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Healthy Breakfast choices to save your time every morning

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Do you find yourself staying away from home or running late for work? Breakfast is the most crucial meal of the day, and skipping it is not a good idea. Health experts debate whether breakfast is the most essential meal of the day, but research strongly recommends having a well-balanced breakfast. Breakfast can have a big impact on the rest of your day. Food packs that are ready to eat are available to help you address your time problem.

Simply add hot water, heat the contents, or cook for less than 5 minutes; these ready-to-eat meal packs are a great way to save time and prepare breakfast quickly. These are ideal for people who live in hostels or who don’t have time to cook breakfast.

1) CORNFLAKES AND MUESLI

Cornflakes are an excellent alternative for individuals who wish to eat a healthy breakfast without adding too many unnecessary calories. Every morning, this is one of the simplest and healthiest breakfast options available. This FESPRO fruit and nut muesli box and cornflakes are well-liked for its excellent taste. Oats, corn, wheat, rice, papaya, peaches, apples, raisins, grapes, and almonds are among the ingredients.

2) INSTA POHA

 If you enjoy poha, try the FESPRO instant poha pack first thing in the morning. Simply place the desired amount of poha in a jar and cover with hot water. Make sure the components and water are proportioned correctly according to the instructions on the package. Wait 8 minutes after covering the lid. It’s time to have your breakfast.

3) INSTANT PORRIDGE

Having a good nutritional content, FESPRO INSTANT PORRIDGE does not take much preparation time in the morning for the busy individual. A nutritious and delicious alternative to the traditional porridge breakfast can be made using almond milk, fruits and raw honey.

4) INSTANT OATS

Every morning, FESPRO INSTANT OATS is one of the simplest and healthiest breakfast options available. Available in three different flavours, you can enjoy different taste every morning. You can find variant in tomato twist, veggies and masala oats. Just add hot water to the content and cover with a lid for 3 to 4 minutes. No cooking required. And, your breakfast is ready in no time.

Why Healthy Food Diet is more important than exercise to Stay Fit?

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Every expert I have heard and researched has cleared up this fact when it comes to reducing your weight, a healthy food diet is far more important than exercise. It doesn’t mean exercise doesn’t make difference or you should kick this out of your routine. It has its own place. It is certainly important for building strength and muscle mass and flexibility and can help manage diseases, including heart disease and diabetes. But, considering important factors, diet is far more important than exercise because exercise increases appetite. What you omit from your diet is so much more important than how much you exercise. The calories you get are from the food you eat. If you omit the intake, it could make much more difference than cutting off only a portion of your calories through exercise. The point is either you control the intake of calories with a proper diet or you need to balance with exercising.

Here are the main reasons why diet is more important than exercise, along with some food that can benefit your health.

1. To burn calories choose to snack wisely

Exercise alone cannot drive significant weight loss, because the majority of us unknowingly compensate for the calories that we burn by being more physically active. It can be in form of excess snacking or grab-and-go food choices, but our eating habits have a lot to do with burning calories. If at all you want to eat tastily, eat healthily, you have various choices to explore. Some of them are:

It’s worth keeping a healthy food diary that lists every single calorie that you consume. This will make your food choices abundantly clear and highlight any areas for immediate improvement.

2. Regular exercise also triggers eating habits subconsciously

Research says that physical exertion actively increases your appetite and metabolism. Regular exercise can trigger subconscious eating habits and also tend to increase their calorie intake simultaneously, gradually negating the impact of their workouts over time. So, make sure you have healthy munching foods in hand just like muesli energy balls or healthy flavourful oats to balance calorie intake. Remember that feeling hungry is an inevitable side effect of losing weight and changing your dietary habits, so keep this in mind at all times.  You can eat healthy food while regulating your snacks and meals throughout the course of an average day.

HOW TO START YOUR FITNESS JOURNEY!

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“Fitness is not a destination, but a journey”

Fitness is a journey that never comes to a halt. In fact, it never should. Looking at the list of benefits it has in store for you and your health, fitness should be your routine. We all know this very well that fitness opens the doors of health and activity. To be fit means to keep your heart, lungs, brain, and functioning of vital body organs fit.

So, if you are ready to pace on your journey of fitness, here are 5 super simple tips to help you kick start your journey:

1. Commitment is the key

To have a strong commitment is extremely necessary when it comes to getting in shape. Without a strong commitment actions would look like a burden to your plans. Unlike what you may think, gymming is not all that it requires to stay fit. You need to be religiously committed to eating healthy, exercising daily and retiring to bed on time. Eating healthy even if you crave western foods can be made healthy. Your fried and high cholesterol breakfast can be replaced with corn flakes or Choco flakes or Indian-style instant poha.

2. Mindful eating means healthy eating

All of us know how important it is to follow a balanced diet in order to make our bodies fit. So, think before you eat. You need to be sure about the nutritional value of the food on your plate before gulping it down your throat. You can choose healthy instant pasta like fusilli pasta for your Italian lunch option. You can go for healthy and yummy instant oats for evening refreshment or you can even begin your day with oats or vermicelli. It’s all about how you take small steps to your diet and add changes to your fitness routine.

These changes include appropriate amounts of protein, complex carbohydrates, calcium, and minerals. Eat mindfully; making sure your meal fulfills these nutritional requisites.

3. Hydration is equally important

With a change in your daily routine and regular exercising, you will naturally feel the need to sip on more water than otherwise. That is your body’s call and you must never ignore it! Hydrate your body, especially if you are indulging in intense workouts regularly. Hydrating is just as necessary as a part of nourishment as eating good food.

4. Try something new

In the entire routine what I feel is of utmost importance is food and meals. The good part is you do not need to stick to the contemporary methods of dieting these days. There are new, fun, and yummy ways to stay fit. Someday you can pick khaman dhokla mix and spent an evening well with karak tea and your friends. The point is to concentrate on healthy food options rather than just controlling your craving and satisfying it with salads only!

5. Reduce your stress levels

Too many of us think fitness just means getting into a better body shape. Well, you can never truly be fit if you are not in a relaxed and healthy mind space. Having a mind that is free from stress is just as important as having a body that is free from ailments.

A stress-free lifestyle can really make a huge difference and impact your fitness journey to a great extent.

Staying fit has become an urgent necessity, owing to the kind of lifestyle we are stuck with. So it’s over to you how you want to decide fitness for yourself. Change the way of staying fit and enjoy your life equally. That would be our new motto!

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Pasta in Pesto Sauce

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Ingredients

For the Pasta

  1. 200 gm Fespro Penne Pasta, boiled in a pinch of salt and some olive oil till al dente
  2. 1 Tbsp olive oil
  3. 1 sprig mint leaves, to garnish
  4. 2 cherry tomatoes
  5. 1 garlic clove, whole; peeled

For the Pesto Sauce

  1. 2 cups basil
  2. 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
  3. 1/2 cup toasted walnuts or pine nuts
  4. Salt, to taste
  5. 4 cloves garlic
  6. 3 Tbsp olive oil

Method

For the Pesto Sauce

  1. In a blender add all the ingredients and mix till a semi-fine paste is achieved.

For the Pasta

  1. In a pan add the olive oil and the garlic clove. Add the cherry tomatoes. Remove the whole garlic clove.
  2. Add the pesto sauce. Cook for 1 minute.
  3. Add the boiled penne.
  4. Garnish with a mint sprig and serve hot.
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Baked Pasta with Cheese Sauce

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Ingredients

  1. Fespro Pasta (uncooked) – 2 cups
  2. Processed Cheese – 1 cup, grated
  3. Milk– 2 cups
  4. Bread crumbs – 1 cup (made by grinding 2 slices of bread in mixer)
  5. Parmesan cheese – approx 4-5 tsp, grated
  6. Melted butter– 2 tbsp
  7. Garlic – 3 cloves, finely chopped
  8. Salt – 1 tsp or to taste
  9. Olive oil – 1 tbsp

Method

  1. In boiling water, add 1 tsp of salt, 1 tbsp of oil and add pasta. Half – cook it for 5-6 mins.

2. In a pan, combine milk, processed cheese, 2-3 tbsp of parmesan cheese, garlic, salt and mix. Heat till cheese melts.

3. Drain water from pasta and put in a buttered baking dish. Pour cheese sauce over pasta covering it completely. Add bread crumbs, followed by melted butter and 1-2 tsp of grated parmesan cheese on top. Bake for 15 mins at 200 degrees celsius.

4. Serve Hot.

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Mushroom and Garlic Fusilli

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Ingredients

  1. 100gm Fespro Fusilli
  2. 3 tbsp butter
  3. 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
  4. 6-8 Button Mushrooms (sliced)
  5. 1 tsp ginger chopped
  6. Salt to taste
  7. 1 tsp black pepper powder
  8. 1 tsp white pepper powder
  9. Grated cheese for garnish

Method 

  1. Take 400 ml water for 100g Fespro Pasta in a pan and bring it to boil. Add a pinch of salt and 1 tsp oil or ghee, pasta and cook until al dente, 7 to 9 minutes according to package instructions.
  2. Heat 1 tablespoon of the butter in a large pan over medium heat. Add the mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, and sauté until browned and tender, for about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, white pepper powder, and remaining 2 tablespoons butter and sauté for 1 minute more.
  3. When the pasta is ready, reserve 3/4 cup of the cooking water, then drain the pasta. Add the pasta and reserved cooking water to the pan. Toss over medium heat until it is nicely mixed and the sauce thickens and coats the pasta, about 2 minutes.
  4. Garnish with cheese and toss to combine.
  5. Serve with more cheese as garnish.