A real family kitchen — full fridge, kids' lunchboxes on the counter
A weekly in-home cook for working parents

Your family,
fed.

A vetted cook comes to your kitchen once a week and leaves five dinners and every school lunch, cooked from your groceries. You come home to a full fridge.

✓ Background-checked cooks✓ Groceries at cost✓ Cancel anytime
5 + 5
dinners & lunches, weekly
10+ hrs
back in your week
$0
markup on groceries
1 tap
to approve the week
The trade

Trade the 6pm scramble — the “what's for dinner,” the fourth grocery run, the sad lunchbox — for a full fridge and a quiet evening.

Not meal kits. Not delivery. A real person cooking real food in your own kitchen, the way you'd do it if you had the time.

How it works

Four steps. Then the routine runs itself.

Phone showing the Sunday menu text
01
Sunday, approve the week

Five dinners land in a text. Keep them, swap any one, or ask for a family recipe. One tap.

Cook working in a home kitchen
02
Your cook comes over

Groceries arrive first, at cost. Your cook lets themselves in and cooks. You don't need to be home.

Labeled containers filling a fridge
03
Come home to a full fridge

Everything labeled and dated, reheat times on each lid. Lunchboxes packed for the week.

A dinner plated at the family table
04
Dinner, already decided

A 4pm text — “tonight, tacos: warm 8 min, slaw's ready” — so everyone sits down together, no scramble.

Parents and kids enjoying freed-up time together
What you get back

The hour you'd have
spent at the stove.

Dinner's handled, so the evening is yours. Homework, a walk, the couch, a board game on the floor — nothing at all. The point was never the food. It's what happens once it's off your plate.

No 6pm scramble, no “what's for dinner”
One less grocery run, one less mental list
Evenings that are actually yours again
Your cook

The same person, every week.

You're matched with one local cook who learns your family — the allergies, the appetites, the kid going through a beige-food phase. Meet them before you commit.

Background-checked
Identity + criminal, via Checkr
ServSafe certified
Food-safety trained
Insured
Liability covered on every visit
Backed up
A vetted sub if they're ever out
Portrait of a Merrow cook in an apron
Cook handing off food to a parent
Pricing

One weekly price. No surprises.

Billed weekly, before each visit. Groceries billed separately, always at cost. If we ever can't complete a session, that week is refunded the same day.

Dinners
$179/ week
about $776/mo
✓ 5 dinners, cooked weekly
✓ Same cook each visit
✓ Menu you approve or swap
✓ Nightly 4pm reheat text
Start with a trial week
Most families
Full plan
$226/ week
about $979/mo
✓ Everything in Dinners
✓ Every kid's school lunch, packed
✓ Hard food rules, never overridden
✓ Priority backup cook
Start with a trial week

Covers 2 adults + up to 3 kids · +$25/week per extra member · pause or cancel anytime, no call required.

Hard rules

“No nuts” means no nuts.

Allergies and hard limits are constraints in the system — not notes we hope a cook remembers. A menu can't be built that breaks them, a swap can't introduce them, and no cook can override them. That's the whole point of doing this in software.

Where we cook

Check your ZIP.

Enter your ZIP and we'll tell you right away. If we're not cooking in your neighborhood yet, we'll add you to the waitlist — every neighbor who signs up moves your area up the list.

Merrow — Your family, fed.