Ready Made Meals in Rockingham, Cooked in Our Safety Bay Kitchen: What’s in the Hot Box and Who It’s For

Walk past the cafe at The Malibu Market at midday and you’ll see the whole neighbourhood in one queue. A couple of tradies after the hot box. A mum with a pram picking up salads for the week. A retiree who has decided, quite sensibly, that someone else can cook tonight. Our ready made meals were built for all of them, and they’re cooked right here in Safety Bay, in a kitchen that takes its ingredients from the market floor.

Here’s what we make, how we make it and the people who lean on it.

Key Takeaways

• Every ready made meal is prepared fresh in store each day, from selecting the ingredients to cooking and packing, using produce and meats from the market.
• The range runs from salads, wraps and sandwiches to the hot box at lunch and take-home dinners like brisket loaded potatoes and chicken and bacon carbonara.
• Most take-home meals are designed to reheat easily, so dinner is sorted the moment you’re home.
• It’s real food, cooked by people you’ll see at the counter, and it’s available 7am to 7pm every day at 110 Malibu Road.

What Comes Out of the Kitchen

The Hot Box

Each day the kitchen cooks a rotating selection of hot meals, and it goes out fresh for the lunch rush. It’s the sort of food you’d cook at home if you had the afternoon free: roast chicken with veg, a pasta bake, buttermilk chicken bites, depending on the day. The offering changes daily, so there’s always something new to try.

Salads, Wraps and Sandwiches

Made fresh each morning from the produce range, the salads include potato, pasta and leafy varieties, and the wraps and sandwiches are built for a lunch you can eat one-handed on site or at a desk.

Take-Home Dinners

The ready made meals in the fridge are the answer to the 5pm question. Brisket loaded potatoes, chicken and bacon carbonara, buttermilk chicken bites and whatever else the kitchen has made that week, packed to take home and enjoy. They’re made to be reheated easily, so the work is done by the time you’ve found the plates.

The People Who Lean on It

The Tradie at Smoko

A hot meal from the box, a coffee from the cafe and back on site in fifteen minutes. It’s a proper lunch, and it’s made by people who get to know the regulars.

The School-Run Parent

Between pick-up, sport and homework there’s no room for a recipe. A take-home meal or two and a salad from the cabinet is dinner sorted before the kids are out of their uniforms, and it’s food you’d be happy to have cooked yourself.

The Retiree Who’s Earned a Night Off

Cooking for one or two every night can feel like a lot of effort for a small table. A ready made meal is one good dinner without a fridge full of leftovers, and the walk to the market for it is half the point. The cafe is there for a coffee on the way.

The Office Crew

Workers around Rockingham call in for a grab-and-go lunch and a coffee, and plenty of them pick up a take-home dinner on the way past the fridge. Grab and go was built for exactly that.

Why Ours Taste Like Home Cooking

Plenty of places sell ready meals. The difference here is where the ingredients come from and who does the cooking. Every step is handled in store, from selecting the ingredients through to preparation, cooking and packaging, and the ingredients are the same WA produce, meats and pantry lines you’d buy from the shelves and counters around the kitchen. It’s cooked here, by our team, for the people who live here.

All in for a hot lunch, grab a couple of dinners for the week, or have a coffee while you’re here. Thanks for choosing local.

110 Malibu Road, Safety Bay, on the left-hand side of the carpark in the Malibu Shopping Complex, 7am to 7pm every day.