fasting is a wonderful new beginning but blame it on a salivating tongue foodies never find fasting fun even though they know the health benefits so nutritionists have taken up the responsibility of making fasting fun with their little tricks and tipsnidhi aggarwal a nutritionist says bake grill boil do anything but fry if you fast on a regular basis then go for boiled potato chaat and garnish it with all the vegetables you like so that instead of concentrating on the potatoes you can concentrate on the other veggies beet root pakodas and sweet potato kheer are also good optionsfasting can be fun all you need is a little determination and loads of vegetables nuts and fruits naini setalvad nutritionist and obesity and health consultant says when you are fasting have lots of fruits and nuts go for nuts and vegetables cooked with minimum oil make a salad out of doodhi and cucumber and spice it up with cumin or greenred chilli slow cook whatever you are making so that the flavours come out start your fast with saama singhada or rajgeeda rotis then go on to have doodhi and lime or a cucumber mint salad and end your day with potato yam tikkis jains could fast with moong dal dosas and dhoklas lentil pav bhaji with tomatoes and moong go for camomile herbal infusions to relax you and organic food all those who were waiting for choices in fasting nutritionist rajan bhokhle reveals the good news juice fast dry fast tea fast master cleanse fast and fasting for religious purposes or just to lose weight choose what you want to do and why some people also fast to enjoy special fasting foods like i used to do for mint sabudana salad and watermelon smoothies a well garnished peanut curry with a dash of kokum or tamarind pulp vegetable broth or apple cranberries and grapefruit juices are good optionsfasting may not exactly sound like fun but with the lemonade diet the cookie diet and a juice fasting diet it can be made interesting but not only is the food consumed during fasting important so is the food after the fast dietician ritu galotia says that one of the golden rules when fasting is to break the fast extremely slowly and carefully she adds drink lots of vegetable juices and consume well garnished fruits oatmeal is also a great food to eat afterwards do not overeat looks matter whether its that of an individual or a food buy a fancy bowl decorate it with some salad leaves put some nicely chopped chilled fruits and vegetables and feel like a queen or a king and yes dont forget to stand on that weighing machine after you break the fastfollow us on twitter for more stories