Most ready meals are built on water, sodium, and flavour additives. Ours are built on bone broth.
Every soup and ready meal in the HOTRO kitchen uses Nourish Yourself bone broth as its liquid base — the same slow-simmered, 48-hour broth we sell on its own. It's not a marketing claim. It's just how we cook. When you have access to genuinely great broth, you use it in everything.
Here's exactly what goes into each dish.
Ready Meals
Beef-Based
Mad Brit Beef Bourguignon
The classic French braise, done properly. Built on Nourish Yourself Beef Bone Broth — the collagen-rich base that gives the sauce its body and depth. Slow-braised with red wine, pearl onions, and mushrooms.
Mad Brit Beef & Stilton Pie
A deep-dish British classic. The filling is braised in Nourish Yourself Beef Bone Broth, which carries the bold flavour of the Stilton without overpowering it. One of our most requested dishes.
Mad Brit Chilli
Slow-cooked chilli built on a Beef Bone Broth base. Richer, deeper, and more nourishing than anything made with water or stock cubes.
Chicken-Based
Mad Brit Butter Chicken
Our take on the Indian classic, using Nourish Yourself Chicken Bone Broth as the base of the sauce. The result is a curry with genuine depth — not just cream and spice.
Mad Brit Italian Meatballs in Marinara
The meatballs are made with Chicken Bone Broth worked into the mix — keeping them moist and adding a layer of flavour that plain breadcrumbs and egg can't replicate.
HOTRO Signature Chicken Alfredo
A rich, creamy pasta dish built on Chicken Bone Broth — which lightens the sauce without sacrificing body, and adds a savoury depth that cream alone doesn't deliver.
Mad Brit Chicken, Mushroom and Bacon Pie
A deep-dish 5-inch pie with a filling braised in Chicken Bone Broth. The broth keeps the filling silky and prevents the pastry from going soggy at the base.
Lamb-Based
Mad Brit "British Style" Shepherd's Pie
Proper shepherd's pie — lamb mince braised in Nourish Yourself Lamb Bone Broth, topped with buttery mashed potato. The lamb broth is what separates this from a cottage pie.
Turkey-Based
Mad Brit Roast Turkey Pie
A deep-dish turkey pie built on Nourish Yourself Turkey Bone Broth — the same broth we sell on its own. Clean, savoury, and deeply satisfying.
Chicken Piccata (coming soon)
Pan-seared chicken in a lemon-caper sauce, built on Chicken Bone Broth. Watch for it.
Calvados Turkey Gravy (coming soon)
A holiday-worthy gravy made with Turkey Bone Broth and Calvados apple brandy. Rich, complex, and unlike any gravy from a packet.
Soups
HOTRO Signature Carrot and Ginger Soup
Warming, anti-inflammatory, and built on Chicken Bone Broth. The broth adds body and protein to what might otherwise be a thin vegetable purée.
HOTRO Signature Cream of Tomato Soup
The childhood classic, made properly. Chicken Bone Broth is the base — giving it a savoury backbone that balances the acidity of the tomatoes.
HOTRO Signature Mushroom Soup
A rich, earthy mushroom soup built on Chicken Bone Broth. The broth amplifies the umami of the mushrooms without competing with them.
HOTRO Signature Potato and Leek Soup
A classic done right — Chicken Bone Broth base, proper leeks, and no thickeners. Silky from the potato, not from cornstarch.
Why Bone Broth in Every Dish?
It comes down to two things: flavour and nutrition.
On flavour — bone broth carries a depth of savoury character that water and commercial stock simply can't replicate. It's the difference between a sauce that tastes flat and one that tastes like it's been cooking for hours. Because it has.
On nutrition — every dish you eat from our kitchen delivers the collagen, gelatin, glycine, and minerals from our slow-simmered bone broth. You're not just eating a ready meal. You're eating something that's genuinely good for your gut, your joints, and your recovery.
That's the HOTRO.ca difference. Real broth. Real food. Every dish.