Cookery couple's business proves a hit after lockdown launch
A husband and wife team are cooking up something good for people through the catering business they set up during lockdown.
Mother-of-three Natalie Dean, aged 37, used to run her own cleaning company, and husband, Will, aged 39, works as a chef at The Littleton Arms at Penkridge, but during lockdown they decided to start a meal preparation business called Nutritious Kitchen.
They cook and prepare calorie-controlled and healthy main course meals for delivery to homes within about a 10-mile radius of their new base in Stafford and already have orders for 600 meals each week.
The menu changes and includes such dishes as a Mexican chicken rice bowl, roast peppers and onions, avocado, brown rice, corn and salsa, roast gammon with mustard-glazed potatoes, onions and summer pods and marinated beef with black bean sauce, sesame vegetable rice and spring onion. There are also vegetarian and gluten free options.
Natalie said: "It has proved so popular that we are planning to move to a new unit at the Aquarius Business Centre in Stafford in August.
"We are both members of a gym and a woman suggested that we should prepare and cook meals for people which are ideal for fitness fanatics and calorie-controlled as well as being nutritionally healthy and made from fresh food.
"As a meal preparation company we cook the meals and change the menu every Monday and there are different dishes to choose.
"People order by Thursday through email address or Facebook and we deliver on a Sunday."
Will said: "I do the cooking and Natalie the packing and administration. The meals come fresh as we prepare them on a Friday and cook on a Saturday for delivery on Sundays. They are ideal for people wanting to eat healthily and fresh food. We have tied to the business to the My Fitness Pal app and people can track their calories and nutrition. They are also ideal for people who are short of time."
