5 Best Vegan Ready Meals & Plant-Based Recipe Kits
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In this shopping guide, we look at the best vegan ready meals in the UK that can be delivered straight to your door.
Plant-based food is growing more and more in popularity, and for good reason. Switching to a plant-based diet is one of the best personal choices you can make to make the biggest difference in terms of your food's carbon footprint.
But this isn't about polarising omnivores from herbivores, even switching just a couple meals a week to be meat-free is a great way to reduce your food's footprint and your bank balance too!
Making the Switch: 4 Reasons to try plant-based meals
Reduce your food's footprint - Meat and dairy account for about
14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. By switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet you can
cut your food's CO2e in half. From approximately 15.8 pounds of carbon-dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each day for meat eaters to 8.4 pounds for vegetarians and 6.4 pounds of CO2e for vegans. Over a
month of going vegan you would not only save 30 animal lives, but also 620 pounds of CO2e, 913 square feet of forest and 33,481 gallons of water.
Get healthier - Vegan diets tend to include more fruit and vegetables rich in nutrients, high in fibre and low in saturated fats, all of which decreases your risk of diseases, lowers cholesterol and increases heart health. It can even help you lose excess weight and lower blood sugar levels. Just be careful not to choose too many processed food vegan alternatives that are high in fats.
Save money - Eating vegan
costs up to 34% less than meat and seafood meals (and reduces cooking time by a third as well). If you spend £50 per person on food week and switched for 6 months it could save you £408.
Get inspired - We all fall into the habit of rotating the same meals, so trying a recipe kit is a great way to expand our culinary skills and and get inspiration for new dishes! Even if you use them every now and again you can keep the recipe cards and just remake them yourself!
Best Vegan Ready Meals & Recipe Kits
1. Grubby
Best for Social Good
The UK's most loved plant-based recipe kit donates a meal to a child living in poverty for every box delivered. They offer 50+ recipes all championing British produce and around 90% of their packaging at present is either recyclable, biodegradable or compostable.
Serving Size:
2 people
Gluten and nut free options:
Yes (you can just leave those ingredients out or select a different recipe)
Cost per meal: £4.60
Delivery: FREE UK wide delivery
GRUBBY DISCOUNT CODE:
Save 40% off your first box and then 20% off the rest of the month with
GRUBGO
2. Planty
Best for Sustainable Ready Meals
Flash-frozen and delivered to your door, Planty make 100% plant-based meals with 100% recyclable, compostable or reusable AND carbon-neutral delivery. They are a social venture which means they are legally committed to their environmental and social responsibility, and they're currently working towards their B Corp certification.
Serving Size: 1 person
Gluten and nut free options: Yes
Cost of meal / per person : from £5.65
Delivery: FREE UK wide delivery (carbon-neutral)
PLANTY DISCOUNT CODE:
GET 25% OFF WITH ZEROWASTED
3. Allplants
Best for Variety
Allplants delivers incredible tasting, chef-made, nutritionally balanced ready to heat meals at your convenience to fuel your life in a vibrant, great way. Choose from 50+ nutritional plant-based dishes prepared by chefs including sides, breakfasts, treats and smoothies. Their meals stay frozen until 10pm on the day of delivery, so you don't have to plan around them and all delivered in sustainable packaging. They're also a B Corp which means they're both planet-kind and human-kind.
Serving Size: 1 or 2 people
Gluten and nut free options: Yes
Cost of meal / per person : from £4.99
Delivery: FREE UK wide delivery
ALLPLANTS DISCOUNT CODE:
Get 35% OFF your 1st box then 15% OFF 2nd + 3rd - find the latest code on our Allplants review.
4. Planthood
Best for Restaurant Quality in 15 minutes
Restaurant-quality meals prepared by chefs where they have already cooked the mains, sauces and garnishes. You just re-heat and add the fresh bits at home. All sustainably sourced seasonal and consciously packaged. They even donate 1% of sales to environmental and social charities.
Serving Size: 1, 2 or 4 people
Gluten and nut free options: Yes
Cost of meal / per person : from £6.25
Delivery: FREE UK wide delivery
PLANTHOOD DISCOUNT CODE:
Get £15 OFF your first oder with our referral:
5. PRESS
Best for Vegan Meals, Soups & Juices
PRESS are known for their freshly pressed juices, shots and kombucha, and they've now got a new range of vegan soups designed by nutritionists with 209 to 296 calories a meal and up to 16g of plant-based protein. PRESS are proudly plastic neutral and all packaging is 100% recyclable. Post juicing pulp is reused by local farms and local bio-fuel energy plants - meaning nothing goes to waste.
Serving Size: 1 person
Gluten and nut free options: Yes
Cost of meal / per person: £4.16 (6 pack) or £4.95 each
Delivery: £10 / FREE £65+
PRESS LONDON DISCOUNT CODE:
15% your first order with ZEROWASTED15
That's our list of the 5 best plant-based meal delivery companies. If there's a great brand we haven't featured please let us know by dropping us a message.
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