Allplants 29 Blueberry Hill 30 Chef on Board 31 COOK

London, England Blueberry Hill Meals Ltd., Unit 61 John Unit 11 Webton Business Park, The COOK Kitchen, Eurolink Way, WEBSITE allplants.com Player Building, Stirling FK7 7RP Kingstone, Herefordshire HR2 9NF Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 3HH Phone 0208 068 1700 WEBSITE blueberryhillmeals.co.uk WEBSITE chefonboard.com WEBSITE cookfood.net EMAIL [email protected] PHONE 01786 357 560 PHONE 01981 250 494 PHONE 01732 759 000 COVERAGE Delivery to most parts of EMAIL EMAIL [email protected] COVERAGE Delivered nationwide. England and Wales, including [email protected] COVERAGE Most of mainland Britain. DELIVERY DETAILS Free with a Channel Islands, and to some parts of COVERAGE Most parts of Central DELIVERY DETAILS Delivery from minimum order of £35 (depending on Scotland such as Dundee, Aberdeen, Scotland, Stirlingshire, Perthshire and Tuesday to Friday (from 8.00am– the area). Extra £5.00 charge for Glasgow, Argyll, and Northern Tayside. Call to check if Blueberry Hill 4.00pm). The minimum order is £40 delivery from local COOK shop or Highlands. delivers to your area. excluding delivery. Delivery charge £6.95 if it uses a courier (£8.95 on DELIVERY DETAILS Delivery is free on DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery. ranges from £7.50–£8.95. Free Saturday). Delivery Tuesday to Friday. weekdays and £2.50 on weekends. delivery with orders over £85. PRICES The price for 6 meals is This family business does not use any Its tagline is ‘made like you would at £40.50 if subscribing. preservatives, additives, or colourings It does not use any artificial colours, home’. It has a good range of in its vegetarian and vegan meals. flavours, or preservatives. Where vegetarian meals. This is a fully vegan caterer that possible all ingredients are sourced delivers frozen food. You can pick six SAMPLE MENU AND PRICES locally. SAMPLE MENU AND PRICES meals for one package. • Carrot and coriander soup (£2.20) • Mushroom spaghetti Bolognese • Mushroom stroganoff (£3.20) SAMPLE MENU AND PRICES (£4.50) Vg SAMPLE MENU • Vegetable naan bread pizza (£3.10) • Aubergine & mozzarella bake • Red lentil & aubergine moussaka • Super green risotto Vg • Vegetable chili baked potato (£3.00) (£4.50) (£4.50) • Mac and greens Vg • Vegetarian chili with rice (£3.90) • Roast vegetable lasagne (£4.50) • Spiced cauliflower & aubergine • BBQ burrito bowl Vg • Emily’s carrot cake (£1.70) • Roasted vegetable casserole (£4.25) shakshuka (£4.50) or serves 2 (£7.75) • Golden sesame satay Vg • Chocolate fudge cake (£1.95) • Vegetable tagine (£4.50) • Two bean chili with sweet potato • Lasagne noci Vg • Creamed rice pudding (£2.30) • Root vegetable crumble (£4.25) and brown rice (£4.25) Vg • Kimchi grain bowl Vg • Syrup sponge (£2.20) • Roast vegetable curry (£4.25) • Polpette orzo Vg

22 23 32 Goodness Direct 33 Gourmade 34 Monmouthshire 35 New Norm Vegetarian Food Co. South March, Daventry, Northants Highleigh Road, Chichester PO20 19–25 William Street, Edinburgh NN11 4PH 7NR 22 Walnut Drive, Caerleon, Newport, EH3 7NG WEBSITE goodnessdirect.co.uk WEBSITE gourmade.com Gwent NP18 3SB WEBSITE newnorm.co.uk PHONE 0208 520 4774 PHONE 0845 2411 568 WEBSITE veggiefoodco.com PHONE 07841 827 381 EMAIL [email protected] EMAIL [email protected] PHONE 07968 617 634 EMAIL COVERAGE Delivers across the UK. COVERAGE Delivery is to mainland EMAIL [email protected] [email protected] DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery for UK. COVERAGE Throughout COVERAGE UK. all orders for over £35. £4.49 delivery DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery on Monmouthshire or further afield upon DELIVERY DETAILS Everything is charge for orders under £35. orders over £50. £7.50 delivery charge request. delivered frozen. Any day Tuesday to for orders under £50. DELIVERY DETAILS Delivery is free for Friday. Prices include free delivery. This is an online retail shop with orders over £35. A charge of £5.00 PRICES Grab and go back-up plan natural and organic food products. Gourmade uses quality ingredients and applied for orders under this value. £46 for 7 main meals or £90 for 14 Place your order online, call, or request no preservatives or chemicals are meals. a brochure. added to its food. This fully vegetarian caterer uses the ‘finest quality ingredients’ that are Homemade, individually portioned SAMPLE FOOD AND PRICES SAMPLE MENU AND PRICES locally sourced (whenever possible). plant-based meals direct to your door. • Amy’s Kitchen Thai red curry 285g • Butternut squash lasagne (£4.50) (£4.30) • Macaroni cheese with leeks & SAMPLE MENU AND PRICES SAMPLE MENU • Amy’s Kitchen gluten-free cauliflower (£4.50) • Pepper boats (£2.90) Vg • Sri Lankan curry Vg vegetable lasagne 265g (£3.50) • Vegetable madras (£4.50) • Broccoli pancakes (£1.60) • Moroccan tagine Vg • Clive’s organic lentil & olive gluten- • Sweet potato wedges (£4.50) • Glamorgan sausage (£0.95) • Sweet potato and spinach dhal Vg free pies 260g (£2.99) • Potato dauphinoise (£3.75) • Leek & bean casserole (£2.90) Vg • Bean burger with sweet potato • Amy’s Kitchen rice mac & cheese • Maple & honey roasted • Chili ‘con’ carne (£2.90) Vg wedges Vg non-dairy 227g (£3.00) parsnips (£4.50) • Gruyere & shallot Wellington (£2.90) • Sicilian lemon roulade (serves 2, • Chocolate fudge brownies (£1.40) £5.00) • Apple & gooseberry crumble (£1.40) • Rhubarb and strawberry crumble • Welsh cake (£0.35) (serves 2, £5.00) • Sticky toffee pudding (£1.40)

24 25 36 Oakhouse Foods 37 Ofishial Food 38 Wiltshire Supermarket Farm Foods Melksham, Wiltshire SN12 8BU 17–18 Sugarswell Business Park, shopping WEBSITE oakhousefoods.co.uk Sugarswell Lane, Shenington, Unit A&B, 96 The Down, Trowbridge PHONE 0333 370 6700 Oxfordshire OX15 6HW BA14 7NQ A range of supermarkets now offer EMAIL WEBSITE ofishial-foods.co.uk WEBSITE wiltshirefarmfoods.com home delivery, such as Tesco, Asda, [email protected] PHONE 01295 680 999 PHONE 0800 077 3100 Sainsbury’s, Ocado, Waitrose, COVERAGE Delivery to almost all EMAIL [email protected] COVERAGE Throughout the UK. Morrisons, Iceland and Amazon areas of Britain. COVERAGE East and West Midlands. DELIVERY DETAILS Free delivery, but Pantry. Great news if you want to DELIVERY Delivery is free for orders DELIVERY DETAILS Delivery is free depending on address a minimum stock up on fresh goods as well as over £30. with no minimum order. order may apply. ready meals plus a range of other household goods. Don’t forget In addition to vegetarian and vegan Handmade frozen ready meals, Wiltshire Farm Foods offers a number Sainsbury’s range of free-from options, Oakhouse Foods pays delivered to your door. Main meals of meal options for people with food coconut-based alternatives to cheese attention to special diets such as free- come in 2 sizes, 250g or 400g. allergies and intolerances (gluten, nuts, and Quorn’s new vegan range from gluten-, nut-, or lactose- meals. milk, egg, fish, peanuts, sesame, and including vegan nuggets and ‘fishless’ SAMPLE MENU many more). fingers. With the exception of SAMPLE MENU AND PRICES • Mushroom stroganoff (£2.95 for Sainsbury’s, all of these supermarkets • Roasted vegetables & goat cheese 250g or £4 for 400g) SAMPLE MENU only accept online orders. (£4.99) • Cheesy vegetable cakes (£3.20) • Cheese & onion quiche (£4.25) • Vegetable chili (£3.65) • Roasted vegetable lasagne (£3.10 • Vegetable curry (£3.45) Vg Amazon pantry • Vegetable pie (£3.70) for 250g or £4.15 for 400g) • Butternut squash & butterbean amazon.co.uk/groceries • Vegetable rigatoni (£4.40) • Butternut squash casserole (£3.35 stew (£3.19) Ocado ocado.com • Omelette, chips & peas (£3.80) for 250g or £4.65 for 400g) • Vegetable lasagne (£3.85) Iceland iceland.co.uk • Vegetable hot pot (£3.35) • Cheese, potato and onion pie • Vegetarian hotpot (£3.49) Morrisons groceries.morrisons.com • Jacket potatoes (£3.30) (£3.20 for 250g or £4.50 for 400g) • Jam sponge & custard (£1.09) Asda groceries.asda.com • Wild mushroom & butternut risotto • Apple crumble and custard (£2.15) • Reduced sugar jam roly poly and Sainsburys sainsburys.co.uk (£4.99) • Lemon meringue pie (£3.00) custard (£1.15) Also accepts phone orders. • Strawberry cheesecake (serves 2, • Gluten free rhubarb crumble (£1.65) Call 0800 328 1700 £5.25) Tesco tesco.com/groceries • Sticky toffee pudding (£3.35) Waitrose waitrose.com • Jam sponge with custard (serves 2, £3.75) • Apple crumble (serves 2, £3.70) Alternative stores: alternativestores.com

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