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Reflections from a Modern Indian Kitchen I: A few easy-to-make must-haves

There's no arguing about how fast-paced life has become today. We've meetings, deadlines, ambitions, stress and there's very little time to eat, let alone cook. It takes a toll on health and I'm sure most of us have faced situations where we're tired of eating at Mc Donald's four out of five working days in a week or simply tired of eating out. Those of us who don't have a cook (like me) and sometimes even those who do (when the cook is away or you don't want to eat the actual 'meal-food') are very familiar with the times when we're dog-tired and do not have energy to so much as cut a carrot but are sick of ordering from the same 'near the home restaurant' again. After my stunts in the kitchen, I realized there're a few things which I would always want to keep a stock of - Some healthy options and some not-healthy-but-happy-energizing options: 1. Crackers, rusks, biscuits and cookies:  Health-freaks can try out the no-suga