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<\/p>\nKell Lowdon insists there is one ingredient she infuses into every homestyle premade meal she makes and that is \u201ca whole lot of love\u201d.<\/p>\n
Surrounded by the expansive collection of cookbooks that are a feature of her Jan Juc home, the owner of My Beach Kitchen lights up as she talks about her passion for cooking and the human connections we make when sharing a meal.<\/p>\n
The mum-of-three established her business two years ago and admits to being humbled and delighted by the positive response she has received from customers who cannot resist her delicious readymade dinner dishes.<\/p>\n
Popular menu items from My Beach Kitchen include the best-selling lasagne (which comes in three sizes), as well as tasty pastas, curries, pies, soups, salads, desserts and more.<\/p>\n
Kell doesn\u2019t adhere to one particular diet or food philosophy, but always uses plenty of fresh vegetables, preferably organic, together with local and sustainably grown produce where possible.<\/p>\n
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Her first foray into business was making resin kitchenware following the arrival of her twin girls, Winter and Sahara who are now aged 8, but she found it difficult to compete with large, inexpensive homeware suppliers such as Kmart.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great learning curve but I always wanted to do something with food,\u201d says Kell, who is also mum to 11-year-old son Maulie.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy background is actually in science.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did a degree in applied science majoring in water science and fisheries management \u2026 and then I worked for a long time in tourism.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut cooking has always been something I enjoyed and I was noticing that people were really struggling to put decent meals on the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had this idea to start a little company and produce meals and see how it went.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very nervous, but it\u2019s just grown organically and now it\u2019s really, really busy which is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unlike Marley Spoon or HelloFresh, My Beach Kitchen meals are made in Kell\u2019s registered home kitchen before being packaged ready for the customer to reheat if needed and then simply serve in no time at all.<\/p>\n
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The meals are ordered online from the changing menu and pickups happen from Kell\u2019s home on Tuesdays and Thursdays.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the hard work is done. They are cooked and then chilled down and you just have to rewarm them,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n
\u201cPredominately I do dinner time meals because I find that\u2019s where people are finding it hard to get a meal on the table, dinner time is a struggle.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people don\u2019t enjoy cooking \u2013 or don\u2019t have the time \u2013 but they don\u2019t want to feed their family take-outs so this provides an option for really well cooked, healthy meals you can sit down and enjoy together.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can order whatever you like \u2013 one soup or everything off the menu, it doesn\u2019t matter how big or small your order is.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I do have a limit on how many meals I produce so once they sell-out that\u2019s it for the week. Because it\u2019s only me I have to cap it at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kell says demand for the meals doubled during last year\u2019s lockdowns.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got so busy and it\u2019s grown organically since then as the word got spread and it\u2019s just stayed that busy,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy husband Carlo\u2019s business was really badly affected by COVID and we needed to make money so I was really fortunate to be able to fall back on food as something I really enjoy and something I was able to do with the kids at home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kell describes her fare as \u201caffordable, wholesome, happy, well-made food\u201d and glowing customer reviews attest to its taste and convenience.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m really surprised by how impressed people are by the meals because I think sometimes you are your own worst critic and I\u2019m like \u2018oh, it\u2019s just lasagne\u2019 but people are really loving it,\u201d she says, humbly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI often get messages saying \u2018this is the best lasagne\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
And she doesn\u2019t mind at all if customers don\u2019t let on the meals were made in someone else\u2019s kitchen.<\/p>\n
\u201cA few of my customers have said \u2018I took it out and put it in another dish\u2019 and I\u2019m like \u2018you can totally fake it \u2013 take it and fake it and serve it up as your own,\u201d she says, laughing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I am giving people this gift by saying \u2018I can do that for you and you can enjoy the rewards by sitting with your family and really connecting\u2019.
\n\u201cFor me that\u2019s probably the reason I love doing this so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Discover more and order online on the My Beach Kitchen website and follow @mybeachkitchen on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kell Lowdon insists there is one ingredient she infuses into every homestyle premade meal she makes and that is \u201ca whole lot of love\u201d. Surrounded by the expansive collection of cookbooks that are a feature of her Jan Juc home, the owner of My Beach Kitchen lights up as she talks about her passion for […]<\/p>\n