bengaluru entrepreneur shivani gandhi is hard pressed for time between managing her fashion business and home one of her main concerns has always been to find healthy food alternatives for her daughtersa while back she chanced upon slurrp farm a bengalurubased food brand that focusses on millets and offers cookies and milletbased pancakes and dosa mixes initially there were hardly any options finding readytocook online milletbased foods has been a blessing says gandhi who orders millet foods online nowas the state government pushes millet consumption many food businesses in the city have adapted it to their menus while restaurants have been offering a wide range of millet dishes online food companies are also joining in by including millets on their menusrecently food delivery platform freshmenu launched an extensive millet menu that includes soups appetisers salads mains and even desserts weve noticed an increasing section of customers who are looking for healthier options to carbohydrates we started experimenting with millet dishes in summer this year sales for these have been at a 1000 portions a day says founder rashmi dagafreshmenu plans to diversify its meals portfolio by including milletbased dishes regularly as we learn and innovate with millets based on feedback many of them will become staples daga addscofounders meghana narayan and shauravi malik of online platform slurrp farm wanted to fill the gap for healthy eating options for children our new range of millet mixins puffed snacks and readytoeat meals will be out in 2018 besides our current offerings says malik the company in its first year saw 50 000 customers since we have a karnataka connection our recipes are a mix of traditional wisdom of how our grandmothers cooked millets combined with modern taste buds she addsmamatha nl founder of easy food venture runs the online platform easybreakfast it offers 15 milletbased readytocook options and breakfast boxes the entrepreneur plans to develop a millet breakfast premix in a cup called atm anytime millet that will make it easy to carry cook and eat it at any point millets have caught the attention of weight watchers people who suffer from diabetics health enthusiasts due to the tremendous response at the organic and millet mela this year i had to scale my production and set up a factory to meet customer demands she saysowning to the increasing popularity of millets a proposal has been sent to the united nations to declare 2018 as the international year of millets says krishna byre gowda minister for agriculture as people begin to realise the drawbacks of rice and wheat millets have become hugely popular we see online stores as big catalysts for pushing the consumption of millets