Healthy Weekends 2

Thought to rename my weekend stories to Healthy weekends, as basically the stories over here are food and health only.

I had a very late Friday night, it's Friday night and it has to be like that :P Spoiling yourself in some weakness of your's. I slept in between something and really don't remember when was it.

Saturday started with a door bell ring, and I was thinking, who in this world at this early morning is ringing my door bell. Thought its my maid, cursing in mind, why she has to come so early, where she used to come at noon usually. And had a glance of the time and screamed, "Wow! its 10 30" and I am still sleepy creepy!

So I opened the door to see the BigBasket boy waiting with my order in my door steps, saying,
"Madam! your bigbasket order". I was still sleepy and ran inside to take the keys. I don't know what that guy would have thought, seeing a women this sleepy at 10 30 in morning. Ahh! anyways he gave the best morning gift, my face lighted up seeing all the fresh goodies he brought. Being a foodie, to see the fresh vegetables and fruits is something so contenting.

So I got all my beauties, and the weekend health motto of cooking healthy, especially eating healthy was on. I had planned to make a tofu salad, spinach soup to keep my hemoglobin levels and a fruit salad of course, a day cannot complete without a bowl of fruits.

All these were planned, but something got added up my cooking agenda, and that is to make fruit preserves. And you know the reason being, I ordered kilos of different fruits for weekend, but this bad weather has ditched me and gave me a very bad cold, and I had to sacrifice my fruit cravings this weekend.

But all these cannot be thrown away, or I don't prefer to. What can I do to save the act of throwing away?

Yep! fruits can be preserved. So lately I found this option to save any fruits, which is an easiest way, and you will definitely thank yourself in future, where you have the preserves readily available in your fridge, and you have to make something out in a fruity flavor, be it yogurt, ice cream, or even goes with any batter like pancakes, cakes, muffins etc.

As always, all the healthy stuffs I cook are my experiments, even if I make other authentic dishes, the healthy recipes doesn't have any location of origin, well I can keep it as Swathy's mind :D

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