Mindful Chef | B Corp

🎉 20 Million Meals Donated! 🎉 We are overwhelmed with gratitude to share that, with the incredible support of our community, 20 million meals have now been donated to school children living in poverty through our charity partner, One Feeds Two, founded by Owen Burton. To put that into perspective, that’s the equivalent of 105,000 children receiving a meal every school day for an entire year. Since our partnership began in September 2017, a school meal has been donated for every Mindful Chef box sold. This commitment, made possible by our customers, has created a real and lasting difference in the lives of children who need it most. This video offers just a small glimpse of the incredible impact achieved. To everyone involved - thank you. 💜 #bcorpmonth #20millionmeals #onefeedstwo

1,292,559 Low Carbon Meals Delivered in 2024! 🌍📦 In a world full of confusing sustainability messages, we wanted to make it easier for our community of Mindful Chefs to make informed choices and reduce their carbon footprint. That's why we became the first recipe box company to launch a Low Carbon Range. Every recipe labelled “Low Carbon Range” generates less than 1.6kg CO2e, in line with WWF’s goal to reduce diet-related emissions. It's simple, but we’re committed to doing it right. By choosing these meals, you're helping lower the planet’s temperature - one plate at a time. Here are some of the low-carbon recipes coming to our menu this month, showing that dinner can make a difference. #BCorpMonth #GenB #MindfulChef

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we were thrilled to welcome Melissa Mullen (Hiley), Global Brand President and CEO of Sweaty Betty, to our HQ. A dynamic leader and passionate advocate for women in business, Melissa shared her invaluable insights on leadership, resilience, and driving meaningful change. Thank you to Melissa for inspiring us with her wisdom and energy. Sweaty Betty is one of many brands driven by strong female leadership, alongside incredible female-founded businesses like Deliciously Ella by Ella Mills, Fearne Cotton's Happy Place, Bold Bean Co | B Corp™ by Amelia Christie-Miller, and many more whom we've been fortunate to collaborate with over the years. At Mindful Chef, we’re proud to have achieved gender parity across our team, with women representing 54.2% of our workforce. Our representation of women in STEM and management roles is well above the UK average - a milestone we hope becomes the norm across industries in the future. Creating an inclusive, supportive environment for women is a core priority for us. We bring this to life through equal opportunities from the hiring stage, free sanitary products in our offices, enhanced maternity and pregnancy loss policies, and ongoing education and celebration through our Inclusion Champions initiatives and annual training. Here’s to celebrating women - every day. #internationalwomensday

I dreamed of getting our beans into recipe boxes for YEARS. But each time - yup... ghosted or shut down. 🤣 don't feel sorry for me, in the early days you get very used to it. I eventually lost hope. Took their word for it "you're too expensive" - "you need to sell in tetrapak". Focused on other things. This rejection was heartbreaking because being in a recipe box would solve our TWO biggest barriers to bean loving : 1. The misconception: "But beans taste like contact lenses?" Recipe boxes essentially pay us (!) to send our jars of beans to thousands of proper home cooks. THAT is our hardest job - getting people to taste the difference. Once they've had that first meltingly creamy spoonful straight from the jar? Job done. 2. THE HOW: "I want to eat more beans for [health, sustainability, gut] BUT what on earth do I do with them?!" We invest heavily in recipe content for exactly this reason. But when you're in a recipe box? People are literally TOLD how to work with the ingredients. Job done. Trying our product + how to use it. JOB BLOODY DONE!! So I am absolutely FIZZING with excitement that we've finally done it. Mindful Chef | B Corp normally don't allow glass products in their boxes. They (rightly) don't want to deal with protecting ingredients from breakages in transit - which we all know happen constantly in the courier climate of the UK! They also need to make money (and everyone knows recipe box businesses have had a hard few years). Spending more on ingredients is a challenge. BUT they've made a special exception for the very best of beans!!! Because they realised - when you use great quality beans - it completely transforms what you can make with them. They can take centrestage and be served simply. For any delivery next week - our Queen Butter Beans and Chickpeas are starring in TWO Mediterranean-inspired Mindful Chef recipes 🫘✨ What I love about this collab: 1️⃣ It puts beans center stage rather than as a side dish 2️⃣ The recipes are GENUINELY delicious (Baked Butter Beans with Feta & Lemon Herb Quinoa) 3️⃣ WE ARE DELIVERING ON OUR MISSION. Taking down two barriers - all at once. I can't wait to create thousands more bean obsessives. Anyone fancy giving them a try?! (they've given you lucky folk 25% off!): https://lnkd.in/eS6WfKQ5 THANK YOU MINDFUL CHEF TEAM. Obsessed.

Feeling spoiled at Mindful Chef! 🧑🍳 Yesterday, we enjoyed another amazing lunch & learn - this time with a French twist, cooked by the incredible Holly Wright, Lucy Clemens, Lucas Ryder Richardson & Alfie Philps-Spicer. The menu: rich onion soup, indulgent tartiflette, burgers with Camembert & blue cheese, Niçoise salad, a decadent cheese board, and for dessert, tarte au citron and macarons. 🇫🇷 We wrapped it up with a French-themed quiz. Did you know the croissant wasn’t actually invented in France? 👀🥐 Thanks team for hosting an unforgettable lunch & learn!

Exciting opportunity for a Social Content Creator. Interested? get in touch with Vitoria Rzniski at vitoria@mindfulchef.com

🌱 A visit from Barfoots 🌽 Last week, we welcomed Lee Herring and Maisie Baldwin from Barfoots of Botley Ltd to the Mindful Chef office to share more about their sustainable approach to growing and supplying fresh produce. We’ve proudly partnered with them since 2021. Plucked straight from their rich soils, they give us asparagus, green and red chilli, Tenderstem® broccoli and green beans. Barfoots is committed to sustainability - generating renewable energy through 5,464 solar panels, saving 399 tonnes of CO₂ annually (equivalent to planting 20,563 trees!). They also focus on boosting biodiversity through habitat and species net gains, eco-friendly farming practices, and long-term environmental management. We’re grateful to work alongside partners like Barfoots, who share our vision for a more sustainable food system. 💚

It’s #BcorpMonth! 🌍 This March, we’re celebrating B Corp Month with businesses worldwide committed to using business as a force for good. This year’s theme, GEN B, is all about the people - a generation driving meaningful, long-lasting change, from individuals and communities to companies around the globe. We’re proud to be part of this movement, recognised as one of the top 3% of food B Corps globally, with initiatives like our Low Carbon Range, our partnership with One Feeds Two, and our year-round commitment to sustainability. It’s the collective effort of people everywhere that powers positive change. Stay tuned throughout the month as we share what we’re doing today for a better tomorrow. 💜 #BCorpMonth #GenB #MindfulChef

🇦🇺🦘 Australian lunch and learn 🦘🇦🇺 This ‘arvo’ we enjoyed an Australian lunch, thanks to our very own Vineeta Anuj, Timothy Goh, Kieran Medici, and Mitch Pascoe. From a pub classic chicken parmi to grilled lamb chops, and of course, Tim Tams and fairy bread – we were truly spoiled with some Aussie favourites. We also picked up some fun facts in the quiz. Did you know Wi-Fi was invented in Australia? 👀 A big thank you to the team for organising – what a fantastic lunch & learn! 

Just launched: Mindful Chef x Giggling Squid 🍛✨ We’re thrilled to be teaming up once again with family-run Thai restaurant, Giggling Squid, to bring a taste of Thailand straight to your table. This March, we're introducing four brand-new Thai-inspired dishes, alongside two community favourites! From the rich and fragrant Melting Beef Curry, featuring slow-cooked British beef, to the aromatic Salmon Paneang and the comforting Coconut Chicken ‘Tom Kha’ Noodle Soup, this exclusive menu is designed to bring bold, authentic flavours to every bite. 📅 Available from 9th - 22nd March. Which dish are you most excited to try? Let us know in the comments!