FOOD RELIEF with outsized impact

We create nutritionally balanced meals using fresh ingredients. Every week, we make 4,100+ meals, packaging them into individual and family-sized portions.
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We deliver these to our partner charities and other organisations, allowing them to distribute meals directly to their communities.

Good food is critical to mental and physical health. We see food relief as a way to restore a baseline of wellbeing, so the recipient can focus on their next steps, whatever they may be.

THE ALEX MAKES MEALS MODEL:
We cook in bulk to keep our costs low.
We deliver meals to our partners, allowing them to add fresh meals to their existing support services (including adding fresh meals to grocery parcels).
If a vulnerable person accesses a service for food, they begin to form trusting relationships.
Meals create a pathway to other services: counselling, housing support, legal advice, Centrelink, and more.
Quality, healthy and delicious meals provide food relief with dignity.

Quality as standard

Our menus are designed by chefs to utilise seasonal ingredients, to provide a balanced meal, and to be culturally accessible. Meals are fresh, delicious and cost-effective.

Each meal contains:

🍝 At least 600 calories
🏋🏽 At least 30g of protein
🍞 Complex carbohydrates
🥕 Two or more servings of vegetables
🥗 Essential micronutrients
🧂 Less than 1,000mg of sodium
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Volunteers in the Alex Makes Meals kitchen packing healthy meals into individual portions

Our impact

At Alex Makes Meals, we don't distribute meals directly; we work with organisations already embedded in their communities, and trusted by the people they work with.

Our partners support people in various ways. They include:
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● Temporary accommodation and health services for the homeless
● Crisis accommodation for women and children escaping domestic violence
● Community groups supporting at-risk youth
● Existing food relief programs providing groceries and food parcels
● Mental health rehabilitation services
● Community groups supporting older people

Providing meal relief through existing support channels means we can deepen existing relationships, and create new ones. We empower our partners to reach more people, and amplify their impact.
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Read some of our impact stories here