About Good Food @ Home: Introduction, intentions and simple pricing structure.
INTRODUCTION
to GOOD FOOD @ HOME
Hello, thank you for the opportunity to introduce my small, local business to you.
Good Food @ Home has been developed over many conversations with friends, family, neighbours, and during my work in Hospitality and in the private care sector.
Little touches can lift a meal from dull to delightful.
Good Food @ Home sets out to offer a service to clients who love to eat, but who may have a small appetite or find cooking for one a chore. Visiting daily I prepare home cooked meals with the retired or senior client in mind.
Keeping my client list small, and extremely local, I can be completely flexible to adapt to an individual’s preferences.
Think of Good Food @ Home as a friendly visitor or Personal Assistant who loves to prepare, cook, think about and chat about ….
HAVING GOOD FOOD AT HOME!
Thank you for your time
Please email me to arrange an informal chat
INTENTION
Good Food @ Home sets out to offer a service to clients who love to eat, but who may have a small appetite, find cooking for one a chore, shopping for themselves un-inspiring or who might not be mobile enough to stand for longer periods of time whilst preparing fruit and vegetables.
INTENTION
Good Food @ Home sets out to offer a service to clients who love to eat, but who may have a small appetite, find cooking for one a chore, or who are perhaps not mobile enough to stand for some time whilst preparing fruit and vegetables.
Following a consultation with the client to ascertain their likes and dislikes, foods they love, foods they hate, foods they must not have for medical reasons, I can work out a meal plan with them if they so wish.
To prepare for my subsequent visits, clients would arrange to have the ingredients ready for me to cook with. To make this as easy and as flexible as possible, they could shop for themselves, or I could shop for them from their favourite shops and supermarkets.
Clients themselves could shop online and have their groceries delivered, or we could go shopping together if a trip out and an afternoon visiting some of South Devon’s fabulous Foodie outlets were what they wanted.
With the client buying or dictating both the ingredients, and the amount of time spent to shop for those ingredients they can choose whatever food and shopping method suits their budget, and which brands they prefer to buy.
FLEXIBILITY
Keeping my client list small, I can be completely flexible to adapt to the individual’s preference.
Visits could be once a day, twice weekly, or every few days depending on the clients’ preference and budget. A daily visit could be to prepare a fresh, appealing, seasonally appropriate supper from the clients’ own ingredients and store cupboard contents, resulting a freshly prepared meal on that visit, and a light lunch for the following day. Twice-weekly visits might involve preparing several days’ supply of fresh meals and refrigerating them for the client to heat themselves as and when they want to eat them. Visits with a larger gap between them may involve batch-cooking and freezing, or simply the preparation of several days’ worth of fresh fruit and vegetables. It goes without saying that each personal visit provides a little companionship for the client, as well as a caring and discreet overview of the clients’ moods and coping abilities, and an opportunity to alert family or friends to any concerns.
CONCLUSION & PRICING STRUCTURE
Think of Good Food @ Home as a friendly visitor or Personal Assistant who loves to prepare, cook, think about food and chat about food, as well as a keeping a discreet eye on the wellbeing of your loved one, and the experience to know when extra assistance may need to be called in.
INITIAL CONSULTATION £30 To keep prices simple, the initial consultation with the client to discuss their food preferences and restrictions is charged at £30, and can take from 30 – 90 minutes, depending on the client, and their individual dietary requirements. During this visit, the client will also have the time to read, fully understand, and sign our mutual agreement for services: this a requirement of my Insurance Policy. If a consultation turns out to be shorter than the full 90 minutes, the balance of the time can be added to the clients’ first food-prep visit in the form of extra time. Subsequent visits: £20 PER HOUR. Visits to clients, to prepare meals or shopping trips with or for clients are charged at £20 per hour. Using this simple pricing structure, the client can choose how to spend that time, be it cooking from scratch, pre-preparing meals or batch-cooking for the freezer. For clients’ reassurance, I am fully DBS checked, I Hold a Level 2 Certificate in Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering and I am fully insured Thank you for your time Jane Matthews A FOOTNOTE REGARDING CARERS Good Food @ Home is not designed to be a replacement for a carer who fulfils other needs, such as physical support, physical help with eating, catheter care or any of the other roles heroically filled by the army of highly trained and dedicated Professional Carers already working in the field.