If you are a visiting tourist or are on a short trip to Pakistan eating out would perhaps be your first option. To find a restaurant suitable to your taste you may visit our page titled Eating. However, if you are staying for a longer period of time or you are the kind who is not very fond of outside meals, there can be several other options for you to choose from like self-cooking using to picking up ready-to-cook or ready-to-eat meals. Another popular option could be order food online using different websites and applications. Here we cover a brief rundown of the various options:

Self Cooking

If you are staying for a longer duration self-cooking is the most economical option yet it would need consideration of several factors such as availability of stoves, ovens and fireplace, cooking utensils and implements, ingredients like meats, vegetables, and condiments, availability of ingredients suitable to your taste as well as economy of scale. You would need to determine your willingness to try self-cooking as also your proficiency at cooking. If you are staying in a hotel chances are they won’t allow you to cook in your room for reasons of safety and hygiene. However, many furnished apartments and mid to long term rental premises generally allow cooking in their common or attached kitchens. You may click here to view a list of hotels and lodging places that allow self-cooking at your destination.

Despite higher than average inflation in Pakistan in the recent years, food stuff is available at affordable prices. Meats, poultry and fish are available at prices far below than in some of the other developing countries. Other ingredients are also commonly available in grocery and convenience stores located usually within walking distance. To find a list of grocery stores and food stores in various cities please click here.

If you would like to try cooking popular Pakistani dishes, you may find the recipes at www.sooperchef.pk

Ready-to-Cook/Ready-to-eat Meals

Ready-to-cook meals include meals that can be cooked with comparative ease without the need for much of additional ingredients and spices. Such meals come in the shape of prepared and marinated meats or fish that can simply be fried, baked, cooked or stir fried following instructions printed on the packing. Ready-to-eat meals on the other hand are prepared servings of food usually packed as individual servings that can simply be heated or warmed in a microwave oven or other means and consumed right away. These meals usually don’t involve any cooking are allowed by most of the hotels. Many hotels even provide microwave ovens as part of complimentary amenities to their guests.

A number of local and international brands produce and distribute ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat meals that are available in various grocery and food stores throughout Pakistan. Some of the popular ready-to-cook food brands are as follows:

K&N's

K&N’s is the oldest and most established Pakistani brand in the category of ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat meals. Their products are of high quality and come at affordable prices. You may click here to visit K&N’s website to find their integral store or partner outlet near you. K&N’s also makes home delivery within urban

Shan Foods

Shan Foods is another very popular Pakistani brand offering packaged ingredients and ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat meals. You may click here to visit Shan Food’s website to find their partner outlets near you.

Menu

Menu offers a wide variety of carefully prepared and packed food items in the category of ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat meals that are distributed through different grocery and food stores. You may click here to visit their website to find their partner outlets near you.

Ordering Food Online

A great number of restaurants in Pakistan deliver freshly prepared meals within limited radius of their locations. “Delivered Meals” is a very competitive business in Pakistan and food ordered online is usually affordable and comes in variety of cuisines and is usually delivered warm and fresh. You may like to visit individual restaurants’ websites to order food or use one of the food ordering apps that can be downloaded from Google Play Store. Some of the most popular food and grocery apps in Pakistan are:

Cheetay

Foodpanda

Hummart

Some of the additional subjects that we propose to cover on this page include:

Where to buy your groceries in different cities of Pakistan?

How to find hotels and lodges that allow self-cooking?

Self-cooking tips and easy to make recipes