Mon to Sat, never Sunday — why the cook gets a day off
Six days of cooking with one person at the stove is sustainable. Seven days is how cooks burn out by month four. We chose Mon–Sat on purpose.
The cook is a human
A working cook who is on the stove from 7 AM and 4 PM every single day has no time for groceries, laundry, family, doctor, temple, anything. Six days a week is the maximum a kitchen can run sustainably without quality slipping. The easiest way to ruin a tiffin service is to run it seven days. Look up the ones that tried.
Your plan is priced for it
We don't charge for Sunday and we don't pretend we do. 26 service days × 2 meals = 52 meals for ₹2,600. The math assumes weeks of (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat) only. There's no missing day; there's no asterisk. Some plans claim "30 days" but quietly skip Sundays and holidays — you find out month three.
Sunday is actually useful
- For you: One day a week to go out with friends, eat your mother's cooking when she visits, or remember what cooking your own meal feels like (you'll choose us by Monday morning, trust us).
- For the kitchen: One full day for deep-cleaning, repairing the air fryer, restocking dry goods at the wholesaler, and inventing the next month's specials.
- For the cook: Time to actually live.
What about exam-week heroism?
We don't do 7-day "exam specials." We do the opposite — during exam weeks the dinner skews lighter (less heavy oil, more dal-rice, more eggs, fewer carbs) because we'd rather you finished the paper than slept through it. Sunday off is part of how we keep the other six days good.
Two meals a day, Mon–Sat. Self-pickup, home delivery, or on-site at BLPGA. See pricing →
- Stop cooking, start living — why we built Bhuk FoodsA founder's note on India's first kitchen substitution service, the BLPGA kitchen at 43 Matangini Hazra Pally, and why we don't call ourselves a tiffin service.
- What is a kitchen substitution service?Not a tiffin service. Not a cloud kitchen. Not a meal-kit subscription. A kitchen substitution service replaces the entire act of cooking — and that changes the math.
- The 4 PM rule — how skip-a-day works without losing a rupeeCancel any meal day before 4 PM the previous day and you're not charged. The day extends to the end of your plan. Here's why the rule is exactly this strict, and exactly this generous.