National Vegetarian Week as a company | Just Eat for Business

As we enter into the umpteenth week of social distancing, it’s hard to remember what day it is. But we’ve dusted off the calendar and made a mark in our diaries to celebrate National Vegetarian Week with the best veggie food and drinks boxes around.

Endorsed by the Vegetarian Society, National Vegetarian Week (11-17th May 2020) showcases the benefits and pleasures of a meat-free diet, dispelling myths of sad lettuce leaf salads and vitamin-deficient hippies. 

With celebrity supporters like Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, and the Hairy Bikers, National Vegetarian Week 2020 is set to be a good one - even if we are still confined to our homes. Expect seven days of mouth-watering recipes, including sweet potato burgers, meatless kebabs, tofu chillis, and vegan ‘fish’ & chips.

But make no mistake - National Vegetarian Week isn’t just for individuals, it’s for businesses too. In July 2018, leading office space brand WeWork turned all its company events veggie in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint, so why not encourage more planet-friendly team lunches (at home) too?

With our meatless Pantry Packages food and drinks boxes, delivered direct to your colleagues’ doors, it’s never been easier to celebrate National Vegetarian Week as a company. 

So, here are our favourite Pantry Packages boxes for a week of plant-based goodness:

Lovely Buns - Plant-Based Cakes & Cookies

Treat your teams@home to fully plant-based cakes and cookies from Lovely Buns - 100% vegan, 100% tasty.

Handcrafted in a little kitchen in North London using only the finest ingredients - organic, fairly traded, and seasonal - these baked goods are ideal for National Vegetarian Week, with not an animal product in sight.

Let your teams choose from an array of loaves, cookies, and sponges, with flavours like Biscoff + Cinnamon, Sea Salt + Dark Chocolate, Chai Spiced Rye, and Pear + Ginger Crumble.

Sejuiced - Fruit & Veg-Packed Juices

Add a little zing to the daily WFH grind, with bespoke fruit and veg blends from Sejuiced.

If your company is looking to be a little more eco-friendly, these glass-packaged juices are perfect! 

Help your teams@home celebrate National Vegetarian Week with these brightly coloured, vitamin-packed juices, delivered to their doorstep, contact-free. 

With flavours like Caffeine Kick!, Pineapple Zing!, and Fatigue Fighter!, your colleagues will get the boost they need to get through another week of working from home.

GAIL's Bakery - Veggie Continental Breakfast

What better way to celebrate National Vegetarian Week as a remote team than enjoying a veggie continental breakfast from GAIL’s Bakery at home?

Your colleagues can choose between the Treats Box or the Bakery Box, which include some of GAIL’s most popular home-made goodies.

For those with a sweet tooth, the Treats Box includes lemon drizzle loaf, croissants, pain au chocolat, and more, while the Bakery Box contains a mixture of sweet and savoury options like seeded sourdough, cheese crackers, and strawberry jam.

All of GAIL’s Pantry Packages options are suitable for vegetarians - and those eschewing meat for just a week! 

Spier's Salad - Tasty Meal Kits & Veg Boxes

Once upon a time, the only vegetarian options available in restaurants were sad lettuce leaf salads, but times have certainly changed.

Spier’s Salad takes salad and makes it exciting. How does roast corn, aubergine, and sundried tomato salad sound? Well, you and your colleagues now can make it at home with a Pantry Packages recipe box. 

Or if you want something a little more hearty, why not try Spier’s Salad’s veggie roast dinner or mushroom bourguignon box? Getting your 5-a-day has never been easier!

National Vegetarian Week is all about cooking delicious plant-based meals at home, so help your colleagues get creative in the kitchen with Pantry Packages meal kit boxes from Spier’s Salad.

Zoom cookery class, anyone?

Bad Brownie - Veggie Week Desserts

It wouldn’t be a celebration without decadent desserts, and Bad Brownie knows how to indulge more than most.

All the brownies available via Pantry Packages are vegetarian-friendly, but why not go the whole (plant-based) hog and opt for vegan brownies instead?

With boxes of 12 or 24 award-winning brownie bites, your teams@home are sure to have the best National Vegetarian Week yet.

Get your tastebuds tingling in anticipation for flavours like:

- Salted Caramel

- Cookie Dough

- Peanut Butter and Jelly

- Coconut and Passionfruit

- Triple Chocolate

- Ferrero Rocher 

Roll on a week of plant-based delights!

Whether your colleagues are veggies, vegans, Meat-Free Monday participants, or a hardcore meat-lovers, there’s something for everyone this National Vegetarian Week.

Need more convincing? Look no further:

• - A veggie diet can help fight climate change, and it’s the responsibility of every company to care for our planet.

• - Vegetarian diets have been associated with improved health, including a reduced risk of heart disease and lower blood pressure. Healthy employees = happy employees.

• - Did you know that there are an estimated 800 ‘mega-farms’ in the UK alone? Let your company take a stand against factory farming by encouraging plant-based eating in the office.

Order delicious veggie food and drinks boxes for your teams@home with Pantry Packages. Email foodguru@citypantry.com to get started.