Eat whole plant based foods – things that you and your body recognize as #food. A can of Diet soda may have 0 calories and a bowl of organic fruits may have 200-500 calories but take a look at their ingredients! The body needs pure #organic nutrition to thrive, feed it FOOD not chemicals.
Bajre ki Khichdi is a traditional north Rajasthan dish that is not only one of the cheapest and simplest things to make, but also the healthiest you can eat. All you will need is:
1/3 cup whole organic bajra (black millet)
3 tbsp organic yellow moong dal (split yellow gram)
1 tsp organic cumin seeds (jeera)
1/2 tsp organic asafoetida (hing)
1 tbsp organic ghee
organic salt to taste
Method
1. Grind the bajra to a coarse powder in a blender.
2. Combine the bajra and moong dal with salt and 2½ cups of water and pressure cook for 3 to 4 whistles.
3. Heat the ghee in a pan and add the cumin seeds and asafoetida. When the seeds crackle, pour over the cooked bajra khichdi and mix well.
Serve hot.
from all of us here at the organic indian (which is basically me)
Why does McDonald’s spend $8 billion a year on advertisements? Because unless you’re brainwashed, there’s no way you’re eating that shit. – George Carlin
How do you sell margarine to people culturally predisposed towards butter? Simply call it “makhhan” and hope that 99% of them wont know the difference! It works, just like dalda/palm oil is/was the new ‘ghee”.
Proof is in the fact that most of the butter naans sold in Delhi are made with margarine, a cheap cocktail of chemicals artificially made to resemble butter.
Don’t get fooled again, be mindful of what you eat. It helps to ask questions, do research, and be plenty aware.
Arul Venkatesan, a cotton-growing farmer in the Aroor block of Dharmapuri district, was one among the thousands of farmers in the State who shifted to Bt cotton after it was widely publicised as a “pest-resistant” and “high-yielding” variety by “scientists”, who held orientation programmes in the villages.
While the first season went on smoothly, fortunes shifted in the next.
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“I sowed all my four acres with the 6,918 variety seed that they guaranteed would give huge profits. The plant grew well as we devotedly followed every instruction. But the crop never flowered. Zero yield pushed the entire belt of 2,500 hectares where farmers like me had cultivated Bt cotton, into distress,” he recalls.
Following the incident, the then DMK government decided to hold Mahyco, the supplier of the seeds produced by Monsanto, responsible for supplying “improper seeds.”
Farmers and activists vehemently opposing GM crops now argue that none of the promises made during the introduction of genetically-engineered seeds have come true. In fact, in certain cases, the opposite has happened.
Official statistics reveal that in 2009-10, the amount of land under cotton cultivation was 1.370 lakh hectares of which 58.4 per cent were of the Bt variety. In contrast, a mere 0.11 lakh hectares were under Bt cotton in 2004-05. While more than 30 companies sell GM seeds in the State, officials from the cotton-growing belts told Express that Monsanto technology seeds hold “absolute monopoly” in the market.
do we really need whatever it is that they are making? and at what cost?
world gone wrong
People actually eat these? Worse, celebrate birthdays, promotions and anniversaries with these? This cannot be a reward, THIS is PUNISHMENT. What kind of people do you think are attracted to this?
I don’t care if you are straight or gay, bi or kinky, black or white, brown or yellow, rich or poor, fat or fit. But if you make THIS kind of food choices, I am going to judge you.
You are not responsible for the programming you picked in childhood. However as an adult, you are 100% responsible for fixing it.
Now, Shahrukh Khan wants your kids to eat at McDonalds. Doesn’t look like he is touchin’ it. Do you think he would encourage his own kids to eat that s**t?
Inconvenient, but true. Nature recommends eating fresh, local, organic and seasonal.
omnipotent on social media, aren’t we?
for those looking for #quinoa and #kale in #india
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“As food demand keeps rising, it will become increasingly hard to resist the embrace of high-yielding GM varieties. Anyway, why try to resist when no harm has been detected among Americans who have been chomping GM cornflakes and tortillas for around two decades now?” writes the Times of India, india’s biggest daily. No prizes for guessing who paid for this press release. We googled GMO America and found this. Do you think such paid and manipulative journalism should be allowed to continue?
A culinary trek across the country. One day, all these delicacies would be freed from toxic chemicals and get back to being organic again.
With a blossoming organic kitchen gardeners’ club, many in #Bangalore (formerly known as garden city) are growing what they eat. http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/v6cX6OvXhsLAE3LeqWOscI/Bangalore-Bhath–Under-the-same-roof.html
Colors look great in art and sculptures, but never in food. The Organic Indian encourages you to eat pure and shun chemical food colors and additives which can be highly toxic and carcinogenic.
In other news, India outnumbers every other country in terms of organic producers — with an estimated 5,47,591… http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/A-burgeoning-organic-market-beckons-to-India-s-rural-farmers/Article1-1051468.aspx
While India is now officially the diabetes capital of the world, an easy way to prevent the onset of this disease is to replace refined foods with whole, natural foods. Renounce refined wheat and go back to eating traditional jowar, ragi and bajra rotis again. These millet’s are cheap and should easily be available across all good organic shops in your neighborhood. They taste yummy, especially when washed down with a glass of spiced buttermilk which makes it sit easy on the stomach too!
Anyone tasted Rajamudi rice yet? This variety of unpolished rice was earlier grown exclusively for the Wadiyars of Mysore, and is way tastier and more flavorful (and much cheaper) than the conventional Basmati. We stumbled upon it by accident at a little organic shop in Bangalore, and it’s been a regular favorite with us ever since!
Read on and draw your own conclusions: http://www.happycow.net/pdf/PTA_DairyReport_0212081.pdf After reading this, many of you may feel outraged and helpless, and think there is nothing you can do. That’s NOT at all true. Every little bit you do can bring about change on a much larger scale. Talk to us for ideas.
No AC required! These huts of the Halepotras and Meghwals in Hodka, Gujarat have thick clay walls and thatched roofs that keep the interior blissfully chilled in hot summer months.
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choose carefully, you only get to choose one.
A 2010 government study found that over 200,000 Indian farmers have killed themselves in the past ten years. The numbers are steadily rising. On average one farmer now commits suicide in every 30 minutes.
Click to access Farm_Suicides__All__820598a.pdf
Many unsuspecting farmers are persuaded that genetically modified seeds, pesticides, and fertilizers from companies like Monsanto will increase their profits, but the results are often fatal.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/05/india.farmer.suicides/index.html
Heard that Satyamev Jayate episode 8 talked about the dangers of chemical farming and the importance of eating organic quite eloquently in a language easily understood by the masses. This will do wonders to raise awareness on a mass scale, especially among people who don’t usually think or talk about these things. Which, I think is fantastic. Jai ho!
‘cure’ for cancer, ‘managing’ asthma, ‘controlling’ diabetes. why not talk PREVENTION instead? not much money there?
In other news, the person who said he was too poor to eat organic was spotted paying 169/- + taxes for a cup of coffee at a Gurgaon mall. He was wearing a 4999/- pair of sneakers and probably drives a 705000/- + car (and pays through his nose for petrol) because his sneakers looked squeaky clean from hardly being walked in!
Well what else can be said about his life and PRIORITIES?
No balcony space? Relax, you can still grow your own food (like a boss!)
THIS is actually a river! The water of the entire world is polluted by our plastic waste. Show your involvement; please take the time to share this around. We should all care enough to try and stop this. You can make a difference in your every day life by refusing plastics everywhere you go. Never forget your fabric bags, your re-usable drink containers and just say NO to plastics.
#tip
satya vachan!
who’d have ever thought #ganesha ranked himself amongst the #twitterati!
#Happy #Ganesh #Chaturthi
#Ganesha wants you to be happy, healthy and wise.
#Happy #Ganesh #Chaturthi
#Ganesha wants you to be happy, healthy and wise.
While the debate rages on on how great HFCS really is for you, we recommend sticking to old school and time tested natural diets (and leave this to be endlessly debated, lobbied, proven and disproved).
Here’s what Dr Mercola has to say about this ubiquitous sugar.
In fact, it can get cheaper by the day. More on that later.
What makes organic more expensive to start with? according to organic.org, organic food costs more than conventional food because of the laborious and time-intensive systems used by the typically smaller organic farms. You may find that the benefits of organic agriculture off-set this additional cost. At the same time, there are ways to purchase organic while sticking to your budget. Consider the following when questioning the price of organic:
Organic produce does not require expensive research and unlike genetically modified food, it is immune to GM crops’ heavy dependence on chemical fertilizers and pesticides and water. Contrary to popular belief, GMO’s and chemical fertilizers and pesticides don’t come cheap. They can cost a lot more than you think. Sometimes, they end up costing the farmers his life. Organic farmers use very inexpensive, low-tech, desi and non poisonous ways to keep pests away. That’s a whole lot of money saved, and good health gained for all!
It’s just like the advertisement said, taste bhi, health bhi!
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