The easiest way to eat healthy in UAE without cooking or overspending

Introducing Essentials by Delicut, chef-prepared, balanced meals to your door starting at AED 22/meal.

Let's talk about how you actually eat.

You wake up late. You skip breakfast because there's no time and nothing in the fridge. 

You grab a coffee and call it fuel and by noon you're three meetings deep and running on fumes, so you order something and spend AED 60 on a meal that's aggressively oily, barely satisfying, and somehow still leaves you hungry an hour later.

This isn't a you-problem. This is the life of an entire generation of young professionals, students, and working adults in the UAE who are grinding hard, figuring it out, and genuinely don't have the time, or the kitchen skills, to feed themselves properly. 

Groceries are expensive. Takeaway is more expensive. And cooking? That requires time,  energy, and the kind of mental bandwidth that's usually long gone by the time you get home.

So you survive. You don't eat. Or you eat badly. 

That's the gap Essentials by Delicut bridges.

Same kitchen. Same quality. Smarter format.

Essentials meals are made in the same Delicut kitchen, by the same chefs, with the same ingredients as our Performance plan. The food quality hasn't been compromised. The price is lower because the format is smarter.

Meal plan starting at AED 22 per meal, Essentials delivers chef-prepared, balanced meals right to your door through batch deliveries, 3 days a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)  rather than daily drop-offs with a standard rotating menu instead of fully customisable daily selections. 

That's what makes quality meals more accessible, not cutting corners, just cutting costs where they don't affect the plate. 

The weekly menu rotates across 15+ dishes, with 50+ options changing across the month, and 10+ global cuisines including Italian and Thai to Arabic, Indian, and Turkish. 

So you're not eating the same chicken and rice every day, though honestly, even that would be better than what most people are currently eating at their desks.

In a nutshell, What Essentials meal plan offers is something simpler: a real meal, from a real kitchen, at a price that doesn't hurt.

Who is this for?

Essentials by Delicut is for anyone who wants their meals handled in a way that fits into everyday life and everyday spending.

• Your current idea of a meal is “whatever I can order in under five minutes”.
• Proper meals feel like too much effort, so you run on coffee, snacks, and whatever's nearby.
• You’re spending more than you’d like on everyday food, but still not eating the way you want to.
• You’ve tried grocery shopping and watched half of it go to waste by the end of the week.
• You’re not trying to diet or bulk, you just want to eat something real that keeps you going.
• You keep telling yourself you’ll cook more, but by the end of the day, you’re just tired.

Flexible around your life

Every Wednesday, you pick what you want from that week's menu. Miss the window? The kitchen pre-selects for you based on your preferences.

Going away? Pause it. Need to skip a day? Done. You can adjust delivery times, swap meals, or change your address all from your account, as long as it's 48 hours before your delivery date.

How this actually works for you

A standard takeaway order in Dubai costs AED 50–80 once delivery is added. Groceries for the week, if you actually cook every night (which, realistically, you won't), easily cross AED 400, and half of it goes off before you use it.

Essentials on a weekly meal plan is AED 26 per meal. The longer you stay, the more you save, all the way down to AED 24/meal on a 4-week meal plan and AED 22/meal on a 12-week meal plan, with free delivery to anywhere in the UAE.

No hidden fees. No delivery charges. No Sunday deliveries because honestly, you probably slept in and deserve it.

It's not a transformation program. It's not a diet plan. It's just good food that fits your schedule and your wallet, so you can stop surviving on coffee and actually eat something real.

Try the weekly plan. See if your mornings feel slightly less chaotic when you already know what lunch is.

Essentials by Delicut. Plans starting at AED 22/meal. Free delivery across the UAE.