Personal Chef Service

Overview

Nutmeg Personal Chef Service provides complete meals prepared in your kitchen with ingredients purchased that day. Your personal chef brings her “kitchen toolkit” complete with all the necessary utensils, pots, pans, knives and staple ingredients. She uses only your counter space, your major appliances, countertops, space in your refrigerator or freezer to store your meals, and your kitchen sink.

Once your meal (or meals) is complete, your personal chef cleans up, packs her toolkit, packages, labels and places your meals in the refrigerator or freezer and leaves your kitchen as she found it.

Two Service Options

Both service options include:

• Initial client interview
• Menu planning and preparation based on information gathered from the client interview;
• Grocery shopping
• Meal preparation, storage, and quick-and-easy heating and serving instructions
• Kitchen cleanup
• Nutmeg Portable Pantry: these are staple items like flour, sugar, dry spices, oils and condiments that are used in everyday cooking but may not be available in your kitchen.
• Delicious meals, including side dishes, prepared and stored for you to enjoy.

Fresh Weekly Service

Dinner entrees are prepared, packaged and stored in the refrigerator. This allows Nutmeg to provide fresher, seasonal fruits and vegetables and letting you savor the freshness and flavor. These meals should be eaten within 3 days of preparation.

Biweekly Service

Ideal for the frequent traveler, social urbanite or busy family, dinner entrees are prepared, packaged and stored in the freezer giving you the flexibility to eat out or dine in.

Pricing

Pricing combines a flat service fee based on the number of meals ordered with the cost of groceries for your meals.

This structure allows your personal chef to adapt to your existing shopping habits. Nutmeg’s relationships with local farmers, meat purveyors, organic grocers, and metro-area grocery stores give your personal chef the unique ability to mirror your shopping habits. This can accommodate everyone from the 100% organic eater to the whatever’s-on-sale eater and anyone in between. Nutmeg is committed to selecting the freshest, highest-quality ingredients based on your preferences.

Sample Pricing

This sample pricing chart is a guideline intended to show the flexibility of Nutmeg’s personal chef service for a variety of people. Your cost will vary depending on your grocery cost, the number of servings, and the number of meals.

Customer	Number of Entrees	Cost (Service Fee + Groceries)
Family of 4 (4 servings per meal)	4	$255 + groceries
Happy Couple or Roommates (2 servings per meal)	4	$235 + groceries
Swinging Singles (2 servings per meal)	3	$225 + groceries

Payment

Services fees are due in advance of your cook date. Grocery receipts are scanned and emailed to you with an invoice. Grocery payments are due within 7 days of receipt.

Nutmeg accepts:

• Personal checks
• Paypal
• Credit Cards
• Cash

Food Packaging

Entrees are packaged in single, double, or family servings in either reusable glass containers or disposable containers. This preference is determined during your initial client interview. Disposable containers are replaced as needed and will appear on your grocery invoice.

Sample Menu

Below is a sample list of entrees that can be prepared by your personal chef. Each entree is paired with one or two side dishes depending on the entree and based on your preferences. For example, a poultry or fish entree is typically service with two sides, usually a starch and a vegetable. But a casserole or pasta entree containing vegetables and/or protein will typically come with one side.

This is only a small selection of Nutmeg's dinner selections. Your menu will be tailored to fit your personal tastes and dietary needs while keeping with seasonal availability of menu items.

Protein Selection	Sample Entrees
Beef	Asian Spiced Short Ribs with Mashed Sweet Potatoes and Wilted Spinach Braised Brisket with Port Wine Sauce and Spring Vegetables
Lamb	Lamb Chops with Sauteed Chard and Baby Red Potatoes Lamb Curry Massamun curry with Jasmine Rice
Pork	Pork Tenderloin with Molasses and Cumin with Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Sauteed Greens Herb Crusted Pork Chops with Potato Gratin and Roasted Asparagus
Poultry	Chicken Scallopini with Onion, Capers and Artichoke Hearts Whole Roasted Chicken with Zucchini Mash and Wild Rice
Seafood	Crab Cakes with Herb Seasoned Rice, Creamy Remoulade and Asparagus Dijon Rockfish with Caper Butter, Wild Rice and Grilled Vegetables
Vegetarian	Mushroom Crepes Buckwheat Crepes Stuffed with Mushrooms, Onions and Ricotta Fettuccine with Asparagus, Morels and Tarragon Tossed with a Light Cream Sauce

 

Nutmeg also has a wide selection of soups, salads, appetizers and desserts for you to add to your dinner. Please ask about these services during your client interview!