About Marshal

Recipes for the nights you’re short on time

Marshal is built for busy professionals and parents who want a real, complete meal on the table without spending an hour scrolling past life stories to find the ingredient list. Every recipe on Marshal is a full meal — a protein, a side, something green — not a single component you have to piece together with two other tabs open.

We keep the library curated on purpose. Instead of publishing everything, we’d rather publish recipes we’d actually cook on a Tuesday: clear steps, realistic prep times, and ingredients you can find at a normal grocery store.

How a recipe gets onto Marshal

Every recipe on Marshal is curated and reviewed before it’s published — we don’t publish anything without a human checking it first. When a recipe is adapted from a creator, we credit and link them, and adapt it into Marshal’s standard format so ingredients, steps, and nutrition are consistent from recipe to recipe.

Each recipe lists exact ingredient quantities, numbered steps, prep and cook time, and difficulty, so you know what you’re getting into before you start chopping.

Food safety, checked on every recipe

Before a recipe is published, it runs through a safety validation pass that checks for the things that actually matter in a kitchen: safe minimum cooking temperatures for meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs (per USDA guidelines), and consistency between a recipe’s ingredients and its dietary tags — so a recipe labeled vegetarian doesn’t quietly call for chicken stock.

We also tag common allergens on every recipe (dairy, eggs, nuts, shellfish, soy, gluten, and more) so you can scan a recipe quickly if you’re cooking around a food allergy or intolerance. That said, always read the full ingredient list — our tagging is a helpful signal, not a substitute for checking labels yourself, especially if an allergy is serious.

Nutrition data from a real source

The nutrition facts on every recipe are calculated from the USDA FoodData Central database — the U.S. government’s public, authoritative source for food composition data — rather than a rough estimate. We calculate values from each recipe’s actual ingredient quantities, so the calorie and macro counts you see reflect what’s really in the dish, per serving.

From recipe to grocery cart

When you’re ready to cook, you can order the full ingredient list through our Instacart integration and have everything delivered instead of making a special grocery trip. It’s optional — every recipe works just as well if you’d rather shop yourself.

Our standards

We hold every recipe to the same bar:

• A complete meal — not a single component
• Reviewed and validated before publishing, not published sight-unseen
• Checked for safe cooking temperatures and correct allergen tags
• Nutrition calculated from USDA FoodData Central, per serving
• Clear attribution when a recipe is adapted from another creator

Questions or found something off?

If a recipe looks wrong, an ingredient seems mismatched, or something just doesn’t add up, tell us — we want to fix it. Reach us at issues@marshalrecipes.com.