Diet is personal

Being single and without anyone around to help, I tried several experiments to find the best diet that works for me. My number one rule was that it had to be easy to prepare and clean up. With so much information available, it can be overwhelming to figure out the best sources of nutrients. That’s why I decided to go back to nature and cover as many colors as possible by incorporating a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and seeds into my meals. Now you can mix and match the core ingredients like vegetables, grains, beans and fruits while the overall set up remains same.

1. Soup. – 0630
2. Breakfast – 0800
3. Snack – 1100
4. Lunch. 1300
5. Pre workout 1630
6. Post workout 1800
7. Dinner. 1930
8. Small changes for big change

Soup

1. 6 french Beans.
2. 10 leaves of spinach.
3. 1 Tomato. Medium.
4. 1/3 Bottel Guard.
5. 1 Carrot. Medium.
6. 1/3 beetroot.
7. Cluster Beans.

Cut everything into small pieces and boil. Blend to make the soup. Add water depending on how think you want the soup. You can add pepper powder and salt (just for taste).

You can experiment with more vegetables that will go alone.

Breakfast

Millets and curd. 5 spoons of millets. Boil for 10 mins. Mix with curd and enjoy. Add salt or red chilli powder only for taste.

Along with this you need to boil 3 types of beans like kidney bean and other that are similar in shape and size. Eat that along with millets.

Quick Tip – you can place a glass of beans along with the container you are using to boil your vegetables, so this will not be an extra task.

Snack

Sprouts with coffee. You know the drill.

Lunch

1. 1 table spoon rice.
2. 4 table spoon mixed daal. Best to mix lentils, peas grams.
3. 4 to 5 types of vegetables – ridged guard, capsicum, radish, brinjal.
4. 1 onion medium.
5. Salt, Jeera and that black small round round things. Do not use any packed masala.
6. Ghee.

How to make

1. Add ghee to the cooker.
2. Add Jeera and that black thing
3. Chop one green chilli and one onion and slow cook.
4. Chop all the other vegetables and add.
5. Add rice and grains all.
6. After few seconds add one glass or water.
7. Let the cooker do its things

Important point here is you can rotate the types of grains and vegetables. Just need to workout what fits best with respect to the outcomes of the texture and taste.

Add few drops of lemon once cooked and enjoy.

Pre workout

A banana and black coffee.

Post workout

Fruits, dried fruits, seeds milk shake.

1. 1/2 glass milk.
2. 4 almonds.
3. 4 cashew.
4. 2 wallnuts.
5. 1 fig. You may want to cut this in smaller pieces.
6. 2 dates. Not dried.
7. 4 blue berries.
8. 2 spoons of mixed seeds. Flax, seai, hemp etc.

Lets the blender do the thing and enjoy.

Dinner

Optional. If I am still hungry I go for upma with few vegetables. Or chilla made of ragi and besan floor.

Small Changes for big change.

1. Add few drops of lemon to your food. Better then consuming lemon separately.
2. Mix pink and regular salt. Both are required.
3. Stop refined oil. Use ghee or any cold pressed oil.
4. Reduce as much as possible anything that comes in a package.
5. Ajwain powder or Souf – Afterfood. Small good habit.
6. Amla chopped and soaked in honey. Just eat it. I know difficult but just eat it.