Habits
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High-protein meals you can actually cook in fifteen minutes
The five things worth keeping in the kitchen, three shapes that cover most weeknights, and two filmed meals that go from fridge to plate in under fifteen minutes.
Sugar in an ordinary Indian day, and the packet that calls itself healthy
Three cups of chai, four biscuits and one fruit drink add up faster than anyone expects. A day counted in teaspoons, and how to read the label that hid the rest of it.
Cooking with less oil: where the oil actually hides in an Indian kitchen
A teaspoon of oil is about 40 calories, and most kitchens spend ten of them without noticing. Here is where the oil goes, what to change first, and how to keep the flavour while you do it.
Fibre: the nutrient an Indian day is usually short on
The pulses and vegetables are already there, and most days still land short of what the guidance asks for. What 30 to 40 grams looks like in katoris, and the four additions that close the gap.
Why home-cooked food is the hardest thing to track — and how to estimate it anyway
A packet of biscuits comes with a label. A katori of your mother's dal does not. How to get close enough on real Indian home cooking, without weighing anything.
Eating out and ordering in without losing the plan
Restaurant food is not the problem — the gravy, the portion and the frequency are. What to order when someone else is cooking, what to skip, and how to log a meal you did not cook.