Your Dinner Fix

New On The Menu: Customer Faves

We're excited to announce 15 new recipes to our large menu based on customer requests. Come home to some novelty waiting in your fridge! Paleo+ Salsa chicken stew and Pork and pesto zoodlesTraditional favorites Chicken enchiladas verdes and Turkey mini meatloavesKid-friendly Pigs in a blanket, Ham and cheese Hawaiian roll

Company news

New pricing

Today we're announcing an increase in our pricing to $124 (from $99) + ingredients for a chef to grocery shop, cook three nights of family size dinners in your home, and clean up. Why? We work hard to keep our prices low, but this increase is necessary to create a more

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COVID-19 Safety Protocols

😷 NEW SAFETY PROTOCOLS Since 2014, our customers, from busy families to immunocompromised patients, have trusted Dinner Elf to fix dinner. Safety has always been our top priority, and we’ve added extra precautions. 👩‍🍳 ELVES Your Elf will wear one set of masks and gloves

Group Gifts

Home-cooked Love From Near And Far

$23,000 Raised For Families In Seasons of Need Let’s hear it for the aunties, besties, out-of-town family, neighbors and co-workers who have collectively contributed over $23,000 so far this year to group gifts of home-cooked love! Our group gifts make it simple for friends near and far

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Summer Salads

Keep Your Cool With Summer Salads Our newest summer salads are right on time for rising temperatures. These new mains and sides include hearty main dish salads, naked burgers over greens, cold pasta salads, as well as fresh dips and slaws. Come home, don’t turn the oven on, and

Austin Startups

Five Years Of Home-cooked Love

We just turned five! Five years ago this month, Dinner Elf launched in Austin. Looking back on how we’ve grown made us think back on why we started. We’re even more passionate about offering a time-tested service that gives busy families a resource to eat well and balance

Family Dinner

Could Dinner Elf Work For My Big Family?

A guest post by Kristin Schell The couple that started Dinner Elf live in my neighborhood. I’ve heard loads of my girlfriends rave about using them to take care of weekday dinners. I’ve gifted Dinner Elf meals to friends who have loved using them. I just never thought

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Keto Is Here

Going Keto? We’ve got your back. We know that sticking with a keto eating plan requires planning and preparation. Our new menu makes that as simple as booking an appointment and opening a fridge filled with low-carb goodness! What’s Keto? A ketogenic diet (or keto diet, for short)

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Go Back To School Like A Boss

Our new menu helps you ace back to school However you are coming Back To School, Dinner Elf has your back. Maybe you: are just totally over packing lunches every night.are balancing work with rotating camp schedules, and need a break of your own.really don’t like to

Group Gifts

When Stopping By Isn't A Help

How Dinner Elf Helped One Adoptive Family In 2010, we adopted a beautiful baby boy from Ethiopia. As a second-time parent, I felt prepared to add another little person to our family but I also knew it would be different with a baby that we didn’t bring home as

Group Gifts

The Priceless Gift of Time

Carolyn is an Austin-based attorney, who already had a busy life as a working mother when she found out she was expecting another baby. She knew navigating the newborn phase with her job and all of the activities of her older kids would mean delegating some of the normal things

Group Gifts

Austin Mamas Rally Around A New Mom Far From Home

Meredith is an attorney who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She was six months pregnant with her first baby as she headed to Austin for a quick work trip, never anticipating the home away from home our city would become for her and her growing family. After going into

Edible San Antonio Covers Dinner Elf's Launch In Alamo City

In their 2018 Fiesta Issue, Edible San Antonio shares Dinner Elf‘s San Antonio expansion and writes about what makes our “chef-driven” approach to food delivery unique. Dinner Elf provides affordable, in-home meal preparation services in both Austin and San Antonio. Learn more at: https://www.dinnerelf.com.

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Our New Moms Menu

Dinner Elf adds meals designed for new moms Do you have a new or expectant mom in your life who could use a little help with dinner? Tell them about our specialty menu of dinners designed to support adequate and nutritious milk supply for baby’s growth and comfort. Our

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: The Healthiest Diet You Haven't Heard Of

Dinner Elf adds the DASH Diet to our menu For the 8th year in a row, health experts from US News & World Report have ranked the DASH Diet as the best diet overall. Research has shown that the DASH Diet can quickly lower blood pressure and is effective for

Press

Prominent Mom Blogger Goes Behind-the-Scenes

Jill Robbins, author of the wildly popular Ripped Jeans and Bifocals blog, went behind-the-scenes with Elf Nolan. Read her full account of her first Dinner Elf appointment. Also, check out the Facebook live video she took while we were cooking for her: Credit: Ripped Jeans and Bifocals Dinner Elf provides

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Ding Dong, Dinner! News 4 Covers Our San Antonio Launch

Elf Nolan had the treat of whipping up dinner for New 4 San Antonio’s anchor, Delaine Mathieu. Watch the video! As Dinner Elf launched service in San Antonio, Nolan was baking pot pies in her home kitchen: Watch Elf Nolan making pot pies in the kitchen of News 4’

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MySanAntonio Covers Dinner Elf Launch

On the heels of serving over 40,000 dinners to loyal Austin customers, Dinner Elf is excited to start cooking for Alamo City residents. Check out MySanAntonio.com’s coverage of our March 1st launch: Dinner Elf provides affordable, in-home meal preparation services in both Austin and San Antonio. Learn

Group Gifts

Home-cooked Love For Baby Harper

Meet Harper, a tiny warrior and one of Dinner Elf’s most favorite customers. She, and her twin brother, were born last March. At two months old, Harper was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Over the past year, Harper’s been through multiple six week stints at Dell Children’s

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Mid-Winter Novelty

The holidays are over, and the new year has arrived. Shake off those mid-winter blues with six novel new dinners! Four For The Adults Chopped thai chicken salad, Mushroom stew over polenta, Pumpkin rice bowls with honey balsamic tempeh, Chopped thai tempeh salad Two For The Kids Kids beef tacos,

Austin

A Shout Out From NPR: Texas Standard talks Dinner Elf and food-delivery tech

Listen to a a fun Dinner Elf shout out on NPR’s Texas Standard, discussing how technology is changing eating habits. At Dinner Elf, we hope technology helps our customers easily eat well and have more time in the day! Dinner Elf provides affordable, in-home meal preparation services in both

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Giving City Austin Features Our Meal Pages As A Way To Help Grieving or Sick Friends

Ever wondered how to help a neighbor or co-worker who has lost a spouse or been diagnosed with a serious illness? Giving City Austin featured Dinner Elf, alongside Instacart, as a non-invasive way to send food when someone is in a season of need. “You just start a page for

Austin Startups

Hold That Broccoli A Little Higher: The Life Of A Dinner Elf Model

Hold That Broccoli A Little Higher: The Life Of A Dinner Elf Model You asked for better pictures of our tasty food. We’ve just finished photographing our entire menu, and a few Elf-in-action shots. Read on for a behind-the-scene look at photographer Amy Dang and chef Mandy Luker making

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Proud To Be Built In Austin!

Proud To Be Built In Austin! Kelly O’Halloran of Built In Austin covers Dinner Elf as the next level up from grocery delivery and ingredients-in-a-box services. We don’t just get you the ingredients, we cook them up and clean up too: Source: BuiltInAustin.com Dinner Elf provides affordable,

Austin

Top 5 “Grown In Austin” Meal Delivery Options

Updated: July 19, 2016 Everybody’s heard of Blue Apron, and most of us have an UberEATS habit. But how does an Austinite go local when demanding food? Here’s five “Grown In Austin” meal delivery companies. Farmhouse Delivery’s Supper Club What: You cook. They deliver weekly meal kits.