A full-time chef is not needed when you partner with apetito. A carefully planned menu from your Account Manager, using meals from the apetito range will meet all the dietary needs and preferences of your residents.

In the kitchen, typically you only need half the number of people compared to scratch cooking. This is a massive benefit in both time and labour saving; allowing you to focus on caring.

Don't think this can be true? Watch this film to see the difference between a professional chef, cooking from scratch, and an untrained cook, cooking apetito meals.

Yes, apetito offer an award-winning range of meals for specialist diets. From IDDSI compliant meals for residents with dysphagia, to our world-first Finger Foods Bites meals for residents with dementia, or Mini Meal Extra dishes for those residents with malnutrition, you can be sure to find a meal to cater for every need.

To give you further support with the complexity and challenges of catering, your Account Manager will guide you through building a bespoke menu that suits all your residents' individual needs, allergies and preferences.

The majority of our meals come in 'multi-portion'; either in a large or small size. This allows you to cook your meals as cost-effectively as possible, whilst also saving you space in your oven and reducing food waste.

To ensure the nutritional guarantees of our special diet and allergy-free meals, these come as individual complete meals. Simply place the meals into the oven; cook, plate and serve.

Our meals are cooked using professional ovens or 'regen' ovens.

All our meals come with easy cooking instructions and labelled as 'full-cycle' or 'half-cycle'. Simply load all 'full-cycle' meals into the oven and cook on the setting your Account Manager has programmed. Part way through the cooking cycle you will load the 'half-cycle' meals. Once cooked, remove from the oven, plate the meals, garnish and serve.

We cater for all mealtimes and meal occasions. From breakfast to a light supper, we have over 300 tasty meals to choose from.

From our experience, we know no care home is the same, so your Account Manager will work closely with you to design a menu that works around your mealtimes, budget requirements, residents' preferences and needs.

When you partner with us, we will conduct a full audit of your equipment; from kitchen through to dining crockery.

Sometimes we will recommend new equipment to unlock the maximum efficiencies you can. This may include a new oven or 'regen' trolley, hotplate or mobile serving unit. These depend on a variety of factors including your menu, your budget, the space of your kitchen and serving areas.

Once you have agreed on any new equipment, we will work with you and the manufacturer to organise installation and training.

Your team will be fully trained on how to use our service, from cooking the food to plate presentation, recording temperatures and portion control. We also provide best practice support to help your team with menu planning.

Our simple online portal allows you to plan menus, review nutritional content and place your order with apetito. Once you’ve placed your order, we’ll deliver to you for free on an agreed day.

The cost of our care home meals service will depend on the size of your business and the number of residents in your care home.

As part of booking a tasting with us, we’ll listen to your needs and discuss the best way to partner with you.

Once you partner with us, we'll evaluate your spending to make sure you’re getting the most out of your budget, giving you visibilty and confidence—all the while helping you serve delicious, nutritious meals for your residents.

We can get you up and running within just two weeks. Before launch, we will come to your care home to conduct a food sampling session, or arrange for you to come to our on-site Visitor Centre in Wiltshire. This gives you the confidence and reassurance that the food you’re receiving meets the needs of your residents.

This is typically undertaken with a manager or owner, but we encourage staff and residents to try the food at this session too!

As proud supporters of the UK and Irish food and farming industry, we responsibly source ingredients that meet government buying standards to offer you better quality produce at a fairer cost.

We source:

• 100% British peas
• Award-winning Bramley apples grown in Kent
• 100% sustainable fish
• Beef from UK and Irish suppliers - some just 15 miles from our Wiltshire kitchen
• Dairy products from UK and Irish suppliers (excluding UHT and regional products)

Some products do have to be sourced from further afield, but all these carefully selected worldwide suppliers operate within the Ethical Trading Initiatives, commited to removing modern slavery.

With three industry leading, accredited laboratories and strict procedures, our meals are the safest catering options available for your care home.

No batch of food is released until it has passed rigorous microbiological testing not just for indicator organisms, but also for the actual pathogens. We then freeze it to lock in the goodness, and ensure it has a longer shelf life than chilled food.

We also consistently achieve the highest level of accreditation against the BRC’s Global Standard for Food Safety, conducting an audit across all our processes each year.