Food Nation Go
Created by UK chef Magnus Mumby – who has Michelin experience – the range of healthy meals from Food Nation Go include kids’ dishes, meals for one, gluten-free options and vegetarian-friendly options. The kids ‘Easy Eats’ range contains every mum’s favourite, hidden veggies, with dishes including butter chicken, carrot and corn fritters and pumpkin, black beans and feta enchiladas. As an added bonus for the kiddies, each meal comes with a mini sweet treat. Breakfast choices for mums and dads include the five-a-day pot, a breakfast burrito and a delicious English Muffin Florentine, while lunch or dinner consists of a choice of salad, wrap, stuffed croissant or noodle broth depending on what you fancy. Comfort foods such as lasagne and cottage pie also feature on the menu, as well as lighter options such as cauliflower katsu with noodles and salmon tartare fishcakes. All you have to do is place your order on the app by 8pm for your meal to be delivered to your home the next day. Helpful for busy parents. That’s supper (and breakfast… and lunch) sorted.
The app can be downloaded from the Apple store or on Google Play.
Hello Chef
OK, you need to cook for yourself on this plan, but that can be a pleasure in itself. It guarantees the food is fresh, you have seen exactly what goes in to it and it can be fun. Although there is a small issue of washing up to tolerate. If you can handle that, then Hello Chef will dispatch a big box bursting with flavour. You select from up to 16 recipes each week and meals take around 30 minutes, with all the measurements done for you. All you have to do is follow instructions for healthy vegan food in your own home. You can also choose between family-friendly, vegan and low-carb meal plan options.
www.hellochef.me (04 383 9399).
LPM Restaurant & Bar
Kid have a taste for the finer things in life? A lot of expat children definitely do. LPM Restaurant & Bar in Dubai has launched a fine-dining experience aimed at kids. who have a sophisticated palate. And best of all, mums and dads can order the luxurious experience for their precious offspring direct to your house through Deliveroo. The menu costs Dhs135 and includes a starter, main course and a side.
The first-ever fine dining kid-friendly menu, ‘menu pour enfant’, offers starters such as Mediterranean vegetables marinated in olive oil with feta and salt cod croquettes with oven roasted pepper relish, as well as mains that include meaty bites as well as a vegetarian option. Mini foodies can choose from roast chicken, grilled lamb cutlets or gnocchi with cherry tomato garlic and Parmesan.
Dhs135. Order on Deliveroo.
Salad Jar
Struggling to get the kids to eat anything green and healthy? Salad Jar’s Healthy Junior Salad contains nutritious ingredients that Salad Jar promised the kids will love – and therefore actually eat. The child-friendly flavours include chicken, cucumber, carrots, mango, red grapes, mixed lettuce with orange and mango dressing. Aimed at dosing the little ones up with real, nutrient-dense, unprocessed ingredients the Healthy Junior Salad, which is 170 calories and 12 grams of protein, costs Dhs16. Delivery of the lunch-box sized kids meal is available across Dubai in under 30 minutes.
Dhs16. Salad Jar, www.saladjar.com.
Sprout
Sprout, which will be available in select Spinneys stores this month, is a range of food that provides kids with plant-based meals that promote optimal growth and nutrition. The menu includes childhood favourites like pasta bolognese, but without animal products. The range of meals, which are freshly made, are free from all the nasty things kids should avoid such as hormones, cholesterol, preservatives, antibiotics and additives. The company is also environmentally-friendly. There is a Dhs50 charge on the jars they come in, which is 100 percent refundable when returned.
Available at Spinneys and delivery across the UAE every Saturday. sprout.ae/.
Yum In A Box
These are meal plans, or at least snacks, aimed directly at children. Yum in a Box wants to help kids appreciate wholesome and healthy food from an early age. It does it, presumably, by making food delicious and bunging some games and characters in along the way. Seems like a great idea to us. Not just because it has blueberry lemon cake on the menu.
www.yuminaboxuae.com (056 504 4288).
