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A lot of food wisdom is present in the food that Indian grandmoms
used to cook at home. Over years though, with globalization and brilliant
marketing of fast food, current generation is preferring to eat junk food.

They are forgoing localized, weather appropriate home cooked fresh food
and adopting packaged food. This change in dietary habit is causing many
health issues in modern India.

To remind students about the value our grandmother’s wisdom and develop
love for indigenous food, Isha Vidhya schools run several food based programs.

Recently Vanavasi School’s 5th grade students organized a Food Festival to learn
these food items and nutrients present in them. Students brought dishes
prepared at home for the event. The teachers enquired each student about
the nutrient list in the dish they had brought.

Tamilnadu has numerous types of food preparations as each section of the
society has its own method and the ingredients.  This food festival introduced
many of those food items to the students and school staff!

One of the eachers shared:

"By reading from the lesson, student will not be able to know about the
traditional food. In order to know about those varieties, food festival was
conducted by our students.   We asked the students to bring the different
kinds of grains. The student came to know about grains like thenai,varagu,
samai,koralli, pannivaragu etc. We asked the student to prepare varieties
of food items and we planned to conduct the food festival. The students
explained the nutrients which is present in the food items to the principal
and teachers.

From the food festival, we feel happy, students came to know about what
are the nutrients present, its value and importance. Our student Muhruth
had brought tender rice & venn pongal which was really admired by our
teachers."