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Sustainability is a part of everything we do. HelloFresh provides a more sustainable way to buy, prepare, and enjoy food.
Sustainability is a part of everything we do. HelloFresh provides a more sustainable way to buy, prepare, and enjoy food.
Our Meal Kits: Sustainable by Nature
Our sourcing, packing, and shipping operations generate less food waste than the traditional food retailers, and so our customers discard less food while cooking and serving meals at home.
Keeping More on Your Plate
When food waste goes to landfill, it impacts the climate by producing greenhouse gases. In total, UK households waste 4.5 million tonnes of food every year1. We help you reduce food waste by purchasing ingredients based on your order, pre-portioned to the gram.
1. WRAP (2020). Courtauld Commitment 2025 Milestone Progress Report.
No Detours
We order all ingredients directly from our suppliers, so your groceries are delivered straight to your home without stopping at warehouses and retailers. This saves CO₂ emissions by cutting back on transport time and extra storage. We’ve also committed to offsetting 100% of our direct CO2 emissions, making us the first global carbon-neutral meal kit company.
Innovative Packaging
Your ingredients are always of the highest quality and are delivered to your door fresh and safe. We are continuously innovating to find more sustainable options or to remove packaging altogether.
Freshly Sourced
Where food comes from is as important as how it tastes. We attach a great deal of importance to regional and seasonal produce, as well as sustainable agriculture, fishing, and animal farming.
Diversity and Inclusion at HelloFresh UK
We want to be clear that we do not tolerate racism or any form of discrimination and we commit to further educating ourselves and holding ourselves accountable for taking action to improve.
As a result, we have spent the last few weeks listening to understand how we can take meaningful action now and in the future. Our newly established Diversity and Inclusion Forum has decided on a number of clear and actionable initiatives that HelloFresh commits to in the UK.
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These commitments include:
- Changing how we advertise vacancies to include more inclusive language and reconsidering how we describe requirements to make sure candidates from all backgrounds feel encouraged and empowered to apply. Starting immediately, we are changing the way we advertise, recruit and select for roles to be more mindful and supportive of diversity and inclusion.
- Increasing diversity at all levels, with a focus on management roles, by upgrading our training and paths to progression. To deliver this, we are reconsidering our internal processes to reflect diversity and inclusion, with a focus on the language and procedures for appraisals, interviews and management policies.
- Establishing a Diversity and Inclusion Committee, open to all employees, which is a follow up to the Diversity and Inclusion forum. This committee will prioritise actions to be taken and hold HelloFresh UK accountable for continued long- and short-term development and changes.
We know that this is just the beginning of the work we must all undertake to continue this conversation and ensure demonstrable change within our workplace and across the communities where we have influence.
Giving Back
We support the community through organisations like The Felix Project to make sure that any food surplus we have at our packing facility is donated to those who need it most.
What I Can Do
Be smart with leftovers to help save money and the planet. Here are some tips on how to get the most out of common kitchen extras:
Mashed potatoes
Leftover mashed potatoes are extremely versatile. Pan fry them with herbs to make croquettes or transform them into pancakes for the next morning's breakfast.
Watch the recipe video here.
Rice
Turn cold rice into sweet chai pudding or add garlic to create savoury stuffed tomatoes.
Watch the recipe video here.
Chicken
A few easy techniques can transform leftover chicken into dumplings, lasagne, or broth.
Watch the recipe video here.
Ham
Create a whole new dinner by using leftover ham in mac 'n' cheese or on mini-pizzas.
Watch the recipe video here.
Mashed potatoes
Leftover mashed potatoes are extremely versatile. Pan fry them with herbs to make croquettes or transform them into pancakes for the next morning's breakfast.
Watch the recipe video here.
Rice
Turn cold rice into sweet chai pudding or add garlic to create savoury stuffed tomatoes.
Watch the recipe video here.
Chicken
A few easy techniques can transform leftover chicken into dumplings, lasagne, or broth.
Watch the recipe video here.
Ham
Create a whole new dinner by using leftover ham in mac 'n' cheese or on mini-pizzas.
Watch the recipe video here.