How We Cook - Real Food Kitchen | Queenstown, Wanaka & Cromwell, New Zealand

Cooked in our own kitchen three times a week for Queenstown, Wanaka & Cromwell

How We Cook

The standards behind every meal. Specific, checkable, and the same ones we hold our own family's food to.

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We feed our customers what we feed our own families.

The test every recipe has to pass

Our Standards

What Goes Into Every Meal

Cooked Three Times a Week

We cook specifically for every Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday delivery, rather than cooking once and holding stock.

Never Gas-Flushed

Mass-produced meal kits are often packed in modified atmospheres to stretch shelf life. Ours aren't. They don't need to last a month.

Made in Our Own Kitchen

Every meal is cooked in small batches by our own team, not manufactured at a central facility and trucked in.

Create Your Own Plate

Choose your portion size and your carb option on every meal, and watch the macros change as you do. Your plate, not a fixed box.

High Protein, Every Meal

Every regular-size recipe is made with 150g of meat (uncooked weight). That's a kitchen rule, not a menu highlight. Check the protein on any meal.

A Clean Pantry

No seed oils and no refined sugar, anywhere in the kitchen. We cook in beef tallow. It's a pantry standard, not a one-off recipe choice.

See For Yourself

Every Meal Shows Its Numbers

Open any meal on the menu to see its protein, carbs and fat, then change the size or carb option and watch them update.

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