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Looking for quick breakfast ideas for your family? Here are 10 breakfast hacks that are prompt yet nourishing, saving your time during those busy mornings.
Monday blues came knocking at everyone’s door with the New Year and Christmas break coming to an end. It is time to wake up to the routine of school buses, offices and of course, traffic! Breakfast forms an important meal for the day and now that the holiday indulgence is over, one need to be conscious about the nutritional requirements.
It appears to many of us that, to have a quality breakfast, there needs to be quality time spent in preparing the same. These hacks would not only keep check on your wholesome diet requirements, but also add some variation to your regular idli/dosa/upma/toast. Good news is that these will surely keep you away from the store bought sugar overloaded breakfast cereals.
This recipe is good to try when you are bored of the regular plain rotis but still cannot find time to do stuffed parathas. It gives the goodness of whole wheat and pleases your taste buds with the assortment of Indian spices.
Recipe here.
Paneer is a good source of protein and is good to include it in the first meal of the day. This is a straightforward recipe and won’t take much time like the usual sandwiches as this doesn’t involve much of a cooking other than toasting your bread. Kids will love it and keeps one hunger free for hours.
How about a creamy smoothie to get you going? All you have to do is turn your mixie on for a minute and voila, your breakfast smoothie is ready. Smoothies won’t take time in preparing as well as consuming. You can even have it on your way to work.
This comes in handy when you don’t have the regular dosa batter ready and want to try some variation in dosa. Pesarattu is a type of dosa made with moong dal. All you have to do is soak it overnight, grind it into a smooth paste and make dosas. Don’t worry about making chutneys as it will taste good even with some ketchup.
Berries are in season and the time required in preparing it is actually the time required for assembling. You can make this super nutritious by adding your favourite fruits/ nuts and seeds like chia seeds, sunflower seeds etc
Everyone knows how healthy it is include sprouts in our daily diet. One can have them raw or boil it little bit based on how crunchy and raw you like it. You can play around and add your favorite veggies, fruits, nuts, dates and seeds.
The process of preparing this multigrain powder is lengthy, but once you have it in place you can store it in an airtight container and use few spoonfuls of it to prepare your porridge right away. You can make it sweet by adding some milk and jaggery, and also savory by adding salt and buttermilk to your likes. These kinds of health mix powders are available readymade in markets too.
Paniyaram is a low fat variation to otherwise deep fried bondas. All you need to do is to invest in a good quality paniyaram plate and it can be prepared in minutes. If you want a healthier version of it, you can even add oats to the paniyaram batter.
For those baking lovers, you can try muffins too for breakfast! Both Avocado and Quinoa are super healthy and a muffin out of these would be best for your breakfast. You can even prepare them before hand and store them in refrigerator, just reheat it for your breakfast and enjoy!
Dosa is one of the favorite breakfasts in many south Indian homes. This recipe is another variation to the regular rice and urad dal dosas. This is a good tweak to include millets in your diet and making this dosa batter is simple and straightforward.
Image source: paratha with curd and pickle by Shutterstock.
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
Women today don’t want to be in a partnership that complicates their lives further. They need an equal partner with whom they can figure out life as a team, playing by each other’s strengths.
We all are familiar with that one annoying aunty who is more interested in our marital status than in the dessert counter at a wedding. But these aunties have somehow become obsolete now. Now they are replaced by men we have in our lives. Friends, family, and even work colleagues. It’s the men who are worried about why we are not saying yes to one among their clans. What is wrong with us? Aren’t we scared of dying alone? Like them?
A recent interaction with a guy friend of mine turned sour when he lectured me about how I would regret not getting married at the right time. He lectured that every event in our lives needs to be completed within a certain timeframe set by society else we are doomed. I wasn’t angry. I was just disappointed to realize that annoying aunties are rapidly doubling in our society. And they don’t just appear at weddings or family functions anymore. They are everywhere. They are the real pandemic.
Let’s examine this a little closer.
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