Meals On Wheels
In case you are on-the-run always, busy attending meetings, catching flights….than you are probably eating whatever is available or offered. If you are concerned about ‘Eating Right’ and want to take that little step ahead to make sure your snack/meal is healthy, low fat and fresh; here are a few tips I would like to share with you:
If possible, think ahead and plan your lunch/evening meal a week ahead and shop for groceries accordingly. This will save time and also ensure organized preparation.
Try and look for restaurants/joints offering healthy options like whole wheat sandwiches/soups and salads/idlis and appams and carry their contact numbers for that ‘just in case’ delivery.
Plan your day ahead. If you know you are busy the whole day, eat a wholesome breakfast and step out.
Buy fruits, small fruit juice boxes, whole wheat breads, a week in advance. Carry two fruits and a juice box everyday when you step out of the house. If you have fruits in your bag you are bound to eat it. Try for fruit juices with low/no sugar content.
Make a trail-mix with a handful of puffed rice, roasted channa, peanuts, some salt and roasted curry patta or corn flakes, wheat flakes, raisins and almonds and carry these in a ziplock bag and keep in your bag. This makes very healthy snack option too chips or namkeen. You may also make popcorn and carry them in ziplock pouches.
Keep skimmed milk powder mixed with sugar in a ziplock pouch in your bag. You may just mix this with warm water and enjoy with your trail mix when ‘hunger strikes’ and nothing healthy is available around. Will make an excellent evening snack. Have a fruit along with it to fill up more.
Keeping in mind ‘complete nutrition’ and ‘stomach fullness’, here are a few quick on-the-move meal options, I have thought of:
Left over last night’s chapattis (which was nicely wrapped in aluminum foil), rolled into a roll with some peanut butter and jam. Have it with some fruit juice and a couple of almonds.
Whole wheat bread sandwiches with mint chutney and ketchup, some grated cabbage and carrots. Carry a small cup of packaged curd along. This makes a cold refreshing lunch.
Order for idlis and have sambhar along with it. You may avoid the coconut chutney which is saturated fat (bad for the heart) but have the tomato chutney with this. This lunch lacks protein and will make you hungry soon so munch on a few almonds or peanuts with a cup of curd for satiety.
If you are rushing to work and have no time to sit for breakfast, just slice up a banana, spread some peanut butter inside and gulp it down with a glass of fruit juice or skimmed milk.
To keep chopped salads/fruits/curds fresh and cool in this hot Indian summer; keep a frozen bottle of water (wrapped in a towel) in the same bag as these. This will keep the snacks cool and prevent from spoiling and you will have cold water available in the hot summer wherever you go. Freeze lemonade/Orange tang/Juice instead of water if you like.
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