Meal planning
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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.
How to build a balanced thaali you will actually eat again tomorrow
Four jobs a plate has to do, how to judge the portions with your hands instead of a scale, and a worked 490-calorie lunch that carries about 40 grams of protein.
Soya chunks: the cheapest protein in the kitchen, and how to cook them so you eat them
About 52 g of protein per 100 g dry, for a fraction of what paneer costs. Why they taste of nothing, the squeeze everyone skips, and the honest version of the rumour that keeps people away.
Weight loss with Indian food: what to change before you cut rice
Two ways this usually fails, the change that does most of the work, why rice is not the villain, and what a week of steady progress actually looks like.
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.
Breakfast in India: where the day's protein usually goes missing
Poha, upma, two idlis and a paratha each carry four to seven grams, which is less than most people assume. Why the first meal decides the rest of the day, and three real breakfasts that fix it.
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.