Clean eating is the first step towards a healthier lifestyle. To say that is not always easy to be focussed on eathing healthy food is actually a huge understatement!
Working throughout the day, being super busy, multi tasking, home management, all of it takes quite a toll on the healthy eating part.
When I am too busy to even breathe it seems, I often feel like gobbling down a bar of chocolate or munching on snacks like namkeens and biscuits.
But recently a friend and a colleague had a huge health scare which woke me up! She woke up at night with severe stomach pain and was admitted to the hospital . After an emergency operation her entire gall bladder togther with as many as more than 300 gall stones were removed. She was totally unaware of their existence before that day ,other than some mild and common digestive issues. We saw the photograph of the poor little dilapidated gall bladder and it was not a pretty picture!
That incident really shook me up! It now made me even more committed towards eating clean and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
I now try to curb all binging urges by keeping ready healthy snacks like dry fruits, roasted snacks and fruits at office.
Including a portion of protein in all my meals beginning from breakfast helps to keep me full for longer.
Water is my best friend and have 3 to 4 litres every day.(basically I have turned into a fish!)
My dinner is usually very light. It will either be a colourful salad or a flavoured raita.
Rajma Salad
One of my favourite dinner salad is this supper easy kidney bean(rajma) salad. Its so very easy to put together and the only preparation needed is you have to pre-soak and boil the rajma.
Just grate carrots and cucumbers. Chop the tomatoes and onions (optional). Mix all the veggies and boiled rajma, add a sprinkle of lemon juice, rock salt, black pepper and fresh cilantro. And your super yummy rajma salad is ready.Thats how easy it is 😊.
The kidney beans give the much required protein kick to this salad as well as giving the feeling of satiety!
You can add any other salad vegetables of your choice to this salad.
So my clean eating journey continues as I come up with new salad and raita combinations to satisfy my taste buds!
Read about my unique bright pink beetroot raita here. https://thefoodlives.com/beetroot-raita/
Clean eating is essential to keep yourself at bay from ailments. I love high protein salads like rajma, chickpeas, kala chana. Nice post .
Wow it took a gall bladder to wake you up. For me, I just woke up one day and decided to eat healthy because I didn’t want to become a fat and bored aunty. 🙈
You are right Ginia, one doesn’t realise but it is very important to take care one’s health. This looks like a yummy and an easy recipe. Will try it out
Health truly is wealth. With good health we can live peacefully and realize our dreams. This is a great write up bringing it home to everyone.
Its great that u have taken up healthy eating Ginia but do cheat once in a while coz the more u deny urself something the more u crave for it.Its okay to have that piece of chocolate sometimes 🙂
Ouch! 300 gall stones sounds super painful! Yes, healthy eating is a must in today’s day and age. I love rajma, so will definitely try your yummy-sounding salad soon.
Cleaning eating and taking care of your health is essentially especially in today’s times. Rajma and chickpea salad is my all time favourite and I just love eating them. Will wait to read more recipes from you 🙂