17/03/2026
🍏NAVRATRI DIET TIPS🍏
1. For those who fast all nine days, it is important to eat small meals at regular intervals. This will keep your metabolism up.
2. Avoid fried foods and include more of curd, smoothies, lassi and fruits which not only will keep you full but maintain the optimum fluids in the body.
3. Instead of puri or pakodas (both fried) made from Kuttu atta, try out Kuttu ki roti, replace fried aloo-chat with boiled aloo-chat and kheer with mixed-fruit curd or flavored yogurt.
4. If you are a foodie and want to please your palate, make some idli and dosa from the samak ke chawal.
5. Limit your potato intake (which is main food during navratri) to about twice a week.
6. Dishes which require the whole milk can be cooked with skimmed milk or double toned milk.
7. Substitute sugar in sweet dish with natural sugars present in fruits like apple can be added instead of sugar.
8. Keep drinking water, coconut water, lemonade(without sugar), herbal teas as much as you can. It works as a great detox.
9. Eat veggies like pumpkin and ghia (bottol guard) in different form like soups and curries to fill you up with fewer calories.
10. Use rajgira flour to make chapattis instead of using kuttu ka atta.Its lighter and low in calorie
11. Try including fresh fruits in your diet in various forms of salads, smoothies and raitas to keep up with your nutrition. Fruits have healthy sugar fructose. Seasonal fruits boost the immunity, fiber, iron and B6 intake 2 supercharge your metabolism.
12. Instead of having namkeens and pakodas as snacks, have a handful of roasted makhanas or a handful of nuts like almonds, pistachios, walnuts .
13. Lower your Cravings with low fat dairy products. Drinking low fat milk, lassi and yogurt reduces your cravings to eat junk food Add cucumber, lauki or tomato to your curd to make it more filling.