Tuesday late lunch with BB — GrabFood delivery at $22.40. The mid-week delivery slot, continuing through November.

We ordered (GrabFood late lunch):

Mains
Sides
Drinks

Total: $22.40 via GrabFood.

The $22.40 GrabFood late lunch sits at the standard delivery pricing. Roughly $11 per person for the delivered hot meals, plus the platform’s delivery fees baked in.

The mains were the substantial dishes. Each came as a one-bowl or one-plate meal — usually a noodle bowl or a rice plate. Properly sealed for delivery, hot when arrived.

Sides were the smaller components — vegetable plates or sides ordered to cover the missing nutritional components that the mains alone don’t provide.

Drinks were the standard sealed-cup beverages.

The Tuesday late lunch GrabFood format is the convenience play we’d built into the rotation through phase 2. Working from home means lunch can shift slightly later, and the delivery app turns the late-afternoon hunger into a hot meal at the doorstep within 30 minutes.

The cost math doesn’t favour GrabFood against home cooking — $22.40 versus $4-5 in groceries is real. But the energy math sometimes wins. By Tuesday afternoon, the work week is in its mid-rotation, and the cognitive load of cooking another home plate adds friction that the GrabFood order removes.

The pattern through November had stabilised. 3-4 home weekday lunches + 1 hawker break + 1 GrabFood delivery. The split worked for our energy budget.

Phase 2 was deep in, and the delivery economy had stabilised. Restaurants had figured out their delivery operations, the apps had figured out their commission structures, and we had figured out our usage patterns.

Some lockdown habits earn their permanence. The occasional GrabFood Tuesday late lunch sits firmly on the keeper list — not as the default, but as the planned convenience option.

Overall: 4.4 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable Tuesday GrabFood — keeping the pattern.

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