Jain Diet Plan

Diet plans that respect Jain food rules

Onion, garlic and potato turn up in most diet plans, which makes them tricky for Jain families to use. The generator includes a Jain setting: all meals exclude radish, beetroot, carrot, potato, garlic, onion and every other root vegetable, plus meat, fish and eggs. Select any goal above — PCOS, pregnancy, thyroid, weight loss, weight gain and others — and Jain is pre-selected.

Jain-friendly foods in our plans

• Grains and millets: foxtail millet, sabudana, oats, rice, ragi, bajra, jowar, wheat
• Protein: nuts, tofu, milk, curd, paneer, rajma, masoor, toor, chana and moong dal
• Vegetables: leafy greens, pumpkin, cucumber, tomato, capsicum, cabbage, bhindi, tinda, turai, lauki
• Flavour: fresh coriander, lemon, ajwain, haldi, ginger (dry ginger for strict Jains), hing, jeera

Meeting your protein needs on a Jain diet

With no eggs and fewer beans on certain days, protein can fall short. Have paneer or dal with every main meal, milk or curd once or twice daily, and nuts or roasted chana as snacks. On tithis when you skip green leafy vegetables, add more ragi, sesame and dal for calcium and iron.

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