Planning to follow to a healthy diet during Navratris? Fasting for a period of 9 days is a great way to cleanse and detox your system inside out. Along with it, it is quite important to make your fasting routine healthy to avoid less energy and bad health. Here are a few tips on a healthy diet during Navratris.
5 steps to a Healthier you:
a. Check up on your Fried food options: Let’s face it honestly. Don’t we end up eating more fried when fasting? If you agree with me, then this year try out the various healthy recipes that we share and focus primarily on the mode of cooking that you opt for while preparing a dish. Try shallow frying, roasting, boiling, sauteing over deep frying, or air frying.
b. Level up your Grain-Game: Navratri is a festival of change, with the change in season, it is a good time to reboot our systems, and breaking away from regular daily foods is a great way to do so. Grains allowed during Navratri fasts include Kuttu (also called Buckwheat), Singhara, Samai, Amaranth, and Quinoa; all nutrient powerhouses and most importantly, all gluten-free. So, a great time for all those who are trying to go Gluten-free. Try using one kind of flour in a day, to ease your cooking, and relish different flavors every day.
c. Fuel-up your Water Intake: Good water intake in fasting is not only necessary to stay hydrated but it can also reduce your unnecessary cravings of foods while make you binge less on processed and oily foods. To make this step interesting, add water, vegetable and fruit juices with pulp and coconut water in your menu so that you can stay properly hydrated while fasting. This will also help you avoid unnecessary acidity and indigestion issues.
d. Power up Proteins: With 9 days of fasting, we tend to miss on adequate proteins, not because we lack options, but we are unaware. Try adding paneer based gravies, or snacks, a variety of raitas, buttermilk, healthy milkshakes to maintain the levels. Apart from it, Navratri special grains such as Quinoa, Amaranth, are also good sources to level up the protein intake.
So, are you ready for a Healthy Detox this Navratri 2020? Do let us know in your comment sections how you balance your thali in navratri.
