Pollen + Grace

✨December✨ at Pollen + Grace: 1. Celebrating another amazing year at our Christmas lunch 🥂 2. TikTok recipe shops are always the best shops ✅ 3. Secret Santa gifts heading to our furry friends 🎁 4. A stunning festive party set up for Wildflowers of London Collective 🎅 5. Dream lunch menu at Rovi, courtesy of Ottolenghi Group 🍽️ 6. Spreading the winter cheer with our nutritious lunch on-the-go gifts 🥗 7. Christmas jumpers in check ❄️ 8. Our new rice bowls are airline ready ahead of all the Christmas travel ✨ 9. Nothing improves a team meeting like mimosas + pastries 🙌 10. The countdown is on!!! 📸🤫

What a year it’s been at Pollen + Grace!    The past 12 months have been fast-paced, milestone-packed and, without a doubt, our best year yet. Here are just a few highlights:   🥗Salad unit sales skyrocketed with an incredible 120% YOY growth.    🛒 We launched 12 new products and entered a new category with our ready meals - bringing convenient, truly healthy food to even more occasions.   🛫🚆 Partnered with some incredible new names across land, sea, and rail: Amazon Fresh, British Airways, London North Eastern Railway, and Eurostar - making it easier to grab healthy, delicious food wherever you are.   🚀 +74% YOY revenue growth—proof that you’ve been loving what we’re serving!   📱 We put our community comms first, driving education about food, nutrition, our meals and more, achieving:  - 285 social media posts that reached 17 million people  - Tagged in 150 Instagram posts—that’s one almost every other day. - And we’ve added 3 new platforms to the mix: TikTok, Pinterest (ads) and our blog ‘The Dish’. - Reached 1.6 million people through our community and influencer gifting. - Fuelled 20x fantastic events with our tasty meals, from run clubs to movie nights and everything in between   ⭐ Won 4 industry awards for quality, taste, and sustainability. Shining a light on the things we care about most.   🌱Introduced ‘Plant Points’ messaging, assisting consumers to choose nutritionally diverse meals.    🎉 Grew the team, welcomed two fantastic new faces, and made some pretty unforgettable memories—from team trips to Centre Parcs to the unexpected joy of bumping into Paul McCartney.   Looking back, it’s hard to believe how much we packed into 2024. New products. New partnerships. Plenty of wins… and we’re only just getting started.   Bring on 2025 (and keep your eyes peeled for a VERY big January) 💛🥂

Still think Brussels sprouts are the worst part of Christmas dinner? Not at Pollen + Grace! We’ve been busy in our TikTok kitchen creating nutritious, flavour-packed dishes that might just change your mind. From Delicata squash with a dreamy pumpkin seed pesto to the best Brussels sprouts you’ve ever tasted—and so much more! 🌟   Follow along on TikTok for all the action, and check out our blog page 'The Dish' for full recipes: https://lnkd.in/esd8K8Jc

November has been a busy month for us at Pollen + Grace and I’m so excited to share our latest launch – we’ve created two brand-new hot rice bowls that are now being served in the sky with British Airways!✈️   Here’s what’s on the menu: - Mexican Chipotle Rice Bowl: A hearty chipotle black bean stew paired with zesty sweetcorn salsa and roasted sweet potato - Sicilian Caponata Rice Bowl: A rich vegetable and cannellini bean stew, roasted sweet potato + Kalamata olives   These warming bowls are packed with nutrients and comfort – perfect for the colder months ahead! Both bowls are available on-board or for pre-order via The Highlife Shop: https://lnkd.in/eGs_pCyv   This is such a proud moment for us, and I couldn’t be more grateful to the team at Tourvest Retail Services, British Airways and everyone at Team Pollen who worked so hard to make this possible. Seeing our food take off (literally!) is a dream come true! 💛

✨November✨ at Pollen + Grace: 1. Team Pollen pitching in to prepare hundreds of store send outs 💪🏼 2. We won GOLD in the Quality Food Awards 🏆 3. The most plant-packed floor stickers hitting Amazon Fresh stores 🥗 4. Another huge travel launch, with our Mezze salad spotted on board Eurostar 🚆 5. Full team effort again to pack our winter influencer boxes 📦 6. Shooting plant-packed recipe content for January 👩🏻🍳 7. Obsessed with our new lunch on-the-go merch! 🤩 8. Filling up fridges with colourful salads to fuel busy days 🌈 9. Sky high excitement as our NEW hot rice bowls have launched on British Airways ✈️

From office lunch envy to a real food revolution! 🥗👩🏻🍳 Thank you MAD//FEST and Female Leaders' Club for featuring our story. In this interview, Kristina Komlosiova shares what inspired Pollen + Grace and our approach to nutrition, along with her biggest milestones, challenges and advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gcpFcAuN

Hot off the runway… Our NEW Pollen + Grace rice bowls have launched on the British Airways BA Euroflyer! 😍 We’ve cooked up two delicious hot meals for your next flight: • Mexican Chipotle Rice Bowl: Chipotle black bean stew, zesty sweetcorn salsa, and roasted sweet potato. • Sicilian Caponata Rice Bowl: A savoury blend of tomato and cannellini bean stew, roasted sweet potato, and Kalamata olives. These warming bowls are crafted to deliver sky-high comfort and nutrition in every bite! ✈️🥘✨ Both of our new, plant-packed rice bowls are available to order on board, and for pre-order via The Highlife Shop: https://lnkd.in/eAM9uJX4 A huge thank you to the amazing airline team and Tourvest Retail Services for making this happen!

Excited to share that Pollen + Grace salad bowls are now available to purchase on Eurostar! 🚅🥗 Our Mezze Houmous + Rainbow Veg Grain Bowl is now on-board to bring fresh, nutritious, plant-powered goodness while you travel between cities. This is an exciting milestone for us, and we're thrilled to be paving the way for healthier eating on the go. It's a step closer to making real, feel-good food available wherever you are. 🌱 A huge thank you to Alexiane Miquel Mercier and the entire Momentum & Eurostar teams for their incredible support 💛🥗

Salads whilst travelling under the sea?? 🌊🚄   We are thrilled to announce that our salad bowls are now available to purchase on Eurostar!!   Our Mezze Houmous + Rainbow Veg Grain Bowl is on-board to bring fresh, nutritious, plant-powered goodness while you travel between cities.    As our third major travel launch of the year, we are over the moon to be paving the way for healthy eating on the go, and a step closer to making real, feel-good food available wherever you are.   A HUGE thank you to the team at Eurostar for helping us make this happen.   Bon voyage and bon appétit! 🥗

🎁 Our elves have been busy wrapping, and that can only mean one thing… the Festive Wrap is BACK! 🎄✨ Filled with hearty mushroom & sage stuffing, roasted butternut squash, vibrant red cabbage & carrot slaw, fresh spinach, and finished with cranberry sauce, it’s a burst of festive flavour in every bite. Oh, and did we mention? It contains 10 plant points too! Find it in your local Co-op, Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh 🌱