Healthy Indian Diet Plan for Pregnancy that you need to know

The joy and excitement of bringing a new life into this world gives immense pleasure for all mom-to-be. But at the same time, it demands a lot of responsibility to nurture the new life growing within you. All that you eat before and during the pregnancy is highly responsible for not only your health but for your baby’s too.

So to make sure that what you eat helps your body to digest easily follow the below listed Healthy Indian diet plan for pregnancy. You can mix and match the following depending on how much you can eat.

PRE BREAKFAST SNACK

• Almond milk
• Milkshake
• Apple juice/Tomato juice
• Dry fruits

BREAKFAST

• Bowl of fruits
• Wheat rava upma with lots of vegetables
• Poha with lots of vegetables
• Oats porridgeWhole wheat toast with butter and omelet
• Vegetable omelet
• Paranthas with fillings of spinach, dal, cottage cheese, potatoes, carrots, beans, cheese with curd
• Mixed bean cutlet or patties
• Some fruits to go along with the breakfast such as apricots, dates, sweet fig, banana and oranges
• Cheese toast or vegetable sandwich
• Vegetable khandvi
• Rice sevai with lots of vegetables

MID MORNING SNACK

• Tomato soup
• Spinach soup
• Creamy spinach soup
• Carrot and beet soup
• Chicken soup

LUNCH

• Roti with choice of dal variety, vegetable and a bowl of curd
• Parantha with dal and a bowl of curd
• Carrot and peas parantha with a bowl of curd and some butter
• Jeera or pea rice with raita
• Rice, dal and vegetable with vegetable salad
• Lemon rice with roasted peanuts
• Vegetable khichdi
• Fresh vegetable soup
• Chicken curry with rice
• Grilled chicken with a bowl of curd
• Rice, dal, mint raita and a fruit
• Kofta curry with rice
• Cottage cheese parantha with butter and vegetable salad
• Curd rice
• Parantha with sprouted beans salad

EVENING SNACK

• Cheese and corn sandwich
• Vegetable idli
• Spinach and tomato idli
• Sevaiya with lots of vegetables
• Carrot or lauki halwa
• Fresh Fruit smoothies
• Roasted peanut mixture with vegetables
• Cauliflower and peas samosa
• Bread cutlet
• Chicken cutlet
• Chicken sandwich
• Chicken soup
• A bowl of dry fruits
• A cup of green tea
• Milk porridge with oats, sevaior daliya
• Vegetable daliya
• Mixed vegetable uttapam

DINNER

• Rice with dal, spinach, vegetable and some raw salad
• Roti with a bowl of dal, a choice of vegetable and a glass of buttermilk
• Mixed dal khichdi with a mixture of vegetable curry
• Plain parantha with a glass of buttermilk

Thus, these were some of the nutritious Indian diet plan for pregnancy.

I hope this article helps all mom-to-be to give birth to a healthy baby.