VW30

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Preparing meals

Description

Planning, organizing, cooking and serving simple and complex meals for oneself and others, such as by making a menu, selecting edible food and drink, getting together ingredients for preparing meals, cooking with heat and preparing cold foods and drinks, and serving the food.

Index terms

  • Preparing meals
  • Preparing simple meals
  • Preparing complex meals

Excludes

  • VW24 – Eating
  • VW2Y – Drinking
  • VW31 – Doing housework
  • VW32 – caring for others
  • VW3Y – Caring for household objects

Sibling codes

  • VW31 – Doing housework
  • VW32 – Assisting others
  • VW3Y – Other specified domestic life
  • VW3Z – Domestic life, unspecified

Foundation entity

Preparing meals – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/871682135

Part of: V: Supplementary section for functioning assessment