Someone to cook at home?
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Topic: Someone to cook at home?
Posted By: firsttimedad
Subject: Someone to cook at home?
Date Posted: 16 February 2010 at 4:25pm
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Does anyone know of a service where someone can come in and cook in your home?
My wife and I are both working full time, and coming up with new meal ideas that are nutritious and weight conscious is a real burden. She's worried about putting on weight during her pregnancy so everything we eat needs to be low fat etc. It's be really great if we could get someone to come in and cook a few meals a week for us - I'd be willing to pay just for the stress reduction! If we had someone who could come up with meal ideas and make them it'd be such a weight off us both. also, if anyone knows of a shop that offer good quality pre-packaged meals that I could get and put in the freezer I'd be grateful! I heard that Rocket Kitchen offers something like this but their range is pretty limited. BTW I'm in Auckland Thanks! |
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 16 February 2010 at 8:08pm
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Sorry I don't know of any service that does this. However you could make enquiries at AUT's Restaurant /Hotel Management school, I am pretty sure that they still have the restaurant there and I am sure there would be some students who would want some experience. Or any other Restaurant schools maybe ------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 16 February 2010 at 8:54pm
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You could try and home help place they can have people that do that. I know in Palmy we had someone that came in and did the housework and cooked the family dinner when my mum was really sick and in hospital so we had some one come and do it all for my dad. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 9:53am
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How about a human nutrition student or similar, wanting to earn a bit of extra cash. You could try student job search? It's free to post a vacancy I'm pretty sure.
Or when I found myself struggling to cook decent dinners after work because I had too much else going on, I'd spend a weekend cooking up a storm so I had heaps of frozen meals or meal bases ready to go. Some just needed reheating, others I'd make a quick salad or something to go with them. Do you have family around who could help out? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: xLUCKYx
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 10:02am
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I remembered seeing something about this on tv and googled and found it.
There is http://www.babyangel.co.nz/read/babyangel-awesome - Baby Angel which is aimed more at post natal services but you can order meals any time. |
Posted By: xLUCKYx
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 10:02am
| Oh and they don't cook in your home but deliver meals to you. |
Posted By: firsttimedad
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 10:09am
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thanks for the replies.
We haven't told family yet as we're still in 1st trimester - besides they all work expect my mother in law, and My wife and she aren't on great terms at present. Variety is the main problem I think - we end up recycling meals so often that she gets sick of the sight of them! |
Posted By: xLUCKYx
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 10:16am
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You might also like to try http://www.wishbone.co.nz/Article.aspx?ID=366 - Wish Bone
They have shops throughout the city and are available in some supermarkets and also deliver. |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 10:22am
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Oh to be able to have someone cook for me!! I hate cooking! lol
If your bored with your food try healthyfood.co.nz for some ideas. I've got a few off there and they are all pretty easy. I also have a WW cookbook for fast easy meals and they are seperated into time allowances. so 5, 10, 20, 30 min meals and all very easy and being WW they are all low fat. |
Posted By: WRXnKids
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 5:03pm
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i know there is somewhere that delivers a weeks worth of meals that you can freeze and use as you need them but i cant remember who it was - it may have been a christchurch thing tho as i was still preg when i heard about it. I thought it sounded awesome as another service was that they could deliver a weeks worth of groceries with the recipes to cook the meals yourself. I wish i could remember who it was tho or where i heard about it. Ill have a think and come back if it comes to me. -------------   
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 5:27pm
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Wishbone was a lifesaver during my pregnancy. They do lovely meals, great variety, made by chefs with quality ingredients and they don't cost the earth. I'm not sure about where you are but here in Wellington we have several wishbone stores and you can buy wishbone meals in most supermarkets too. We're coming into soup season shortly and you can get some lovely pre-packaged soup meals in the chiller section of most supermarkets. There's nothing quite like a nice nutritious soup and some fresh artisan bread on a cool autumn evening after a long day at work. -------------  
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 9:27pm
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Maybe have a look at someone like this - http://auckland.gumtree.co.nz/c-Jobs-nanny-babysitting-Nanny-homehelp-Mrs-Doubtfire-W0QQAdIdZ184701892 - Mrs Doubtfire they would normally be a "nanny" but am sure that you could find someone to fit your needs!
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Posted By: SpecialK
Date Posted: 19 February 2010 at 1:05pm
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You could try Sliced and Diced - not so much someone else cooking for you, but you choose your meals, cook them (all ingredients are provided) and then take them home all packaged up and ready for the freezer.
www.slicedanddiced.co.nz And also anything by Pitango - you can get them at most supermarkets - is divine. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 19 February 2010 at 1:35pm
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Ditto what Special K says - sliced and diced are great. Have you tried Nosh, Remember nutritional requirements will change with pregnancy. Its not the time to be dieting - eating healthy yes but not reducing your calorie intake as this can impact on the babies development. You could always grab a couple of cook books and make it yourself, I'm sure she'd appreciate you going to the effort. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: firsttimedad
Date Posted: 22 February 2010 at 2:57pm
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caliandjack,
Hah! We've been through every cook book we have and a couple more I've bought. I cook every night at the moment, but she's pretty sick of what I can make, which is why we're looking for outside help! She eats well, and isn't starving herself or anything, but she also doesn't want to gain FAT unnecessarily as it'll just be harder to shift after she gives birth. Weight she will gain of course, but it's the Fat she wants to avoid. We've been to Nosh, haven't seen too many low fat options there though. thanks for the suggestions so far - keep them coming if you can. Also if you know of anyine who's a good cook and interested in doing some in house cooking, point them in my direction! |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 22 February 2010 at 4:07pm
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Try the Masterchef kitchen maybe you can find a keen prior-contestant to provide meals for you.
I'm not sure what you mean by FAT? As she will only gain excess weight if she is eating more than she is burning off, which sounds like she's not doing to start with, also remember with BF those fat stores will come off. That's what boobs are there for. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 22 February 2010 at 4:10pm
LOL maybe you should tell her to cook her own if she is sick of what you make! Pretty sure thats what my husband would say...  ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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firsttimedad wrote:Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 22 February 2010 at 4:21pm
lol I was thinking the same. If hubby told me he was sick of what I made I'd tell him to make his own 
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 22 February 2010 at 6:15pm
I just be happy if DH made spaghetti on toast for us one night! I don' really enjoy cooking but do it every night  , would definately be happy if he pitched in! ------------- Lindsey
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Posted By: littlestar
Date Posted: 23 February 2010 at 1:49pm
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Lol - my poor DH was on his own as far as dinners were concerned for the first trimester - I was too ill to even think about eating let alone cooking. I think I stocked the freezer with those frozen meals for him - maybe have a stack of some of the lower fat frozen meals from the super market. But I second the pitango suggestion - much nicer than frozen. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 23 February 2010 at 2:55pm
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takeout! subway, indian, greek... mmm pizza! surely you cant both not eat nice stuff all the time! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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