Manasi Jejurikar- Dietitian/ Nutrition Coach

15/07/2025

Successfully catered 90+ meal boxes to Nasdaq company and for the first time! Summer rolls or Vietnamese rice paper rolls🌯 for the celebration of month 🏳️‍🌈
Too hectic and too overwhelmed at the end of the day but totally worth it! (Had to serve my usual salad meals too)
Thanks to my amazing family for helping me out, it was a very chaotic but fun ride😄

03/04/2025

So as per the poll, 96% get overwhelmed daily
My day toh does not end if I dont feel overwhelmed and sometimes that feeling comes in the morning itself 😅
Sometimes that feeling stems from doing many things at a time and most of the times doing them alone! Sometimes we do have help but we refuse to take it or sometimes we just don’t have anyone else to rely on!
Or maybe we just expect too much from ourselves!
We want to excel in career, we want to have a good family life, we have to travel a lot, we have to have a good surviving garden😁, need to feed nutritious meals to loved ones, need to take those multivitamins daily, need to have a skincare regime, need to book dentist appointment, need to give good dusting to the house…. and oh the list is endless! I am feeling overwhelmed remembering all these things😁
And managing these things in a specific time, running behind someone for something , taking care of ourselves can literally become very very hectic and mentally exhausting!
But… is that normal? As per today’s standard it is maybe but I think it’s little unrealistic.
Taking things at your pace is NORMAL
Slowing down is NORMAL
Not achieving something is NORMAL
Staying at home is NORMAL
Asking for help and giving help is NORMAL

Just calm down! Do only that is in your control. Things or people or feelings that are not in your control, just stop worrying about them!
Meditation helps a lot , try and do that!
And always remember that you look gorgeous when you smile, do that often!😊

18/01/2025

Trying something new..!
Dark chocolate hazelnut smoothie bowl
Stay tuned!😍

02/12/2024

How to build a healthy sandwich??
Choose a good quality bread it can be multigrain or any type.. sourdough breads are a better choice, otherwise any bread is equally healthy/unhealthy
But you can amp up the nutrient content by adding lots of veggies which will provide good amount of fibers
Then very important- a kind of protein be it paneer or chicken or eggs or sprouts/legumes etc. it helps in releasing glucose steadily , also provides satiety
And some healthy fat- to absorb all essential fat soluble vitamins and give a taste😉
Add microgreens/lettuce/ seeds for extra boost of health!
A series of healthy sandwiches is coming soon!😊
Stay tuned!

04/10/2024

As per our poll 45% ppl are stressed 50-60% of the times and 45% feel stressed EVERYDAY!
Even i come in the later 45% 😃

Why is stress so prominent today?
There is so much of competition, so much of things to do and very little time. Many people or my clients complain that “they don’t have time “ to sing, to exercise, to write, to read, to meditate, to talk to an old friend , to simply just pause!
But sometimes its okay to take things slow..
It’s okay to live your life , sometimes my toddler slows me down, I can’t walk fast because of him and sometimes I get frustrated but then I think its okay if I walk slow , I am spending more time with him and myself!
So its okay if we take such small pauses everyday. We can communicate with ourselves, we can figure out whats going right whats going wrong!
Getting anxious everyday keeps our stress hormones level high all the time and it causes lot of cellular damage, it affect the glow of our skin, it can cause hairloss, it can put us at risk for many diseases
So always take a moment to, take a few deep breaths, make a little room for Me-time and self care🌸
Agree with me??

15/08/2024

Dum Aloo!
I have a little memory about dum aloo. In my college, for our cooking practical my group had to make dum aloo, we were given the recipe. We were supposed to make a dry mix of spices, but the mixer grinder was not working. So our teacher asked us to run down at the main lab and use पाटा वरवंटा to grind the spices.
We were so frustrated and had never used it and were like what kind of system is this, why cant they fix the mixer if they run a cooking lab?! But we had no choice and made the paste on पाटा.. it took us soo long. Everyone did it one by one because no one was used to it.. finally made the paste after a lot of sweat and tears 😄and oh my god.. how divine the spices smelled! And our dum aloo tasted spectacular in the entire class, till date i haven’t eaten such tasty dum aloo😃 sometimes classics stand out in the age of fast moving trends!
Whenever i make/eat dum aloo, this memory immediately comes to my mind. After all , life is all about the memories.
As we grow older, all we are left with is memories of people, memories of smells, memories of tastes, of places and importantly, memories of our old self!❤️

11/06/2024

ARE YOU AN OVERTHINKER?? As per the poll I created, 85% people are!
If you’ve thoughts constantly running over the mind, if you overanalyze a certain situation/issue or a conversation, if these thoughts can make you restless, anxious, then probably you are OVERTHINKER.
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I’m an overthinker. Sometimes, I can’t sleep because constantly there are different thoughts in my mind. I consciously try not to surface my overthinking to be noticed, but yes, I do overanalyze.
Sometimes I want to buy something, I search for so many options, go through 1000s of products, think of it so many times that I end up buying nothing at all.
Overthinking drains your energy more than a physical activity.
And let me tell you it’s not good for health
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Why?
❗sometimes the solution is right there but we overcomplicate the things and go far away from solutions. ❗can kill productive and creative mind.
❗releases stress hormones in the body and creates negativity.
❗constant stress is a risk factor for all diseases.
❗lack of sleep due to thinking can result in hormonal imbalance, weight gain, dull skin, hair and brain health.
❗constant thinking and depressing ourselves with thoughts can create negativity, cranky moods, hyperness, anger and uncontrollable feelings.
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🌸When you realize you’re overthinking. Just stop there, take a deep breath and look around and leave the topic.
🌸Daily Meditation can solve many mind problems.
🌸don’t give too much of attention to the people or problems around you, sometimes worrying about a problem is much bigger than the actual problem.
Think of a solution and leave it there.
🌸consciously try and create blank mind while sleeping.
🌸Always speak out your worries, write it down or directly talk with the person itself whom you have problems with. Writing down your worries, stop right there and think no more..and next day you will feel the problem was actually very small.
🌸try it out and let me know 😇

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24/12/2022

How much body positive are you?
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Do you often complain about your looks whenever you see yourself in the mirror?
Do you crib about your thighs/eyes/colour/hair/teeth/belly not being good enough?
Do you see insta models or actors and wonder how someone can be so beautiful but not me?
Do you try to fit in a specific size or a number on the weighing scale to reach "your" idea of being beautiful?
Do you hate any part of your body?
If most of the answers are yes, then dearies, you're body shaming yourselves.
Do not judge your body or your features compared with others.
You are born this way and embrace that.
People used to bodyshame me saying 'you're so tall' 'you're thin' 'You're not fair' 'this is not so good' 'that is a little better' and all that affected me in my teens/blew off my confidence. Even i used to think I am really ugly 😁..But now I have gone all beyond that, I have realized nothing is good enough for people.
So
Work on your inner beauty, peaceful mind and a healthy body. That will take you longer. . .

15/09/2022

Monsoon is for those rainy bike rides, mountain hiking, eating piping hot maggi or tea pakoda on a road side thela and snuggling in warm clothes!
So lovely!
Not so lovely when we're down with cold, cough, virals, and other infections😃 rainy season gives rise to those pesky bacteria which make us sick in this lovely weather 🤧😮‍💨

Make sure you eat these foods so your immunity is on point and ready to fight against these buggers 👾🐞!

Let me know , how many things you always eat out of these 10!

17/05/2022