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Slow food, made by someone near you.

Frozen meals, baking and preserves from home cooks across Toronto and the GTA. Read the recipe, meet the cook, pick up at their door and stock the freezer.

No postal code? Choose your area

Not sure what you want? Answer five quick questions

Explore by areaTorontoPeelYorkDurhamHaltonPrince Edward County

Cooking near you this week

Frozen meals, baking and preserves, made in small batches. Add your postal code and these sort by distance.

Show all 32 meals

Less packaging. Less waste. Fewer apps.

No couriers, no bags inside bags. A neighbourhood cook batch-cooks on Thursday, you collect on Saturday, and the jar goes back next time.

How we keep packaging down

  • 30 of 32

    meals come in reusable, returnable, bring-your-own or compostable packaging

  • Pickup only

    No drivers, no courier bags. Walk or drive a short way to a cook near you

  • Batch cooked

    Cooks make what they can sell, so less food is thrown out

  • Containers come back

    Return a jar or tin at your next pickup for a credit

A brick storefront on a Toronto neighbourhood street

Food from someone who knows how it's made.

We started this because our family lives hours from the people who would cook for us, and a new baby is coming. We wanted a freezer stocked by a real person, with the recipe in plain sight.

Read why we built this

Meet the cooks

You're buying someone's cooking, not a faceless kitchen. Every cook has a storefront with their story, their recipes and their pickup times.

BakedPreserved
Example

Hearth & Jar

Cooked by Dana

CanadianVeganSome gluten-freeDairy-free

Sourdough, pickles and jam, put up in small batches.

New

Riverdale and the Danforth

From $0.75 a serving · home kitchen

Frozen
Example

Chef Priya

Cooked by Priya

IndianHalal ingredientsSome veganGluten-freeSome dairy-free

North Indian family trays that reheat like they just left the stove.

New

East York

From $7.50 a serving · home kitchen

Frozen
Example

Mei's Dumplings

Cooked by Mei

ChineseEast AsianSome veganSome dairy-free

Hand-folded dumplings, frozen flat and ready to boil.

New

North York

From $2.40 a serving · home kitchen

FrozenBaked
Example

Marg's Comfort Kitchen

Cooked by Marg

CanadianComfort foodSome vegetarianSome gluten-freeSome dairy-free

Pot pies, tourtière and butter tarts. Canadian comfort, frozen fresh.

New

The Beaches

From $3 a serving · home kitchen

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Find a cook near you

    Enter your postal code, or answer five quick questions about who you're feeding.

  2. Step 2

    Pick what you will stock

    Frozen meals, baking and preserves, each with the recipe, the cook and the day it was made.

  3. Step 3

    Pick up at their door

    One cook, one pickup. Made ahead and ready to keep. Bring a cooler bag. The exact address appears after you order.

  4. Step 4

    Freeze it and enjoy later

    Stock the freezer and the pantry for the nights you cannot cook, and follow the cook's heating or opening notes.

Shoppers at the bakery counter in St. Lawrence Market, Toronto

No approval, no selling.

Anyone can post food on a Facebook group. Here, a cook applies first and we check their paperwork before a single meal goes live. If a certificate expires, their store pauses automatically.

  • Identity and business details
  • Public health notification for home kitchens, or an approved commercial kitchen
  • Food-handler certification and liability insurance
  • An allergen declaration for every meal, and a label we generate for every batch
What we check

Turn your cooking into a business.

Your own storefront and link, labels and pickup scheduling. The first 100 cooks are free for life. You cook.

Founding cooks: free for lifeSee the requirements

Be first when your neighbourhood opens.

We're opening one neighbourhood at a time so there are always plenty of cooks nearby. Leave your email and we'll tell you when yours is next.