Meal Delivery Services in Essex | Elderly Care & Wellbeing

Maintaining a healthy and balanced diet is particularly important in old age, but preparing meals can become more challenging. For more information about the importance of eating healthily, you can read Age Space’s Guide to Keeping Healthy in Older Age.

Fortunately, there are a number of meals-on-wheels and meal delivery services in operation throughout Essex. These services provide either hot meals to your relative’s door at lunchtime, or frozen meals which your relative simply has to microwave at a time that suits them.

You may also wish to look into Lunch Clubs in Essex, that provide your elderly relative with a hot meal in a sociable environment. Alternatively, many Day Care Centres in Essex will provide a cooked afternoon meal.

Below we have listed some services available in Essex to help your relative enjoy a hot, tasty, home-cooked meal, without the hassle of cooking.

Local Meal Delivery Services in Essex
National Meal Delivery Services

Local Meal Delivery Services in Essex

Deliver Eat

Deliver Eat offer hot and freshly prepared two-course meals for £10 a day in Thurrock (their fee is subject to change elsewhere in Essex). They collaborate with trusted wholesalers to ensure that every meal is both enjoyable and nutritional. They also offer unique services, such as Plate up and Make a Cuppa, to connect personally with their customers.

Telephone: 07545839126
Email: [email protected]
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Tiptree Meals

Tiptree Meals provide hot and frozen meals, seven days a week to people throughout Essex, including Braintree, Chelmsford, Colchester, Maldon, Tiptree and Mersea. If your relative does not live in these areas, they may still be able to cater to them, simply get in contact to ask. You can check out their Online Menu to see what is available.

Telephone: 01621 816963
Email: [email protected]
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Herts Meals

Herts Meals is located in Harlow and supplies traditional, freshly prepared meals to people in the local area. They provide a three-week set menu of 21 hot meals, freshly prepared in their local kitchens, as well as 11 alternate meals for your relative to choose from that are available daily. You can see their Online Menu here. Meals cost £7.50 every day, with an additional charge of 30p for anything off of the Alternative Menu.

Herts Meals deliver to Bishops Stortford, Broxbourne, Buckhurst Hill, Cheshunt, Debden, Dunmow, Epping, Great Dunmow, Harlow, Loughton, Hoddesdon, Lower Sheering, Nazeing, North Weald, Roydon, Sawbridgeworth, Takeley, Theydon Bois, Waltham Abbey, Waltham Cross and Wormley.

Telephone: 01279 417087
Email: [email protected]
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Steve's Kitchen, Castle Point

Steve’s Kitchen is a family-run meals-on-wheels service based in Castle Point and providing food to people living in the surrounding areas. They deliver freshly-prepared hot meals on real plates along with a dessert of your relative’s choice. You can view their Online Menu, which operates on a four week schedule.

Telephone: 01268 421482
Email: [email protected]
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National Meal Delivery Services

Parsley Box

Parsley Box can provide nutritious, quality, home-cooked style meals that are easy to prepare. Despite having no preservatives, Parsley Box’s special packing method means that their meals can be stored in cupboards – not taking up fridge space! They can still last for up to 6 months.

You can request a free brochure here and take advantage of our exclusive offer for 7 meals at just £19.99 with code ‘AGESPACE7’!

Telephone: 0131 326 0131
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Oakhouse Foods

Meal Delivery - Meals on Wheels in Essex

Oakhouse Foods have an extensive menu and deliver frozen ready meals throughout Essex. They are able to cater to a wide range of dietary needs and preferences, and offer a Mini Meals service for people with smaller appetites. You can order a free brochure in the post, or look at their Online Menu on Oakhouse Foods website.

Telephone: 0333 370 6700
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Wiltshire Farm Foods

Wiltshire Farm Foods have a menu of over 300 frozen meals for your relative to choose from, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. They offer meal delivery throughout Essex, with no delivery cost. You can check out their Online Menu, or request a free brochure from the Wiltshire Farm Foods website to be sent to your relative’s house.