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Two weeks of meals.
Cooked in the kitchen you trust.
Built around your condition.
By your own Chef.

Elegant plates of different dinners

Custom Meals for Your Unique Needs Prepared by Chef Mike

Most personal chefs come by once or twice a month and cook a week's or so of food, that tastes great. Those are the basics. The difference here is a Biochemistry degree from the University of Iowa — which means I understand how protein, fiber, and fat actually behave in the body, how GLP-1 medications change satiety and absorption, and why a "healthy" meal that spikes your blood sugar isn't really healthy at all. For clients on Ozempic, Wegovy, or Mounjaro — or managing diabetes, heart disease, or post-surgical recovery — that biological literacy isn't a marketing line. It's the difference between food that works with your treatment or condition, and food that quietly undermines it.

11 to go meals in plastic containers and a clear bag

Personalized Meal Plans

Each meal plan is customized to meet YOUR dietary restrictions and preferences, ensuring you receive the nutrition you need, with YOUR favorite ingredients. Craving Lobster Risotto with Asparagus & White Truffles? - No Problem!

Chef-Crafted Quality

Your meals are prepared ONLY by Chef Mike, guaranteeing exceptional taste and quality in every dish, with food sourced where YOU want with YOUR favorite spices and herbs!  Love Italian cuisine but you can't handle garlic after your surgery - No problem! I'll make it without garlic.

Convenient and Flexible

With Mike's Prepared Meal Service, enjoy the convenience of meal delivery WITHOUT the commitment of a subscription or delivery fee. You can stop and start my services at anytime without any fees or charges.

Delivered to you or Cooked in YOUR kitchen

I can cook in your kitchen - if its big enough - to save you money or I can bring you fresh, labeled, and portioned meals directly to your home, ready to enjoy, that are made in our commercial commissary - with ZERO delivery charge.

Meet Chef Mike

Chef Mike Straw is originally from West Des Moines, IA and got his BS in Biochemistry from the University of Iowa.  He studied the culinary arts at the art institutes of america and johnson wales university.  he has been cooking for over 30 years and had his own personal chef business in St. Petersburg, FL for 10 years. Chef Mike has cooked all over the world and spent most of his time as a private ESTATE CHEF ON LAND and AS A charter chef on yachts in the Bahamas and Caribbean.  He has cooked for many famous clients, including Jimmy Dean 'the Sausage King', on his yacht the Big Bad John.

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HOW IT WORKS

METHOD 1:  $40/hour   About $13/meal plus food costs:

One day in your kitchen. Twenty-one meals. No charge for commissary.  A proven model refined over 20 years of personal chef work. Everything happens in your home, with your groceries, in your kitchen.
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Free consult & menu
We talk through your health goals, dietary needs, preferences, and the store you shop at. I build a rotating menu just for you. I use the fresh herbs and spices you love, not those you have to accept on a 'stock menu'.
02
I shop, 8–9 am
I shop at your preferred store — Whole Foods, Sprouts, Hy-vee, anywhere you like. Organic when you want it. Your account or mine.
03
I cook, 9 am–5 pm
A full day of batch cooking in your kitchen — two weeks of lunches and dinners, for monday-friday (most eat out 2 days), prepared with care, plated to portion.
04
Labeled & ready
First three days fresh, the rest portioned and frozen. Each container labeled and matched to a printed menu you can read at a glance.
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No mystery. No guessing.
Every container is labeled and tied to a printed weekly menu. Open the fridge, glance at the menu, follow re-heat instructions, enjoy. The first three days stay fresh in the fridge. The rest go in the freezer, each one thaw-and-reheat ready.
No prep on your end. No surprises. No food going bad because you forgot what was in there. Just YOUR real food, ready when you need it, made just for YOU.  I give you the receipt for the food and you write me a check for that plus my time, usually around 8 hours.
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METHOD 2:  $45/Hour  about $15/meal plus food costs:

Same meals prepared in my commissary for $45/hour, Delivered at no charge TO YOU fresh, LABELLED AND READY TO PUT IN YOUR FRIDGE AND FREEZER WITH MY HELP.  i'LL SHOW YOU WHERE EVERYTHING GOES AND HOW TO FIND IT and give you instructions on how to reheat it.       
 

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