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Your food, with honest numbers.
Cooked, as-served nutrition for the food you actually eat, computed from published Indian recipe data. No guilt, no fads, no mystery numbers.
July 29, 2026
Biryani calories, by the actual plate: chicken, mutton and veg
How many calories in biryani? Cooked, as-served numbers for mutton, vegetable and chicken biryani per real plate — plus why the plate weight matters more than the recipe, and the raita trap.
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July 18, 2026
The exercise-calorie trap: why your tracker rewards you twice for one workout
Most apps add your workout burn back into your daily food allowance. Combine that with how we all underestimate what we eat, and the math fails in the same direction twice. Here is the honest arithmetic.
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July 7, 2026
Dal calories by the katori: moong, urad, mixed and dal makhani
Real calorie and protein numbers for cooked dal, measured the way you actually serve it: by the katori and by the bowl. Computed from published Indian recipe nutrition data.
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July 7, 2026
Roti vs rice: an honest calorie comparison, by the serving
Two phulkas versus a katori of boiled rice, compared with cooked as-served numbers: calories, protein, fibre, and the ghee factor that swings the whole debate.
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July 7, 2026
Why calorie apps get Indian food wrong (and how to log it right)
Five specific failure modes that make mainstream trackers useless for dal, dosa and thalis, learned while building a nutrition database of 854 Indian dishes, plus how to log around them.
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