Tea Time Snacks

Snacks in mallu households are serious business. I've grown up watching my grandparents eat bowlfulls of chips and mixture first and then sipping on their sugary teas.

Tea time snacks are a meal all by itself. As one grandmother brings freshly baked puffs, samosas and burgers from the local bakery, the other is busy laying out the table with home made chips - jackfruit, banana and tapioca to be precise.

Plum cakes, jalebis and nankattais were a given. If you ask me how we ate like pigs and didn't get diabetes soon after, it's because we played like animals after eating like animals.

So all those calories would be burnt at a higher speed when you compare it with the thulping speed. Which is why even now my fingers automatically order puffs and bondas every alternate day and I'm happy to stuff my face with some deep fried goodness by evening. 

I wish the calorie burning though was still as fast as when I was a child. Puffs are just baked afterall and bondas are technically a vegetable that is batter fried with some dough, is how I pacify myself now, after sniffing down something unhealthy. 

The heart is happy, because the stomach is so full that I can't move. And food coma is the best coma to be in, for mental and physical wellbeing.