What food do we serve at Vaanavil Farm Stay?

🌾 Our Philosophy

We care deeply about where our food comes from and how it’s grown. At our farm stay, you’ll enjoy wholesome, seasonal, home-cooked vegetarian meals. These meals are prepared with care. Ingredients are sourced as much as possible from our farm and trusted partner farmers.

  • Tirunelveli district is known for its paddy cultivation. We support organic paddy farmers in our shop—so be assured, the rice is special!
  • We serve fruits along with breakfast. While our young fruit trees are still maturing, we supplement with organic produce from partner farms. If unavailable, we may procure from outside with transparency.
  • We source organic wheat and millets from trusted farmers.

🧇 Breakfast

Includes:

  • Filter Coffee or Maanjolai Tea (with native cow milk)
  • One main dish: Idli, Pongal, Idiyappam, Puttu, Aappam, Uthappam
  • One accompaniment: Sambar, Veg Stew, Kadalai Kuruma, Kadapa, etc.
  • One chutney: Coconut, Peanut, Onion-Tomato, etc.
  • Fresh Fruit Bowl

🍛 Lunch

Depending on the availability of vegetables and other farm produce, we serve lunch such as

  • Tamilnadu style ilai saapadu with sambar, rasam, poriyal, kootu, appalam, curd and payasam
  • Kootanchoru, Ulundhu soru, Kanji, etc with paruppu urundai Kuzhambu, muttai Kuzhambu, thuvayal, poriyal and vathal.

🍲 Dinner

Includes:

  • Filter Coffee or Maanjolai Tea (with native cow milk)
  • One main dish: Idli, Pongal, Idiyappam, Puttu, Aappam, Uthappam, Aval Kozhukattai
  • One accompaniment: Sambar, Veg Stew, Kadalai Kuruma, Kadapa, etc.
  • One chutney: Coconut, Peanut, Onion-Tomato, etc.
  • A light Soup (Banana Stem, Drumstick, Pumpkin, Raw Papaya, Moringa,etc.)

🧂 Many of our breakfast and dinner items use fermentation (e.g., idli, dosai, aappam, uthappam). Kindly share your meal plan and preferences at least 2 days before arrival.

Ingredients

  • We use Organic Heritage Semi-Polished (Red, White & Black) varieties for breakfast and dinner main dishes. 
  • We use fresh ingredients from the farm as much as possible.
  • We are a home kitchen set-up and do not yet offer a la carte options for any of our meals. We want our guests to have a wholesome food experience because that is a lifestyle we are trying to promote.
  • No heavily processed foods and refined sugar will be used.

Prices

MealPrice per Person
Breakfast₹300
Lunch₹600
Dinner₹300
Extra Beverages (e.g., Lemon Juice, Buttermilk, Tea, Coffee)₹50 per glass

🍳 Add-ons (Based on availability)

  • Native Chicken / Duck Curry – additional charge
  • Native Chicken / Duck Eggs – additional charge :

🎁 Discount Offers

CategoryDiscount
Children (2–12 years)33% off
Children below 2 yearsFree
Groups of 5 or more people5% off

✅ All prices include GST.
📌 Discounts are cumulative wherever applicable.

⏰ Meal Timings

MealTime
Breakfast8:00 – 9:30 AM
Lunch12:30 – 2:00 PM
Dinner6:30 – 8:00 PM

Please inform us in advance if you’d like to have your meals different than our timings.
If, for any reason, we are not able to provide farm fresh food, we will arrange for home-cooked meals. These meals will be delivered from the nearby village at actual costs and delivery charges.


Check out our instagram page Vivasayee’s Life for a glimpse of the meals provided

🥡Dining Out and Take-away

  • Please ask for containers to avoid disposable plastic when buying food outside.
  • We offer reusable cutlery and space for dining:
    • Common dining area downstairs
    • Sit-out space outside your rooms
    • Terrace seating

We use ash for dishwashing—available in the downstairs kitchen. You’re welcome to use it!

Our recommendations and favourites nearby for dining out or take-away :

All meals : Ramanas

Lunch : Kambar Murugan Mess

Dinner only : Sivamaiyyam

CIY at Vaanavil Farm Stay

We have all the utensils you need to cook yourself at Vaanavil’s kitchens. Please give Noushadya a shout out while you are here and we will make it happen.

You can buy organic groceries from our farm shop. If you choose to buy groceries from outside, we recommend that you ask for paper packaging to maximize compostable waste and to reduce plastic waste.