Eat right on Holi

Holi is known as the festival of colors! It is a time for fun, togetherness, and of course, indulging in delicious foods. Most people have already started preparing to celebrate the festival of colors in all its glory, be it calling friends over to play Holi, be it finding out the best skin and hair care tips from elders at home or friends to prevent damage due to colors. While playing Holi is great fun, there are certain things one should keep in mind, including the diet, which many people tend to ignore and indulge in binge eating. One doesn't need to have boring food but can use some healthy tips to make the foods as special as the festival itself.

Healthy Tips to Keep in Mind that will help you enjoy flavors of Holi without any guilt:

1. Keep Yourself Hydrated:

Keep drinking water, glucose, juices, thandai, coconut water anything that will help you re-energizing yourself. Dehydration can cause your skin to dry further which can cause problems later.

2. Get Nourished:

Avoid celebrating Holi empty stomach. Go for fresh fruits, energy drinks, plenty of healthy carbs. Avoid alcohol, coffee, or carbonated beverages that can cause dehydration.

3. Healthy snacks

Anything that you cook at home is healthier, as you have an option to replace all unhealthy ingredients with healthy alternatives. You can add lentils like moong or moth, along with onion, tomatoes, coriander leaves, and other healthy colorful vegetables to your tasty and nutritious snacks and can enjoy with delicious chutney.

4. Healthy Desserts

Instead of going for rice kheer, gajar or suji ka halwa opt for fruits & nuts. Fruits do not only have better nutritional value but act as a natural sweetener for your desserts. So, this Holi, buy lots of apples, pears, oranges, pineapples, bananas and grapes for preparing desserts. You can also have yummy and nutritious sweets like beetroot halwa, fruit smoothies and makhana kheer, dry fruit burfi, dates kheer. Use jaggery as a sweetener instead of sugar.

5. Choose Baked over Deep-fried

Bake snacks rather than deep frying them. Be it chips or gujia, you can bake all, fill your stomach without adding extra calories that might result in weight gain or other conditions, such as heart disease.

6. Thandai

Holi is incomplete without the delicious drink Thandai. It has every spice and ingredient required by our body to maintain good health during the season change and helps us to stay away from indigestion and catching a cold around Holi. Add honey instead of sugar and dry fruits to make it healthier.