We eat 2-3 meals in a day and there is nothing better than having a nutritionally dense platter.
Guidelines to planning meals:
In each meal eat – a leafy vegetable – Spinach, Fenugreek, one fruit vegetable – Raw Papaya, Chow Chow, Gourd and one root – Carrot, Beet, Sweet potato
Go for Colors – Red, Green and white
Eat local seasonal vegetables and fruits
Add one lentil based protein be it in form of dal or a patty
For bread choose from cooling flours like Barley and Jowar. One can also consider oats and corn flour for breads too.
Limit Dairy intake – Preferably only buttermilk
Use Rock salt and whole spices
For cooking choose from Ghee or Mustard oil
Sweets – Jaggery sweetened rice, Dark chocolate or Fruit cream
Last but not the least – Stay away from refined flour, refined oil, Paneer, white sugar, sea salt and ready to eat packaged snacks!