9 best meal kit and ready meal delivery services in Australia

Slow weekends call for thumbing through cookbooks and perusing the farmers market. But life on weekdays is not always so kind.

For those nights when time is short, there are meal kits and producing boxes can make it easier to serve seasonal, chef-prepared dishes. Plus, there are many organic, sustainable options to choose from, so you don’t have to compromise on nourishing your body with quality foods.

We’ve put together a list of some of Australia’s best, each with a cheat code for worry-free weekday partying.

Broadsheet Editors’ Favorite Food Delivery Services of 2024 – National Edition

• Best for a sweet fix: Two Good x Messinafrom $40
• Best for Homemade Love: The dinner ladiesfrom $12
• Best for Chef-Prepared Recipes: Prepare mealsfrom $59
• Best for ethically sourced meat: Butcher crowdfrom $159
• Best for New Moms: Whole bowlfrom $10

The dinner ladies

The Dinner Ladies started as a home cooking project between two friends from Sydney, each wanting to make mealtime a little easier for their families. What started in a home kitchen quickly grew into a dedicated service, providing chef-prepared, hearty meals using high-quality, locally sourced ingredients.

Think comforting classics, from slow-cooked stews to nutritious salads, all delivered to your door. For busy weeks, or when you’re simply craving a comforting dish, these are meals that combine a home-cooked touch with a gourmet twist.

Available to order: Vic, NSW, ACT and parts of Qld and SA
Register with The Dinner Ladies

Make-out meals

Make-out meals provides DIY meal kits with everything you need to recreate famous dishes from Australian restaurants. Each box contains recipes from two-hat restaurants or local favorites including Prime Rib, Mamasita, Coda, plus 40 others, complete with pre-measured ingredients sourced from local suppliers.

With 15 new dishes added every week, there is always one new, tasty meal to try and the included recipe cards offer tips to improve your cooking skills from some of the country’s top chefs. There’s Entrecote’s market fish with spiced citrus butter, Mamasita’s Mexican eggplant a la veracruz, Coda’s signature duck san choy bow, and hundreds more.

If a regular subscription is not for you – but you could use a helping hand with arranging a dinner or festive celebration during the busy period – Make-out meals offers a one-time box with no strings attached.

Available to order: Vic, NSW and ACT
Register with Make-Out Meals

Butcher crowd

The two brothers of Butcher Crowd started on a mission to make sustainable, high-quality food accessible, working with regenerative farms to supply ethically sourced meat across Australia.

By grass-fed Tasmanian porterhouse steak to packs of peeled Australian tiger prawns, everything is farm-fresh, just like the produce the couple grows up. There are composite boxes to take the decision-making out of the equation, but you can also choose what you get as part of the build-your-own option.

Available to order: Vic, NSW, Qld, ACT, SA, Tas and WA
Sign up for Butcher Crowd

Provider

Providoor takes the dining experience beyond standard meal kits by delivering partially prepared restaurant recipes from some of Australia’s best-known chefs. Working with top names from across the country – most of whom don’t have their own brick-and-mortar restaurants – this is your chance to try their recipes without having to cook from scratch yourself.

Try Silvia Colloca’s traditional gnudi with spinach and ricotta to start, George Calombaris’ 12-hour slow-cooked lamb shoulder as a main course and Justin Narayan’s dulce de leche flan to finish. And many more options, in addition to dishes from Anna Polyviou, Christine Manfield, Gary Mehigan, Luke Nguyen, Manu Feildel and Marco Pierre White. It’s as close as you can get to eating out while staying indoors.

Available to order: Vic, NSW, Qld and ACT
Register with Providedoor

The Good Farm Shop

The Good Farm Shop all started from a small, family-owned regenerative farm, providing ready-made meals to people who care about where their food comes from. Although the food label has grown since then, sustainable sourcing has not changed. It’s all about serving organic, pasture-raised treats alongside small-batch homemade condiments like eggplant kasoundi, shakshuka sauce and more.

Create your own package of boxes, with recipes ranging from organic chicken and leek pie to boeuf bourguignon, with the freshest vegetables, free-range meat and farm cheese. But you can also check out The cookbook from the Good Farm Shop for thoughtful nutritional advice, supported by expertise in regenerative agriculture.

Available to order: Vic, NSW, Qld, ACT, SA & Tas
Register at De Goede Boerderijwinkel

Very much

When life gets busy, it can be difficult to find the brain power to plan, shop for, and prepare a week’s worth of meals. But that’s where Quiet Like comes in: this homegrown meal kit option is determined to squeeze more time into your day.

Designed for time-conscious taste lovers, there are more than 30 recipes in Quiet Like’s repertoire and a new menu to choose from every week. It’s fresh ingredients delivered to your home, plus your weekly a la carte menu sorted – so you can get on with the good part (cooking, duh!) minus the thinking.

Available to order: Vic, NSW, Qld and ACT
Subscribe to Very Like

Whole bowl

Founded in 2021 by Elle Doran and nutritionist Daisy Manson, Whole Bowl was created with new moms in mind, delivering meal bundles packed with locally sourced, organic ingredients to support recovery and save some effort in the kitchen. Think slow-cooked beef lasagna, super green soups and almond-cocoa cookies, all created to provide essential nutrients when time and energy are at a premium. Whole Bowl also offers toddler-friendly options, including chicken, roasted squash and spinach risotto and hidden veggie nuggets.

Available to order: Vic, NSW, Qld, ACT, SA, Tas and WA
Subscribe to Whole Bowl

Good and Fugly

Good and Fugly is on a mission to eliminate food waste by advocating fresh, ugly products that do not meet the unrealistic beauty standards of supermarkets. With every box you get a variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables rescued from Australian farms, helping the planet and providing nutritious produce that is far from imperfect. You can choose from a small or large box and a healthy mix of fruit and vegetables – or just one or the other.

Available to order: Vic, NSW, Qld and ACT
Subscribe to Good and Fugly

Two good x Messina collaborations

For a meal kit to satisfy your sweet tooth, the latest collaboration from Two Good and Gelato Messina brings you a delicious triple chocolate brownie pack for a limited edition treat. Inside the box you’ll find the signature Messina chocolate and caramel chips, designed for a gooey, decadent bake that’s easy to prepare. It’s enough to make 16 to 20 brownies and it also has a social impact: for every package sold, Two Good uses the money to support women in need.

Available to order: Vic, NSW, Qld, ACT, SA, Tas and WA
Register with Two Good

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