The 3pm crash is usually your lunch

The afternoon slump is so normal in office life that most people treat it as a fact of biology. Often it is just a large, carbohydrate-heavy lunch doing exactly what a large, carbohydrate-heavy lunch does.

What tends to cause it

• A plate that is mostly rice or bread with very little protein
• Portion size big enough that digestion takes over for an hour
• Fried food, which slows everything down further
• Skipping breakfast and arriving at lunch far too hungry

What tends to fix it

A lunch with real protein, a sensible portion of carbohydrate, and enough vegetables to make it filling without being heavy. It is not a dramatic change. Most people notice the difference within about three days, which is roughly how long it takes to be sure it was the food and not a coincidence.

The delivery bit matters too

This is the one place we are deliberately different from the bigger Delhi NCR services. They send the whole day's food chilled before 10am and you reheat it later. If you are ordering one meal a day from us, it is cooked that morning and arrives hot between 12 and 2 — at the hour you actually eat it.