Do Yourself A Favor: Hire A Personal Chef

Why Hiring a Personal Chef is an Excellent

Investment for Busy Professionals and

Families.

Do Yourself a Favor:

Hire a Personal Chef

Marlon Angelo Jackson, C.C.

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Do Yourself a Favor: Hire a Personal Chef

Imagine that it has been a long day at work (which shouldn’t be very hard for most of

us!) and you want nothing more than to get home as quick as you can so you can relax. The last

thing you want to think about is what you are going to prepare for your family’s dinner. The

seemingly easy way out would be to stop at a fast-food restaurant on the way home, order in, pull

a frozen TV dinner out of the freezer, or cook something quick and easy like Hamburger Helper.

But have you ever thought about how your food choices are affecting the health of you and your

family?

Now imagine that same long day at work but, wait, something is different! When you

arrive home, you walk into the kitchen, open the refrigerator, and pull out a delicious, healthy

and homemade dinner. You smile as you pop it in the oven or microwave knowing you can

continue on with your plans of relaxation hassle free. Sounds great, doesn’t it? How can you be

this lucky? Hire a Personal Chef, that’s how! For busy professionals and families, hiring a

Personal Chef is a far better investment than other sources of prepared food including

restaurants, frozen dinners, and boxed meals.

According to ThePersonalChef.org in an article called “What Is a Personal Chef”, the

definition of a Personal Chef is as follows: “A Personal Chef, also sometimes called a Private

Chef, is a culinary professional whose job is to provide chef services to a private individual or

family.” Generally, a Personal Chef will visit his clients’ homes on set days and cook meals to

last a week, two weeks, or one month. These meals are then stored in the freezer or refrigerator

to be enjoyed by the client at their convenience. The chef then cleans the client’s kitchen and

reheating instructions are left to make mealtime much simpler. These meals usually consist of a


main entrée, a starch, a vegetable, and a dessert. If the chef is working as a Private Chef, they are

usually working full-time for only one individual or family. In this circumstance, the chef usually

visits the client’s home at least five days per week, possibly seven, to cook and serve breakfast,

lunch, dinner and any other arranged snacks or meals.

Hiring a Personal Chef, in any capacity, can guarantee that you and your family are able

to eat quality food on a daily basis. Yes, you can go to some restaurants and have chef-prepared

foods but the majority of restaurants most frequented by the general public are not those with

chefs at the helm of the kitchen and the ones who do are often quite pricey. Most restaurants do

not have chefs cooking their food. Usually, there are simply line cooks warming all of the food

items that were originally prepared in an off-premises factory with loads of food additives and

preservatives.

A popular food blogger, Lisa Cain of Snack-Girl.com, speaks of these types of

restaurants after dining out and learning from service staff that her soup as well as most other

items served there were pre-packaged and simply reheated. ”What is the healthiest food you can

eat? I think most of us would say it is fresh food made from real ingredients that are minimally

processed. When I go out to eat, I expect that a chef has cooked the meal that is served to me.”

She goes on to say that restaurants “make a bunch of cheap food in one place and have their staff

just heat up the processed food that you are served.” She warns her readers to “avoid all

restaurants that reheat packaged food and then serve it … as if someone was actually cooking”

and suggests that they “find restaurants with chefs that actually cook when you go out to eat” for

healthy food made with fresh ingredients.


Food additives are located in all processed, pre-packaged foods found in restaurants and

boxed and frozen meals. On average, a person, due to their food choices, consumes over four

pounds of additives including preservatives each year which can cause numerous health

problems (Mindell 58). The only way to avoid any negative reactions or health issues caused by

food additives is to avoid the cause and limit them in your diet (WHO). As Personal Chefs utilize

fresh ingredients and make most, if not all, parts of their meals from scratch, food additives

especially preservatives and artificial flavors are rarely used. Personal Chefs can even grind their

own meat to make hamburgers and sausages, squeeze fresh juice, prepare homemade pasta,

sauces, marinades, and dressings, bake fresh bread and more so that the need for most processed

foods in their clients’ diets is eliminated. This makes meals prepared by a Personal Chef much

healthier than most other sources of prepared food as the amount of additives present will be

very limited.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, a food additive is any substance added

to food, including preservatives, food coloring, flavor enhancers, thickeners, stabilizers, nutrients

and sweeteners (IFC). Research has shown that food additives can lead to abnormal embryo

development, gastrointestinal irritation, elevated cholesterol, liver damage, kidney damage,

infertility, vitamin deficiency, weakened immune system, depression, irritability, mood swings

and much more. Among the unhealthiest additives are acacia gum, alginic acid, benzoic acid,

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene), iron salts, MSG

(monosodium glutamate), and proplyl gallate (Mindell 58). According to the Asthma and Allergy

Foundation of America, other food additives that can cause problems include nitrates, nitrites,

sulfates, sulfites, and benzoates.


Although food additives such as preservatives were created for logical reasons such as

limiting bacteria growth and spoilage in food, the negative effects they can have on your health

often outweigh any positive attributes the additive may have. As effects vary with age and health

status, children, the elderly, and those with health issues should avoid food preservatives as

much as they can, if not all together.

Something that may surprise a lot of people is the fact that preservatives in food can

cause behavioral changes in young children. A double-blind study on children in 2003 concluded

that preservatives and other additives in food led to hyperactive behavior (Bateman).

Preservatives have been also known to cause difficulties in breathing and can be particularly

harmful to people with asthma and other breathing disorders (Simpson). MayoClinic.com

actually recommends limiting the amount of preservatives in the diet to lessen the severity of

asthma. Those with heart problems and the elderly may want to avoid preservatives as they can

even weaken heart tissue according to studies by InChem, an organization that provides

information on how chemicals affect the environment and human health (WHO). One of the

worst characteristics of food preservatives is that they interact with stomach and gastric acids to

form cancer-causing agents (Simpson).

Food additives are not the only harmful elements of eating at and ordering takeout from

restaurants, cooking boxed processed meals, or re-heating pre-packaged frozen meals. Many

times, food in these categories are high in fat and low in vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.

According to Margo Wootan, D.Sc., the Nutrition Policy Director for the Center for Science in

the Public Interest (CSPI), since both adults and children eat about twice as many calories out of

the home as compared to eating in, they tend to eat more saturated fat, and less calcium, fiber,

fruits, and vegetables (Skarnulis).


With more and more fast food and other restaurants popping up near residential

neighborhoods, it gets easier and easier for people to develop unhealthy eating habits and

become obese in the process. In fact, the lower the ratio of fast-food restaurants and convenience

stores to grocery stores and produce vendors near people's homes, the lower the odds of being

obese according to a study on the relationship between local food environments and obesity

among adults (Smoyer-Tomic 192). Fast-food can lead to obesity because portion sizes tend to

be larger and have increased dramatically over the last fifty years (Stender 888). Another reason

is that fast-food contains industrially-produced trans-fat, which has been more strongly linked to

weight gain and adnominal fatness than other fat sources (Stender 888). To combat the chance of

becoming obese, Kathleen Zelman, M.P.H., R.D., WebMD Weight Loss Clinic Dietitian and

American Dietetic Association spokesperson, advises limiting visits to fast-food restaurants to

few times a week at the most (Skarnulis).

Some people believe that frozen dinners and boxed meals such as Hamburger Helper are

a healthy alternative to dining out or ordering in but they are sadly mistaken. Not only do these

food choices contain tons of food additives, they also contribute to other health issues including

high blood pressure, heart disease, and more.

According to an article entitled "Should You Defrost Your Diet?" written by Karen

Collins, R.D. for Msnbc.com, those who use frozen diet meals often argue that these are the

easiest way for a busy person to get a healthful, low-calorie meal compared with the alternatives

of eating high-fat choices from fast-food restaurants. Most of these individuals simply do not

have the facts and do not realize that sometimes these meals can be misleading. People looking

to lose weight believe that they can achieve their goals by purchasing frozen meals that boast that

they are low in fat and calories. Too often, they do not realize that bodies vary and what may be


the right amount of calories for one person may be too little calories for another. This can

actually lead to your metabolic rate slowing down making it harder to lose weight according to

Collins. Frozen meals, unless they specifically state that they are not, tend to also be high in

sodium making it difficult for people who eat them on a regular basis to stay below their

maximum daily sodium intake amount (Collins).

Boxed meals such as Hamburger Helper can lead to heart and other problems as stated by

Ann Siper in the article, “Hamburger Helper is Killing Me (and You)”. Many boxed meals

contain pasta that has been bleached to ensure that it has shelf life which strips it of its nutritional

value. They also tend to contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil which is soybean oil with

hydrogen added to it to also extend its shelf life. This ingredient can cause problems with the

arteries and contribute to heart attacks and cardiovascular disease which is the number one killer

of both men and women. According to Siper, eighty percent of people with this disease could

have prevented it with various measures including eating healthier.

A Personal Chef is paid to keep your health in mind. They can help with the control of

any diseases you may have such as diabetes and high blood pressure. They can assist in weight

loss or maintenance and dietary choices such as veganism and vegetarianism. Hiring a Personal

Chef is far more than just a food choice; it is choosing a healthy lifestyle.

Not only is food prepared by a Personal Chef healthier, it is customized to your exact

likes and dislikes. Your menu is designed specifically to your tastes and preferences down to the

finest details. Do you like your onions diced or chopped? Do you like cucumbers but not

pickles? Do you prefer to have your pizza extra meaty or saucy? The menus are planned and

designed just for you. You can even arrange to try new foods once a month or have a different


type of international cuisine every week. With a Personal Chef, whatever the client wants to eat,

he gets to eat.

Many people associate Private and Personal Chefs with gourmet food and fine dining but

they actually cook exactly what their clients enjoy, whether it be lobster and filet mignon or roast

beef and mac-n-cheese. With a Personal Chef, you have the opportunity to meet in advance to

discuss the details of your menu unlike visiting a restaurant and having to choose whatever is on

the menu placed in front of you. "A Personal Chef's goal is to make every meal the very best

meal you've ever tasted," says Personal Chef Terry Henderson of the American Personal and

Private Chef Association (APPCA) in an interview with the College Foundation of North

Carolina.

The benefits of having a trained professional prepare your food right inside your own

home goes far beyond customized menus. Many professional Personal Chefs are graduates of

culinary schools and programs and have an absolute passion for cooking. They take preparing

food for you and your family very seriously. Not only having taken food-safety classes, Personal

Chefs also carry liability insurance to properly reimburse their clients for any mishaps.

Although many people do prepare their own food instead of visiting restaurants or eating

pre-packaged foods, there are aspects of cooking that the novice home cook has no way of

knowing. Personal Chefs, many times, have spent years in commercial kitchens and understand

ingredients, flavors, cooking times and temperatures, and other aspects of culinary service. Often

they are members of professional associations, such as the American Personal and Private Chef

Association (APPCA) and the United States Personal Chef Association (USPCA) who guarantee

that their Personal Chefs are able to provide services appropriately and safely. According to their


websites, both the APPCA and the USPCA have their chefs adhere to a strict code of ethics

designed to protect their clients.

Another important reason that shows that hiring a Personal Chef is the best option is the

trust factor involved. You can feel safe in the fact that a professionally trained chef is preparing

your food in your own kitchen. No longer do you have to question your food and its source. Over

time, you will build a personal relationship with your chef which should be something that all

people have with the individuals who cook their food. For this reason, some families even decide

to keep their Personal Chef on as a full time Private Chef preparing up to three of their meals per

day.

It is actually astonishing that more people aren’t concerned with who is cooking their

food and what is being done to it with the horror stories that frequent the news. For example,

according to CBS News, three workers were fired from a Burger King near Cleveland Ohio for

posting to the internet pictures of them standing in bins filled with lettuce to be served to the

public. Also, a McDonald's employee in South Carolina was caught on video spitting into the

cups of two customers and arrested (Weir). According to the bestselling book by celebrity chef,

Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, restaurants use

all kinds of unsanitary and potentially risky tricks to cut corners such as “filtering cigarette ash

out of used butter to make a sauce and serving old beef to the customers who ordered it well

done"(qtd. in Weir).

Many of the twenty-five percent of Americans who eat fast-food daily (Palo) are being

exposed to the critical health violations found in sixty percent of restaurants in the top ten chains

in the U.S. in the last year and a half (Thompson). The problems that were found in major chains


such as McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Wendy's and Burger King were rodent droppings, insects, food

borne illnesses, improper employee sanitation, and more (Thompson).

Many people do not know of these types of violations at their favorite restaurants, and for

those who do, many of them still choose to eat at these establishments due to an illusion of

convenience. Stopping to pick up food on the way home seems like a convenient way of getting

food without cooking yourself but is it really more convenient than hiring a Personal Chef?

With a Personal Chef, not only do you get fresh and superior quality food, the time you

save by eliminating grocery shopping, cooking, and picking up food can be devoted to more

important aspects of your life such as family, work, relaxation, and more. Using a Personal Chef

Service can actually free up to ten to twelve hours of your time per week (McCusker).

Not only can hiring a Personal Chef free up time in your schedule each week, they are

often extremely versatile and can handle multiple tasks other than just cooking for your family.

Private and Personal Chefs may end up doing additional tasks per the clients request such as

cooking for and feeding the dog. If you love to entertain, your Personal Chef is also a private

caterer able to provide fine or casual dining for your family’s dinner and cocktail parties,

holidays, weddings, birthdays, romantic dinners, and more. You now become the “friend who

has a Personal Chef” able to throw lavish parties for which your Personal Chef has cooked and

served and possible even decorated and bartended. Personal and Private Chefs are also usually

able to travel with clients to cook for them while on vacations, business trips, and more.

Not many people realize that a Personal Chef is very easy to find. There are currently an

estimated 9,000 Personal Chefs who serve 72,000 customers nationwide. According to the

APPCA, those numbers are expected to double within five years. Hiring a Personal Chef from a


professional association such as the APPCA can help you guarantee that you are hiring a trained

professional who has completed food-safety and other types of training.

You are able to interview your Personal Chef before you hire them not only to determine

their culinary skill and preferences but also to gain a sense of their personality to make sure they

are an appropriate fit for your family. You can also request a food tasting to make sure that their

cooking style is suited to your family’s palate. As mentioned earlier, the APPCA and USPCA

can easily help you find qualified chefs in your neighborhood to begin the interviewing process.

To find a chef through the APPCA or USPCA, simply visit www.personalchefsearch.com or

www.hireachef.com and search for a Personal Chef in your state.

Many people could argue that the biggest reason not to hire a Personal Chef is the cost of

the service. The average cost of a Personal Chef Service can range from $250 to over $400 per

meal package or dinner plan according to Topics.info.com. These costs reoccur weekly,

biweekly, or monthly. Private catering pricing options can range from $7-9 per plate or more per

person for casual dining and $15-18 or more per plate per person for premium menus such as

filet mignon and lobster (Nash). Incorporated within the Personal Chef's fees are costs for the

client's assessment, recipe research, development and modification for any special dietary wants

and needs, groceries and grocery shopping, preparation time, and packaging. There may also be

additional fees for any other services you require your Personal Chef to perform such as kitchen

and pantry reorganization.

Because the meals provided by your Personal Chef are usually frozen in special

packaging, there is also an additional charge for these containers. As freezer size is of great

importance to this service, most Personal Chefs tour a prospective client's kitchen to determine


what type of packaging is needed and if the freezer is an adequate size. If extra storage space is

needed, the Personal Chef may suggest that the client purchase a chest freezer or other option at

an additional cost. Other factors that affect the cost of a Personal Chef Service include

geographical area in which you live, the chef's experience, type of services requested and

frequency of those services, and type of food choices (Ellis).

In reality, many people mistakenly believe that only the rich can hire a Personal Chef but

the field is growing so rapidly that people may be starting to get the picture. According to the

Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment of Personal Chefs is expected to increase from 2006

to 2016 due to the increase of the overall appeal of eating professionally prepared meals at home

(Simpson). Hiring a Personal Chef can be an affordable luxury for busy professionals and

families, seniors, people with special dietary needs and requirements such as athletes, diabetics,

vegans, and vegetarians. Unlike a Private Chef who works fulltime for one family, a Personal

Chef is more economical because he or she works for many clients making the service affordable

and able to fit into most people’s budgets.

If eating in restaurants, takeout food, or pre-packaged boxed or frozen meals are your top

food choices then you can afford and may be in desperate need of a Personal Chef. Americans

consume about one-third of their total calories in restaurants (Skarnulis). Food eaten in these

restaurants tends to be more expensive than food prepared and eaten at home. When you get a $9

glass of wine in a restaurant, in actuality, the whole bottle only cost $9. That is the way

restaurants make money (Whitney). It is the same way with food. In a restaurant, they mark the

food up so they can pay for rent, wages, utilities and other aspects of a restaurant’s costs that are

not associated with running a Personal Chef Service. Eating in a restaurant also requires gas


along with travel and waiting time so the full price of a restaurant meal should reflect those costs

as well (Chou 565).

You can’t just simply use monetary costs to compare a Personal Chef Service to a

restaurant or other source of prepared foods. You must also consider the time and gas it takes to

drive to and from the restaurant and any possible wait or lack of quality service. You are not able

to get the dishes you like just as you like them at a restaurant. You must choose from a preset

menu that shows little concern for any likes, dislikes, allergies, dietary issues or preferences such

as diabetes or veganism. Even with pre-packaged frozen or boxed meals, you are not only paying

for the actual food. You are paying for the packaging and food additives as well as the brand

name, not to mention the factory’s utilities, wages, and other expenses.

Something that also should be taken into consideration is the care taken by your Personal

Chef to create healthy meals for you and your family. What value would you put on your health

and the health of your family and children? Zelman also advises parents to "pay a little more" for

healthy substitutions for kids' meals (Skarnulis).

Compare what you spend on food now with the cost of a Personal Chef. Include trips you

make to restaurants, food ordered in, and grocery costs. Many times you will find that a Personal

Chef Service is actually cheaper when you factor in all of the costs surrounding your

consumption of food. If your research finds that a Personal Chef Service costs a little more but

was still affordable and could guarantee you safe and healthy, fully customized food options,

would it not make sense to hire a chef to protect your family’s culinary interests?

Some may also argue against hiring a Personal Chef by saying that although restaurants

have not had a good reputation in the past regarding the dietary content of food they serve, many


are beginning to create healthier food options. According to an article for the WebMD Weight

Loss Clinic, written by Leanna Skarnulis and reviewed by Michael W. Smith, MD., fast-food

restaurants are offering more low fat and lower calorie items on their menus. Food producers are

also searching for more natural preservatives that aren't harmful to humans such as cloves,

allspice, thyme, sage, oregano, and garlic in which strong antibacterial compounds are found

(Willems 215).

Although restaurants and food producers are beginning to offer healthier alternatives to

their normally fat and additive-laden dishes, food-safety measures are still alarmingly ignored as

evidenced previously. There is always a huge risk taken when you eat food prepared by complete

strangers. Just read the book The Waiter which details the author’s experience during his nine

years waiting tables at an unknown NY restaurant. The book is written by Steve Dublanica and is

called by Anthony Bourdain "the front-of-the-house version of Kitchen Confidential”. Dublanica

agrees that people should be concerned when they eat at restaurants, "You need to know where

your food comes from … Waiters can and do spit in people's food.” He goes on to say that if

people care about what is in their food, shouldn’t they “care about the people preparing it?” (qtd.

in Spartos). If you can’t trust the person right in front of you with your food, how can you trust

someone possibly thousands of miles away in a factory mixing thousands of pounds of

ingredients at a time?

More and more people are starting to question their food choices. They want better food

quality and to know that their food is prepared safely, but the need for convenient food options

usually causes people to consume food that is quite the opposite. Employing a Personal Chef is

an excellent selection for busy professionals and families seeking a healthy and affordable food

choice that provides just as much, and usually even more, convenience as restaurants, frozen


dinners, and boxed meals. The choice is yours to make, but remember the lives of you and your

family depend on your decision. Choose wisely; choose a Personal Chef.


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