Showing posts with label ready meal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ready meal. Show all posts

Wednesday 10 January 2024

Strong Roots unveils five tasty plant-based ready meals for Veganuary

Strong Roots, the pioneers of plant-based frozen food, have done it again! Setting out the next step in their mission to make tasty, plant-based food for busy people, they are launching five bold, veggie-packed meals. 

Absolutely delicious and designed for those living very busy lives, each features only the best quality ingredients that are all sustainably sourced.

With their belief that food can be better and that vegetables are the best way forward, Strong Roots' goal is to make eating them as easy and delicious as possible, while also reducing people’s carbon footprint. Making the perfect solution for a quick and healthy midweek meal, each takes just eight minutes to cook from frozen, so just pop in the freezer and you’ll always have a super convenient and super tasty, plant-based meal on hand.

Here’s a rundown on each of the new Good Made Easy Meals:

Thai Green Veg Curry

Combining crispy, crunchy veg with aromatics of lemongrass, Thai basil and kaffir lime leaf, this meal has all the greens, along with some tasty Thai flavours with a mildly spicy bite. Just 329 calories and a punchy 9.5g of protein per serving, this meal is also low sugar, low salt and low in saturated fat, with a climate footprint of just 1.5kg CO2e/kg.

Veggie Masala

This plant-based cauliflower and chickpea curry is full of goodness. Rich in flavour, it’s packed full of veggies and has up 12g of protein per serving, all with just 326 calories. What’s more it’s high in fibre, low in saturated fat and low in sugar. Climate footprint of 2.2kg CO2e/kg.

Creamy Mac

The Big Daddy of comfort food just got a plant-based glow up. A food favourite with a vegan twist, this meal features a great tasting vegan cheese sauce and has a great texture. It comes in at just 448 calories, is low sugar, with a climate footprint of 2kg CO2e/kg.

White Bean & Lentil Tomato Stew

This white bean and lentil tomato stew comes with a protein punch that’s sure to sate your winter comfort food cravings. It’s vibrant with veggie colours and rich in wholesome flavour. Packed full with protein, at 19g per serving, it has just 280 calories, contains 3 of your 5 a day and, once more, is low in saturated fat and sugar, with a climate footprint of 1.6kg CO2e/kg.

Mediterranean Orzo Bake

Featuring grilled Mediterranean vegetables, premium Orzo pasta (which is rarely seen in the frozen aisle) and rich tomato sauce - this meal is pure comfort. Once heated it releases a bloom of spices that deliver big fresh flavour, and it also delivers on low calories (329), protein (12g) as well as being low in saturated fat and sugar. Climate footprint on this dish is calculated at 1kg CO2e/kg – the lowest in the range.

Sam Dennigan, Founder of Strong Roots says “We believe in going back to our roots to secure our food future by making easy and delicious veg-forward frozen food that is good for you and good for the planet. 

"With the time pressures of modern life it can be hard to make good choices all the time but that’s where we come in. Our five new plant-based meals deliver exciting flavour profiles and provide healthy and convenient plant-based options, all made with sustainable, quality ingredients. It’s ‘Good Made Easy’.”

On a mission to fix the freezer aisle, Strong Roots prides itself on providing a gateway to easier plant-based consumption, revolutionising the food industry in a sustainable and responsible way. A certified B Corp, its range of delicious plant-based options, are all sustainably farmed, shipped and sold, better for people and the planet. The brand also proudly displays its climate footprint on front of pack, showing all emissions generated from soil to shelf, ensuring it is fully accountable as a business and to its consumers.

In the UK the RRP. is a (in our opinion!) very reasonable £3.50.

In the UK all meals are available now from Ocado, Booths, Amazon and selected independent retailers.

Thai Green Veg Curry and Veggie Masala launch into Sainsbury’s during Veganuary.

In Ireland the RRP is €3.99

In Ireland meals are available in Dunnes, Tesco, SuperValu, Centra & Spar stores nationwide.

Find out more: https://strongroots.com


Saturday 22 April 2023

Tesco launches collaborative ready meal tray-to-tray initiative with Faerch Group

In what's believed to be a first in the industry, Tesco has started to recycle used plastic food trays back into packaging - creating a fully circular packaging solution for its entire range of core chilled ready meals.

The change is in collaboration with leading packaging manufacturer Faerch and will see customer-recovered PET trays, which are collected via kerbside waste, recycled and converted back into food grade plastic trays.

Tesco’s ready meal trays already contain up to 75% of recycled content, mainly from cleaner and easier to recycle bottle flake plastic. Through the new Tray 2 Tray by Faerch™ programme, a minimum of 30% recycled tray content will be included in the new core chilled ready meals trays.

A phased rollout of the new trays will take place this month (April) across Tesco’s core own brand chilled ready meals. The collaboration will ensure high quality food-grade PET is kept within the supply chain, rather than being downcycled, and demonstrates PET packaging from trays can be fully recovered and recycled at an industrial scale.

Adele Kearns, Packaging Development Manager at Tesco, said: “We're absolutely determined to close the loop on our packaging, for it to be fully recyclable and contain recycled content wherever this is possible. 

"We remain committed to reducing our environmental impact, and helping our customers do the same, as we work together to protect our planet.”

Ruth Price, Strategic Sales Manager at Faerch UK, said: “We’re delighted to launch our Tray 2 Tray by Faerch™ programme with Tesco, an essential initiative that promotes circular food packaging in the economy, and we are committed to working with our customers to keep rigid food packaging in the economy and out of the environment. 

"Our collaboration with Tesco is the perfect example of how material from EU waste resources can be diverted into a valuable commodity. Moving forward, our intention is to not only increase the level of tray-to-tray content but to also start taking this from local UK feedstocks”.

Tesco also works alongside suppliers to drive change across products – eliminating all hard-to-recycle material from UK packaging in 2019 - and supports industry action including the UK Plastics Pact, which tackles the impact of plastic waste.

• Lines that have changed or will change over the coming weeks are:

o SPINACH & RICOTTA CANNELLONI 400G

o TOMATO & MOZZARELLA PENNE 400G

o SPAGHETTI & MEATBALL 400G

o TUNA BAKE 400G

o BEEF LASAGNE 400G

o VEGETABLE LASAGNE 400G

o SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE 400G

o SPAGHETTI CARBONARA 400G

o HAM & MUSHROOM TAG 400G

o CHICKEN ARRAB 400G

o PEPPERONI PASTA BAKE 400G

o ITALIAN CHICKEN & BACON PASTA BAKE 400G

o MACARONI CHEESE 400G

o CHICKEN & CHORIZO PASTA 400G

o PESTO PASTA 400G

o LENTIL BAKE 400G

o ITALIAN CHICKEN & BACON PASTA BAKE 750G

o BEEF LASAGNE 750G

o MACARONI CHEESE 750g

o THREE CHEESE MELT 750G

o PEPPERONI PASTA 750G

o BEEF LASAGNE 1.5KG

o CHICKEN, TOMATO & MOZZARELLA 1.5KG

o CARBONARA PASTA BAKE 1.5KG

o BEEF LASAGNE 1.5KG

o CHICKEN, TOMATO & MOZZARELLA 1.5KG

o CARBONARA PASTA BAKE 1.5KG

You can learn about Faerch here https://www.faerch.com/en