Making the week’s food decisions once, on a Sunday, so weekdays need no decisions at all.
Everyday eating
How much cooking oil should one person use in a day?
India’s dietary guidelines put added oil and fat at 20–50 g a day depending on how active you are — about 27–30 g on a 2,000 kcal diet. What that is in teaspoons, in a month’s shopping, and where a fried snack fits inside it.
Nutrition & health
I have been prescribed a GLP-1 medicine and I am vegetarian. What should I actually eat?
GLP-1 medicines shrink appetite, so every small meal has to carry more. What a published expert advisory says about protein, fibre, fluids and the nutrients to watch — translated to dal, paneer, curd and sprouts, with the limits of that translation stated.
Everyday eating
I feel weak and hungry all day during the Navratri fast — what should I actually be eating?
Nine days of vrat food is nine days of sabudana if you let it be — and sabudana is starch. Here is what the fasting staples actually carry per 100 g, which combinations keep you full and steady, and how to build a fast that does not end in a 4 pm headache.
Smart snacking
I don’t know whether to buy the 500 g or the 1 kg pack.
We sell in 500 g and 1 kg, and people ask which one they need. The answer depends on one number nobody has thought about: how big your evening bowl actually is.
Everyday eating
Healthy food becomes boring after three days.
Healthy food gets boring on about day three. It is nearly always a texture and dressing problem, not a vegetable problem — and both are cheap to fix.
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.
Fresh & quality
My namkeen goes soft within a week of opening the packet.
Namkeen goes soft for one reason and it is not age. Four rules from a kitchen that packs it every day — including the one everybody gets wrong about the fridge.
Smart snacking
I eat well all day and then snack badly at 5 pm.
Most people eat well until about half past four. What happens next is a planning problem dressed up as a willpower problem — and it has a boring, effective fix.
Fresh & quality
My greens are limp by the next morning.
Greens do not die of age. They die of moisture, warmth and a bruise. Six storage rules from the person who packs every Pure Bites order.