Working out, self care, eating ‘clean’, meditation — doing everything ‘right’ can get overwhelming for someone who has just started on the health journey. Here’s a day-by-day break-down to ease into the process with a little help from hashtags online
#MeatlessMondays
Meatless Mondays do not have to be the first step in turning vegan. Instead of focussing on cutting meat out, look at introducing one forgotten native vegetable into your diet every week.
On his Instagram, Chennai-based Akash Muralidharan points out how eight vegetables: beans, potato, cauliflower, tomato, onion, carrot, peas and okra, have dominated the menus and markets of urban India. In March this year, he led a 100-day campaign to cook one little-used local vegetable each day. “We cooked with almost 70 varieties of vegetables, and almost 40 of them were new to us,” he says. These included karonda,…