NAVRATRI - FFD WAY
- This Navratri plan to clean up your system physically, mentally and spiritually!
You can choose from any of the following options as is possible for you... - Go on a complete water fast
OR - Do alternate days juice feasting and water fasting.
OR - Juice feast on all days.
OR - Do alternate days juice feasting and intermittent fasting. (1 or 2 meals per day)
OR - Do intermittent fasting on all days (1 or 2 meals per day)
- Permissible items on water fast days or in between meals on intermittent fasting days:
1.Water with sabja or chia seeds (your is the biggest support and the strongest strategy to make fasting successful)
2.Cinnamon Tea or any Herbal Tea.
3.Green or Black Tea
4.Kokam, Tamarind Saar (Imli/ tamarind/ chinch saar with stevia, jeera (cumin seeds) and salt)
5.Lemon sherbat with stevia
6.Black Coffee or Coffee with coconut milk or coconut oil
7.Soaked almonds, walnuts and seeds.
Besides the above ... - SOME UPWAAS ITEMS SUITABLE FOR THESE DAYS ARE...
1.Kuttu (buckwheat / fafad)
2.Singhada (water chestnut)
3.Rajgira (amaranth)
4.Unhusked warai (Proso Millet) is a millet (refined warai i.e. bhagar hikes sugars greatly, so avoid)
5.Upwaas thalipeeth of rajgira/ kuttu/ warai millet can be made with grated cucumber in it
6.Barley khichadi tastes like Sabudana khichadi
REMEMBER TO USE ONLY ONE PSUEDOGRAIN AT A TIME. Sugars can shoot if quantities are high by increasing the glycemic load.
7.Sweet Potato can be had around 100g per day in grated form or in cutlets. It has great nutritive value.
8.Makhana snacks, kheer in coconut milk with stevia as sweetener.
Shingada sheera: with almond milk/ coconut milk, date paste and cardamom powder can be made.....If no medicines and fasting sugars are 100 or below. IF SUGARS ARE HIGH AVOID DATES TOTALLY
9.Groundnut Amti: with little tamarind and ginger + Proso millet with dry tadaka (of jeera, green chilli) can be had OR plain rice made of proso millet + 1 bowl cut pieces of cucumber or kakdichi koshimbir
10.Kavath chutney (wood apple)/ Sweet and savoury juice of kavath/ Bel/ Tadgola (Ice apple) allowed
11.Coconut milk: 60 ml if thin and 30 ml if thick, per day or 2 tablespoon (tbsp) of scraped coconut is allowed per day or 1/4 of a medium sized fresh coconut. Tender coconut water allowed.
12.Soaked Nuts: 20-25 groundnut OR 10 almonds OR 5 whole walnuts can be had in a day (if not having nuts in any other form)
13.Fruits: If sugars are stable with zero or less medicines. Quantity 3-4 per day.
