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In the Article
First Trimester
Second Trimester
Third Trimester
Pre-Breakfast Snack Ideas For
Pregnancy Diet
Breakfast Ideas
Mid-Morning Snacks
First Trimester
Lunch
Evening Snacks Ideas
Dinner Ideas
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Pre-Breakfast: 1 cup chilled milk.
Breakfast: Moong daal cheela with chopped spinach in it.
Mid-morning: Lemonade with rock salt
Lunch: wheat /jowar roti, green leafy vegetable, salad,
buttermilk, flax seeds chutney
Evening Snack: Banana. You could chop it and add a dash
of lemon
Dinner: Mixed dal khichdi , roasted papad
Midnight hunger pangs: Handful of roasted chickpeas
Second Trimester
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Pre-Breakfast: Soaked dry fruits and nuts
Breakfast: Paratha with curd and ghee
Mid-morning: Lassi
Lunch: Multigrain rotis, seasonal vegetables, salad, pickles,
dals and rice
Evening Snack: Makhana , one seasonal fruit
Dinner: Khichdi, pickle, papad, soups , multigrain stuffed
parathas
Midnight hunger pangs: Sesame , peanut jaggery laddoos
Third Trimester
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Pre-Breakfast: Coconut milk
Breakfast: Grain porridge
Mid-morning: Tender coconut water
Lunch: Multigrain roti, local vegetables, salad, chutneys,
pickles
Evening Snack: One local fruit, 1 glass milk
Dinner: Khichadi, rice, dal, thalipeeth,
Midnight hunger pangs: Pickle , soups, papad
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Pre-Breakfast Snack Ideas For
Pregnancy Diet
Milk with a pinch of cardamom powder
Soaked nuts and seeds
One seasonal whole fruit
Healthy Lemonade with with rock sugar powder and a
pinch of salt
Roasted peanuts
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Panchamrit ( 5 tsp cow milk, 1 tsp curd, 1 tsp honey, 1 tsp
sugar, 2 tsp ghee)
Breakfast Ideas
Poha with peanuts
Oats upma
Laapshi (Cracked-wheat daliya)
Palak Idlia with coconut chutney and Sambhar
Pesarattu / Whole Moong cheela
Paneer paratha with curd
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Multigrain Thalipeeth
Mid-Morning Snacks
Lassi
A Kokum Beverage
Tender coconut water
Carrot spinach smoothie
Peanut jaggery laddoo
Roasted chickpeas and peanuts
A bowl of puffed rice with peanuts
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Lunch
Multigrain Thalipeeth with fresh green chutney. With a
glass of healthy lemonade.
Cheelas (moong, besan) with Tomato gojju: Packed with
nutrients, it is yummy and a good break from a regular
lunch plan.
Lentils (moth beans, moong beans, black chickpeas,
cowpeas) with lemon rice: You could sautee the lentils in
onions and tomatoes and have them as a semi-dry side-
dish with lemon rice. Don’t forget the roasted peanuts and
curry leaves in the lemon rice.
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Leafy vegetables (moringa leaves, fenugreek leaves, dill
leaves, amaranth leaves, spring onion) chopped and mixed
with paratha dough. Or, sauteed with garlic and rolled in
rotis. Add crumbled paneer.
Rice and Dal Have some carrot sticks with it for the crunch.
Mixed Dals (green gram, red gram, black gram, yellow split
peas). Have as rotis or cheelas
Porridges (emmer wheat, cassava, samo rice, semolina,
sweet potato, white rice). Add some chopped veggies.
Evening Snacks Ideas
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Chikkis (amaranth jaggery chikki / peanut jaggery chikki /
sesame peanut jaggery chikki)
Laddoos : (emmer wheat, dry fruit, sesame, peanut jaggery,
amaranth). Chopped dates can be added.
Sprout bhel : Make a tangy mix of boiled sprouts with
tamarind chutney.
Makhana : They have anti-inflammatory properties, so
roast a few, add seasoning of chaat masala or rock salt.
Murmura bhel: Chop tomatoes, cucumbers, radish and toss
in some roasted puffed rice.
Fruit chaat: Your favourite fruits, chopped up and tossed
with rock salt.
Corn salad: Boiled corn seasoned with peri peri powder or
just a dash of lemon is yummy.
Dinner Ideas
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Slurpy Soup and Khichdi: Start with clear tomato soup,
seasoned with coriander leaves. How about a bowl of hot
khichadi, made with rice, moong-daal, seasoned with
homemade ghee, and topped with grated paneer? A small
portion of onion and carrot salad would be nice and
crunchy!
Chatpata Cheelas and Chaat: Cheela, papdi chaat
Multigrain roti-Mushroom curry: Make them using wheat
flour, rolled oats, and millets combined in equal proportion.
You get your iron, protein, and fibre in one meal. Add
chopped coriander, nigella seeds and salt in the dough.
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Local Focal (pumpkin, ridge gourd, okra, ivy gourd,moringa,
french beans, lima beans): Freshly sauteed, locally-grown
vegetables.
Just Feeling Soupy: Mint coriander, tomato, spinach, mixed
vegetable, carrot, rice, moong, pumpkin.
Stuffed paratha: Choose a stuffing from paneer, cabbage,
fenugreek, spinach, bottle gourd, radish. Use ghee to make.
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