Bengaluru flatmates have a WhatsApp group with cooks, their specific menu goes viral

A group of Bengaluru flatmates has a WhatsApp group with their cooks where no meal is left to chance, with detailed instructions on exactly what each person wants to eat. A screenshot of the chat, which listed each flatmate’s breakfast, lunch and dinner orders in detail, has now gone viral on social media.

In a post on X, Kaashvi Saxena shared a screenshot of the WhatsApp group, titled “Baddie Nivaas Cooking,” which included her flatmates Kaashvi, Urvashi, Pari and Ishika along with their two cooks, Sarita and Sunita.

The WhatsApp message on the group began with “today’s menu” and laid out individual meal requirements for the flatmates. For breakfast, Kaashvi wanted a two-egg-white omelette with mushrooms, onions and tomato, without broccoli or bread. Urvashi opted for a two-full-egg omelette without onion and two slices of bread, while Ishika wanted a two-full-egg omelette with mushroom, onion and tomato, along with two slices of bread. Pari had no breakfast.

The lunch orders were equally specific. Kaashvi asked for chicken, brown rice and vegetables, while Urvashi wanted chicken with white rice and vegetables. Ishika opted for two avocado egg toasts, while Pari’s meal included a three-egg omelette with onion, mushroom and tomato, along with cheese sandwiches.

For dinner, Kaashvi and Urvashi wanted sliced chicken with cucumber and salad dressing, without rice. Pari, meanwhile, opted for bhindi, raita and two rotis.

In the caption of the post Kaashvi said, “I think I’m sane because we have two cooks for the house and they can handle any range of items we ask them to make.” She added that Sarita and Sunita “have the bandwidth to pick up more projects” and recommended them to anyone looking for a cook in Bengaluru’s Indiranagar area.

In the comments section of the post, several people asked how the flatmates managed to coordinate such a detailed menu every day.

Responding to one such question, Kaashvi explained that it took only a few minutes each evening. “It’s a five-minute thing over dinner every night when my flatmates and I chill. Then it’s just one voice note, instinct fixes it in a format that our cook understands, and we’re done,” she said.

Furthermore, Kaashvi said that because the flatmates had been living together for some time, planning their meals had become “muscle memory”. “If we fail to do it, the cooks can almost always second-guess the menu,” she said.

Several other users also asked for more details about the cooking arrangement in the comments.- Ends