Dineamic

Dineamic: ready meals with refrigerated delivery across Australia

Dineamic is an Australian ready meal company that prepares its dishes with fresh ingredients and delivers them to your door in refrigerated trucks. The company presents itself as an independent, Australian-owned business that combines the convenience of a large company with a local touch, and states that it uses mostly fresh, locally sourced Australian ingredients.

Range of dishes and formats

The range is organised into several categories: individual meals, meals for two, soups, snacks and drinks, and value bundles. Among the best sellers shown in the shop are beef lasagne, chicken pad thai, slow-cooked beef and smokey chicken. The new arrivals section includes Mongolian beef noodles, Tex-Mex chicken, cacio e pepe ravioli and chicken casarecce. There are also options such as coconut chicken satay, classic spaghetti bolognese, tender beef steak, spinach and ricotta cannelloni, lamb ragu, maple pork and sweet and sour pork.

The dishes come in formats of between 320 and 360 grams, with prices at the time of analysis ranging from AUD 11.95 to AUD 12.95. Each product page shows the protein, carbohydrate, fat and calorie content.

Meal plans and bundles

The company offers preconfigured packs of ten meals, including the high-protein pack, the calorie-controlled pack, the low FODMAP pack and the Mediterranean diet pack. It also sells a pack linked to BFT. In addition, it offers meal plans with optional subscription: customers can choose a one-off order or a subscription with weekly, fortnightly or monthly delivery, and pause, skip or cancel at any time with no lock-in contracts. The stated minimum order is AUD 49.

Dietary options

The range can be filtered by nutritional goals and preferences: high protein, low calorie, low FODMAP, no added dairy, vegetarian, low gluten, low carb and Mediterranean diet. The company holds low FODMAP certification from Monash University, according to the logo on its website.

Delivery and storage

Dineamic delivers to more than 4,000 suburbs across Australia, including urban, regional and rural areas. Meals are sent chilled via refrigerated transport, inside an insulated cardboard box with a cooling gel pack. Customers receive a text message at the time of delivery and drivers try to leave the order in a safe place out of direct sunlight. The company recommends putting the meals in the fridge as soon as they are received. Shipping is a flat rate of AUD 15. The dishes arrive fresh, not frozen, and can be frozen if they will not be eaten before the use-by date; in that case, the company advises reheating them directly from frozen, for about 5 or 6 minutes in the microwave.

Ingredients and sustainability

The company states that all its animal proteins come from free-range, grass-fed animals or sustainably sourced fish. It notes that it makes sauces from scratch and does not use ready-made sauces or pre-cooked meats. On the environmental front, it declares itself carbon neutral and uses packaging called "halo-pack" which, according to the company, uses 92% less plastic than a conventional ready meal tray and avoids the use of 20 tonnes of plastic a year.

Audience and additional services

In addition to direct-to-consumer sales, Dineamic offers a wholesale service, support through the NDIS programme and the Support at Home service. The company has its own physical stores (Dineamic Foodstores) and authorised stockists. It also publishes a blog with content on nutrition and healthy eating.

Ratings

The website shows more than 4,100 five-star ratings and an average score of 4.6 stars across two review platforms, with more than 1,650 and more than 300 reviews respectively.