The best food delivery services in Canberra

A lot of people already do order meal deliveries in Canberra – an example is liteneasy and it costs about $148 for breakfast, lunch and dinner per week. They include frozen mains and fresh and frozen lunches and breakfasts with fresh fruit.

I’d love a service that supplies restaurant quality meals as home deliveries.

I know several people who subscribe to the service of those diet food companies, and anecdotally hear of people, often young blokes, who also sign up for it, who’re not on diets.

We’re becoming more and more like America. They hardly cook.. they have kitchens but “cooking’ is heating stuff up, mostly. It’s really sad to see.

So gourmetdinnerservice.com.au?

I’m too fat and difficult to appreciate Lite n Easy.

There is a gourmet Italian restaurant called Domino’s which does pizza and offers a delivery service. Unlike the more snooty restaurants, they still have Hawaiian pizzas.

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The Riverina have had this operating for a number of years successfully.

Always ensure that your trays and/or packaging materials are cleaned thoroughly using commercial cleaners and never leave meats and seafood products out for too long during change of weather. Many businesses who are starting off make this mistake when they have not trained up there staff on those two issues.

Best wishes on the success of your Business; don’t forget the leftovers for the Yellow Van to collect!

Would certainly have a look ,, as I’m going to also have a look also at that diet mob That Madam Cholet has mentioned; the bext time I see their add on the telly.

A great big hearty stew or lamb shanks with vegetables for say six On a fortnightly basis for say $120-150 and I would pay attention

Benita is talking through her hat. You can’t get a wholesome meat meal delivered in LA for five bucks!!! Large plate of healthy salad in LA from a takeaway bar, sans delivery: $15-$17. Add delivery cost to that at the US minimum wage, then triple that delivery component for Australian standards.

Canberrans should expect to pay $20-$25 for a single healthy homecooked meal delivered in Canberra. Cheaper presumably for a regular delivery contracted for a few weeks ahead.

No, not for me, I’d rather just eat avocado on toast with a side of wine.

Something about this idea strikes me as really sad; are we really that busy?

When I’m out of avocado and bread I’d rather go out, anyway, and have some fun.

$5 is not going to get a fresh meal prepared and delivered. I believe that those diet companies deliver a weeks worth of meals for around $100 or slightly more. They include morning and arvo snacks and what not, and I am advised that they are quite tasty and enough for one person. I would expect they are frozen.

Good idea, but in Canberra it’s going to be hard to make it work unless you focus on overworked Hugh ranking public servants who don’t know how to work their kitchen appliances.

During the day I would expect that most people appreciate the 15 minutes they might spend away from their desk preparing or procuring their lunch. Not sure if many workplaces would have adequate kitchen facilities – a small micro, coffee machine and bar fridge is as good as it gets in our place.

Here’s my idea – healthy food for kids birthday parties. I can’t tell you how much my heart sinks when I encounter caramel slice laid out for 4 year olds at a Sunday morning party.

benita_449 said :

Yes please – 3-4 times a week. 5-10 menu choices. Mostly mains for me. $5-10 each (depending on type and quality of meat – less for random cuts or chicken, more for steak etc)
Used these in L.A. and am surprised it hasn’t arrived in Canberra yet due to the large number of transient and young professionals.

Um…seriously, you are only prepared to pay $5? You can’t even get a frozen meal from Colesworth or a crappy pizza from Dominoes for thst sort of money, let alone a freshly cooked meal delivered to your house.

If such a service proved cost effective for a family, I would use it three to four times a week on an ongoing basis. Much would depend on delivery times being outside usual working hours, and at least twenty different mains. I would be prepared to pay around $40.00 per day for three main meal serves, no desserts or starters

My wife travels a lot, so I do a lot of cooking for one. Cooking for one is expensive, and requires that I eat a lot of my own leftovers. Restaurants have “minimum order” limits for delivery, and no one I know delivers a plate of roast beef and vegies. It would be nice to have some single-serve options in the fridge that are low-cost, and not junk food.

A takeaway curry or casserole (that I can heat up for dinner) costs me around $10 from my local. If a company delivered an equivalent product for around $15 a serve, I’d consider that good value and worthwhile. If it cost any more than that, or delivery required a minimum order of enough food to last me a month, I wouldn’t be interested.

I used the delivery services in the States too, and figured they kept their costs down by producing meals by the thousands with cheap Mexican labour. Not sure how you could price such a service similarly in Canberra.

Great idea! I know there are 2-3 businesses that already offer something like this in Canberra, but they’re quite expensive, have limited choice and limited delivery days. But I’d love to try the kind of offerings you’re proposing – keep us updated if you do decide to go for it!

Yes please – 3-4 times a week. 5-10 menu choices. Mostly mains for me. $5-10 each (depending on type and quality of meat – less for random cuts or chicken, more for steak etc)
Used these in L.A. and am surprised it hasn’t arrived in Canberra yet due to the large number of transient and young professionals.