Weekly grocery lists

Why the cheap plans are also the good ones

Look at the order of that table. The weeks that cost least are the ones built on dal, chana, soya chunks, peanuts and seasonal vegetables — and they are also the ones with the best fibre figures on the site. The expensive weeks are expensive because of paneer, chicken and fish, not because of anything nutritionally magical.

That is the whole argument against imported protein powder, quinoa and avocado in an Indian diet plan. A hundred grams of soya chunks carries more protein than a hundred grams of anything in that sentence and costs less than a fifth as much.