A home-delivery service providing Bay of Plenty residents with quality, free-range ingredients and nutritional recipes prepared former MasterChef winner Nadia Lim is hitting the region.

Originally launched in Auckland in March 2013, My Food Bag is coming expanding to meet demand in Tauranga, Mount Maunganui and Papamoa as well as Cambridge and Matamata.

Past MasterChef winner Nadia Lim. Photo: file.

The service was developed by 2013 EY Young Entrepreneur of the Year Cecilia Robinson, 2011 MasterChef winner Nadia Lim and prominent business leader Theresa Gattung.

My Food Bag New Zealand chief executive Theresa Gattung says the company is responding to BOP and Waikato residents' requests for the service.

"We've had many requests from customers in both regions asking for My Food Bag and we're delighted we're now able to do that."

Theresa says a distribution centre creating one full-time job and six part time jobs is being set up in Waharoa, North of Matamata to service the new catchment areas.

BOP and Waikato suppliers to My Food Bag include Frank's Sausages, Smokey Seafood and Harmony Meats.

Orders can be placed from today and the first deliveries to Tauranga, Mount Maunganui and wider Waikato areas will be made on Sunday, September 7.

Theresa says the service is about bringing the fun back into cooking by creating innovative and exciting dishes, while embracing Nadia Lim's healthy eating philosophy.

'Each bag contains ingredients for dinners alongside recipes designed by Nadia that are simple to prepare, big on flavour, healthy and delicious.”

Every Sunday, customers receive recipes and ingredients for main meals. With each delivery, Nadia provides useful cooking tips and how to keep leftovers – among other handy hints.

There are three types of bags: The Classic Bag, The Family Bag or The Gourmet Bag. All three bags include free delivery, with add-ons including two sizes of fruit bags and the newly launched – My Wine Match.

The Classic Bag for a family of four to five costs $189 for five meals and includes roasted tandoori chicken and carrots with spiced potatoes or Moroccan lamb with apricot, vegetables and almond couscous.

The Family Bag costs $159 for five meals. This bag is designed for parents of two or three children under 10 and has smaller portion sizes, including beef and bacon meatballs with spaghetti or satay chicken skewers with coconut rice, stir-fry beans and cherry tomatoes.

The Gourmet Bag costs $139 for four meals for two people and includes ingredients and recipes combining international tastes, food trends and the best of local ingredients to bring global food flavours in to the home. Meals include confit duck, potato cakes, green beans and blackberry jus or lamb with beetroot quinoa salad and smoky tahini yoghurt.

Home cooks will need some basic pantry items including, oils, flours, condiments and the like. Otherwise, everything else required is in My Food Bag.

Deliveries will be made to Matua, Otumoetai, Bellevue, Bethlehem, Judea, Brookfield, Tauranga, Tauriko, Gate Pa, The Lakes, Greerton, Parkvale, Tauranga South, Poike, Hairini, Maungatapu, Welcome Bay, Pyes Pa, Ohauiti, Oropi, Mount Maunganui, Papamoa and Te Puna.

Waikato deliveries include Cambridge, Leamington, Cambridge and Matamata.

For more details, visit www.myfoodbag.co.nz