Most of the professionals I know in Barcelona live the same loop. Rushed mornings with a coffee and something sweet. Lunches wedged between meetings, or straight from Glovo. Dinners that depend on whatever’s left in the tank — which usually means another app open on the phone.
Everyone says they want to eat healthier. Very few actually change behaviour. Not because they’re weak. Because the system they live in makes it hard.
The real problem isn’t knowledge
By now most people understand the basics: whole foods, enough protein, reasonable portions, not too much ultra-processed stuff. That’s not the bottleneck.
The bottleneck is the 90 minutes a day between deciding what to eat, shopping for it, cooking it, and cleaning up after. Every day. Forever.
That’s why delivery apps won. They remove the friction. The trade-off is obvious: higher cost per meal, questionable ingredients, unpredictable macros, and — if you’re honest — a creeping effect on how you look and feel.
What if you just had a chef
For over ten years my family has been working with a chef here in Barcelona. He cooks for us and a small group of other households. A plan gets designed around each person. Food shows up fresh every two days — morning between 7:30 and 9:00, or evening between 18:30 and 20:00 — straight into the fridge. Between drops you always have a few days of meals ready: heat, eat, move on.
No shopping. No cooking. No cleaning. Still real food — fish, meat, legumes, vegetables, grains, fruit. Mostly Mediterranean. Protein high enough to support training. Portions matched to how you actually move.
It’s not a meal-kit. It’s not a dark kitchen on an app. It’s a chef who knows your name, knows your allergies, and adjusts the next week based on what worked.
The food doesn’t taste like meal-prep. Open the fridge on a Tuesday and you might find harissa chicken with herbed couscous, jerk chicken with black beans and rice, miso salmon with bok choy, or a Mediterranean grain bowl with grilled halloumi. Real chef cooking, portioned and ready — not the same poached chicken and steamed broccoli on repeat.
How HealthyFoodBCN works for professionals
- Full-day nutrition — breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner. Or a smaller plan if you only need lunch or lunch + dinner covered.
- Weekly plans typically run from €44 per person per day, two meals (about €60 for a full day), depending on complexity.
- Plans are custom — built around your goals, not picked from a dropdown.
- Delivered fresh in the morning or evening window that fits your schedule.
- Nutritionist available — if you’d like a nutritionist to design the macros, we’ll connect you to ours and the chef will cook from it.
The point isn’t “meal prep as a service.” The point is the thing that anybody with a real private chef has been doing for decades — someone who knows your body, your taste, and your schedule, cooking for you every week. We’ve just figured out how to make it affordable.
Who this is for
- You live in Barcelona.
- You work long hours — office or from home — and your diet is the thing that keeps losing.
- You order delivery multiple times a week and you don’t feel great about it.
- You care about your health, or your training, or both. You just don’t want to cook.
What happens next
Fill in the form at the bottom of the page. A few lines about your routine, your goals, your neighborhood. The chef reads it and comes back with a proposal. Usually within 24 hours.
