Opinion Festive feast, sorted: Try these NEW vegan Christmas meal kits

Cooking plant-based options for Christmas just got a whole lot easier ✅ Now you can order a Just Add Vegan festive meal kit straight to your door!

With the festive season right around the corner and knock-out Christmas menus just waiting to be planned, anyone wondering what vegan options to cook this year has just been given the best gift of all…

Following on from the success of their meal kits last year, Just Add Vegan has launched their 2025 vegan Christmas meal kits and ready-made dishes, which can be delivered right to your door in NSW, ACT, QLD, SA, VIC & WA. 

The plant-based meal delivery service is on a mission to streamline your Christmas meal prep, so you can spend less time roleplaying as a kitchen elf and more time enjoying the festivities! 

Christmas should be about joy, not kitchen stress. We created this menu so people can celebrate with delicious food that feels good in every way — for their health, and for the planet.

Padma Lianos, Just Add Vegan co-founder

Whether you’re catering for vegetarian or vegan guests, hosting a fully plant-based feast, or dining solo, these new festive meal options take all the guesswork out of menu planning — guaranteed to show off just how indulgent and satisfying vegan dishes can be.

What can you make with the festive meal kits?

Just Add Vegan has structured their Christmas meals in a way that allows you to order your sides, main, and dessert separately (which may be helpful if you only need to cover part of the festive spread). Highlights include:

• Turkey-style roast with pan gravy*
• Cashew and mushroom nut roast
• Scalloped potato bake*
• Grilled peach salad with blue cheese and toasted red quinoa
• Asparagus with zesty sun-dried tomato salsa and pine nuts
• Roasted carrot salad with butter beans & dill
• French green beans with almonds
• Warm potato salad with leek & smoky dressing
• Trifle with fresh fruit, custard & cream
• Sticky date pudding with caramel sauce*

(* denotes ready-to-eat options)

Alternatively, you can order ‘The Lot’, which includes a roast of your choice, all six sides and the trifle, plus a cheat sheet for whipping up a gloriously plant-based feast in the shortest time possible.

In great news for anyone catering to extra dietary requirements — there are gluten-free options, too!

And if you’re looking to cover some extra snacks, there’s a fancy vegan cheese board available to add on to your feast, featuring artisanal cheeses from The Vegan Dairy, Artisa, and Vegusto, alongside a smorgasbord of crackers, walnuts, grapes, and fig mustard.

Sold? Get your order in by Wednesday 10th of December, and your meal kit will be delivered on the 22nd or 23rd of December (location dependent), just in time for the big day.

Dining solo this December?

Don’t worry, you are more than covered! This year there’s also a Christmas feast for one — a complete meal of turkey-style roast, scalloped potato bake, green beans and maple-glazed carrots with rich gravy. Perfect for singles, smaller households, or anyone wanting to taste Christmas with zero effort. Or why not just treat yourself to a festive extension and save this treasure for Boxing Day? Go on — you’re worth it!

A ‘one-stop shop’ for all your weekly plant-based food needs 

It’s not just Christmas-themed meal kits that Just Add Vegan offers — they also deliver delicious plant-based meal kits, everyday ready meals, and vegan products across Australia all year round. 

“Over the years we have developed a repertoire of over 300 meal-kit recipes, so our customers never get bored. One of the things that really set us apart are our unique house-made sauces and spice mixes that give each of our recipes their distinct flavour. This is something we hear back from customers time and time again.”

The plant-powered power couple behind the brand, Padma Lianos and Arthur Voorwinden, say they aim to make eating vegan as simple and accessible as possible.

“We’re on a mission to inspire and make it easy for people to cook delicious and nutritious plant-based food, with the purpose of creating a happier, healthier and fairer world.”

When they met by chance at a meditation course in the UK in 2012, Lianos and Voorwinden discovered they shared a lifelong passion for food and a desire to make the world a better place — and were soon planning to get married and launch a vegan food business together.

In 2018, they left their corporate careers overseas and returned to Lianos’ homeland, Australia. After pivoting their business idea several times due to pandemic-related challenges, they proudly launched Just Add Vegan in 2021 as a health-focused, 100% plant-powered meal-kit delivery service — the first of its kind in Australia.

And the rest is delicious, nutritious history, with further evolutions yet to come for their budding vegan business.

“We have everything in place to become a household brand for those who want to incorporate more plants into their diet,” says Lianos. 

“We offer better flavours, higher nutritional value, and more choice than the big foreign brands. In addition, we are 100% Australian family-owned, purpose-driven, and more sustainable. These factors increasingly drive consumer choice and brand loyalty.”

The appetite for sustainable vegan food is continuing to grow

According to a recent Griffith University study, as many as 25% of Australians aspire to plant-forward diets — primarily for the health benefits, but also for environmental and animal welfare concerns.

The only problem, Voorwinden says, is that some people feel too busy to learn how to cook differently, or to menu-plan, and that’s where a plant-based meal delivery service like Just Add Vegan can help.

We stand for food that is good for you and good for the planet.

Sustainability is central to the brand’s ethos, with most of its meal kit ingredients packaged in paper bags and wood-based cellophane instead of plastic. 

Vegan festive meal kits available to order until 10th December

So there you have it – if you’d rather skip all the actual menu planning this festive season, but still want to impress your loved ones with a hearty and flavourful plant-based feast, one of Just Add Vegan’s holiday meal kits or ready-to-eat options could be the Christmas miracle you’ve been waiting for. Just remember to get your order in quickly to make the delivery cut-off!

Out of the delivery radius, or prefer to plan your own menu? We’ve got you covered with these amazing vegan Christmas recipes & festive vegan product recommendations.

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