Question for people with smart meters

[Autumnalsky]

I hope this is the right place to post this question - it seemed the most relevant!

I have disabilities and am unable to cook for myself. Someone delivers batches of cooked food, which I have for dinner, twice a week. So it's a total of seven dinners per week, but not each dinner is different. How much do you think I should give the cooking person per month to cover the cost of gas/electricity for cooking? Thank you!

Is this an informal arrangement you have with someone? If it’s a commercial arrangement they may well have their expenses covered. As a guide I have an electric oven and via my smart meter it costs me about 50p to have my oven on for 30-40 mins.

Why are you only concerned with covering the cost of the gas and electricity, but not the cost of the ingredients, or the person's time to make these meals?
I would say the gas and electricity costs are the smallest portion of those three costs, so just paying for those is not going to cover the total cost of these meals?

Obviously I cover the cost of the ingredients and pay for the time taken to cook the meals!

It is obviously straightforward to cover the cost of the ingredients, and we have an agreed hourly rate that I pay for the cooking time.

What’s unclear is how much to pay for the gas/electricity. That’s why this is the thing that I’m asking about.

Are they giving you a portion of something they've cooked for themselves/their own family, or cooking completely separately just for you? If the former, payment for time and ingredients only needed imo.

We have a smart meter but given that we have multiple appliances/devices running at the same time as cooking so I couldn't really tell you how much running the oven or air fryer costs.

Hi, they are cooking separately for me. I don’t know whether they cook things for themselves in the oven when it’s on for my food, but they wouldn’t necessarily do that.