Personal Chef’s. The image conjures up tall loud men in funny hats strutting around, with thick accents, serving fancy food and conferring with the master of the house on daily menus. Or it could conjure up the image of someone coming to your home once a week or twice a month, cooking a menu you had previously agreed on and leaving you a week or two of food to feed the family or roommates.
A personal chef is a fantastic commodity. The average rate is between thirty and forty dollars an hour plus cost of groceries, which sounds like a lot I agree. Until you sit down and average up what you are paying for groceries and to eat out in a month. Family of four will out spend the personal chef cost in about three weeks. A couple of bachelors rooming together will outspend the personal chef cost in about two, as generally you are eating out two meals a day at least. Instead of eating fast, unhealthy food that makes you lethargic and causes you to buy new clothes every few months, eat at home. Eat fresh food, as generally the chef will shop for you, of good quality (no chef will put their name on really poor quality ingredients) with a wide menu variety.
With winter and the holiday season coming up, money is going to get tight. A food budget twice as large as it needs to be is one place you can shave off some cost. If you wanted to hire a chef, but didn’t want to pay the whole fee yourself, collaborate with another family or set of friends. Generally the chef can cook for 9 as easily as for four, and then just parcel it out. This halves the cost for you, and you still get great homemade food. Personal recipes, food you love and haven’t had in ages. Not to mention the dinner parties, celebrations and work parties that can all be shifted onto the shoulders of the chef, rather than you. Though I believe special occasion events tend to be more expensive. What would it hurt, give it a try.
