Stage 1
Gather
$200/week
from September 2026
We shop and the fridge is stocked when you get in. You cook.
You like cooking. You do not like the grocery run after a shift.
You are new to Detroit. We are not.
The weekly menu is built with chefs who cook in this city, and it rotates, so week six does not taste like week one. After a twelve-hour shift the last thing you should have to decide is dinner.
Three stages
Pick the one that matches how much you want to do. Change it week to week.
The Gather and Prep tiers come in under the federal per diem meal rate for Detroit. If you are on a stipend, that is the number your coordinator reimburses against — GSA per diem, meals and incidental expenses. Rates are set per fiscal year — check the current figure before you rely on it.
Stage 2
Prep
$350/week
from September 2026
Everything above, plus meals prepped so cooking is minutes, not an evening.
You want to cook something, not everything.
Stage 3
Hot window
$600/week
from September 2026
Hot meals delivered in a window you agree in advance.
You want to walk in and eat.
Who cooks it
The menu
Develops the rotating weekly menu
Designed by a Detroit chef, not a caterer — built to rotate, to hold and reheat well, and to come in under the per diem. We will name the kitchens here once both have agreed to be named.
The cooking
Cooks the meals and delivers them
A family-run Detroit kitchen with decades in restaurants behind it, 0.2 miles from the house.
That last number is why a hot meal in an agreed window is a real offer rather than a hope: the kitchen cooking it is on the next block.
The menu
Weekly rotation, so week six does not taste like week one.
Dietary needs
Any dietary requirement. Tell us what you need and the menu is built to it.
Severe allergies: raise it before you book so we can tell you plainly what we can and cannot guarantee in a shared kitchen.
If you would rather cook
The house has 2 kitchens with a stove, microwave, air fryer and blender, and reverse-osmosis water on tap. No meal plan is required.