Overview

• Hindustan Times features celebrity dietician Simrat Kathuria’s five-day Navratri prep plan, pairing dishes like sabudana khichdi, samak upma, and kuttu or singhara pooris with fruit, curd, pumpkin sabzi, and chaas.
• Kathuria advises skipping wheat, rice, onions, garlic, and processed foods, recommending staples such as sabudana, kuttu, singhara, fruits, select vegetables, and dairy for easy-to-digest energy.
• Times Now highlights fast-friendly flours and grains—kuttu, singhara, rajgira, and sabudana—with barley noted as an occasional option for fibre-rich satiety.
• Experts quoted by Sunday Guardian Live stress hydration with water, coconut water, herbal teas, or lemon water, and suggest steaming or boiling staples instead of deep frying.
• Nutritionists recommend balancing carbs with proteins and healthy fats—paneer, yoghurt, milk, ghee, nuts, and seeds—and opting for gentle activity like walking, yoga, or moderated Garba and Dandiya.