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The preparation
Take a chef.... or two
Our Chefs and Cooks have years of restaurant experience!
Our aim is to produce food that is full of goodness; we also use only a little salt for seasoning.
We let the ingredients do the talking!
Getting started
Place your order online
Our simple website helps you choose the right meals to meet your needs. Select by meat or veg, carb type or portion sizes.
Order process
Add your choices to the shopping basket.
Once you are happy with your order, go to the checkout (never any queues at our checkout)
Choose your delivery date and location, send to a relative or maybe select one of our value selection packs.
Easy payment
Simply process payment
Payment online is easy and secure. You can pay by Credit or Debit card.
As soon as your order is processed it is forwarded to our Kitchen for preparation.
Now for the cooking
On your marks
If the meals are for delivery tomorrow then we start to prepare your meals when the order arrives, not until.
Into the pan
We cook food just like you would at home but with a much bigger Pan!
Our restaurant kitchen
We add the love of cookery...
We have 10 years experience cooking chilled meals for our shop.
Our Kitchen was purpose built with the latest equipment.
It’s like a restaurant kitchen, not a production line of operatives or a conveyor belt in sight, just happy chefs.
Creating wonderful food
A history of recipe development
Selecting our traditional & unique contemporary recipes, we are very proud of the flavour & quality of our meals.
Many have been favourites in the shop for years, some have been created more recently.
Everyone is on the menu because it deserves its place!
Chilling out!
Now we cool it really quickly
We use simple ingredients and no additives, so once our meals are cooked we protect the freshness and increase the shelf life simply by chilling down the food really quickly in a blast chiller.
Simple packaging
We then portion for the microwave
We then portion into our 600g standard microwave packs, our 300g small portion or our 3kg multi-portion.
Or the oven.
We use foil containers for our oven baked range, available in the same three sizes.
Seal & label
We then seal & label
Once prepared we cover each meal with a thin smear film and then place it in a vacuum bag.
We extract just enough air out of the packaging to ensure that your meals are secure during transit.
Every meal has a label with the ingredients, cooking instructions and allergy advice.
Staying cool
Now lets keep them cool
Once packaged we place your meals into a special insulated box.
These are designed to keep your food chilled in transit
To ensure that the temperature inside the box remains cold we use special ice packs.
Now for the clever bit
Smart Temperature Monitoring
We add a smart sticker to each box. It will react to adverse conditions and change colour if the temperature increases above an acceptable level.
It gives you peace of mind to know that the chill chain has been maintained.
Box em up
Seal in the Freshness
We add your delivery note and seal in the freshness.
Meals have three days shelf life from preparation.
We select your chosen address and add the label.
You can have multiple addresses for your home, work or relatives.
Load the vans
Load up the Van....
Our national courier or for local deliveries will collect your order and we clean down ready for another day.
And deliver to you....
Whilst we sleep your meals are on their way! The next day deliveries start.
Delivering to where you are
At home or work
If someone is in, have your meals delivered to your home.
If you are out, you can specify where you would like it leaving, or simply request we deliver them to your place of work.
Delivering to where you’re not!
Deliver to your extended family!
Our small meals are perfect for an elderly relative.
Or perhaps to students studying at university. When was the last time they had a good meal?
Check your delivery
The Box Arrives
When the box arrives open it and check it.
We don’t foresee any problems, but if so email: info@thegastronomic.co.uk
and we will do everything we can to put it right.
Ready to eat
Microwave or Bake
Refrigerate until required and then for standard size meals simply microwave for 5 minutes or House Specialities oven bake in 20 minutes.
Enjoy naturally
Enjoy delicious food
Our shop customers have been enjoying our ready meals for over 10 years.
We hope you do to.
Sue
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