An Ideal Meal recipe book for a gourmet world tour

The "Ideal Meal" book of balanced recipes takes you on a gourmet world tour. Promoting healthy nutrition, the Ideal Meal recipe book is made up of 33 balanced recipes submitted by Edenred employees.

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On October 16, 2013, for the first time ever, Edenred organized international Ideal Meal Day around a common theme: What is the 'Ideal' recipe in your country?

Many employees participated by submitting their recipes. The recipes were voted on locally by internal juries made of employees, partners and affiliated merchants. Three criteria had been set for choosing each country's recipe: it needed to be healthy, delicious and affordable. It was thus an original way to invite employees to think about what makes up an Ideal meal in their country.

Now compiled together in a book, these 33 recipes, which reflect the Group's cultural diversity, appear alongside a narrative of the activities carried out by each subsidiary on Ideal Meal Day, with testimonials and photos of the teams in action.

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"The love of good food is part of Edenred's history. Since the company was founded, we have worked to create a vision of lunch as a moment for the sharing and pleasure that is necessary for our well-being. From the mess tin of the 1960s, to the modern lunch box, we have always taken up this challenge with relish, day after day. With this recipe book, we wanted to ask our employees what they considered to be a good meal – an 'Ideal' meal – in their country. This is because the men and women who work at Edenred are also gourmets of all kinds, so they were keen to take part in this project and share their favorite healthy recipes with us. The result reflects the culinary diversity of the countries in which we operate." Jeanne Renard, Executive Vice President for Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Ideal meal, a challenge for everyone

With Ideal Meal, the central component of its corporate social responsibility approach, Edenred intends to promote a healthy, balanced diet at an affordable price in the countries where it operates. With the support of 6,000 employees, 610,000 companies and public sector clients and 1.3 million affiliated merchants, the Group is taking action to improve the eating habits of its 38 million beneficiaries around the world.
This recipe book will offer a way to put into practice some initial advice for healthy everyday eating.

Discover recipes, anecdotes and advice for delicious, healthy eating in this book available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

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Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments and the everyday companion for people at work, connecting more than 60 million users and more than 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via close to 1 million corporate clients.

Edenred offers specific-purpose payment solutions for food (such as meal benefits), engagement (such as gift cards and engagement platforms), mobility (such as multi-energy solutions, including EV charging, maintenance, toll and parking) and corporate payments (such as virtual cards).

True to the Group’s purpose, “Enrich connections. For good.”, these solutions enhance users’ well-being and purchasing power. They improve companies’ attractiveness and efficiency,and vitalize the employment market and the local economy. They also foster access to healthier food, more environmentally friendly products and sustainable mobility.

Edenred’s 12,000 employees are committed to making the world of work a connected ecosystem that is safer, more efficient and more responsible every day.

In 2023, thanks to its global technology assets, the Group managed €41 billion in business volume, primarily carried out via mobile applications, online platforms and cards.

Edenred is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and included in the following indices: CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, CAC Large 60, Euronext 100, Euronext Tech Leaders, FTSE4Good and MSCI Europe.