Hi, I’m Robert, the guy behind every recipe and article on My Kitchen Mates. I’m a home cook and dad based in Morrisville, NY, and food has been a genuine obsession of mine for the past seven years. I started this site back in 2021 because I needed it to exist. Not as a side hustle idea, not because someone told me to start a blog.
I started it because I was trying to get my own eating on track and I could not find a single resource that gave me both straight nutrition information AND food that actually tasted worth making again.
My Story
A few years back I decided I was done with half-measures. I wanted to lose weight, feel better, and honestly just be a more present dad. I have kids at home and I wanted them to grow up watching someone who actually cooks real food and enjoys it, not someone who orders out every other night because healthy cooking felt like a chore.
The problem was everything I found online was either way too complicated, called for ingredients I had never heard of, or tasted like cardboard dressed up with a filter. I kept running into the same watered-down advice recycled across a hundred different sites, and none of it felt real.
So I started from scratch. I cooked, I tested, I tweaked, I read everything I could get my hands on about nutrition and food science. My Kitchen Mates started as a place to write it all down, and four years later it has grown into 400-plus recipes that I am genuinely proud to share.
What You Will Find Here
My Kitchen Mates is all about everyday cooking that is actually good for you, without making you feel like you are on a diet.
Every single recipe on this site has been made in my own kitchen. I test them myself, I eat them myself, and I only hit publish when I would legitimately make them again on a regular Tuesday night.
Here is what you can dig into:
Healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack recipes built around ingredients you can grab at any grocery store without spending a fortune.
High-protein and high-fiber meals that support weight loss and energy without turning every meal into a math problem.
Ingredient guides that break down what things actually do for your body and how to use them well.
The Cooking Chemistry series, where I get into the science of why recipes work the way they do. Once you understand the why, you stop needing to follow instructions so strictly and start actually cooking.
A set of free kitchen calculators for portions, conversions and nutrition breakdowns, because knowing your numbers makes cooking a whole lot easier.
Why I Keep Doing This
My Kitchen Mates now reaches over 45,000 readers every month. The thing that genuinely keeps me going is hearing from folks who say a recipe finally helped them stick with eating better, or that something they read here changed how they think about food entirely.
I am not a registered dietitian. I am not a trained chef. I am a regular dad from upstate New York who got serious about food, put in the time to actually understand it, and learned firsthand that eating well does not have to be a grind.
That is the whole point of this site.
A Few Things I Genuinely Believe
If a healthy recipe does not taste good, it is not done yet.
Nutrition advice should be straight and evidence-based, not built around selling you something.
Home cooking is one of the most underrated things you can do for your health. You do not need fancy equipment or a big grocery budget to eat well.
Understanding why something works in the kitchen makes you a better cook faster than anything else.
Thanks for stopping by. Whether you landed here looking for a quick weeknight dinner or you are trying to overhaul how you eat altogether, I hope you find something that clicks.
If you ever want to reach out, ask a question, or just say hey, head over to the contact page. I read every single message.
Talk soon,
Robert Founder, My Kitchen Mates