Hi Carol and Jim! I’m so happy to help you meet your health goals by cooking the healthiest version of your likes! Below this section you’ll find some different options for menu items that can be altered to your likes. I mostly cook vegetarian, but the proteins in these recipes can be swapped out for anything else. Alternatively, you can choose a vegetarian main meal and your choice of meat. I’ll make a smaller version of the vegetarian meal to go along with it. This will be considered your main dish.

Based on our conversation regarding salads and breakfast, I have some ideas:

BREAKFAST: I can come once a week to make salads for the week and mix breakfast items for you to either warm up or whiz in the blender. For example, I can wash, cut and mix fruit and protein mix in milk for two days, and wash, cut and freeze fruit for three days and put these in little baggies. I would do these first so that I can put them on a tray in the freezer while I do the rest of the food. By the time I’m done, they should be frozen and I will put one day’s smoothie fruit in a baggie and make 3 to 5 of these – whatever amount you’d like. I can also mix the protein mix and milk together into bottles so all you’d have to do is put them in the blender with the fruit in the baggy.

For Jim, I can make a couple healthy versions of gravy and biscuits. I can also mix a granola free of unhealthy oils and sugars if either of you would like that. I have different whole grain or gluten free pancake recipes too. I even have a keto version. I can make the pancake mix and put it in mason jars, or cook them up, wrap and freeze.

I’m thinking I can charge $25 for the smoothies and an extra $10 for the gravy and biscuits if I buy the biscuits. It might be best to keep one thing the same as you’re used to for now since I’ll be making the gravy a bit differently.

An extra $15 for each extra item beyond these two, including mixing the pancake batter, but $20 if you want pancakes cooked up.

SALADS: Add $15 If you want me to make a single type of salad for the week along with the breakfast. If all you want is for me to come and make salad, $25 for a single type for all five days. Add $10 per extra. For example, I can make a coleslaw with carrots, cabbage, apple and ginger, a celery/apple salad, and a green salad. The coleslaw lasts longer than the green salad. The apples don’t turn brown if coated with oil, so the apple celery also lasts longer than a green salad. For the three salads, it would cost $45.

Of course, this will depend on whether or not I have a slot open. I could do these on Sundays since it wouldn’t be a full day and I normally don’t schedule anything on Sundays.

Main Dish suggestions:

(I will make a potato soup in your crockpot. I’d like to know what you’d like me to change after tasting it. This is an extra and not counted as one of the 5×4 meals.)

Hot open-faced sandwich: Brown gravy with meat and veggies of your choice, or other proteins (chick peas, edamame, tempeh, tofu, beans). Alterhatnively, it can be a white sauce. 

Coconut-lime salmon (or tofu)

Baked cauliflower (If Jim has his mom’s recipe, you can send it to me. Otherwise, I’ll make one up. I know cheese is an important ingredient.)

Fajita (you choose the veggies and meat/protein. I will cook them almost done so that when you heat it, it won’t be overdone.) Rice on the side is not considered a side, just part of the meal. I will cook brown rice and white rice just in case you don’t like the brown rice.

Baked chicken (and/or tofu) with mashed potatoes (not considered a side) and gravy [keto version: mashed cauliflower and gravy]

Extra sides: $10 per side. This is not an extra serving, but a different side – a sixth choice. So say you wanted a different side added to one of your 4×5 meals, then I’d have to make another item.

You can also choose from the items below or tell me if something isn’t on here.