Every Pure Bites article tagged salads.
Ordering well
Where do I get a good salad in Surat, what should it cost, and how do I know it is fresh?
Surat eats farsan for breakfast and salad is a new habit. Here is the practical guide: the three places a salad in this city actually comes from, what a bowl costs and why, how delivery works in a city with no cold chain, and the four checks that tell you whether the bowl was made this morning.
Recipes & food ideas
I want to eat millets but I am bored of bajra roti — how else can I use them?
Millets are the grain India rediscovered and then put back into roti. They are better as a grain bowl: cooked, cooled, dressed with lemon, tossed with pulses and vegetables — a lunch that travels, holds, and carries the fibre and minerals millets are famous for. Three bowls, with the numbers.
Nutrition & health
Are sprouts really healthier than plain moong, or is that a myth?
What sprouting actually changes in a mung bean — more vitamin C, less phytate, easier digestion — with the numbers, what it does not change, and how to sprout and eat them safely.
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
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.
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.
Nutrition & health
My salad looks healthy but I have no idea whether it is actually a meal.
A bowl of leaves is not a meal. Five components turn a salad into lunch that holds you until evening — and one of them is the part everyone gets wrong.
Nutrition & health
I’m vegetarian and my salads never keep me full.
The single most common reason a vegetarian salad fails as a meal is that nobody put protein in it. Twelve ingredients, with the numbers, from an all-veg kitchen.
Nutrition & health
I know vegetables are good for me, but I don’t know what a daily bowl actually does.
A bowl of vegetables a day is one of the few eating habits almost every dietary guideline agrees on. Here is what it actually does for you — and what it does not.
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.