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Cooking plant-based options for Christmas just got a whole lot easier ✅ Now you can order a Just Add Vegan festive meal kit straight to your door!
With the festive season jingling its bells right around the corner, and knock-out Christmas menus just waiting to be planned, anyone wondering what vegan options to cook this year has just been given the best gift of all…
Just Add Vegan has launched Australia’s first-ever vegan Christmas meal kits, which can be delivered right to your door in NSW, ACT, QLD & VIC.
The plant-based meal delivery service is on a mission to streamline your Christmas meal prep – so you can spend less time roleplaying as a kitchen elf this year, and more time enjoying the festivities!
Christmas meal planning can be overwhelming, especially if you’re cooking for a party that also includes vegans and you don’t have time to scour the internet for recipes and check all the ingredient labels … but not anymore.
Padma Lianos, Just Add Vegan co-founder
Whether you’re catering for vegetarian or vegan guests, or hosting a fully plant-based feast, these new festive meal kits take all the guesswork out of menu-planning, and are guaranteed to show your guests how indulgent and satisfying vegan dishes can be.
What can you make with the festive meal kits?
Just Add Vegan has structured their Christmas meal kits in a way that allows you to order your sides, main, and dessert supplies separately (which may be helpful if you only need to cover part of the festive spread). Alternatively, you can order ‘The Lot’, which includes all the ingredients, instructions, and cheat sheets you need to whip up this gloriously plant-based feast:
- Pistachio & cranberry stuffed seitan roast with onion gravy
- Cauliflower gratin with vegan cheddar cheese
- French green beans with almonds
- Roasted carrot salad with butter beans & dill
- Warm potato salad with leek & smoky dressing
- Caramelised Brussels sprouts with mustard agave glaze
- Green salad with peas & herb salsa
- Trifle with fresh fruit, custard & cream
In great news for anyone catering to extra dietary requirements – the whole spread can be made gluten-free, too!
And if you’re looking to cover some extra snacks, there’s a fancy vegan cheese board available to add on to your feast, featuring artisanal cheeses from The Vegan Dairy, Artisa, and Vegusto, alongside a smorgasbord of crackers, nuts, fruit, and mustard.
Sold? Get your order in by Wednesday 11th of December, and your meal kit will be delivered on the 21st of December, just in time for the big day.
A ‘one-stop-shop’ for all your weekly plant-based food needs
It’s not just Christmas-themed meal kits that Just Add Vegan offers – they also deliver delicious plant-based meal kits, everyday ready-meals, and vegan products across Australia all year round.
“Over the years we have developed a repertoire of over 300 meal-kit recipes, so our customers never get bored. One of the things that really set us apart are our unique house-made sauces and spice mixes that give each of our recipes their distinct flavour. This is something we hear back from customers time and time again.”
The plant-powered power couple behind the brand, Padma Lianos and Arthur Voorwinden, say their aim is to make eating vegan as simple and accessible as possible.
“We’re on a mission to inspire and make it easy for people to cook delicious and nutritious plant-based food, with the purpose of creating a happier, healthier and fairer world.”
When they met by chance at a meditation course in the UK in 2012, Lianos and Voorwinden discovered that they shared a lifelong passion for food, as well as a desire to make the world a better place – and were soon making plans to get married and launch a vegan food business together.
In 2018, they left their corporate careers overseas and moved back to Lianos’ homeland of Australia. After pivoting their business idea several times due to pandemic-related challenges, they proudly launched Just Add Vegan in 2021 as a health-focused, 100% plant-powered meal-kit delivery service – the first of its kind in Australia.
And the rest is delicious, nutritious history, with further evolutions yet to come for their budding vegan business.
“We have everything in place to become a household brand for those who want to incorporate more plants into their diet,” says Lianos.
“We offer better flavours, higher nutritional value, and more choice than the big foreign brands. In addition, we are 100% Australian family-owned, purpose-driven, and more sustainable. These factors increasingly drive consumer choice and brand loyalty.”
The appetite for sustainable vegan food is continuing to grow
According to a recent Griffiths University study, as many as 25% of Australians aspire to plant-forward diets – primarily for the health benefits, but also often out of concern for the environment and animal welfare.
The only problem, Voorwinden says, is that some people feel too busy to learn how to cook differently, or to menu-plan, and that’s where a plant-based meal delivery service like Just Add Vegan can help.
We stand for food that is good for you and good for the planet.
Sustainability is central to the brand’s ethos, with most of their meal kit ingredients packaged in paper bags and wood-based cellophane instead of plastic.
Just Add Vegan’s ready-meal offerings and range of stand-alone vegan products (from brands such as Suzy Spoon’s Vegetarian Butcher and Syndian Natural foods) are set to expand significantly in the coming months. We can’t wait to see what gets added to the menu next!
Vegan festive meal kits available to order until 11th December
So there you have it – if you’d rather skip all the actual menu planning this festive season, but still want to impress your loved ones with a hearty and flavourful plant-based feast, one of Just Add Vegan’s holiday meal kits could be the Christmas miracle you’ve been waiting for. Just remember to get your order in quick if you want it delivered by the 21st of December! 
Out of the delivery radius, or prefer to plan your own menu? We’ve got you covered with these amazing vegan Christmas recipes & festive vegan product recommendations.
Header image: © Just Add Vegan
Meet Liv!
Having grown up in a “meat and 3 veg” kind of household, Liv’s embarrassed to admit that she was a bit of a one-note chef until she began exploring the world of plant-based food. Vegan cooking has given her a whole new appreciation for the symphonies of flavours that simple, nourishing wholefood ingredients can create. (Even eggplant, once her greatest nemesis, is now — in a delicious, miso-glazed redemption arc — her all-time favourite veg.)
