Plant-Based Meals for Young Families
Although it’s good to cook food from scratch, life doesn’t always work like that. But if you look, there are far better alternatives to ready-made frozen nugget meals for children!
Wildly Tasty is a lovely company created by a professional chef, offering award-winning plant-based meals for children (and adults) that taste yummy and are packed with nutrients (and also low in salt). And a portion of profits helping a Surrey wildlife rescue charity.
Minimum order is £25 (free delivery over £50). And next day delivery, if orders are placed before midday Monday to Friday. Get 20% off off your first order, if you sign up to the newsletter, and share your unique referral link for £5 discount for you and friends/family.
Each kids’ meal serves two young children or one older child, depending on age and appetite. The family size miles serve 2 adults (or 1 adult and 2 children).
Just heat in the oven for a few minutes, or store in the freezer for up to a month (thaw overnight in the fridge then heat).
These meals are not for babies (check age guides on meals) under 1 year. While the ingredients are all allergen-free, they are made within a kitchen that handles all major allergens.
Meals are delivered in recycled vegan insulated packaging and ice packs (keep dry ice away from children and pets). They can be stored in the freezer for 3 months.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people & pets (many human foods are unsafe around animal friends). Recycle packaging at kerbside or supermarket bag bins.
Different Ways to Serve Wildly Tasty Meals
This post has plenty of suggestions on how to serve the meals to bulk them up for both filling up tummies and affordability: Examples are:
- With jacket potatoes and salad
- To fill up veggie burritos
- With rice or pasta
- As a jacket potato filling
- With sweet potato wedges
- With couscous or noodles
- Reduce with water, to make soup
The Range of Wildly Tasty Meals
The range includes:
- Mushroom and Lentil Bolognese
- Apricot & Chickpea Tagine
- Coconut and Sweet Potato Dahl
- Yellow Thai Veggie Curry
- Sweet Potato & Bean Chilli
- Super Tomato and Five Veg Sauce
Quality Ingredients (veggies over carbs!)
One feature that is popular with parents is these meals are not ‘padded’ with carbs, so you can add your own carbs to meals, which gives children more nutrients and choice.
The company was founded by a mother of ‘two under two’ who was finding it a struggle to cook everything from scratch, but could not find meals to her health, taste and ethical standards in shops.
As she had 6 years of experience developing recipes for Mindful Chef, the solution was obvious!
The ingredients are top quality too. Vegetables and fruits are sourced from New Covent Garden, tomatoes from Italian farms and coconut milk from Biona (not just organic but guaranteed free from monkey slave harvesting).
The meals also include natural proteins like beans, lentils and chickpeas, alongside naturally dried apricots (to avoid sulphites). Even the oats are grown and milled on a British farm.
And rather than palm oil, the company uses extra-virgin olive oil and virgin raw coconut oil for fats.
Approval from Kids Food & Drink Collective
Wildly Tasty has recently become approved by the Kids Food & Drink Collective, an organisation campaigning for better healthy food for young tummies, after discovering that 78% of ‘children’s foods’ in stores would be classed as ‘unhealthy’ by nutritionists. Recent nominees for its ‘Yucky Awards’ are:
- A fast food chain for campaigning against councils trying to stop hot takeaway food being sold near schools.
- A ‘Toddler Milk’ brand claiming nutritional benefits, of a drink that is similar to chocolate milkshake, and is against NHS guidance.
- A baby rusk company promoting ‘reduced sugar’ benefits, but actually have a third more
Wildly Tasty also supports Dylan Strong Foundation, an organisation founded by the mother of a boy who outlived his cancer diagnosis by several months, due to her feeding him nutritious plant-based meals.
The organisation now supplies (with the help of this company) healthy meals to child cancer patients, both at home and in hospitals.
