to clear the sinus passages or in case of cold if you like eating these meals and have always had a cup of haldi milk and eaten jaggery and ghee along with your roti then you know your system tolerates it well and there is no need to avoid these foods3 suggest pulses vegetables one should compulsorily include in their daily meal plan postcovidin summers you would land up having more watery vegetables like dudhi or pumpkin so whether it is the tadgola banana or jamun seasonal fruits are good at any point in time smaller pulses like chawli moong matki should be consumed in summersso keep it seasonal homecooked and make sure that food that you are eating is according to your personal and cultural preferences and within your budgetary constraints it doesnt have to be expensive for it to be effective thats really the main message here stick it out with your simple homecooked food for a speedy recovery4should mumbaikars quit having morning cutting chai and bun maska amid covid crisisfor a mumbaikar to avoid a morning cutting chai is impossible and i dont want you to do so but start your day with one glass of water then have some nuts and a fruit of the season and then have your cutting chai so you dont need to give up on your cutting chai at all over the weekend or once a while please have maska pav just dont make it a daily habit because what helps in our immunity and recovery is diversity in our diet5 facts one should know about cheat mealsavoiding bread biscuit chips pizza is the most commonsensical thing that one can ever do eating more packaged and processed food like biscuit pizza and cake only increases our chances of developing noncommunicable diseases like obesity heart disease lung disease and the whole gamut during covid noncommunicable diseases or what is now called comorbidities are known to increase the risk of covid complications so if you dont want complications not just during the recovery phase but also for the rest of your life stay away from packaged and processed food if you eat biscuit everyday or drink tetra pack juices irrespective of how thin you look you are going to get prone to all kinds of illnesses avoid processed and packaged food6 do you agree that unverified messages about meal plans during the pandemic circulating on whatsapp and social media have misled peopleabsolutely i was speaking to one of indias leading infectious disease specialists dr v ramasubramanian and he said the exact same thing he said that one of the things he is feeling right now is that it has really become tiring and exhausting to clear the anxiety and whatsapp misinformation that his patients are receiving he feels the disease itself is medically treatable but the misinformation thats going around is really exhausting if people stick out with commonsensical homecooked food they would be totally fine but we have magical cures and this