FASTING

F A S T F E A S T S

FASTING DOESN’T MEAN YOU LOMIT YOURSELVES TO DRAB OLD SALADS AND JUICES JAZZ UP YOUR HEALTHY DIET MENU……

Fasting is a wonderful new beginning –

But, thanks to that salivating tongue, foodies never find fasting fun even though they know the health benefits. So, nutritionists have taken up the responsibility of making fasting, fun with their little tricks and tips, a nutritionist says. “Bake, grill, boil, do anything but fry. If you fast on a regular basis, then go for boiled potato chats and garnish it with all the vegetables you like.

Instead of concentrating on the potatoes, you can concentrate on the other veggies. Beet root pagodas and sweet potato kheer are also good option.

Fasting can be fun.

All you need is a little determination and loads of vegetables, nuts and fruits. Nutritionist and health consultant says, “When you are fasting, have lots of fruits and nuts. Go for nuts and vegetables cooked with minimum oil. Make a salad out of bottle gourd and cucumber and spice it up with cumin or green/red chili. Slow cook whatever you are making so that the flavours come out. Start your fast with ragi puttu or rava upma, then go on to have bottle gourd and lime or a cucumber mint salad and end your day with potato yam tikkis.

Fast with moongdal, dosai and dhoklas, lentilpav bhaji with tomatoes and moong. Go for chamomile herbal infusions and organic food to relax”.

For those, who complain about the lack of choices in fasting? Nutritionist has some good news, “Juice fast, dry fast, tea fast, master cleanse fast and fasting for religious purposes or just to lose weight, choose what you want to do and why. Some people also fast to enjoy special fasting foods like mini sabudana salad and watermelon smoothies. A well garnished peanut curry with a dash of kokum or tamarind pulp, vegetable broth or apple, cranberries and grapefruit juices are also good options”.

Fasting may not exactly sound like fun but with the lemonade diet, the cookie diet and a juice fasting diet, it can be made interesting. Not only is the food consumed during fasting important, so is the food after the fast. Dietician says that one of the golden rules when fasting is to break the fast extremely slowly and carefully. Their insist “Drink lots of vegetable juices and consume well garnished fruits.

Oatmeal is also a great food to eat after wards. Do not over eat. Looks matter, whether it’s that of an individual or even something on the menu. Buy a fancy bowl, decorate it with some salad leaves, put some nicely chopped, chilled fruits and vegetables and feel like a queen (or a king). And yes, don’t forget to stand on that weighing machine after you break the fast.

Make your fast fun:

WITH A VARIETY OF OPTIONS, FASTING IS NO MORE BORING OR TOUGH.