You’re not the person this usually gets aimed at. You already eat well. An Honest Greens bowl at your desk, Flax & Kale on the days you want something nicer, a poke when you’re bored of both. The food is genuinely good and genuinely healthy. Nothing to fix there.
What’s worth looking at is what the habit costs once you run it five days a week, because it’s two things at once: the money, and the part the receipt doesn’t show.
The money, honestly
Prices from the apps, observed July 2026:
| Where | Bowl / main | All-in per lunch on Glovo |
|---|---|---|
| Honest Greens | €10.45–11.45 | ≈€13–16 |
| Flax & Kale | €13.95–15.95 | ≈€17–20 |
| Poke House | €6.50–9.90 | ≈€9–13 |
The bowl is only the start. Glovo adds a service fee of 7% (minimum €0.49, capped at €2.99) and a delivery fee it sets live per address, usually somewhere around €1.50–3.50. Delivery menu prices also tend to run a little above the dine-in card, since restaurants build the app’s commission into them.
Run that as a weekday lunch habit, twenty workdays a month:
| Per lunch | Per week | Per month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheaper end | ≈€12.70 | ≈€63 | ≈€254 |
| Typical | ≈€16.30 | ≈€82 | ≈€326 |
| Nicer bowls | ≈€20.60 | ≈€103 | ≈€411 |
So a healthy lunch out, done properly across the working week, is roughly €250–400 a month. And that’s lunch alone. Add the evenings you can’t face cooking and it climbs from there.
The part the receipt doesn’t show
The euros are the smaller half. The habit also runs on a daily tax you stopped noticing: opening the app, deciding where’s decent today, reading the menu again, picking, and then the twenty-to-forty-minute gap before it lands. Call it ten minutes of deciding and half an hour of waiting, most working days. That’s the real price of ordering, and it never goes down.
And after all that, the bowl is still a fixed thing off a menu. Healthy, yes. Built around your protein target, your training load, the allergy you’re managing? No. You get what the kitchen makes for everyone.
Where a chef plan fits, and where it doesn’t
Most of these comparisons lie about this, so plainly: a private chef plan is not cheaper than a €10 Honest Greens bowl. Per meal we land around the same money once Glovo’s fees are in, roughly €15 for a single meal, about €20 across a two-meal day. If your only test is lowest price per plate, the bowls sometimes win, and we’ll say so.
What changes is everything around the meal.
You tell us your week once, and the deciding and the waiting are gone: Frank builds the plan, cooks it, and it arrives twice a week ready to eat. No app, no 1pm menu-scroll, no rider running late.
Every plate is built for you rather than for the average customer, sized to your macros, your allergies, the things you actually like. A bowl off a shared menu can’t do that. If you’re eating to hit macros or a training goal, that’s the whole difference.
It’s a fixed weekly rhythm you can lean on, and it still bends when life does: pause for travel, swap the meals you’re bored of, scale the portions up before a training block.
And it’s a chef cooking every single day, not just the day you felt like treating yourself. Frank makes the good-day food the ordinary-day default.
Once price stops being the point, that’s what your money buys: the time back, and food that fits your life instead of a menu.
When you should just keep ordering
If what you love is the spontaneity, walking in somewhere new, the social lunch, trying a place you haven’t been, the restaurants win and you should keep going. A plan is a commitment to a rhythm. It’s the right trade when the daily ordering has become a chore you’d pay to be rid of, and the wrong one if choosing is the part you enjoy.
Side by side
For roughly what you already spend per bowl, one path keeps the deciding, the waiting and the off-the-menu portion. The other hands the week to a chef who cooks it around you and drops it at your door. They cost about the same per meal; the difference is everything around it.
This is the same case we make against ordering healthy food through Glovo every day, just with the actual restaurant prices in front of you. If you want the full picture of how the plans and delivery work, that’s the next thing to read.
The numbers, plainly
Two meals a day works out around €44 per person, a full day about €60, delivery on top by area. It scales to how you actually eat. Tell us a normal week and Frank designs a plan around it.
FAQ
Is a chef plan cheaper than Honest Greens?
No, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling you something. Per meal we’re comparable once Glovo’s fees are counted, not cheaper. What you gain is a meal built to your goals and the end of deciding and waiting every day.
Do I have to sign up for full days?
No, it scales to how you eat. Most people run two meals a day (about €44) or a full day (about €60); it can go down to a single meal a day (around €15) if that’s all you want. Delivery on top by area.
What about the nights I want to go out?
Go out. The plan is for the weekday meals that drain your time and money on autopilot. Friday dinner, Sunday brunch, the new place everyone’s talking about: that’s yours to keep.
