Guides for making the midday decision once, in advance, instead of at 1 pm when you are already hungry.
Nutrition & health
Why do doctors always say “eat moong dal”?
Why mung dal is the pulse recommended for sick days and weekday lunches alike: 7 g protein and 7.6 g fibre per 100 g, easy digestion, folate, and what the pulse trials actually show.
Nutrition & health
Which dal has the most iron and protein?
Lentils are the highest-iron everyday pulse — 3.3 mg per 100 g cooked — with 9 g protein, 7.9 g fibre and 181 µg folate, and they cook in fifteen minutes with no soak. The numbers, the trials, and what the kitchen does with them.
Everyday eating
I work in Surat and I want a lunch that survives the commute and the heat.
Local, specific and honest about the constraints — the heat, the commute, the office fridge you do not have, and what a Surat kitchen can and cannot deliver to your desk.
Everyday eating
I don’t know what I’m going to eat tomorrow, so I decide at the last minute and decide badly.
Most people do not have a food problem. They have a 12.40 pm decision problem, repeated five times a week. Move the decision and the problem mostly goes away.
Everyday eating
I need a lunch that survives a desk and doesn’t wreck my afternoon.
The 3 pm crash is a lunch problem, not a sleep problem. Here is what to eat at your desk on a Surat working day — including the four we send out most.
Ordering well
I order the healthy option and somehow it still isn’t.
Nine ways an order that looked healthy stops being healthy — most of them happening before the food is even made.