3 Reasons to Choose Aston Lucas Gourmet over Takeaway

It’s Friday night, 7:00pm. You’ve only just gotten home after a long work week and opened your fridge to discover one wrinkly cucumber, some wilting spinach and some questionable chicken. It’s getting dark outside, and there’s no way you’re going to the supermarket. But you’d sooner eat your own arm than attempt to put together a meal with your three sad ingredients. You reach for your phone, secretly happy that you have no other option but to order food in. You decide on a chicken curry. At the checkout, you add a spring roll and some roti bread- it has, after all, been a tough week. The app is offering you a bundle deal, to throw in a drink as well. Before you know it, your cart is sitting at $37.

$37 for one meal. 

If this scenario is causing your hip pocket to ache, good news…we have an alternative for you:

Close that food delivery app immediately and throw your phone across the room. Okay, well don’t actually throw it, that will just end up costing you more money than your takeaway order.

Instead, open up our Aston Lucas Gourmet site and place a food order that’s going to give you much more bang for your buck for three reasons:

1. It’s cheaper 

With our delicious homemade, ready-to-eat meals that come in a variety of portions, you can buy in bulk. Stock up on your favourite Aston Lucas ready-made meals in one order to minimise your home delivery fee. It’s a no-brainer: one delivery fee divided by multiple meals equals a whole lot less money than what they were charging to deliver that single chicken curry a mere 5 minute journey down the road. 

Wanting even better savings? Orders over $200 get free delivery! That might seem like a big order now, but that works out to be roughly 20 meals! For comparison, the same $200 would get you around 8 of your cheeky takeaway meals at best.

Try our delicious nutty basil pesto gnocchi, in a variety of portion sizes.

2. It’s gourmet 

Our meals are lovingly crafted, homemade Italian meals. The recipes we use have been passed down through the generations and travelled across the seas, all the way from Abruzzo, Italy. You can’t get authenticity like that from a fast-food establishment.

Our mouth-watering range of pastas offer a culinary experience not unlike that of sitting at your favourite Italian restaurant by candlelight. The best part? You don’t have to leave the house or face the extortionate bill at the end of the evening.

3. It’s built-in meal prep

If you’re smart about it and order our ready-made gourmet meals in bulk, not only are you making big savings in the long run, but you’ve got built-in meal-prep. Without the painstaking task of selecting ingredients, planning meals and chopping and mixing for what seems like hours, you’ve prepared a backlog of delicious homemade meals ready to pop in the fridge or freezer and save you on those nights you simply don’t have time.

It’s meal prep that doesn’t swallow up your entire Sunday.

We hear what you’re saying: Is it really meal prep if you don’t make homemade dishes? 

The answer? 

1. The meals are homemade, just not by you.
2. You are preparing them by organising the meals and knowing they’re ready to be happily consumed at a later time.

So next time you find yourself reaching for your phone to ring an overpriced takeaway joint or scroll through a food delivery app, you can put the phone down and thank your past self for the array of delicious homemade ready-made meals you already have stocked up in the freezer.