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Healthy Festival Diet Plan
| Morning | 1 to 2 glasses warm water followed by a cup of herbal tea or green tea or regular tea without sugar. |
| Breakfast | 1 cup grapefruit juice and a bowl of fruits (choose from these fruits: apples, oranges, moosambi, papaya, melons) |
| 11:00 am | 1 glass of fresh vegetable juice –green colored juice like bottle gourd ( lauki / dudhi ),celery and mint OR red or orange colored juice made from tomato and carrot. Avoid salt. |
| Lunch | 2 multi grain chapattis or jowar rotis with a bowl of vegetables, dal/pulse/sprouts and salads with low fat yogurt. OR Vegetable rice ( masala rice or vegetable pulao ) with usal and cucumber raita. |
| Evening | 1 glass coconut water A handful of dry fruits like 4 almonds and 4 walnuts |
| 6:00 pm | 1 cup herbal tea or green tea |
| Dinner 7:30pm | 1 Bowl of mixed vegetable soup, 1 multi grain roti with vegetables OR 1 bowl of vegetable soup with 1 bowl of steamed or sautéed vegetables and salads. |
Suggestions and recommendations
Festivals in India are celebrated with an assortment of mouth watering, rich, irresistible sweets and snacks. This section contains a diet plan (above) with easy to follow suggestions for those who are health conscious and wish to manage their weight during this period of revelry. When you combine good health with taste, you cannot go wrong!
Healthy foods to include in your daily diet:
- Beans, peas and lentils
- Whole grain cereals like jowar, ragi, barley and whole wheat
- Fresh vegetables—raw and cooked
- Fresh fruits
- Nuts and seeds
- Low fat milk and yogurt
- Vegetable oils or cold pressed oils of nuts, seeds and vegetables
- Fresh herbs and spices
- Replace sugar with jaggery and honey in preparation of sweets. Use dry fruits for fillings. Moderate helpings of these sweets are recommended.
Unhealthy foods to be avoided:
- Foods with food additives and preservatives
- Butter, cream, hydrogenated fats
- White flour and its products like breads, cookies and cakes
- soft drinks, milk shakes, sweets, desserts and fried snacks
- Other deep fried foods like chips, chivda, samosa, etc.
- Packaged snacks with high content of trans fats
- Fruit juices with added sugar
- Pickles and pappads
