Monday 23 March 2015

Healthy can be Tasty!

Mr. Gupta, also known endearingly as Guptaji, would never boast of his good habits.  Looking at him it is not easy to guess the secret behind his all day long good cheer.  However, once someone did ask him, and a flattered Guptaji gave a very baffling answer.  He said the secret of his good cheer lay in his morning Nashta.

Since then the entire street has been curious.  They wish to know if seriously the Guptas have a secret recipe that they consume during the morning, or if it was a lie that he was telling just to quiet everyone's unabashed inquisitiveness.

But, the need to know - that is, their curiousity has been peeked.  And has mine.  What did Guptaji mean by saying that all his day's unending cheer came from the Nashta he had in the morning.

I know for a fact that the Guptas buy Kellogg's Cornflakes for I have seen Mrs. Gupta carry it in those brown bags with other green leafy vegetable peeping out from the top.  The unmistakable yellow and white of the Kellogg's cereal boxes also peep out from there.

Well, sometimes, these boxes are yellow and white, sometimes red and white, at times I can see "Honey Loops" written on top of it.  Sometimes they are strawberry flavoured.  Other times, almond and honey, and still other times they are banana flavoured too.  then, every now and then I also do see a packet that says it's the Original Kellogg's.

I am quite sure that their morning Nashta does consist of this cereal.  But what I want to know is how do they bring variety into these few kinds of cereals. Do they add fruits to it, or nuts maybe?  What do they do to bring about this variety.

Also, I do know that the Guptas are a family of four with Roshni Chachi coming in and staying with them every few months.  The two kids are growing with fussy eating habits.  The son thankfully eats everything, but their daughter, Riddhi, hardly ever touches anything that has a drop of fat in it. How do they manage to make a breakfast that suits every palate day after day after day?  I wonder.

Another thing to which Guptaji hinted to himself was that the breakfast, or Nashta is the most important meal of the day.  So he makes sure that he has it properly.  But how does he plan on doing that, and creating variety, so that he begins enjoying his breakfast everyday?  I don't think I have the answers to these yet.

He also mentions, "Healthy can be tasty" whenever we talk about food.  I wonder how far that's true. Maybe to know all these, and for these reasons, I too must pay a visit to the Guptas.  Even Mrs. Gupta has invited me to her place.

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