Home Delivered Vegan Meals (good choices)

Although it’s good to make your own food, sometimes life gets in the way. So rather than stock up on expensive supermarket ready-meals, if you have freezer space it’s often a good idea to stock up on some good plant-based ready meals.

If you’re on a budget, just eat half and bulk up with spuds and veggies (or bread), then eat the rest the next day. Still better food, at half the price! Keep dry ice away from children and pets, and recycle any other packaging. Read more on food safety for people & pets.

$Grubby meal delivery$

Grubby offers plant-based meal kits. It works with local organic farms to provide the veggies, so the only thing that tastes of cardboard is the box! Plus it has recently launched its own ready-meal deliveries).

The range includes:

Creamy cashew carbonara
Creamy rose harissa butter bean stew
Spicy Noodles with soya and mushroom mince
Sweet potato tagine with apricot
Harissa cauliflower with muhammara sauce
Tofu saag curry (potato and spinach)
Tex Mex Protein Bowl (with broad bean smash)
Mexican Five Bean Chilli with sweetcorn salad

All meals delivered within the M25 area are carbon neutral, and for each meal kit sold, they donate another to a child in need. There are also discounts for students, and if you refer a friend.

Root Kitchen (affordable vegan meal delivery)

Root Kitchen is an award-winning company that delivers chef-made delicious vegan meals to your door. Just freeze, then heat up when you’re hungry! These meals are affordable and smashing in taste, and also in fairly large serving sizes, so good for people with big appetites.

You also don’t have to commit to regular deliveries (just order one-off to try it out or say if you’re feeling poorly or caring for someone). The company also sells wholesale to shops.

Just build a box of 6 to 10 meals from the chef-prepared menu. Then choose the frequency and date for carbon-neutral delivery, then just warm up a meal and enjoy! All prepared meals work out a little more expensive.

So you could if on a tiny budget, simply divide one portion and add potatoes and vegetables, then eat the other half the next day. That way you still get the meals and nutrients, at half the cost. As more people use their services, prices will be able to reduce.

Root Kitchen was founded by a brother-in-law and sister-in-law, who are on a mission to fill the nation’s freezers with delicious health plant-based meals. This is a carry-on from the co-founder’s mother, who was a professional cook in Tanzania.

After suffering from a fatigue-related illness (which healed by switching to eating plants), they knew they were onto a winner for a business idea!

They are not chefs themselves, but work with professional chefs to bring inspired meals to the masses.

All the meals are made with fresh natural ingredients, frozen to preserve freshness over artificial preservatives. All you do is heat in the oven for around 45 minutes (or microwave, if you use one). The dishes will last 15 months in the freezer.

You can pause deliveries if you go on holiday, and the meals are sent in biodegradable compostable recycled denim liners (you can compost or recycle these, or reuse them to keep drinks cold for picnics, or to keep fresh bread warm).

You can build boxes of individual meals or save up to 20% by choosing pre-made bundles:

Classics
Spicy
European
Asian
Bestsellers
Taster kits

Meal choices:

Tikka masala & rice
Butternut squash lasagne
Vegetable shepherd’s pie
Moussaka
Korean-style tofu noodles
Red Thai vegetable curry
Mediterranean vegetable pasta
Vegetable jalfrezi curry & rice
Aubergine al forno
Szechuan aubergine noodles

Planty Vegan Home Delivery (including roast dinners!)

Planty offers freshly prepared vegan meals to your door. Sent carbon-neutral in compostable packaging, their Michelin-star chefs create restaurant-quality dishes with natural ingredients, choose from filters like extra spicy or high protein.

The range includes:

Roast Dinner!
Shepherdless Pie
Cauli and Broccoli Cheese
A Planty Christmas Box
Butter ‘Paneer’ Masala
Chorizo Tomato Bean Bake
Mushroom Stroganoff
Sweet and Sour Tempeh
Nonna’s Bolognese
Mushroom and Spinach Lasagne
Not-a-chicken Tikka Masala
Rigatoni Carbonara
Mac No Cheese!
BBQ ‘Beef’ Enchilada
Chilli Non Carne

all plants (tasty vegan meal delivery)

Allplants is the brand that has been ‘rescued’ by Ella Mills, after it unfortunately went into administration. Now it’s back, with a wide range of delicious healthy meals, delivered to your door.

The range includes:

Spinach and coconut tofu curry
Cauliflower and lentil dahl
Tofu masala curry
Veggie Cottage Pie
Veggie Mediterranean Lasagne
Spicy harissa and chickpea stew
Five bean chilli

veafy (African-inspired vegan meal delivery)

Veafy is a unique company that delivers vegan meals to your door, as everything is inspired by authentic African recipes. This business was born out of the founder’s love of cooking, to share delights of recipes that people often love, but this time plant-based and made by chefs (not machines!)

The range includes:

Pan-African curry (East African cauliflower chickpea curry with cauliflower seed butter rice)
Mac and more (sweet potato, harissa with pan-fried veggies and black beans)
Jollification (West African jollof infused in zesty tomato and coconut milk, with a saucy side of Nigerian bean relish)
Lovey Dovi (A Zimbabwe dish with nutty spicy veggie stew, with maize flour (sadza) porridge
Cape Town Funk (textured chickpea bites, potatoes and green beans, with cinnamon infused yellow rice)
Wat Up (An Ethiopian fusion of red lentils and caramelised onions, cooked in spiced clarified coconut oil and Berbere spices, with pan-fried collard greens)
Red Red Roots (Ghanaian dish with black eyed beans cooked in spicy sauce, with turmeric infused rice and fried plantain)
Lean Bean Tagine (lean textured jackfruit and chickpeas in a sweet sour sauce, with pomegranate and mint couscous)
Zim Simma (jackfruit, sugar beans and black kale in a Zimbabwean stew, fused with South African curry spices and served with maize porridge)

Planthood (wholefood, plant-based meal kits)

Planthood offers chef-made wholefood plant-based meal kits, an ideal alternative to ready-meals that are more affordable than home-delivered meals, yet do a lot of the work for you, if you are busy or perhaps unable to cook from scratch, for whatever reason.

In just 15 minutes, enjoy restaurant-style plant-based cuisine, right in your kitchen.

All the packaging can be recycled or composted, rinse pouches and dressing pots out beforehand. You can return liners and ice packs to the company for reuse. Although nontoxic, it’s best to avoid pouring ice gel down the drain, as it could cause clogs.

The boxes are quicker than a recipe box, but quicker than a ready meal! They include sauces, garnishes and fresh veg. Most ingredients are organic, and everything is designed with gut-health in mind with high-fibre vegetables, fermented foods and polyphenols.

Founded by a couple who were inspired by vegan offerings in Canada, menus change weekly (and you can chop and change subscriptions any time). Examples are: