New Packaging, Same Great Tasting Chicken

Our Commitment to Sustainability

Published on 16th August 2021

Moving our Goodness Me! range to recyclable packaging, eliminating food waste and installing solar panels to help power our offices are just a few examples of steps we are taking on our journey to become a more sustainable business and reduce our impact on the environment.

Packaging

One of our biggest changes is to our packaging, we are delighted to announce a major step forward on our packaging with our relaunched Goodness Me range now using only fully recyclable packaging, reducing our waste to landfill by 9 tonne each year. Alongside this we have reduced the bag size of our popular Cooked Chicken portion range saving a further 1 tonne.

Food Waste

A huge talking point within the industry is around food waste, restaurants are estimated to waste 200,000 tonnes of food each year. Frozen is a great way to combat waste as you only use what you need and it has a much longer shelf life. With our focus on tackling food waste, we have not sent any food to landfill for well over 5 years, we have also seen a huge trend of the industry switching to frozen to combat waste and the unpredictability we experienced during COVID.

Other great changes we have made is ditching the polystyrene when sending out samples to customers, these have moved to a printed carboard box which is fully recyclable and insulated with Wool from Wool Cool a natural recycled product that helps keep our products frozen.

Our main office building is now fitted with Solar Panels helping us produce renewable energy and reduce our carbon footprint.

Finally becoming more sustainable isn’t just about reducing our carbon footprint, we support our local community by making regular food donations to local charities.

Fire up your menu! Introducing Salt & Chilli Shredded Chicken

Published on 10th December 2020

Following on from our Homestyle Shredded Chicken winning Gold at the British Frozen Food awards, we are excited to include the Salt & Chilli (S&C) flavour to the category, after receiving significant consumer demand for a spicy variant.

The S&C line uses the same signature Homestyle crunchy coating with a mix of authentic ingredients including chilli and paprika, to give it a fiery kick! Like all of our Homestyle products, S&C Shredded Chicken is fully cooked, hand cut and coated, using only whole muscle chicken breast fillets.

Delivered in convenient custom designed 1kg bags that look the part in display freezers, the shredded chicken lines can be deep fried in just 90 seconds or oven baked from frozen for a consistently great tasting product.

Meadow Vale Foods Managing Director, Nigel O’Donnell commented on his delight with the inclusion, saying:

“We are delighted to introduce another product to our popular Homestyle range.”

“The coating was developed for the takeaway and delivery making it perfect for businesses who are adapting to offer this service for the first time.”

Nigel went on to say, “Our fantastic product development team have added 6 new products to our range despite the challenging year, this shows our commitment to continue to innovate and bring great tasting, quality products to the industry.”

Meadow Vale Foods specifically developed the Homestyle range with its innovative crunchy textured coating to appeal directly to the delivery, street food and QSR markets.

The authentic whole muscle chicken product has proved equally popular with caterers from all sectors. Each portion is hand cut and coated giving it a truly home cooked look and feel, they are quick-cooked from frozen and thanks to their innovative textured coating, remain crunchy for longer.

We have created a menu idea brochure to show the versatility of our new Salt & Chilli Shredded Chicken which you can see on by clicking here.

Market Report - March 2021

Published on 21st March 2021

With many forecasting a release of pent-up demand and early bookings looking strong, we can see great opportunities for food service to bounce back.

However, a note of caution… Our latest report looks at the 5 key Global Supply Chain issues that create challenges for a smooth flow of product as the sector re-opens.

You can read the full report by clicking here.

Alternatively you can watch our video summary here.

New Packaging, Same Great Tasting Chicken

Published on 12th April 2021

New Packaging, Same Great Tasting Chicken

Published on 12th April 2021

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