#1 Family Dinner Ideas and Family Meals from HelloFresh
Dinnertime is family time with the UK's favourite recipe box!
Dinnertime is family time with the UK's favourite recipe box!
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Dinnertime is a great time to come together, sharing much more than just food. HelloFresh's family food box puts your family at the centre, with delicious family dinner ideas for the family, as well as family-friendly recipes everyone will love.You and your family can choose from a flexible weekly meal plan and menu, making meal planning ideas for families easy. We'll deliver pre-portioned ingredients (meaning less food waste) and step-by-step family-friendly recipes to your doorstep. With plenty of kid-friendly recipes, discover the joy of home cooked meals your kids will love and the benefits of a time-saving weekly family meal plan with our kids meal boxes.
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Family Meal Planner
Weekly family meal plans offer numerous benefits, including maintaining structure, saving time, cutting costs and wasting less food. By organising your family dinners in advance, busy families are able to streamline food shopping and meal preparation, reducing stress and hassle during busy weekdays.Involving children in filling out the family meal planner generates excitement and teaches them essential cooking skills and the value of planning ahead - a great skill for later life. Cooking with kids can also be a great way to strengthen family bonds between all generations. Using a family meal planner allows families to efficiently plan meals, making the most of their time and resources while promoting healthier eating habits.
Why not give it a try? Download your free family meal planner here, and fill it out today!
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Quick Family Meals
If you’re pushed for time and need some quick family meals, it’s worth having these speedy recipes up your sleeve. These nutritious family dinner ideas can be cooked in 30 minutes or less, leaving you with plenty of time in the evenings for more important things. See our favourite quick family meals here:
- Zesty Citrus Stir-Fry with chicken and ginger: Ready in 20 minutes, this stir-fry balances a range of flavours, to create a dish that would feel at home in any Asian eatery.
- Grilled aubergine linguine with chilli and sun-dried tomato: Some days you want to be adventurous and others you just want a little more time to put your feet up. We made this dish with classic Italian notions of simplicity and speed at its heart. Ready in 20 minutes, it's one quick family meal idea!
- Tonterita Quesadillas with homemade pistachio refried beans: Ready in 30 minutes and certain to please all the family, this Mexican dish is super simple and super speedy for all at your table.
Fresh family dinner delivery
Getting healthy, home cooked dinners on the table can often be a challenge for busy families. The good news is this is an obstacle that can be easily overcome with the use of a family-friendly food delivery service. Feeling inspired when it comes to family meal ideas each week, then finding the time to identify recipes the entire family can agree on and source all the ingredients needed can take up a lot of time and money when you are maintaining a household. HelloFresh family food delivery eliminates the hassle by delivering family-fresh meals the entire family will love to your doorstep. A fresh family food box may be the money and time-saving solution you are looking for.
Family dinners kids will love: food delivery in kids’ meal boxes
Family meal planning is a convenient and efficient meal-time solution for many, but meal planning for kids tends to be more tedious than solo meal prep. Kids have varying preferences, and it’s easy to exhaust the same rotation of recipes. With meal delivery kits for kids, your kids can look forward to new, exciting recipes that they’ve selected themselves.Meal delivery kits for kids allow family members to choose their meal plan of choice whether they are vegetarian, pescatarian or gluten-free. With family food delivery, you can choose from a wide variety of meal plans and recipes that suit various dietary needs. These plans accommodate families of all sizes, whether you are looking for a meal plan for a family of 4, 3 or even 2.
Get your kids excited about dinner with a HelloFresh kid food subscription box. Get them involved in the ordering process so they can discover new recipes and look forward to weekly deliveries. You can even get your children to try new foods, using our Veggie Superheroes activity sheets to open up the conversation and encourage them to eat more vegetables. Our food boxes come with family meal recipe cards that offer easy step-by-step instructions for the kids to follow along with if they want to join in the fun.
Discover new flavours
If you're cooking spaghetti bolognese and sausage and mash on repeat, our family meal plan will help you discover new flavours, cuisines and cooking techniques.
Round out your box
You can now add Desserts, Brunch, Sides and more to your family meal plan, making mealtimes even more convenient and tasty!
Our trusted suppliers
We source all our ingredients for our family meal plan direct from our trusted suppliers to ensure freshness and quality in every box.
Discover new flavours
If you're cooking spaghetti bolognese and sausage and mash on repeat, our family meal plan will help you discover new flavours, cuisines and cooking techniques.
Round out your box
You can now add Desserts, Brunch, Sides and more to your family meal plan, making mealtimes even more convenient and tasty!
Our trusted suppliers
We source all our ingredients for our family meal plan direct from our trusted suppliers to ensure freshness and quality in every box.
Are you looking for family meal boxes for a family of 4 or less?
Feeding a large family doesn’t need to be a daily struggle. HelloFresh is a family-friendly food delivery service that can help even big families get dinner ready. We know that buying enough food to feed a full family can be an overwhelming, time-consuming, and costly task, and we make it easy to order meal boxes for a family of up to 4. Bring convenience to your dinner table with a family-friendly food delivery service - you can order family-size meals your kids will love, in the exact amount you need to ensure every kid is well fed, with a meal they can get excited about. With HelloFresh, you can customise your plan and the size of your box, whether you are ordering meal kits for a family size between 2 and 4.
Meal ideas for families and family-friendly dinner ideas
When you are tasked with feeding a family, it is hard enough to find the time to put together meals everyone can agree on. Sourcing healthy meal ideas for kids, including even the pickiest of eaters, is another obstacle entirely. HelloFresh’s Family Meal Box makes meal planning for a family easy and hassle free, get your family meal ideas and weekly planner today. There's so much choice of family-friendly dinner ideas every week!
Great family meal ideas include:
- Creamy Chicken Spaghetti
- Super Cheesy Pizza
- One Pot Mexican Beef 'n' Rice
- Chicken and Sweetcorn Pie
- Speedy Creamy Chorizo and Sweetcorn Pasta
- Mega Turkey Meatballs over Penne with Broccoli
We have loads of easy meals for kids available so get them involved in the cooking process too!
How To Get Your Kids To Eat Vegetables
As adults, we’re all well aware of the multiple health benefits of eating fruit and vegetables and the positive impact they have on children’s development. The majority of us have grown up conscious of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s advice of eating our ‘five a day’ as a minimum. That being said, it can be very difficult to instil the importance of eating fruit and vegetables into our children, especially if they simply do not like the taste of fruit or vegetables, leaving many parents worried about how to get vegetables into their family-friendly dinners.
Over Two Thirds of Parents Feel Like 'Bad Parents' Because Their Children Don't Eat Enough Vegetables
In fact, a recent HelloFresh survey revealed that over two thirds (64%) of parents in the UK say they struggle to get their children to eat vegetables. 60% of parents surveyed admitted they feel like a 'poor parent' because their children won't eat the vegetables in family meals, and over half (54%) believed other parents are doing a better job at it.Recipe Development Manager and all-round food expert, Mimi Morley, from HelloFresh knows that it can be a tough job getting children to eat vegetables, but believes the benefits of vegetables on children’s development are worth the perseverance.
Tips and Tricks on How to Get Vegetables into Children's Diets
- Purée your vegetables: Puréed vegetables and veggie smoothies are much more digestible and something that you can introduce into your children’s diet from a very young age, getting them used to the flavour. As long as you blend the veg well, children won’t even realise what’s in the mix - which is great for adding the likes of nutrient-brimming kale, spinach and carrots. Mimi’s top tip: why not puree vegetables to make a pasta sauce, adding loads of veggies to your delicious, child-friendly pasta meal?
- Child-friendly recipes: Don’t expect your children to eat vegetables in the same way that you do. The likes of kid-friendly vegetable soup recipes, family-friendly pastas, pizzas and other child-friendly recipes are a great way of getting vegetables into your children.
- Encourage more, nag less: It can be so tempting to nag your children about eating the vegetables in family meals, but doing so could deter them from eating vegetables even further. Gentle encouragement and praise when they do try new vegetables is key.
- Get children involved: Whether it’s involving them in the preparation and making of your family meal, or asking them for creative ideas when it comes to family meal planning, children’s involvement in the process goes a long way. Who wouldn’t want to enjoy something they’d been a part of creating?
- Make eating vegetables fun: Make vegetables more engaging by talking to your children about how they’re grown, where they’ve come from and what they do to your body. If you’re in need of a little bit of help and inspiration…HelloFresh’s Veggie Superheroes are at your service!
If you want to encourage your children to eat their vegetables and learn more about the benefits of doing so, you can download HelloFresh’s Veggie Superheroes free printable colouring in sheets.
KUNG FU CARROT COLOURING IN SHEET
DOCTOR BROCCOLI COLOURING IN SHEET
SUPER SPROUT COLOURING IN SHEET
What our customers say:
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Super convenient!
I love the food and the convenience! Every meal has been awesome. I can't wait for each box to arrive and my husband can even make these meals because the instructions are easy to understand.
Cherie
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Huge variety of recipes
The range of recipes is fab and had really pushed my confidence in the kitchen and willingness to cook with new ingredients. Recipes cards are clear and numpty-proof!
Rosie
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Easy to follow recipes
Fantastic idea. I was sceptical at first but thought I’d give it a go. The meals are tasty generous portions. So simple to cook with a recipe card for each meal. During the week now we just pick a meal. No having to worry if I have all the ingredients. Everything is so fresh.
Phil
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Quick easy meals
Brilliant for quick easy meal. Everything there for you, as some of the ingredients I wouldn’t have in my store cupboard.Our meals are for two and there is plenty, often enough for three. All fresh ingredients.
Dennis
Family Meal Planning FAQs
Learn more about our Family Meal Plan and Family Dinner Ideas
What is HelloFresh’s family meal plan?
It's a service which lets you choose your favourite recipes from a family-friendly weekly menu and we deliver all the fresh, pre-portioned ingredients you need and step-by-step recipe cards to your door with hundreds of family meal ideas.
Are family meal plans worth it?
Yes, absolutely! Our family meal planning is the convenient way to cook delicious dinners from scratch and your whole family will love them. No shopping and no food waste - what's not to love?
What's the best food box for families?
HelloFresh is the UK's best meal box, making it easy for families to eat delicious home-cooked dinners with fresh, quality ingredients.
What makes HelloFresh the UK's best family meal plan?
Our menu is packed with variety and flavour and every recipe is tried and tested so you know dinner is always going to turn out great and to be a hit with the kids. We work closely with our suppliers to deliver the freshest, quality ingredients direct to your door, ensuring healthy family meals.
Do I have to have a family meal box every week?
No, HelloFresh's service is a rolling subscription so you're in control. You can pause deliveries, change your family meal box size and delivery address and set your preferences any time.
What's a kids' meal box?
With our family meal box, you choose your favourite family recipes from a weekly menu and we deliver all the fresh, pre-portioned ingredients you need and step-by-step recipe cards to your door. Your kids will love it - and so will you.
What is in the family meal box?
HelloFresh is the UK's best food box. It's great for the whole family with delicious family-friendly recipes that require little prep and washing up. Try Mega Meatballs with Cheesy Mash!
What makes HelloFresh the UK's best family meal plan?
Our menu is packed with variety and flavour and every recipe tried and tested so you know dinner is going to be a hit with you and your kids. We work closely with our suppliers to deliver the freshest, quality ingredients direct to your door.