14 Wholesome Food Delivery Options For Easy But Healthy At-Home Dining
If we’re being honest, it isn’t easy to strike a balance between working long hours from home, keeping up with friends and family, and staying on top of household chores, let alone trying to make well-rounded meals three times a day. Couple that with the fact that going out to the supermarket for groceries or to get take-out heightens your risk of exposure to COVID-19, and food delivery looks increasingly like the right route to take (that is, of course, if it’s within your means).
Food delivery doesn’t have to mean fast food, either, especially when it’s now more important than ever to stay hale and hearty. Luckily for us, options abound when it comes to getting wholesome meals delivered right to your doorstep. Whether you prefer organic, gluten-free, vegan, or keto, or just want to nourish your body better during this time, there’s a choice for you, in a price range that suits you too. Not sure where to start? These salubrious offerings will make eating healthy a breeze.
COMO Cuisine
This Dempsey hotspot (the good kind, obviously) serves up a variety of signature favourites from COMO properties around the world, all informed by the company’s ethos of holistic wellness. Each delectable dish is prepared from scratch using, wherever possible, organic produce and in-season ingredients. The delivery menu offers morsels like tandoor-roasted cauliflower with kale, pomegranate, farro, almonds, and yoghurt; snapper curry with saffron rice; and “blood builder” juice with beetroot, green apple, celery, and turmeric.
Afterglow
Described as “a pure food movement”, Afterglow’s menu is entirely plant-based and free from gluten, preservatives, refined sugar, and artificial flavouring, with keto- and kid-friendly options to boot. The astounding array of dishes includes lentil and flaxseed nuggets with cashew nut aioli, sweet potato shepherd’s pie, a legume-crusted tofu burger topped with vegetarian caviar, and raw chocolate truffles.
The Butcher's Wife
Gluten-free grub that actually tastes good? Yes please! The Butcher’s Wife provides comfort food with nary a trace of gluten, but still indulgent enough to please a sceptical food lover. We like the sound of the black bean falafel sandwich made with blue pea naan and green mango chilli, or the banana leaf seabass with plantain purée and shrimp sambal. Not to mention the list of tipples and bubbles available for delivery too.
The Living Cafe
The Living Cafe is one of only a handful of eateries here that does raw cuisine. For the uninitiated, a raw food diet consists of mostly unprocessed, plant-based, and organic produce, with nothing heated above 46 degrees Celsius in order to preserve nutrients and enzymes, such that the body is supposedly better able to prevent and fight diseases. You won’t be nibbling on raw vegetables, though, as the restaurant has everything from paleo granola and raw chocolate brownies to walnut-based tacos and cauliflower rice bowls.
Cedele
With a motto like “Eat Well, Be Well”, you can be sure that Cedele knows exactly what wholesome means. A stalwart of healthy dining for over 20 years, during this period Cedele is offering for delivery soups that are thickened with vegetables rather than starch, sandwiches made with wholegrain or sourdough bread, brown rice bento boxes, and sharing sets enough to feed a family of four. It also has a wide range of baked goods available for delivery, including guilt-free cakes made with organic unrefined sugar and olive oil like carrot walnut, blue pea coconut, and chocolate matcha, as well as breads like turmeric sourdough and golden pumpkin loaf.
Grain
Hawker food is easily accessible and affordable, but it isn’t always the healthiest choice to pick. That’s where Grain comes in. The meal delivery service features local favourites such as char siew, nasi lemak, thunder tea rice, and salted egg muah chee, but made more nutritious with ingredients such as beef shin, farm fresh chicken, brown or basmati rice, and even ginseng. Grain also offers the choice to craft your own meal from over 1000 flavour combinations, like madras curried chickpeas, oven baked tempeh, the Impossible™ burger, caramelised aubergine, and homemade sambal. All ingredients are listed on the website, along with the calorie and macro breakdowns of each item. You can choose to order just one meal or subscribe to a weekly meal plan for less than ten dollars.
YOLO
You only live once, so you should live it well. That, at least, seems to be the thinking behind YOLO. It offers two meal plans, Wellness and Weight Loss, available for five day, 10 day or 30 day periods, with all recipes developed in collaboration with a nutritionist and a professional chef (and it’s halal-certified too!). You get three meals delivered every day – lunch, snack, and dinner – customised according to your calorie and fitness goals, and the menu comprises items like beef bolognese pasta, cauliflower rice with herb chicken (aka chicken rice), yakiniku beef brown rice noodles, almond flour banana bread, and low-fat tofu cheesecake.
AMGD
The name might sound like a food additive, but AMGD actually stands for “ahhmagawd”, or the emotion you’ll feel after eating one of its meals. The menu is curated by a team of nutritionists and chefs, and caters to a range of dietary needs, whether it’s vegetarian, gluten-free, low-carb, or low-fat, in addition to plans that boost the immune system or support marathon training. Bento boxes include combinations of egg muffins and baked potato, teriyaki salmon and red wild rice, tandoori chicken and oat dosa, and poke bowls. AMGD works on a meal-pass subscription service, so you have the flexibility to choose how many meals you want in a day or a week.
Fresher
Microwave meals ain’t got nothing on Fresher. The company provides guilt-free meals that are cooked in small batches, and then flash-frozen so as to better retain nutrition, taste, and texture. It’s a well-balanced home-cooked meal, without the hassle. The menu gets updated every week, but you can expect things like sous vide beef brisket, fibre-rich shakshuka, sugar-free salmon laksa, and duck confit. Fresher is currently running specials for circuit breaker month, so don’t miss out.
Nutrition Kitchen
Taking a slightly different angle, the meal plans at Nutrition Kitchen are designed by personal trainers, and can help you to achieve your desired physique with menus targeted at losing weight or building muscle. Far from the usual chicken breast, broccoli, and egg whites, Nutrition Kitchen serves up a weekly menu of dishes such as ham and leek frittata, parmesan meatballs with zucchini noodles, roasted pineapple chicken breast, and kerala fish curry with cauliflower and okra.
Boxgreen
Being at home all the time means that the temptation to snack is ever-present. But Boxgreen can make your eating habits healthier with over 50 all-natural and nutritionist-approved nibbles, split into categories such as nut-free, low-sugar, protein-rich, and the like. Take your pick from salted egg quinoa bars, kacang puteh trail mix, shiitake mushroom chips, brown sugar broad beans, and much more. Items can be purchased à la carte, by the box, or via a monthly subscription plan.
Kind Kones
Vegan ice-cream can go wrong in so many ways, but Kind Kones definitely gets it right. You won’t even be able to taste the difference with the brand’s ice-cream, which is all-natural, vegan, and refined sugar-free, and comes in flavours like pistachio kulfi, charcoal vanilla, jackfruit, pandan gula melaka, and salted chocolate chip. Pint party anyone?
All The Batter
Avocados are a love or hate food, but you can’t not love the stuff when it’s in All The Batter form. Filled with potassium, vitamin C and K, fibre, and heart-friendly monounsaturated fats, the fruit lends its health benefits to a range of savoury and sweet tidbits, from avocado toast (but of course) and avocado shakes to avocado citrus pies and chocolate avocado cakes. The baked goods also come in a choice of vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and diabetic-friendly low GI (glycemic index) options.
Seriously Keto
Don’t let the word “keto” scare you away, the sweet treats from Seriously Keto are seriously scrumptious. All the bakes are gluten-free, sugar-free, and rich in short-chain fatty acids (commonly found in salmon, avocados, and olive oil), and therefore suitable for diabetics and coeliacs, as well as those on keto or paleo diets. Seriously Keto has loads on offer, from bread buns and garlic pretzels to madeleines and cookies to cakes and cupcakes, along with kaya and condensed milk spreads, and even thai-style milk tea with jelly.
