Meal planning and grocery shopping can be time-consuming and mentally exhausting. We create delicious healthy meals for the whole family to enjoy. We want to help you to feed your family nutritious food even when you're strapped for time.

How it works

Jump in and select the recipes you would like us to cook for you. We make them fresh, locally in a commercial kitchen and deliver them straight to your door. A new menu is released each week allowing us to take advantage of local, seasonal produce as much as possible.

Each week, orders open at 8am on Wednesday, and close at 11pm on Sunday. Deliveries take place the following Wednesday between 4pm and 7pm. While you don't need to be home for your delivery, we recommend having a safe place to store your meals for a short period before popping them in your freezer.

Only the good stuff

Sharing a meal with your family should be a time we all get to enjoy. We've found a way to help you to get prepped for those busy days ahead when you know you just don't have the time (or energy) to organise dinner. We focus on using clean ingredients, cooking from scratch, and making simple food great, delivering all across the Sunshine Coast.

All our meals are frozen unless otherwise stated which means we can lock in the freshness of your food as soon as we make it. We recommend thawing your food overnight in the refrigerator before heating.

Eat well, feel good

When life is busy, our health can be the first to suffer. Our meals are filled with ingredients that taste great and help to nourish your body. Rest easy knowing dinner is done, the kids are well-fed, and start enjoying a little more time for you. 

Founders Who Know Fre-dom

Charlie and Emma Price are the founders of fre-as-a-bird.

After studying wellness and fitness on the Sunshine Coast together back in 2005, their shared passion for health and meaningful living was not only the un-knowing beginning of the “fre” philosophy, but also the early seedlings of what would become a full-scale business idea designed to help families around the world, change their lives.

Charlie and Emma always valued the concept of balancing family, personal, social and career but when they added two young children into their story, they found it almost impossible to achieve the balance they craved. They couldn’t help but feel that time just seemed to slip away week after week, with goals, purpose and connection time, constantly falling by wayside to menial tasks.

Challenged to believe there was “more” to the concept of time and freedom, they set out on a mission to transform their own lives and test the system. From 2016 - 2018, they took part in their own life experiment around habitual training and optimisation testing, where they developed a series of systems and strategies that ultimately allowed them to find their own fre-dom again.

After living “fre" for more than four years now and never looking back as a family, Charlie and Emma are living proof that time can be bought.

Recognising other families would benefit from this same knowledge, they connected with hundreds of families in a 2019 research project, only to discover 96% of those surveyed desperately craved time but felt like they could not find it in their current situation.

That is how fre-as-a-bird was born - out of the actualisation that everyone seeks more fre-dom in their lives and that it is indeed possible to gain more time if you want it badly enough.

The fre-as-a-bird ready made meals are just one way you can help to create more fre-dom in your life. Be sure to keep up with everything that's going on at fre-as-a-bird HQ over on insta @fre.as.a.bird