Personal Chefs vs Meal Kit Delivery
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Personal Chefs vs Meal Kit Delivery
/ Dec 1st, 2016 9:56 pm     A+ | a-

Top 5 reasons Friend That Cooks in-home meal prep service is better than meal kit delivery

The new meal kit delivery companies use phrases like "meal prep" or "home chef" to try and fool busy families into believing they provide chef prepared meals. The truth is, their ingredients are packaged in large production facilities by under paid and overworked factory workers who have no culinary background at all. They are mass produced, impersonal, and leave all the real work to the customer. So ditch the "apron", think outside the box, and read on about a better way to put healthy, delicious meals on the table. Here are the Top 5 Reasons why using a personal chef for in-home weekly meal prep from Friend That Cooks is a better value than any of the meal kit delivery services:

convenienceReason #1 - Convenience

Friend That Cooks provides real "meal prep". Meals are prepared by professional chefs. They are simply reheated, attaining their optimal state after reheating, with almost no work for the customer. We plan the menu, shop, cook, clean up and stock the fridge with food for the whole week.

Meal kit delivery services ship the ingredients with recipes and leave customers with no culinary expertise to do the cooking themselves. 30-minute preparations and 15 more minutes of clean up every night means you'll invest hours every week to use a service that is supposed to be convenient.


better ingredientsReason #2 - Better Ingredients

Friend That Cooks chefs hand pick every single ingredient from your local grocery store, making sure you only get the best tomato in the pile, and can take advantage of local and/or organic ingredients. Every piece of meat or produce is the absolute best of what's available or we don't buy it.

Meal kit delivery services buy ingredients in bulk. They have to use every tomato in the pile to make money, meaning only one meal will get the best tomato, while everyone else settles for lesser ingredients, and you won't find anything sourced locally.


more menu optionsReason #3 - More Menu Options

Friend That Cooks chefs have huge repertoires of ethnic and classic dishes they can make from scratch. By cooking from scratch, we can tailor all of our dishes to meet the specific tastes and dietary needs of every family individually. We take requests, invent new recipes, and tailor our service to your tastes. We make the foods that you want to eat without limiting you to a set menu.

Meal kit delivery services offer limited selections. You choose from a small list of dishes and any dietary need has to bend to their menu instead of the other way around. Vegetarian? Paleo? You'll be lucky to have any choices.


professional chefsReason #4 - Professional Chefs

Friend That Cooks carefully recruits, screens and trains only the best cooks. We test their knowledge, cooking ability, and even do background checks. Our chef's skills are well beyond not only home cooks, but most professional cooks too.

Meal kit delivery services use underpaid, overworked factory employees with no culinary experience to package your meals into boxes and mail them to you. You have to do the cooking yourself and the meal kit company has to make sure the recipes are fairly basic to suit the skill of a novice cook.


more for moneyReason #5 - Better Value For The Money

Friend That Cooks quality of service is well above that of the delivery services, yet the price can be similar or even less. For example, a family of four uses 4 to 5 hours of service ($175 to $220 in most markets) and has a grocery bill of $100 to $130 per week (an average cost for clients). This family would typically get 24-28 total meals yielding an average cost per meal of $10 to $14. Depending on the menu, our clients have seen meal prices as low as $7 per meal and even menu items with more expensive ingredients rarely average more than $15-20 per meal. With Friend That Cooks, you have complete control over the number of meals and the grocery budget every week.

Meal kit delivery services charge $9.95 and up for their meals. For moderate to premium ingredients, you'll spend $15, $20 or even more than $30. And not only do you have to cook them yourself, but you won't have the culinary training and experience to get the most out of those expensive ingredients.


About Friend That Cooks

Friend That Cooks Personal Chef Service offers in-home weekly meal prep for busy families and couples. We send a talented professional chef to the homes of our clients every week for a half day to shop, cook, clean up and stock their refrigerators with a week's worth of healthy, prepared meals to reheat. We charge an affordable hourly rate plus the cost of groceries. Service is available in the following metros: Kansas City, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Des Moines, Omaha and Wichita. Click the button below to set up a free consultation with a Friend That Cooks chef about weekly meal prep in your home: contact button
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