A Manchester-based health food company is offering you the chance to “kick start your healthy eating plan” at an incredible discounted price.
fitchef UK is helping people to “continue eating their favourite restaurant foods”, all while “limiting their supermarket shopping” to keep safe amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by offering an impressive 30% off when you place your first pre-prepared meal package order.
Unfamiliar with the popular health food company?
fitchef is a meal subscription and delivery service for busy people who love to eat “proper food”, but just don’t have the time to cook or devise healthy meal plans that are worth sticking to.
The meal prep business provides customers with restaurant quality-food straight to their door every week.
Simply put, fitchef – which is run by chefs is run by chefs Will Lee and Matt Williams – provides you with all of your midweek meals through a personalised menu offering of breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, so you never have to worry about preparing your food in advance ever again.
fitchef also proudly made headlines earlier this year after being “top of the list” for Coronation Street’s Colson Smith during his impressive health, fitness and weight loss journey.
And now, this unmissable 30%-off offer is ready to make the most of during lockdown.
Fitchef UK
Launching the new offer across its social media platforms, fitchef UK said it aims to “take the stress out of meal planning at the click of a button”.
The exclusive discounted offer provides customers with five breakfasts, lunches, snacks and dinners delivered directly to their door with contact-free and COVID-safe drop off every Sunday, so there is “no need to go to the supermarket for your weekly shop”.
fitchef will provide all the meals you need to keep you eating well and it’s cheaper than a takeaway too, so you can “keep eating your favourite restaurant-style meals throughout lockdown”.
Packages are available for meat eaters and vegetarians across a variety of calorie totals.
If you don’t quite find something that suits you though, you can also create your very own bespoke package with your personal choice and combinations of meals on a rolling subscription, which can be cancelled at any time.
Fitchef UK
And if all of that wasn’t brilliant enough as it is, a donation of £1 from every new order placed through the deal will go directly towards food poverty relief charity FareShare GM, which aims to feed some of Greater Manchester’s most vulnerable and in-need communities.
You can use the code EATATHOME to access to 30% off for your first order.
For more information about fitchef UK and to kick-start your lockdown eating plan, you can check out their website and place your orders here.
Lively Irish pub Nancy Spains set to open in Manchester for the first time
Daisy Jackson
An Irish bar famed for its live music is heading up to Manchester for the first time, and is promising £2.50 pints to lure us in.
Nancy Spains will be venturing out of London for the first time promising to bring the ‘ultimate traditional Irish pub experience’ to the Northern Quarter.
If you were to ask what the hottest trend in hospitality is right now the answer would, apparently, be Guinness. We’re drowning in the stuff.
This latest opening is more about Murphy’s, another Irish stout, than Guinness (they actually won’t serve Guinness at all) but the craic will be much the same.
Nancy Spains is actually set to open almost directly opposite the aforementioned Salmon of Knowledge, taking over the former Corner Boy unit on Stevenson Square in the heart of Manchester.
To celebrate its opening, the pub will be serving its first 5000 pints of Murphy’s for just £2.50, so that it can show off the atmosphere that’s established it as ‘one of London’s favourite pubs’.
They’re promising an array of Irish whiskeys behind the bar, live music performances, and a lively late-night setting.
Nancy Spains was set up by three brothers who travelled all over their home county of rural Kerry researching Irish pubs, before launching two venues down in London.
They want it to balance a traditional pub with the vibrancy of the city.
Peter O’Halloran, co-founder of Nancy Spains commented, “We’re so excited to be launching in Manchester, bringing Nancy Spains to the heart of the Northern Quarter.
“After the success of our two venues in London, it was only right to bring Nancy Spains’ infectious spirit and Irish pride to Manchester. Slainte!”
Nancy Spains will open its first Manchester pub on Saturday 15 March at 21 Hilton Street.
Lucky Mama’s – The Italian restaurant serving pasta in a dough bowl and ‘pregnant’ pizzas
Daisy Jackson
Lucky Mama’s is a local sensation, thanks to its slightly whacky but delicious Italian creations like pasta served in a bowl made of pizza dough and its latest offering, a ‘pregnant’ pizza.
What on Earth is a pregnant pizza, you ask? Firstly we should stress this is a nickname we’ve bestowed upon the dish, rather than Lucky Mama’s chosen branding.
But essentially it’s a helping of fresh pasta that’s folded into the bubble crust of the pizza, like a half-calzone.
Lucky Mama’s started life when founders Mamadou Dhiam and Gaby Santos set up a trailer in their backyard in Eccles in the depths of lockdown.
But thanks to a formidably loyal following that’s spread the word of Lucky Mama’s far and wide, it now has two pretty pink restaurants in Greater Manchester.
Back in 2022, they threw open the doors to their Chorlton restaurant, before returning back to home turf for spot number two in Monton in 2024.
The recipes are fresh and pretty authentically Italian up until the last step, when they throw a curveball by loading their pasta into unconventional vessels.
‘Pregnant’ pizzas at Lucky Mama’sTraditional Roman pizzasLucky Mama’s pink restaurant in Chorlton
Their pasta pizza bowls are what they’re best known for and they fly out of the kitchen – this is where pizza dough is placed around a metal bowl before being baked in an oven.
Then it’s piled high with freshly made pasta, with popular flavours like cacio e pepe, mushroom alfredo, and rasta pasta.
Pasta is available in a regular ceramic bowl too.
You’ll find Lucky Mama’s at 565 Barlow Moor Road in Chorlton; and 217 Monton Road in Eccles.
Emily Sergeant -
25th November 2020 
