Go Natural…eat food as close to nature as possible!!

Real food is the key to good health, processed food is not. Period.

Have you ever noticed how animals eat? Animals, unless domesticated, hunt/search/ arrange for their own food and food for them is, limited. So an average animal has to work hard to get food and many a times end up eating very little…just enough to last them for their next meal and all this food is unprocessed, raw and not even cooked.  For human beings the scenario is just the opposite. Most of us, especially urban humans have too much food at our disposal and most of it is not in its natural form.

We do not have to do much physical labour to find food or to fix up our meals. On the contrary we have an over enthusiastic food industry that fills our departmental stores with all forms of edible, ready to cook things. The grains, pulses, fruits, vegetables and oils and spices are available off the shelf, can be ordered over a phone call and now on the click of a mouse…we have the luxury of buying highly processed, half cooked, frozen, ready to eat food… all you need is a toss in the pan and thawing in the microwave and voila your dinner is fixed.

Fun, Food, family and Celebration!!

Rejoice!! It’s the time of the year for celebration. With Christmas and New Year around the corner, the celebrations bring with it a plethora of good times and YUMMY TREATS. 

 As you get together with your friends and family and splurge on delicious cuisine and heavenly desserts, all the festivities and parties can prove to be a disaster for your waistlines. Our diaries and our minds are packed in catching up with friends over food and drinks. There are three major factors that can lead to overindulgence - the all encompassing party spirit, the proximity to high-calorie food, and the availability of alcohol. And with all that, eating and drinking in moderation goes out of the window. You tend to lose control on rational thinking and your perception of food and its portions change. Come January and you have gained excess weight.

Winter Dessert Gazak:

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. The cold breeze and the low temperatures spice up your appetite and there is always an urge to pop something sweet, to provide warmth and energy. The humble gazak is your way to get the sweetness with the nutrients minus the empty calories.

Gazak is a combination of goodness of Jaggery and Sesame seeds alongwith benefits of Desi ghee.

Jaggery, a store house of energy is digested and absorbed gradually releasing energy over an extended period of time. This gives it a natural advantage over the fast hydrolyzing white sugar. Jaggery, with richness of iron and other minerals, comes with many more benefits; it facilitates digestion after a heavy meal or after eating meat.