When I had my second child, one of the best gifts I was given was a freezer bag full of yummy meals pre-prepared by a dear friend. As a busy mum, it was so lovely to have dinner sorted and one less thing to worry about in my day. Now, when friends have a new baby, I always try to pay this idea forward; which is why it’s so great that there are now many services who provide healthy meals delivered in Brisbane – offering nutritious meals delivered directly to your door.
Whether it’s for busy parents, hardworking business people, elderly relatives, or people recuperating from illness, injury or surgery, there are many great options to ensure that you or your loved ones can eat well and maintain a healthy diet. It could be a treat for yourself, a gift for a friend, or a wellness package — whatever you need, the following services should have you covered!
Gourmet Dinner Service
Gourmet Dinner Service offers delicious gourmet dinners delivered to your home. They have a large range of food to choose from, including mains, desserts, sides, food for special diets and even diabetic meals. They also have gift vouchers which are a great option for treating new parents or sending as a wellness gift to someone who is sick or injured.
Gourmet Meals
Gourmet Meals delivers healthy, nutritious and great tasting meals all around Brisbane, Ipswich and the Gold Coast. There are no contracts, so you can order weekly or just occasionally depending on your needs. They offer meals, soups, desserts and more. Everything is gluten free and other dietary requirements are catered for too.
Healthy Meals to Your Door
Developed by a chef and nutritionist team, the meals from Healthy Meals to Your Door are freshly prepared, tasty and nutritionally balanced. There are plenty of options for dietary requirements too, including gluten free, dairy free, vegan, paleo style, food intolerances and more. This is a subscription service, so it’s more about selecting a meal plan to help you feed the family for the week, rather than sending a one-off food hamper to a friend.
Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels Queensland is a charity that helps people with a variety of support needs, not only seniors needing meals, including those with a disability or recovering from and illness or surgery, a carer or someone needing assistance due to a special circumstance. This is not just a meal service, it is also a health and wellbeing visit and a chance to connect with someone. You can find your local service here. Remember they always need volunteers too, so they can keep providing this awesome service, so please see here to find out how you can get involved.
TLC Meals
TLC Meals is a meal home delivery service with healthy, nutritious food options for anyone to enjoy, including dairy free, gluten free low salt, soft texture and other dietary requirements. The service is contract free, so orders can be one-off or regular, and you can get gift cards too if you’re looking to help someone else out with a thoughtful gift.
Wholesomeness
Wholesomeness is a personal catering service that is all about providing busy people with great food. They deliver fresh, paleo style meals to all Brisbane, Ipswich, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast suburbs. There are main meals, sides, meal plans, and for just $10 you can even feed a homeless person with a healthy Wholesomeness meal.
youfoodz
Youfoodz offers fresh meals delivered right to your doorstep. Their food is everyday meals made healthy and delicious by their chefs and nutritionists. The offer meals, snacks, drinks, meal plans and more. This is not a contract service, so you can simply order weekly or whenever you like.
Nourish’d
Nourish’d is all about healthy, preservative-free meals delivered fresh (not frozen). We love that they offer their meals in varying portion sizes and that all meals are 100% gluten-free with 90% of meals being dairy-free, making it suitable for families with allergies and intolerances.
Other resources for healthy meals delivered in Brisbane
The government has put together an amazing summary of some of the many meal and grocery delivery options in Queensland. Head to health.qld.gov.au for this great resource for more options for healthy meals delivered in Brisbane that suit your needs.
For seniors, the Senior Services Guide has compiled a full list of meal services for seniors, including free or subsidised services, as well as commercial services. Simply visit seniorservicesguide.com.au to see all of the amazing services available in the Brisbane area.
For other meal options, check out our Places to Buy Gluten Free Food in Brisbane and Online.
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