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Sumita Ganguli (Mou)

One Pot Meal

With no end in sight to the Coronavirus, people are now adapting to live with it in the long-term. So, we continue to bear our caregiving responsibilities besides our
professional commitments.

There has been a huge impact on the financial situation due to this pandemic. The employers and the employees, the students and the pensioners, every strata of
society is undergoing a change. Food is an integral part of life and everybody has embraced change in their own ways.

The ‘One Pot Meal’ has been a blessing. We stylise it as a trend and Google defines it as a simple cooking method that easily combines all the dish's essential
ingredients in one pot while cooking.

I say that the ‘One Pot Meal’ is a simple, tasty dish that is fast to cook and good for health - where both the pot and the meal aspects are equally important.

It’s sometimes pointless to splurge on a personal trainer and work out like a maniac when one can exhibit a little restraint and eat spartan instead. You will save
time in cooking, and time saved can be used to do something else.

The Coronavirus has had a profound impact on our daily routine too. The pattern of cooking has changed. We had convenient cooking, hobby-based cooking
and need based cooking. Now need based cooking has a new sub category - Pandemic Cooking. Pandemic cooking includes time management, entertain-
ment, care giving, finance management, and with little or no domestic help around, it also includes household management.

As an entrepreneur, a culinary consultant and a number cruncher, I think cooking on a budget should not inhibit creativity. One can be extremely creative in
discovering dishes that will be lapped up by the family and it should lead to a discussion at the dinner table (Adda as we say in Bengali). Food and adda is a
digestive combination that no antacid can replace.