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About Ready Meal Manufacturing and Private Label Solutions

Over the past few years, the team at Secret Recipe have in addition to their food service range (www.secretrecipe.ie), developed the following retail brands that are available in Ireland and the UK. All the range are available chilled or frozen and in private label. www.thehalalfoodco.co.uk – a 3rd party certified range of halal meals in retail and food service. www.foodadventures.ie – a range of retail vegan (plant based) range of meals, soups and snackpots. www.kidskitchen.ie – a range of 5 meals aimed at kids 5 years old to 12 years old – health and nutritious - 280gm meals. www.globalkitchen.ie – a range of 5 modern, contemporary meals for the under 35 year old market in Ireland and the UK. www.kitchenclassics.ie – this is our biggest range, 6 premium meals, 4 tray meals available in 400gm and 800gm, 6 side dishes in 500gm trays as well as 6 soups including are multi award winner Crosshaven seafood chowder. www.livingwellfoods.ie – a range of 6 healthy , 400gm gm meals with taste profiles from around the world, where all the range is either high protein or source of protein. www.fitmeals.ie – this multi award winning range is without doubt the best healthy meals range available on the Irish and UK market. Every line in this range is legally high

in protein. The range of 6, 450gm meals also has 3 high protein soups and 2 meal pots, ideal for people at the gym, wanting to eat nutritious meals and even supporting those on GLP1 medication.

The team at Secret Recipe, have carried out a huge amount of research and work in this area, they understand the need to smaller portions while still providing a balance diet rich in fibre and protein. Our www.kidskitchen.ie range provides nutrient dense meals with traditional flavours and taste profiles, in smaller 280gm portions, while our other protein focused meals Fit Meals (www.fitmeals.ie) and Living Well Foods (www.livingwellfoods.ie) other different portion sizes with high protein meals that are packed full of flavour. Of course not forgetting our snackpot ranges in Kitchen Classics (www.kitchenclassics.ie), The Halal Food Company (www.thehalalfoodco.co.uk) and our Food Adventures vegan 400gm snackpot – meal pot – (www.foodadventures.ie)

The Team at Secret Recipe, supply 7 ranges of branded retail meals some 80 individual lines / SKU’s, in a number of award-winning ranges. In addition, we have Ireland most unique range of food service multi portion meals solutions for IPAS/ Immigrations, deli counters coffee shops, staff catering, event companies. All the items are made to order in Cork and distributed around Ireland as required, or they can be collected. Just Contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , offer the ranges in both chilled and frozen formats – chilled typical would have 8 days plus shelf life on delivery and frozen 365 days shelf life. Meals are pack in 400gm to 5kg, packs depending on the range. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe, MOQ is not set in stone, meals can be collected at our office or delivery zones and costs are available on the delivery map section of our website. From production MOQ is 6 to 12 units in retail and food service 5kg (2 x 2.5kg). Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , typical day 1 for day 3, but this depends on whether the products are collected, delivery via Secret Recipe ’s own vans or sent with a courier, just drop us a line for more details. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , are delighted to confirm that they not only delivery within the island or Ireland – North and South, but also mainland UK as well as the EU. Depending on the area meals can be sent chilled or frozen via couriers or our own vans as well as local collections. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , we very keen to develop relationships with multi-site operators, we can arrange separate cost centre accounts, tailor ranges for separate locations and make separate deliveries to each location. So, if you are a multi-site caterer or retailer, we are keen to talk to you. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , do offer competitive pricing of ongoing consistent volume orders. This pricing does depend on several factors such as volume, frequency range as well as delivery location and the ranges whether they are standard ranges or private label. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , are delighted to confirm, yes, we do offer a private label, white label, own label facility, this is in the areas of soup, meals, side dishes, salads. You work with our experienced team of chefs and come up with the range for you retail, butchers or catering business. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , offer a wide range of chilled and frozen premium meal solutions for retailers, coffee shops, butchers and staff catering as well as vending companies. Our retail individual portion are also suitable for schools catering as well as IPAS or Immigration facilities. Like our retail ranges we have a range of food service multi pack portions in meals, soups, side dishes, salads, tray meals from 2.5kg to 5kg, again in chilled and frozen formats. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , meals differ in shelf life depending on whether the meals solutions are frozen or chilled. Frozen meals, soups and side dishes typical have 365 days shelf life, while our retail ranges have typically meals, 12 days, soups 14 days side

dishes between 8 and 12 days depending on the item, rice side dishes have typically short shelf life of 8 days. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , provide full allergen and nutritional information of all packs, same with heating and storage instructions. For any health claims such as low salt, high protein these are backed up with lab results from a 3rd party supporting our claims. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , are registered with Cork County Council and have monthly inspections from the Department of Agriculture in Ireland. I addition we hold AA, grade BRC certification and have held BRC certification for many years. As well as this we facilities 3rd party audits from other retailers and private label auditors. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , we are unique in Ireland and the UK in that we are the only known company that offers 3rd party certified halal meals in retail and food service formats (www.thehalalfoodco.co.uk). In addition, our vegan Food Adventures brands meals have been certified by the UK Vegan Society (The Irish Vegan Society does not offer certification)- www.foodaventures.ie . In addition to this we offer a wide range of vegetarian meals, some soft diet meals for meals on wheels organisations. While a lot of our meals are gluten free, we do not declare this due to cost issues in certifying very individual batch. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , along with our sister brand www.privatelabel.ie, work with other 3rd party brands to develop new melas and ranges. There is a cost for this, and we can support the scaling of production, food safety, lab testing and support you with the information you need to brand your products legally. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , other different pack formats, our retail ranges are packed in both CPET trays and foil trays, both trays can be reheated in the over or microwave as well as air fryers. The pack sizes are typically from 280gm Kids Kitchen (www.kidskitchen.ie) meals thru to 500gm carvery meals for retail, IPAS and meals on wheels clients (www.mealsonwheelsireland) . Our food service ranges again are packed in 2.5kg CPET and Foil trays that can be re-heated in ovens, microwaves. While are soup are typically packed in 5ltr buckets. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , are delighted to confirm that all our packaging formats are fully recyclable. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , can support seasonal lines during the summer and at Christmas etc, we have for example a range of season side dishes for the Christmas period under are www.kitchenclassics.ie brand. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , have the capacity to produce more than 10,000 meals portions per day. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , do of course provide samples, we are proud of the meals we produce, there is a delivery charge for samples of our own range items and the costs of production and delivery of private label lines (www.privatelabel.ie). Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , offer retail packs from 280gm in our Kids Kitchen range thru to 5kg buckets on bulk meals for schools and contract caterers. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , range of meals can be all heated in multi regeneration formats – all the realia meals van be reheated in the oven or microwave as well as on the hobs in some cases, our food service ranges can be reheated in oven, combi or microwaves or turbo chefs for deli counter and coffee shops. Full heating instructions are on all packs. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , are certified by Cork County Council and have our unique EU number, we are also certified by BRC and can provided halal certification on the ranges we declare ass halal. For all our www.fitmeals.ie and www.livingwellfoods.ie rages where we make health claims such as low salt, high protein we have the results from 3rd party labs to confirm our claims and the same is true of our new keto friendly ranges. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , have just recently launched a new hot breakfast offer - a 6-part breakfast that is reheated in a microwave and is in a CPET trays - the meal is made up of omelette, sausage, tomato, beans potato and mushroom and is unique to the Irish market. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , offer a number of health focused meals, www.fitmeals.ie is the only award winning retail range in Ireland and the UK where all the meals can legally be declared high in protein. In addition, we have just launched a new range of Keto meals, where all our new keto meals are less than 5% of carbs and still taste great. Our www.livingwellfoods.ie range is a range of healthy nutritious meals of 400gm where all the meals are legally high in protein or a source of protein. Alos suitable our the healthy www.kidskitchen.ie ranges where the meals are nutritional dense and small portions for 280gm. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , offer a number of health focused meals, www.fitmeals.ie is the only award winning retail range in Ireland and the UK where all the meals can legally be declared high in protein. In addition, we have just launched a new range of Keto meals, where all our new keto meals are less than 5% of carbs and still taste great. Our www.livingwellfoods.ie range is a range of healthy nutritious meals of 400gm where all the meals are legally high in protein or a source of protein. Alos suitable our the healthy www.kidskitchen.ie ranges where the meals are nutritional dense and small portions for 280gm. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , offer our www.globalkitchen.ie brand that has been specifically developed for the under 35-year-old market in Ireland and the UK. The range developed by our well-travelled chefs puts a spin and we have a developed a range based on the street food vendors of the world. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , have won multiple awards both nationally and internationally. We have some 12 Great Taste Awards, 15 Irish Blas nah Eireann awards as well awards from Singapore as well as companies such as Compass Catering. So, it is not only use say the meals are great products all these awards bodies say it as well. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , have a large range of meals that are suitable of IPAS and immigration centres, we have a range of 3rd party certified halal meals (www.thehalalfoodcompany.ie), vegan and vegetarian meals under our www.foodadventures.ie brand, in addition to this we offer a large range of non halal meals as well as ethnic recipes for residents from Africa and the middle east as well as Ukrainian. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

The Team at Secret Recipe , we offer both food service and retail, individual portions. Our food service range can be found at www.theschoolmealscompany.ie for bulk version of health meals and for small schools and after school clubs we offer our www.kidskitchen.ie ranges. Just contact Secret Recipe for more details.

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