Today’s breakfast was Indian Flat Wheat Noodles, and Eggs
Social media is both a boon and bane. Today’s story is about a balanced meal. In our villages, people eat lentils, rice, vegetables, sesame oil, ghee and fish. But this is the story of well to do homes.
After migration, our food choices have changed. We have adopted wheat grains, chicken, milk products like paneer, barley, soyabean, and chana in our diet. But most of it came from our extended family members settled in Bihar/Jharkhand in pre-partitioned India.
Against a lot of protest over removing eggs from mid day meal, this write up is presented. Any educated person knows eggs are superfood so much that vegetarians have algo embraced eggs.
The videos you see making eggs with chemicals etc, it really cannot be created at a large scale, so stay aware that the eggs on your table can rot and they are consumable. Most of the malnourished kids come from EBCs, scheduled castes and tribes. It is because fish and eggs are costly for them. The ponds and canals are on lease, so the local poor have no access to fish and not everybody stays near the river.
In a country like India, where the majority are uneducated. Yes majority are. Why? They read guess papers – questions and answers and not the text books to appear for exam. It is actually memory test they are clearing. So, they never understood biology and can NEVER understand Nutrition.
Amidst such a chaos over mid day meal diet, some are cleverly propagating organic food which is expensive in the name of national food.
My extended relatives and acquaintances have happily embraced vegetarianism, and some have become Krishna bhakt, not because they really understand Krishna principles but they are full of superstitions. Their education level is poor. Most of these families have stunted growth. Yes, it takes a village to keep the family “educated”, learning about nutrition, culinary practices, household management and ethics. The fight is tough but it has its own worth as Ambedkar said living long is not enough. It is the quality of life.
The flat noodles is prepared from last night’s chapathi and cooked with sliced cabbages, capsicum and beans. Mango is full of vitamins. Information is key to good health.
Jagoran 