I'm asking in the context of a school lunch? I'm looking to pack a few lunch boxes for children with the usual roti - sabzi, or dosa/uttappams, or idlis, etc.? I want to introduce tiny delights occasionally in their lunch boxes, and I wanted to know if your parents had anything fun and creative they would add - especially if you were a picky eater?
Hello! I run Oshani Homestyle Tiffins, based in Colva.
- We provide high-protein low-carb lunches from Mon - Fri (it's a strictly weekly subscription).
- The meals are designed with low glycemic loads in mind.
- Starting next Monday, we will have three slots available for weekly lunches.
- Delivery is only possible in and around Colva, Benaulim, Betalbattim and parts of Majorda (closer to Betalbattim), at this time.
Please DM if you would like more details and to view the menu for next week, thank you.
Hello people! Wondering if there are Goenkars interested in sharing CGM datasets for clinical analyses? Please DM if yes!
Thank you.
Hello all, and Happy Sunday! Basically the title!
I felt like I owe you all an explanation - and here it goes. My beloved Sunday ritual over the last 65 weeks (!!) is getting a new home - in my own personal sub-reddit OshaniLabs - which is a restricted place (everybody can view my posts, but commenting and posting is restricted to only people I allow - this is because I'm deeply sensitive to trolling and needless rage-baiting).
Part of the reason why I'm shifting these posts is that its becoming very very very difficult to post here - there are words that trigger an automatic moderator-ban - and while I totally understand why that's necessary - I find myself spending 20-30 mins finding which word has triggered the filter, and then figure out how to bypass it! Its getting too difficult to do this every Sunday, and while i built a database of words that I know will get filtered, there are so many more I think - like today I wasn't able to post despite spending 20 minutes trying to edit my post! Phew! Haha
Anyways, ya'll have been the best, and this community feels like home - except that my particular "weekly wins" post series will get moved. :-( I will miss posting here (a LOT), but will still comment on ya'll's posts! Have a lovely weekend! (surprisingly not as hot and humid today - or am I getting used to it LOL?)
Back to my favourite Sunday ritual - reflecting upon the week! And last week was good - very good!
My win was finally figuring out how to safely eat Alphonso mangoes for lunch, without causing a crazy unsustainable glucose spike! 😎 Especially as a Type-2 diabetic under remission, this took a whole week's worth of experimenting (different food combinations) and I finally figured out a solution that worked for me 🙂
The meal that worked was : apple cider vinegar (diluted in water) - I drank this 20 mins before the meal. For the meal: chicken bone broth (made at home, with curry bones and vinegar, spices and minimal salt), chopped cucumber salad, 3-egg omlette with shredded chicken and tambdi bhaaji and palak, almonds and walnuts, dahi with pickle (coz I love my spice kick! 😀), and chia seed pudding with milk (eaten exactly in this order - order of eating matters most!) and finally two slices of Alphonso mangoes! The spike was barely 40 mg/dL with the peak touching 170 mg/dL - this is considered "safe" for diabetic patients.
Now, the blue meal - which spiked me to more than 200 mg/dL (yikes!) was as pictured: chicken bone broth, chopped cucumber and carrot salad, lauki sambhar, chicken curry, tambdi bhaaji stir-fry, dahi with pickle with chapathi (eaten exactly in this order). Mango eaten in the end! I got a whopping 70 mg/dL spike! 😤
This was at lunch time, by the way!
Key take-away: Vinegar + fiber from veggies + protein + fat, and then limited mango, blunts sugar spikes from mangoes for me! And I can happily keep eating them! 🙂 (Also reduces breakouts and acne)
Next challenge: can I safely engineer mango smoothies to produce low spikes? Let's see next week! Haha 😂
How's everybody else doing?
I'll go first - mine (with my family) is: hot and sour soup ("2 by 3" - LOL - does anybody else still do this? Haha), masala papad, butter chicken with garlic naan, tandoori chicken/kebabs, jeera rice and dal tadka, followed by either ice-cream or gulab jamun! Almost everytime at every restaurant!
And breakfast is usually rawa dosa or idlis/vadas with filter coffee - everytime we eat out at every restaurant - regardless of their "specials"!