Cooking Experiences & Pricing
Homemade food. Prepared in your kitchen. Ready when you are.
Choose the homemade foods your family loves, and we'll prepare them from scratch right in your own kitchen. Our Cooking Experiences are designed to stock your refrigerator or freezer with comforting, homemade meals that can be enjoyed when it works for you. Foods are prepared during the scheduled cooking session, then packaged and cooled, refrigerated, or frozen as appropriate for you to reheat and enjoy later. This is an in-home meal preparation service, not traditional hot catering.
How Your Cooking Experience Works
Your Cooking Experience is built around the foods your household actually wants to eat. Browse our homemade menu, choose your favorites, and we'll help determine which Cooking Experience best fits your selections and the amount of preparation involved.
STEP 1 — CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITES
Browse our menu and choose from our homemade main dishes, vegetables, potatoes and hot sides, gravies, cold salads, soups, breads, pizzas, pies, and desserts.
STEP 2 — TELL US WHAT YOU'D LIKE
Send us the foods you're interested in having prepared. You don't have to figure out which package they fit into—we'll take care of that for you.
STEP 3 — WE BUILD YOUR COOKING EXPERIENCE
We'll consider your menu selections, quantities, and the amount of preparation involved and recommend the Cooking Experience that best fits your request. Because some foods require considerably more preparation than others, the number of selections in each experience is a general guide rather than a fixed number.
STEP 4 — YOU PURCHASE THE GROCERIES, WE DO THE COOKING
We'll provide the grocery information needed for your selected foods. You purchase the groceries, and Heritage Lifestyles comes into your home and prepares your selections from scratch right in your own kitchen.
Your food. Your kitchen. Our heritage of homemade cooking.
PREPARED IN YOUR KITCHEN
We come into your home and prepare your selected foods from scratch in your own kitchen. When the cooking is finished, foods are packaged and handled appropriately for refrigeration or freezing.
Prepared Today. Enjoyed When You're Ready.
One of the best parts of a Heritage Lifestyles Cooking Experience is that dinner doesn't have to happen on our schedule. We prepare your homemade foods during your scheduled cooking session, and you enjoy them when the time is right for you.
ENJOY IT ON YOUR SCHEDULE
Dinner might be later that evening, tomorrow, or waiting in the freezer for a busy week ahead. Simply reheat your prepared foods when you're ready and enjoy a homemade meal without starting from scratch.
PERFECT FOR GATHERINGS—WITH ONE IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE
We can prepare larger quantities of homemade foods for family gatherings, holidays, celebrations, and other occasions. However, Heritage Lifestyles is a meal-preparation service, not a traditional hot-food catering service.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW
We do not provide timed hot-food catering or guarantee that an entire meal will be hot and ready for serving at a specific event time. Our role is to prepare your selected foods during the scheduled cooking session. Foods are then cooled, packaged, refrigerated, or frozen as appropriate. The client is responsible for reheating and serving the foods at the desired time.
We do the cooking. You decide when it's time to gather around the table.
A Few Things to Know Before We Cook
GROCERIES
Our Cooking Experience prices cover our preparation service. Groceries are purchased separately by the client. After your menu selections are finalized, we'll provide the information you need to purchase the appropriate ingredients for your cooking session. This allows you to know exactly what is being used in the foods prepared in your own kitchen.
FINAL PRICING
The prices shown for our Cooking Experiences are starting prices. Your final quote is based on the foods you select, quantities requested, and the amount of preparation involved. Some selections—such as homemade breads, fresh homemade noodles, fried foods, pies, and other labor-intensive dishes—require considerably more preparation time than simpler selections. We'll review your choices and provide your final service price before your cooking session is scheduled.
TRAVEL
Our pricing is designed around our primary service area. Depending on the location of your home, an additional travel charge or a larger minimum Cooking Experience may apply. We'll always discuss any applicable travel charge with you before your cooking session is scheduled.