Food & Future: How relevant to LPU college campus??

             

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Healthy body and healthy diet is sign of an intelligent student. Nowadays being knowledgeable is just not adequate to compete in the present educational system.

Have you ever thought, what all do you need in order to become a smart student?? Well, I will always point out college infrastructure, campus, college surroundings and yes, university’s concern towards Paper Pattern, Syllabus & Teaching Staff. These all are the ingredients which are required to make a university completely professional.

Gone those days when people used to have only books for their studies, now this is an epoch when they require all sorts of amenities to do proper studies as this era is for tough competitors.   

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If you want to compete with this competition then I would say “Lovely Professional University” is a perfect place as it provides all amenities in a single roof.

As I mentioned earlier that for best level of education you need to have all sort of facilities which I believe every institution should provide and Lovely Professional University has that level of standard.

An year ago when I and my friends completed our law degree from Mumbai University we all planned to do our LLM from LPU but due to some financial difficulties I couldn’t shift to Jalandhar and couldn’t take admission for that academic year but one of my friend who was a pure vegetarian and Jain by religion took admission at LPU.

Firstly he was very happy to see vegetarian food at University campus. He spoke to us and shared his personal experience for being a part of LPU.

It’s good to know that LPU has taken each and everything into their mind regarding all factors which promote education & its environment. As we all know almost 60% population in India is vegetarian and LPU campus has all green marked products in their university campus.

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He informed us that that Dominos, CCD, Coffee Chocolade, Subway etc are also available within the campus. They serve the food strictly with green dot.

LPU is situated in Jalandhar-Delhi, Punjab with the academic staff of 3,500 who are highly qualified and well versed with the modern education system.

Every day I used to speak to him regarding his experience as even I wanted to take admission into LLM for the next academic year.

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The only thing which I was hesitating to go to LPU was that my friend always informed me about vegetarian food and being Non-Vegetarian Brahmin I always love to eat non-veg.

Few months later my friend only informed me about some awesome non-vegetarian food places outside the campus. After knowing it I was really happy.

LPU provides “Meal Plan” in 3 different categories- Standard Meal, Regional Meal (South Indian) and Continental Meal at very reasonable rate. For more details click here.

If you see LPU campus in Google maps you will come to know that there are numerous restaurants outside the Campus like "Maharaja Palace-Phagwara", "Muncheeze The Food Place", "Haveli", "The Taste of LPU", "Neeta Chicken & Fish Corner", "Basant Plaza",  "Idli Bar",  "Bean O Mania", "Bella Pizza", "Bawa Ice Castle", "Red Devils" etc. 

The awesome LPU campus is a perfect place where you can study and stay healthy.

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After hearing my friend’s experience I really loved it and made my decision final to do my LLM from LPU from coming academic year as it is one of the perfect place which I found in India.

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I have seen several hostel students struggling for healthy food & proper accommodation but LPU is not that case at all. J J J  

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Sugar Free Besan Laddoos

“Besan Laddo- Gram Flour Ball” one of the sweetest and most adorable desserts for all Indians. My dad who is sweet lover but due to diabetes can’t have too much sweet but as with growing technology you can find alternative solutions for everything and for sweet lovers “Sugar Free Natura” is really a grand surprise.

When I heard about “Sugar Free Natura” I preferred to surprise my dad through his one of the favourite desserts “Besan Laddoo”.  It is the most simple and less time consuming dessert but in taste it is always fabulous if the all ingredients are properly added.

There are three simple steps and maximum fifteen minutes you need to prepare your favourite sweet dish.

Cooking Time- 15 Minutes.

Ingredients:

Beasn (Gram Flour)    -        2 Bowl

Ghee                           -         1/2 Bowl

Dry Fruits                   -        1/2 Bowl

Cardamom Powder    -         A pinch
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Step 1:

Take a pan and add Ghee in pan.

Add Besan (Gram Flour) when Ghee gets boiled.

Step 2:

Keep constantly stirring to avoid lumps till it gets little bit brown & appetizing in smell.

Step 3:

Off the flame; add “Sugar Free Natura”, Cardamom powder & dry-fruits; Mix all the ingredients properly.

Let it get cool for sometime; once it gets cool make round balls and your Besan Laddoos are ready.

This is how I made sweet and tasty Besan Laddoos with lots of love and health for my adorable dad with the help of “Sugar Free Natura”.

As I have added “Sugar Free Natura” so that all can enjoy the taste of these Laddoos. Diabetic person & who is on dieting can enjoy its taste without any tension of health issues or extra calories.

It’s completely tension free and healthy for everyone.

After giving this surprise to my dad I saw his adorable smile which he generally gets when he eats his favourite dishes.

Thank you “Sugar free Natura” for giving smiles to all diabetic patients. 

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McCain Date with my Sweetheart........

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My lover, who is sweet by heart and salty by tummy; who is a foodie, blogger, software engineer, story writer, poet and above all these he is a best boyfriend in this world.

It’s not just that my lover is my only priority; beside my lover I also love my 10 year old niece, my parents, my best friend and my darling sister. If I count then overall there are 10 people who all are my heartbeats. Without them I am just like niddle without thread, shoes without socks and winter without blanket.

Fortunately or unfortunately to say that abovementioned heartbeats of mine are foodies.  And to make them happy I always need to cook for them their favourite dishes.

My lover who is a pure vegetarian and my remaining loved ones are non-vegetarians including me too. It is a dilemma for me to satisfy their hunger need with their favourite dishes. But good thing is that my non-vegetarian loved ones do prefer to eat Veg food if the taste of a veg dish is extraordinary. 

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If you see then you will come to know that there are numerous readymade snacks are available in the markets which are good in taste but any guesses which one is being most famous these days??? Well.. Yes, it McCain snacks; who else it can be???

Smiling McCain snacks has a power to change your dull dinner date into an awesome dinner date. Now will see how it improved my dinner date-

Being a hardcore non-vegetarian Brahmin girl it was really traumatising for me to cook any vegetarian dish but as I mentioned earlier my lover is a vegetarian. Cooking veg dishes were always a headache for me.

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But as it is very famous saying “if you want to enter in the heart of a gentleman whom you love, you should have expertise in cooking because his heart ways go from his tummy” and Yes, it was completely true in my case.  

My lover, being a vegetarian foodie gentleman; it was a tough challenge for me to win his heart as his mom was a great cook and his expectations from me was much more.

One fine day I invited him for a date. Well I know it looks awkward when girl calls a guy for a date but my mind is quite open enough in this regard. No one was available at my home except my elder sister who was aware of my relationship. I called up my bf and informed him that today he has to have dinner at my home. He was excited but scared too and affirmed fir the same in a sarcastic way.  

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It was 11 am when I officially invited him for a date so I had complete day to prepare something special for my dinner date. I planned to prepare Paneer Tikka, Chapati, Curd Curry and his favourite Gajar ka Halwa.

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I requested my sister to bring some ingredients which wasn’t available in our kitchen subsequently she bought those ingredients and handed over the bag to me. While checking the ingredients bag I saw packet of McCain.

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Out of curiosity I asked her what the reason for buying a packet of McCain is. She said just fry this smiling McCains in a pan with some oil then see a charm of you dinner date.

I was glad to see my sister’s interest in my dinner date. By 6.50 pm I was almost done with my cooking. The only thing which was pending was McCain to fry.

Considering it as easy work I preferred to fry McCain in the end after getting ready for my lovely sweetheart. Exact at 7.30 pm I got a call from my beloved and he informed me that he has reached to station and will take another 25 minutes to reach at my home.

After getting ready I went inside the kitchen to finish up my last task of the day. I pour some edible oil in a pan to fry smiley McCain. After fry it was looking very crispy and elegant. The aroma of that was really seductive.

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As a part of experiment I decorated some separate coins of McCain with cheese which was getting melt on hot McCain and also added aloo bhujiya sev on top of some McCain coins. At last served it in a plate with coriander and pudina.

The moment my lover entered in my home he was happy to see me in a dress which he had gifted me. He greeted my sister nicely and then I got some cold drinks for him. After an hour of chit-chat we proceeded towards dining table where I had kept everything ready.

He glanced at each and every dish but he was quite surprised to see McCain smiley coins.  He tasted one slice of it and started complimenting the McCain smileys. He asked me how did I make it then I showed him a packet of McCain. He was really surprise to see how tasty snacks they have managed to serve. He actually complemented the brand and its efforts for such extraordinary packet of snacks.

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This is how my dinner date became the most cherishable moment of our love life with the help of McCain.

     Checkout McCain Recipe which made my dinner date a complete package of romantic dinner date. 

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Guptaji ka Nashta-Let’s go to Eat.

Few days ago I shifted to my new house. I found something very strange about my new society. Whenever I walked in the compound on in the corridors, I would here people chatting about one Mr. Gupta and something about 'nashta'. Many times when people said the words 'Guptaji' and 'nashta' in one sentence, they would lick their lips and wander off. Finally, out of curiosity, I asked my neighbor who this Mr. Gupta was and why his name had become associated with something like breakfast. 

My neighbour simply laughed at me and suggested that I visit the house of this Mr. Gupta in the morning. I wasn't sure if she was joking or not. How could I just drop by somebody's house for breakfast, when I don't even know that person? A week passed by, and every day I would here about a new dish such as 'Cornflake Coconut Ladoos' or 'Sitaphal Cornflakes'. I had never heard of such dishes before, but when people would describe it, I would tempted to go to Mr. Gupta's house. 

One Saturday I woke up and could smell an amazing aroma. My mouth started watering. I got out of bed to look for the source of the aroma. I found myself standing outside Guptaji's house. I hesitated before ringing the bell. I thought it would be too awkward. But my other senses took control and my hand levitated towards the doorbell. <Ding-Dong>. Mrs. Gupta answered the door. She looked at me in a cursory manner. “Yes, how may I help you?" she asked. I told her that I was new in the building. When I couldn't think of anything else to say, I asked, "Are you having breakfast?" She simply smiled and asked, "Yes, would you like to join us?". I shamelessly accepted the invitation without hesitation.

She introduced me to her husband Mr. Gupta, who was busy fighting with his children for the TV remote. Suddenly Mrs. Gupta came with a tray and everyone ran towards her, forgetting about the remote entirely. Then, Mrs. Gupta took the remote to watch her own shows and hinted that I join the rest of the family for what she called "Remotewala Nashta”. I was offered a tall glass filled with Kellogg's cornflakes, chocolate syrup, almond and even ice-cream. It was so refreshing! There was also a bowl of 'Walnut Corflakes Choco Balls'. This contained coarsely ground and lightly roasted Kellogg's Corn Flakes, roughly chopped dark chocolate, roughly chopped milk chocolate, chopped walnuts, and a bit of vanilla essence. It was by far the yummiest breakfast I had in my life. 

I wanted to come to Guptaji's house for breakfast every day. But I thought it would be better to just take the recipes from Mrs. Gupta. She was more than happy to share the same with me. To see Mr.s Gupta's mouthwatering recipes, go here: https://www.facebook.com/anaajkanashta and https://www.youtube.com/user/kelloggindia