RESTAURANT-QUALITY FOOD
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE HOME FOR
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE HOME FOR
Why Our Meals Are Different
Dinner’s Ready is all about making great food easy.
We are a small business, based in the Canberra region, not a large national corporation.
Our priority is quality and taste. Good, honest food.
We believe everyone should have a good meal to look forward to at the end of the day.
We are a small business, based in the Canberra region, not a large national corporation.
Our priority is quality and taste. Good, honest food.
We believe everyone should have a good meal to look forward to at the end of the day.
Cooked just like you would at home
Our aim is to provide you with meals that are as good as you’d cook at home – or better – if only you had the time. We use real food, cook with our hands, and allow as much time as is needed for the best results. (Our lamb shanks go on at 5 in the morning to allow them to slowly cook till they're fall-apart tender.) You'll see that some meals in the supermarkets have chicken or meat that's been cooked, and then different sauces poured on top afterwards. The meat in all our casseroles is simmered for ages in the sauce, enabling the meat to become tender and all the flavours to blend together over time. Just like you would at home.....
Premium Quality
Our main point of difference from other meals in the marketplace is that we focus on delivering real food that’s made from premium produce, and is full of flavour. Where others are usually prepared to a budget on production lines, we’ve taken the opposite tack and cooked to a quality.
Hand-Made with Care
All our meals are made by hand. (This includes the trimming of all meat, so that only the leanest part of the meat makes it into the dish.) They are prepared by real chefs, who are cooking because they have a passion for what they do. They care about the food they’re giving you.
Authentic Flavours
All our meals are hand-cooked with care by chefs in small specialist kitchens so that they are authentic. As examples:
Quality Produce
All our meals are cooked with high quality produce and ingredients, as you would at home. Our meat is all-Australian, and the chickens are free-range. (The only imported foods we use are some base ingredients, such as tinned Italian tomatoes.) The oil used is olive oil. We were unable to find premium sausages of a consistent quality, so ours are hand-made to contain 95% lean Australian beef, instead of the usual fillers.
Generous Contents
We are also very generous with our contents. We recently compared our ‘Butter Chicken & Rice’ with the same dish from another premium brand, selling at the same price as ours. Ours contains 66% butter chicken, of which 70% is pure, lean chicken. Theirs contained 18% chicken.
No Added Chemicals
We don't add any preservatives to our meals. We use freezing instead, which is Nature's preservative. (All our meals are snap-frozen as soon as they are cooked, and are ready to eat within minutes of reheating.) Nor do we add any flavourings, colours, fillers etc. Our Thai curries are a good example of our authentic recipes, as you can taste by the layers of flavour that they have been made from scratch with individual spices. (Whilst we don't add anything ourselves, there are small amounts of preservatives in some of the ingredients we use, such as wine, Worcestershire sauce, tinned tomatoes, just as you'd do at home. And also in the spice paste that is used for the Butter Chicken - which is the only one of our meals to use a paste.)
Classic Comfort Food
Our menu contains a lot of classic dishes that people know and love, in both single-serve sizes and meals-to-share.
Special Diets
We also have an extensive range of meals that are gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian and vegan.
We’re here to offer an alternative
As with most things, you get what you pay for. Most pre-prepared meals targeted to the mass market are sold for around $10 - but they are made to a budget in factories or on production lines, with resultant quality and flavour. We started our business specifically to give those with more discerning tastes an alternative. Those who appreciate our meals understand this and have told us they believe it’s worth paying a little extra to enjoy their meals. We get consistent feedback from customers telling us how much they appreciate finally being able to buy real food.
Our Background
We started in Jindabyne in the NSW Snowy Mountains, and our meals became so popular with visiting Canberra skiers that they not only relied on them while on holiday, but also started buying them to take back home when they left. After many requests we started supplying in Canberra, and are now in independent retailers all over the region. (We’ve ended up moving to the area so we’re better able to manage the business.)5
Our aim is to provide you with meals that are as good as you’d cook at home – or better – if only you had the time. We use real food, cook with our hands, and allow as much time as is needed for the best results. (Our lamb shanks go on at 5 in the morning to allow them to slowly cook till they're fall-apart tender.) You'll see that some meals in the supermarkets have chicken or meat that's been cooked, and then different sauces poured on top afterwards. The meat in all our casseroles is simmered for ages in the sauce, enabling the meat to become tender and all the flavours to blend together over time. Just like you would at home.....
Premium Quality
Our main point of difference from other meals in the marketplace is that we focus on delivering real food that’s made from premium produce, and is full of flavour. Where others are usually prepared to a budget on production lines, we’ve taken the opposite tack and cooked to a quality.
Hand-Made with Care
All our meals are made by hand. (This includes the trimming of all meat, so that only the leanest part of the meat makes it into the dish.) They are prepared by real chefs, who are cooking because they have a passion for what they do. They care about the food they’re giving you.
Authentic Flavours
All our meals are hand-cooked with care by chefs in small specialist kitchens so that they are authentic. As examples:
- The Italian pastas are all made by hand – including the fresh pasta – by an Italian chef, using his family’s traditional recipes. (He won 19 medals at Sydney’s Royal Fine Food Show in 2017, and 5 in Melbourne). The Lamb Ragu is simmered for hours until it is fall-apart tender.
- The curries are cooked to authentic recipes by another chef who’s spent considerable time living in Asia.
- The comfort classics are cooked by a local Aussie chef. (She starts the Lamb Shanks at 5 in the morning so they have time to slowly tenderize in the sauce.) Her husband used to be a butcher so he hand-butchers all the meat to guarantee quality.
Quality Produce
All our meals are cooked with high quality produce and ingredients, as you would at home. Our meat is all-Australian, and the chickens are free-range. (The only imported foods we use are some base ingredients, such as tinned Italian tomatoes.) The oil used is olive oil. We were unable to find premium sausages of a consistent quality, so ours are hand-made to contain 95% lean Australian beef, instead of the usual fillers.
Generous Contents
We are also very generous with our contents. We recently compared our ‘Butter Chicken & Rice’ with the same dish from another premium brand, selling at the same price as ours. Ours contains 66% butter chicken, of which 70% is pure, lean chicken. Theirs contained 18% chicken.
No Added Chemicals
We don't add any preservatives to our meals. We use freezing instead, which is Nature's preservative. (All our meals are snap-frozen as soon as they are cooked, and are ready to eat within minutes of reheating.) Nor do we add any flavourings, colours, fillers etc. Our Thai curries are a good example of our authentic recipes, as you can taste by the layers of flavour that they have been made from scratch with individual spices. (Whilst we don't add anything ourselves, there are small amounts of preservatives in some of the ingredients we use, such as wine, Worcestershire sauce, tinned tomatoes, just as you'd do at home. And also in the spice paste that is used for the Butter Chicken - which is the only one of our meals to use a paste.)
Classic Comfort Food
Our menu contains a lot of classic dishes that people know and love, in both single-serve sizes and meals-to-share.
Special Diets
We also have an extensive range of meals that are gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian and vegan.
We’re here to offer an alternative
As with most things, you get what you pay for. Most pre-prepared meals targeted to the mass market are sold for around $10 - but they are made to a budget in factories or on production lines, with resultant quality and flavour. We started our business specifically to give those with more discerning tastes an alternative. Those who appreciate our meals understand this and have told us they believe it’s worth paying a little extra to enjoy their meals. We get consistent feedback from customers telling us how much they appreciate finally being able to buy real food.
Our Background
We started in Jindabyne in the NSW Snowy Mountains, and our meals became so popular with visiting Canberra skiers that they not only relied on them while on holiday, but also started buying them to take back home when they left. After many requests we started supplying in Canberra, and are now in independent retailers all over the region. (We’ve ended up moving to the area so we’re better able to manage the business.)5
Our meals give you your time back.
Life nowadays makes us time-poor.
Our meals give you the chance to take back some of that time and enjoy the things in your life that are really important.
Now you can have great food at home without any effort, compromise or guilt.
Great food – without any fuss.
Life nowadays makes us time-poor.
Our meals give you the chance to take back some of that time and enjoy the things in your life that are really important.
Now you can have great food at home without any effort, compromise or guilt.
Great food – without any fuss.
Dinner’s Ready
t: 0477 00 46 19
info@dinnersready.com.au
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