💗PART 2 of Ayurveda and Winter Food💗

General Guidelines: 🍽🍴🍛🍜🍶

• Favour balancing the 6 tastes, and eat warm, cooked, well spiced + slightly oily foods.

• Favour heating and hearty vegetables like: cooked onions, spinach, carrots + other root vegetables. 🥕

• Hot spices like: black pepper, chili peppers, cayenne, garlic, and ginger.

• Cooked Grains like: barley, cornmeal, tapioca, rice, kitchari, oatmeal.🍜🍵

• Well cooked and spiced legumes are good for Kapha. Top it off with a little bit of ghee to not disturb Vata.

• Winter is a great time to indulge in meats (if you eat meat) like venison, turkey, and chicken. Also, poached and hard boiled eggs are good. 🥚🍗🥩

• Dairy products should be limited for this time of year, but if you drink a cup of hot milk, add a pinch if turmeric, nutmeg, and dried ginger to your hot milk. Sooo good.☕

Grains for Favour:🌽🌾🍚
* wheat, oats, millet, corn, amaranth, buckwheat, barley, quinoa, basmati rice, brown rice, seitan, and rye.

Fruits to Favour: 🍎🍌🍒🍋🍈
* Prunes (soaked), apples (cooked), bananas, berries, cherries, figs, dates, mangoes, papaya, peaches, tangerines, oranges, apricots, cantaloupe, grapefruit, limes, and lemons. 

🌿Remember that these are general food guidelines for winter. But it also depends on your Prakruti (birth constitution) and Vikruti (current state of imbalance). 

Thank you. 🙏🏽💙

🌿Stay tuned for PART 3 …