Vijayawada: Growing health consciousness among people in Vijayawada was witnessing a variety of food. Riding on the wave, a housewife was promoting a diet bowl when there was the popular Veeramarchineni Rama Krishna diet plan known as KETO therapy. Housewife Mangam Lakshmi Kumari’s diet bowl would be delivered at home for Rs 99 if ordered online or through WhatsApp.
She said that besides being tasty the food was low in calories and rich in dietary fibre. She recently launched the diet in Hyderabad and had plans to branch out to Bengaluru and Chennai. Cooking had been a passion as she came from a conservative joint family of nearly 50 members and wanted to take her talents outside her house. She said she had her family’s support for this initiative.
The bowl was packed with traditional Andhra food and had all the functional components such as antioxidants, dietary fibres and probiotics. It was with the assistance of a professional nutritionist that she designed a week-long menu that could help in weight loss, maintain blood sugar level and support immunity of the body. Pairing fibre-rich base food with low-carb and nutrient-rich proteins, the food was packed neatly in silver foil boxes and delivered at the doorstep by 10.30 am.
If the lunch menu had capsicum brown rice, steamed mung with curd and methi-paneer curry or tomato brown rice with steamed urad vada in curd and rajma-soya curry, dinner boxes were packed with rotis made of ragi, jowar or makai flour and had curry and salads in different flavours. She was confident that the current supply of the 40 plus food boxes daily would go up soon. She does all the cooking and had one of her daughters to help her. “I don’t like anybody’s interference when I am manning the kitchen. I have cooked for 70 people all by myself," she said. Ms Kumari recounted that at one point, her father-in-law had asked her to cook for the 70-odd workers in the foundry the family owned at Kabela Centre.
