07 April 2025 21:09
Improve your health and start cooking today! Here’s how to prepare food on the dietary recommendations for the Indians in three simple steps.
Eating healthy can be complicated but I have good news for you! Healthy eating can be easy to plan, and it should not be complicated and confused.

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Joel Ramdial (instructor and software director of health care at the Department of Health, Kinysiology and Sports at the Southeast Missouri State University) shared a three-stage cooking strategy based on the dietary principles for Indians (DGIS).
He said: “DGG was developed by specialists of the Indian Council for Medical Studies of the National Institute of Nutrition to provide simplified nutrition recommendations based on modern scientific evidence.” According to him, the application of the strategy below will help you plan and prepare the food set up to meet your benefits and recommendations.
Joel Ramdial classified food prepared in two ways:
- When cooking, you can refer to the preparation of whole dishes in advance, which can be cooled or freezing and conveniently eaten at a later date.
- When cooking, the food can also resort to the preparation and storage of the ingredients in advance, so they can be included in the recipe at a later date.

He said: “First, it may seem great, but the cooking is effective and saves time and money in the long run, because you can buy the ingredients in bulk, avoid the acquisition of unnecessary ingredients and complete most stages of preparation for your time, not several times during the week. A week that can help to avoid to avoid to avoid, avoid, to avoid to avoid, to avoid, to avoid, to choose to choose to overdo, to overdo, to survive, to ask if you choose.
Step # 1: Plan food and snacks using a healthy part control model.
- DGIS promotes a plate with it a day, which is a simple control structure designed to help Indians get the recommended amount of nutrients from ten food groups, providing approximately 2000 kcals. This is usually a healthy amount of Kcals for most people and a great place to plan food and snacks.
- You can prompt my plate for day recommendations by organizing them in the cooking plan to help identify the recipes and snack options for the preparation, and the ingredients needed to prepare them. I have an example below.
- Here’s a table that vegetarians can use or change for one day planning. You can create such plans for every day of the week.
- Your goal is to include recipes and snacks with the amount of food groups that make up the recommended amounts that need to be consumed in one day.
Names of recipes for food or snacks ↓ | Food groups ↓ [recommended amounts for one day are in the brackets] | ||||||
Cereals (including millet) [250 g] |
Pulse [85 g] |
Milk/cottage cheese [300 mL] |
Vegetables (including leaf greens) [400 g] |
Fruits (avoid juices) [100 g] |
Nuts and seeds [35 g] |
Fat and oils [27 g] |
|
(Include a recipe or snack in this column. Add as many lines as you need) | (Include the amount of cereals provided by one portion of the recipe in this column) | (… the number of impulses …) | (… the amount of milk/ cottage cheese …) | (… the amount of vegetables …) | (… the amount of fruit …) | (… the number of nuts and seeds …) | (… the amount of fat and oils …) |
The total amount → |
(The amount of cereals) |
(The amount of impulse) | (The amount of milk/cottage cheese) | (The amount of vegetables) |
(The amount of fruit) |
(The amount of nuts and seeds) | (The amount of fat and oils) |
Recommended amounts for one day → | 250 g | 85 g | 300 ml | 400 g | 100 g | 35 g | 27 h |
Note: For more information on these food recommendations and examples, see dietary recommendations for the Indians (2024)
- Here’s a table that non-vegetarians can use or change for one day planning.
Names of recipes for food or snacks ↓ | Food groups ↓ [recommended amounts for one day are in the brackets] | |||||||
Cereals (including millet) [260 g] |
Pulse [55 g] |
Chicken / meat / fish / eggs [70 g] |
Milk/cottage cheese [300 mL] |
Vegetables (including leaf greens) [400 g] |
Fruits (avoid juices) [100 g] |
Nuts and seeds [30 g] |
Fat and oils [27 g] |
|
(Include a recipe or snack in this column. Add as many lines as you need) | (Include the amount of cereals provided by one portion of the recipe in this column) | (… the number of impulses …) | (… Quantity of chicken / meat / fish / eggs …) | (… the amount of milk/ cottage cheese …) | (… the amount of vegetables …) | (… the amount of fruit …) | (… the number of nuts and seeds …) | (… the amount of fat and oils …) |
The total amount → |
(The amount of cereals) |
(The amount of impulse) | (Sum Chicken/ Meat/ Fish/ Eggs) | (The amount of milk/cottage cheese) | (The amount of vegetables) |
(The amount of fruit) |
(The amount of nuts and seeds) | (The amount of fat and oils) |
Recommended amounts for one day → | 260 g | 55 g | 70 g | 300 ml | 400 g | 100 g | 30 g | 27 h |
- Once you have planned food and snacks for every day of the week, add all the necessary ingredients to the shopping list.
- Here’s another pattern you can use as a corresponding shopping list.
- Warning: The place is included to indicate for which recipes and days the ingredients are intended. This will help you stay organized and save time when you get home from the store.
Ingredient | The amount required | Recipe | Day | |
Cereals | (List all the ingredients of the grain) | (List the amount required for each ingredient) | (Specify the recipe in which the ingredient belongs) | (Specify the day when the recipe is eaten) |
Pulse | ||||
Chicken / meat / fish / eggs | ||||
Milk / cottage cheese | ||||
Vegetables, leaf greens, roots and tubers | ||||
Fruit | ||||
Nuts and seeds | ||||
Fat and oils | ||||
Spices and herbs |

Step # 2: Mount a day for purchase and preparation.
- Plan a repetitive day and time in your calendar to go shopping and prepare food and snacks.
- Block at least five hours to shop and prepare your items. It may sound a lot of time to invest, but remember: you invest, your health and health. You can customize your plans for the next week if you don’t need the amount of time to complete these tasks.
- Choose the day in which you will feel enough resting to have energy and willpower to avoid seductive foods and beverages that are not on your shopping list.
- Choose the time to buy that will allow you to eat or play sports before you go to the purchase of the ingredients in the shopping list. This will help you enter the right state of mind and prevent you from shopping while hungry.
- Plan the preparation of items as soon as you return home from the store so you do not lose strength.
Step # 3: Prepare the cooking.
- Before you go shopping, you will need to have the equipment you need to prepare the products, places for safe preparation, containers where you can store products, and place for safe storage of products.
- Get any equipment you need, such as knives, cutting boards, skin, etc. Make sure they are clean and ready to use before you go shopping.
- Clean the cooking area so that it is without clutter and potential pollution.
- Clean any old or finished food and ingredients from the cold and dry food storage area. Clean these storage facilities so that they are ready to safely store new items.
Now you are ready to shop ingredients and prepare food and snacks!
If you feel overwhelmed with the start of the cooking process, just break it into the next possible action. Any progress, no matter how small, is still progress. You don’t need to do it all in one day, just start and progress every day. Before you find out about it, you will become a Prep Pro.
Note for readers: This article is intended only for information purposes rather than to replace professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of a doctor with any medical issues.

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