Healthy food options for Hostel Students : How to Improve your nutrition .

Easy No Fuss options to improve nutrition:

Great tips for Hostel students or Young people staying away from Home

1) Dairy products : like milk , curd /yogurt are a good source of protein and calcium.

2) Boiled egg ( one can eat 4-5 egg yolks in a week) . Invest in an egg boiler for example

3) nuts (peanuts , almonds , pista, walnut ) eat a variety of nuts to get optimum nutrition.

4) more fruits (fresh and seasonal local fruits  : try to eat all colours of fruits in one week (this is called "Eating A Rainbow") 

5) fresh cut salad  (cucumber , carrot , radish , onion, beetroot ) are easy to manage in busy hostel life 

6) healthy homemade ladoo  as between meal snacks (besan ladoo, रागी ladoo, Dink(गोंद) ladoo in winter  , बाजरा ladoo  , rajgeera ladoo , peanut jaggery ladoo, til ladoo or chikki/Gajak) 

7) add fresh cut lemon to your diet:  squeeze on Mess or takeout dal/sabji to add the much needed Vitamic C to diet. Make sure that it is fresh cut lemon.

8) Dry Chutneys or पोड़ी: peanut chutney/til chutney / kadi-patta  chutney / flax seed chutney : along with lunch/dinner or with breakfast parathas/dosas.

9) home made namkeen like chivda/shakarpala/chakli/muruku instead of biscuits/cookies/chips for snacks.

10) homemade ghee with dal-rice or on roti/chapati.

11) roasted Makhana for snacks.

12) High Protein options : फुटाणे or chana (roasted chana), milk, yogurt , nuts  and seeds (in form of dry chutney or podi,  ladoo लाडू or पीन्नी, trail mix ) , eggs. 

13) homemade peanut butter . 

14) sattu drink 

15) adding honey to milk instead of sugar 

16) Invest in a small electric steamer or rice cooker . One can whip up healthy pulaos , upma or scrambled eggs in a rice cooker.

17)   sprouts of moong or chana can be used for high protein salads . They can be steamed  in a rice cooker/electric steamer.

Some more ideas 

Check this Recipe of Instant upma mix .

More Ideas