Choose the right cooking support for your household.

Mini Cook (3 Dishes | ~15 Serves)
A smaller cook with the same great results.

• 3 family meals cooked in your home

• Portion, pack, and clean included

• Ideal for a quick weekly top-up

You shop - we cook.

Full Cook Service (5 Dishes | Approx. 25 Serves)

Hate cooking? Let us do it for you.

We'll come to your home and prepare 5 family-sized dishes (approximately 25 serves) from your chosen menu using your groceries. By the time we leave, you'll have a fridge and freezer full of delicious home-cooked meals ready to heat and enjoy.

• Choose from 200+ recipes

• Approx. 25 serves prepared in a single visit

• Meals cooked, packaged and labelled

• Full kitchen clean-up included

Have your groceries ready, or add our shopping service and we will organise them for you. We'll take care of the cooking.

Have specific recipes that need to be followed? We'll cook your meals your way, using recipes provided by you, your dietitian, or another health professional.

Perfect for medical, allergy, therapeutic, or highly specific dietary requirements where following a particular recipe is important.

• We follow your recipes as provided

• Happy to work with dietitian and practitioner meal plans

• Meals are cooked, portioned, and packaged for you

• Full kitchen clean-up included

After booking, you'll receive an email with instructions on how to upload your recipes for review. Recipes must be submitted before your appointment so we can ensure everything is ready for your cook.

Need a hand getting organised in the kitchen? We'll come to your home and help with ingredient preparation, meal box assembly, or kitchen organisation.

Perfect if you've ordered meal kits, want ingredients chopped and portioned for the week, or love cooking but would prefer everything prepped and ready to go.

Start with a 2-hour Express Kitchen Hand session.

Our team can:

• Wash, chop and portion ingredients

• Assemble meal boxes or freezer packs

• Prepare ingredients for upcoming meals

• Help organise your pantry, fridge or freezer

• Keep your kitchen clean and tidy as we work

You provide the groceries and we'll do the prep.

A full kitchen reset to get your space organised.

We declutter, clean, consolidate and organise your pantry and kitchen so everything is easy to use and maintain.

How it works
Choose your recipe from our list for your first session, just to get started.
After that, we’ll work together using recipes you choose, that suit your goals, building on what you’ve already learned.

What this program is about
This isn’t about cooking the same dish over and over and it’s not about becoming a chef, although some of our CER clients have!

It’s about building real-life skills so you can feel more confident and independent in your own kitchen.

We focus on things like:

• Planning simple meals

• Understanding ingredients

• Safe knife handling

• Grocery shopping and decision making

• Preparing meals you’ll actually eat

What you’ll get out of it
Over time, you’ll build skills across different areas, not just one recipe. So everyday cooking becomes easier, more familiar, and something you can do on your own.

There’s plenty of time to practise, ask questions, and build confidence at your own pace.

Home & Community Care (HACC) Cooking Session

For approved HACC program participants only.
This service is arranged through the HACC program and all bookings must be made by an authorised HACC representative.

When making a booking:

• Select HACC Booking from the booking menu.

• Look for the HACC image to ensure you are selecting the correct service.

• Complete the booking using the participant’s details.

• Please send the Purchase Order to I Hate Cooking after the booking has been submitted.

• HACC bookings are managed and facilitated by the HACC team only.

HACC representatives: please select “HACC Booking” from the menu when arranging a participant’s session.