Packaged Food
There are so many things come under the roof. E.g Sauces,chips, noodles, ready pickles,
Just make a list of yours and try to evaluate how many ready packets you buy with your grocery.
Read the ingredients given backside and you will get the answers for life style induced disorders likeobesity, cancer , IBS gastritis PCOD, diabetes, hypertension.
There are preservatives, emulsifiers, additives, artificial flavours sometimes colorants also.
As we all have learnt not to consume salt more than 0.5 milligrams and that we get through our meals. But through packaged food we get more than that.
Let's see a packet of chips how many potatoes are there in small packet , there might be a small potato along with that there are many other ingredients as I said above, though they are safe as per the authority standards but...they are synthetic, & we are consuming it. Also we are giving it to the children.
In our childhood or our parents childhood those things where not their grandparents ke era mein to Sawal hi Nahin..!
Hence they were so fit and fine. What about us? answers we all know.
If this goes on, the children will face same issues earlier.
I can understand we get attracted towards the packets spicy, tangy taste especially, instead of all such packet food we can have potato for example local traditional recipe tried at home various kind of papad like potato, moong are better than these packaged stuffs even those banana chips we get at our local market are also better. Important is eat local think global moreover purchasing from local vendors can help our people doing small businesses.
So, we can prepare at home just give a try make a list of packaged food like noodles sauces chips biscuit cookies cakes in the ingredients , how many things do you purchase in your grocery, try to cut off some stuffs, initially it may take to reduce whole things, gradually you can cut off them from your grocery list.
We Indians are really having diversity in living & eating habits also so we have many options to replace all these ready stuffs.
Some of them I'm giving below.
Ready pickles : Homemade pickles
Butter/Spreads/Mayonaise/Sauces : Homemade chutneys like tamarind-dates chutney, Pudina-coriander chutney, coconut chutney, peanut chutney, seasonal fruits like chutney, homemade pomegranate jam, mago jam, homemade murambas. Homemade pickles like raw mango, amla can also be used for such spreads.
Ready soups : There is no need to get ready pack of soups as we get fresh veggies at the market & they are easy to prepare.
Chips / kurkure : Homemade papad, wafers.
To get that spicy, tangy taste : I won't recommend to get that spicy, salty, tangy taste to consume in high dose as being delicioius they have their own properties of positive & negative shades. Excess is always harmful. But for small quantity spices you can use black pepper, clove, cinnamon, powder rosted cumin seeds & coriander seeds, dry ginger powder, rock salt, dry mango powder,tamarind pulp, tomato chutney, powder of pomegranate dry seeds. Combination your favourite ingredients among these will give a tastier & healthier version of your favorite food prepared at home with love. One more thing can be done for children if they demand something from outside get them involved like " lets make it at home" & give them small works they will be engaged doing things, n can get pleasure of doing self.
Dr.Revati Garge
MD Ayurved.
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