Stellenbosch student meal plans · Sundays at Saint Mary's LUNCH AND
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Standard is the sensible default - 400 g is a proper, filling meal, at R2,299 a month for lunch and dinner. Pick Full (600 g) if you are usually still hungry after dinner, if you train, or if you are the person who always goes back for seconds. Pick Lite (200 g) if you have a lighter appetite. Every portion comes at one meal a day or two, and the service is identical on all of them; only the serving size, the number of meals and the price change.

Those are the serving weights we portion to, and every figure on this page is calculated from them. Cooked food portioned in a working kitchen varies slightly from container to container - we portion to hit the stated weight, not to fall short of it. If a portion ever looks visibly light, tell us and we will make it right.

Because that is what makes the portions this size at this price. BulkBite cooks two dishes in bulk each week: two ingredient lists, one preparation run, almost no waste. A kitchen cooking ten different things for the same number of people has to charge for that complexity. Yours would be the portion that pays for it.

The menu follows a 12-week cycle with 24 variations: chicken curry, beef pasta, beef chilli and chicken stew. Two dishes are cooked each week, one covering four days and the other three. Registered students are told the coming week’s two dishes before collection.

No. BulkBite covers lunch and dinner - or one of them, on one meal a day. Breakfast, coffee, snacks, bread, fruit, eggs and everything else stay yours. The point is that the meals that usually cost you the most thought, time and money are already in your fridge.

Your price comes from three answers: one or two meals a day (and the portion), how long, and collect or delivery. On two meals a day, Lite costs R439.95 a week, R1,599.95 a month or R11,519.95 a year; Standard costs R631.95, R2,299 or R16,552.95; Full costs R769.95, R2,799.95 or R20,159.95. On one meal a day, Lite costs R249.95 a week, R908.95 a month or R6,543.95 a year; Standard costs R350, R1,272.95 or R9,164.95; Full costs R439.95, R1,599.95 or R11,519.95. A week is 7 or 14 meals. A month covers every Sunday collection until your next payment - 28 or 56 meals over four weeks, and more in a month with five Sundays. A year buys the 32-week campus year: 224 or 448 meals, with university breaks and holidays already taken out. Collection is free; delivery is extra. Every plan renews automatically until you cancel, and you can cancel at any time.

Yes. Nothing about a plan requires the student to be the one paying. Check out in the student's name so the collection list is right, and pay with the parent's card: Paystack charges that card weekly, monthly or yearly until the plan is cancelled. BulkBite never sees or stores the card number, and a message to us cancels the plan at any time.

If your bursary or NSFAS allowance is paid into your own bank account and you have a card on that account, you can spend it on a BulkBite plan like any other money. Pay weekly from R249.95, monthly from R908.95 or yearly up to R20,159.95 - whichever matches how your allowance arrives. BulkBite does not invoice a bursary office or university directly and is not an accredited NSFAS merchant. Everybody pays the same way, by card through Paystack.

Every friend you refer who signs up and pays for their first month on the monthly plan earns you 7 free meals - one extra meal a day for a week, at whatever portion you are already on - added to your next month. The reward goes to you, the person who referred them: your friend signs up on the ordinary plan and does not get free meals. The reward is on the monthly plan only: a weekly plan is too short to hand it back on and the yearly price is already the lower one - neither earns the reward and it cannot be added to either. It is not money off: the plan costs what it costs and the meals arrive on top, which is why 7 meals is worth about R200 on Lite, R287 on Standard and R350 on Full. The rewards stack - every successful referral earns another 7 meals - and there is no code to remember: your friend types your name in the “Did someone send you?” box when they check out. You have to be on a paid plan to receive them.

Outside Saint Mary's church at Eikestad in Stellenbosch. Sunday collection runs from 13:00 to 15:00.

Sunday, once a week, from 13:00 to 15:00 outside Saint Mary's church at Eikestad.

Yes, as long as you can be outside Saint Mary's church at Eikestad on a Sunday between 13:00 and 15:00. There is one collection point, so what matters is not where you sleep but whether you can get there once a week - students commuting in from Somerset West, Paarl, Klapmuts, Franschhoek or a farm outside town are on exactly the same plan at exactly the same price. Delivery costs R50 extra per weekly drop and is offered inside Stellenbosch only. Five of the seven containers go straight to the freezer, so the drive home is not a problem.

Yes, inside Stellenbosch. Delivery adds R50 to each weekly payment on one meal a day, R100 to each weekly payment on two meals a day, and R250 to each monthly payment; on the yearly plan we arrange the fee with you after you sign up. Collection is free: one Sunday collection outside Saint Mary's church at Eikestad from 13:00 to 15:00. Delivery is a real cost, so it is priced separately rather than buried in everybody's portion.

Two containers go in the fridge and the other five go in the freezer on collection day, then you move tomorrow's container to the fridge the night before. The full instructions - fridge and freezer temperatures, how long each keeps, how to defrost and how to reheat - come to you in writing at signup and sit behind the QR code printed on every container, alongside that week's ingredients and nutrition.

Your week's food comes portioned into seven reusable BulkBite containers - one for each day, holding that day's meal or meals - included in the price. There is no deposit and no weekly pile of disposable takeaway boxes. Rinse them, bring all seven back when you collect the following week, and we swap them for a clean set. Every container carries a QR code to the storage, reheating and nutrition page for that week's two dishes.

Full is the plan built for that: 600 g a serving, twice a day - 1.2 kg of food a day, 8.4 kg a week and 33.6 kg over a four-week cycle, at about R50 a meal. It is honest gym food rather than a macro-tracked programme: home-style beef and chicken dishes with rice or pasta, cooked in bulk. If you train, take Full and keep your own breakfast, snacks and supplements on top of it.

It depends on the dish and portion. Use the nutrition guide above to see estimated calories, protein, carbs and fat for the four original base recipe examples, with a slider for 200 g Lite, 400 g Standard and 600 g Full meals. Current variations may differ. These figures are calculated from recipes and standard ingredient data, rather than laboratory tested.

Yes, as an estimate. The nutrition guide above covers four base recipe examples and shows calories, protein, carbs and fat for every portion size. The food-care page behind the QR code on each container also carries that week's ingredients and allergen information. Nothing has been through a laboratory yet, and every figure is labelled as an estimate.

The current rotation is built on beef, chicken, rice, pasta (wheat) and everyday vegetables, so gluten is present in the pasta week. BulkBite cooks in a shared kitchen, so we cannot rule out cross-contact with other common allergens and we cannot yet offer an allergen-free preparation. The confirmed allergen list for each dish is published once it has been checked. If you have a specific allergy, tell us in the form and we will come back to you directly before you commit to anything.

Your first collection is the first Sunday after you pay, as long as you pay by 12:00 on the Friday before it - otherwise it is the Sunday after, because the ingredients for each Sunday are bought by then. The checkout shows the date before you pay. The official start is Sunday 20 September 2026, so nobody collects before then. As soon as you have paid, your welcome email brings the date and the link to the collection WhatsApp group, and if you have a question we reply on WhatsApp within 5 minutes. For a different start date, message +27 65 752 4234; a change applies only once BulkBite confirms it in writing.

Yes. Message us by 12:00 on the Friday before the relevant Sunday collection and we move you to the new portion, or between one and two meals a day, from your next payment. Requests received later may only take effect for a later week because ingredients may already have been bought and preparation may have started.

Yes, at any time. Message us on WhatsApp or email and we cancel your plan with Paystack - nothing is charged after that, and the collections you have already paid for still go ahead. To pause instead, message us by 12:00 on the Friday before the relevant Sunday collection. Later requests may only take effect for a later week if ingredients have already been bought or preparation has started.

Weekly and monthly plans pause from 11 December 2026 to 7 February 2027. There are no collections during the break and no renewal is charged in it, and nothing you have paid for is lost: paid time that falls inside the break is added back from 7 February 2027, and your next charge moves later by the same number of days. If you sign up during the break, your first payment is taken straight away and its time starts counting on 7 February 2027. Yearly plans do not move - their price already covers 32 weeks of food across the campus year, with the breaks and holidays taken out.

Tell us as early as you can and we will do what we can. Because a week of food is cooked and packed for a named student, we cannot promise it can be held or remade after the Sunday 13:00 to 15:00 collection window.

Tell us the same day and send a photo. We will replace it or credit it against your next collection. Because each week is cooked to order in bulk, a week that has already been prepared is not refundable in full. The full terms are on the Terms and Conditions page, which you accept at checkout.

BulkBite containers remain the property of BulkBite and are tracked against your account. A lost, unreturned or damaged container may be charged at the disclosed replacement price of R200 per container. Normal wear and tear is not charged.