Thursday, February 23, 2012

Postpartum Diet - Methi Seeds|BM#13


After a long break in Blogging, I am glad to be back and hoping to come back to form again and post many recipes for this year. My 14 month old Toddler keeps me on my toes.
I am also glad to be back to Blogging marathon by Srivalli. When i saw the topic "Postpartum diet" for this marathon. I thought of taking this one and post useful recipes and tips before i forget about them, since it has just been a year.
For today Day 1, We will just see a simple thing to follow everyday for all the breastfeeding ladies.

Fenugreek Seeds (Vendayam in tamil or Methi in Hindi)

Method 1
Take about 2-3 tea-spoons of Fenugreek seeds and allow it to soak in a glass of water for 4-5 hours.
Drink the water and the eat the seeds together.

Method 2
Dry roast the Methi seeds and grind to a smooth powder.
Add to all possible dishes or tea.

It can also be added to dishes like Dosa, Idli, Roti, Sambar, Rasam, tea or any side dishes.

Benefits
This helps in increasing the supply of breast milk if had regularly.
This really helps to cool our body or is very good for skin.
We can start doing this right from the day of the delivery.

This herbal seeds does not affect the baby in any ways.

Enjoy and i will see you with more tips and recipes tomorrow.
This also goes to Healthy Morsels- Pregnancy

15 comments:

Harini said...

I think some ob/GYNs recommend fenugreek tablets as well!

Unknown said...

those are some great tips...i always have methi powder handy! welcome back to blogging and glad u could join the marathon!

Chef Mireille said...

good to know

Suma Gandlur said...

Seems like a useful one to nursing mothers. Didn't know about this.

Sangeetha M said...

very informative post...thanks for sharing!!
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veena said...

Great tips. Very informative

The Pumpkin Farm said...

excellent tips...i am glad i am past those days, but i agree had it not been this kind of food, hitting back to normal would have been very difficult

Vardhini said...

Useful tips dear.

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Srivalli said...

Glad you could join us..that's a good tip to share..

Gayathri Kumar said...

Very informative...

www.mahaslovelyhome.com said...

Mouthwatering dish ! It looks so delicious n tasty yaar.........
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Rujuta said...

Very informative..Thanks for sharing

Lecker and Yummy Recipes said...

Archana, u seem to have a wonderful knowledge about the postpartum diet ! Hats off !! It would be highly beneficial if you could please link your other Pathiya Samayal tips and recipes like Jeeraga Kashayam,Keerai Masiyal, Methi seeds etc. as well to our event Healthy Morsels-Pregnancy :)
Waiting for more such infos from an expert ;)

Umm Mymoonah said...

That's very useful tip too, thank you for sharing with us in Healthy Morsels :)

schmetterlingwords said...

Methi seeds are wonderful and very beneficial to feeding women. Good that you have dedicated a post to it and mentioned diff ways of adding them to the diet. Thanks for linking this to Healthy Morsels - Pregnancy :)

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