Seeking someone to help prep fruits/vegetables/grains

[Anonymous]

Hi All, I’m seeking someone to help prep fruits/vegetables each week. I don’t need preparing actual meals. Curious if you have a recommendation or advice on how to find someone at a reasonable price given there’s no pre-work or cooking involved. A private chef would not be a good fit given the simpler nature of what I’m looking for vs. what they offer. I think this could be a good job for a Georgetown/GW student looking to make some extra cash on the side but not sure where to post as those schools will not allow postings for jobs to be done in a person’s home (like babysitting, meal prep), which makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Staff at cookware or kitchen ware stores may have the availability, skills and interest you seek. Good luck. Or does Whole Foods still offer a Vegetable Butcher? I forget what the person was called.

[Anonymous]

Might help if you mentioned pay & hours.

[Anonymous]

Why can’t you just do it yourself

[Anonymous]

How many hours and how much per hour? You’d have to make this worth someone’s while because prepping these things doesn’t actually take a lot of time unless you’re regularly cooking for a very large crowd. A person using a food processor and instant pot can do these things extremely quickly.

[Anonymous]

You need a personal chef.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many hours and how much per hour? You’d have to make this worth someone’s while because prepping these things doesn’t actually take a lot of time unless you’re regularly cooking for a very large crowd. A person using a food processor and instant pot can do these things extremely quickly.

This. You’re going to have to pay a really high hourly rate to get someone to do this because it will only be an hour or two max per week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many hours and how much per hour? You’d have to make this worth someone’s while because prepping these things doesn’t actually take a lot of time unless you’re regularly cooking for a very large crowd. A person using a food processor and instant pot can do these things extremely quickly.

Honestly, I totally get what OP is seeking and have always said that if I win the lottery, this is what I want to hire out. I can spend most of a weekend day (at least) trying to prep a farmer's market haul for the week if I'm trying to cook and bake most everything from scratch. Food processor and instant pot don't really cut it for everything.

I enjoy cooking, but don't always want to spend my entire weekend doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many hours and how much per hour? You’d have to make this worth someone’s while because prepping these things doesn’t actually take a lot of time unless you’re regularly cooking for a very large crowd. A person using a food processor and instant pot can do these things extremely quickly.

Honestly, I totally get what OP is seeking and have always said that if I win the lottery, this is what I want to hire out. I can spend most of a weekend day (at least) trying to prep a farmer's market haul for the week if I'm trying to cook and bake most everything from scratch. Food processor and instant pot don't really cut it for everything.

I enjoy cooking, but don't always want to spend my entire weekend doing it.

I also love to cook, cook a ton from scratch, have a big family and have trouble picturing this amount of time.

Can you give me an example of what you buy in a week and what you have accomplished in the end (e.g. what counts as “prepped”)?

[Anonymous]

This seems like a good job for a high school student that enjoys cooking. Does your neighborhood have a Facebook group? Nextdoor? Post there and see if you get any takers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi All, I’m seeking someone to help prep fruits/vegetables each week. I don’t need preparing actual meals. Curious if you have a recommendation or advice on how to find someone at a reasonable price given there’s no pre-work or cooking involved. A private chef would not be a good fit given the simpler nature of what I’m looking for vs. what they offer. I think this could be a good job for a Georgetown/GW student looking to make some extra cash on the side but not sure where to post as those schools will not allow postings for jobs to be done in a person’s home (like babysitting, meal prep), which makes sense.

There's no cooking involved in prepping grains? Hope you like them crunchy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many hours and how much per hour? You’d have to make this worth someone’s while because prepping these things doesn’t actually take a lot of time unless you’re regularly cooking for a very large crowd. A person using a food processor and instant pot can do these things extremely quickly.

Honestly, I totally get what OP is seeking and have always said that if I win the lottery, this is what I want to hire out. I can spend most of a weekend day (at least) trying to prep a farmer's market haul for the week if I'm trying to cook and bake most everything from scratch. Food processor and instant pot don't really cut it for everything.

I enjoy cooking, but don't always want to spend my entire weekend doing it.

I also love to cook, cook a ton from scratch, have a big family and have trouble picturing this amount of time.

Can you give me an example of what you buy in a week and what you have accomplished in the end (e.g. what counts as “prepped”)?

Sure. Throwing together random examples, but wash and dry spring mix (my lunch for the week), spinach, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, peppers, asparagus, strawberries, blueberries, watermelon, cantaloupe. Fruit except the blueberries cut up to grab and go for the week. Some of the veg also pre chopped for use on weeknights.

I enlist my kids to help, but given that both adults WOH full time and kids have stuff basically every day after school, I need things 90% ready to just throw in a pan during the week. Add in roasting a batch of chickpeas, marinating some kind of protein, boiling some eggs and possibly baking something from scratch, and there's my Saturday or Sunday.

I keep frozen fruit and veg on hand for use in a pinch, but prefer fresh if possible. Do I have to eat like this? No. Do I feel better when I do? Yes.