INDIAN DIET PLAN IN PREGNANCY

To make sure that what you eat helps your body and also helps you stay interested, spread out your food through the day by following different food ideas. You can mix and match the following depending on how much you can eat and whether you are vegetarian or non vegetarian.

PRE BREAKFAST SNACK

• A glass of plain cow’s milk
• Almond milk
• Milkshake
• Apple juice
• Tomato juice
• Dry fruits

BREAKFAST

• Bowl of fruits
• Wheat rava upma with lots of vegetables
• Poha with lots of vegetables
• Oats porridge
• Whole wheat toast with butter and omelet
• Vegetable omelet
• Paranthas with fillings of spinach, dal, potatoes, carrots, beans, cottage cheese, cheese with curd
• Mixed bean cutlet or patties
• Some fruits to go along with the breakfast such as apricots, dates, sweet fig, banana, oranges
• Cheese toast or cheese and vegetable sandwich
• Vegetable khandvi
• Rice sevai with lots of vegetables

MID MORNING SNACK

• Tomato soup
• Spinach soup
• Creamy spinach soup
• Carrot and beet soup
• Chicken soup

LUNCH

• Roti with choice of dal, vegetable and a bowl of curd
• Parantha with dal and a bowl of curd
• Carrot and peas parantha with a bowl of curd and some butter
• Jeera or pea rice with raita
• Rice, dal and vegetable with vegetable salad
• Lemon rice with peas and some vegetable salad
• Vegetable khichdi
• Chicken salad with lots of fresh vegetables or vegetable soup
• Chicken curry with rice
• Grilled chicken with a bowl of curd
• Rice, dal, mint raita and a fruit
• Kofta curry with rice
• Cottage cheese parantha with butter and vegetable salad
• Curd rice
• Parantha with sprouted beans salad

EVENING SNACK

• Cheese and corn sandwich
• Vegetable idli
• Spinach and tomato idli
• Sevaiya with lots of vegetables
• Carrot or lauki halwa
• Fruit smoothie with fresh fruits such as banana or strawberry
• Roasted peanut mixture with vegetables
• Cauliflower and peas samosa
• Bread cutlet
• Chicken cutlet
• Chicken sandwich
• Chicken soup
• A bowl of dried dates or dry fruits
• A cup of green tea
• Milk porridge with oats, sevaior daliya
• Vegetable daliya
• Mixed vegetable uttapam

DINNER

• Rice with dal, spinach vegetable, and some green salad
• Roti with a bowl of dal, a vegetable of choice and a glass of buttermilk
• Mixed dal khichdi with a vegetable curry and a bowl of curd
• Vegetable pulaoor chicken rice with a bowl of yogurt
• Plain parantha with a glass of buttermilk