Healthy homemade alternatives of Junk Food

Keep kids happy & healthy with home-made replicas of junk meals.

We understand that keeping kids away from junk food is a near-impossible task. Their pleas and insistence more than often melt our determination and we allow them to consume the adversely impactful junk meals. We often look for healthy alternatives that will satiate the palate of kids without hampering their health. Because it is well understood that eating frequent fast food meals cause kids and young adults to pile up more weight and face an increased risk of developing insulin resistance. Moreover, it has also been proven that junk food tends to replace healthy fats in the brain and interferes with its normal signalling mechanism. In addition, junk food is addictive for children and leads to complications like chronic illness, low self-esteem and even depression.

Table of Content

What is Junk Food?
Popular examples of Junk ood include:
Why is Junk Food bad?
Healthy alternatives to Junk Food:

1. What is Junk Food?

'Junk foods' are foods items that lack nutrients, minerals, and vitamins and are high in kilojoules- salts, sugars and saturated fats. These food items are called junk food because they don’t play any role in healthy eating and are not required to be a part of your diet.

2. Popular examples of Junk Food include:

Fast foods (such as Fries, Burgers and Pizzas)
Cakes and Biscuits
Chocolate and Sweets
Processed Food such as Maggie
Sugary Drinks (such as Pepsi, Cola, Fanta)

3. Why is Junk Food bad?

If you are regularly eating junk food, your body will not receive essentials nutrients and would have increased risk obesity and chronic (long-term) diseases like:

Type 2 Diabetes
Cardiovascular Disease
A Number of Cancers

4. Healthy alternatives to Junk Food:

Impacts, many; solutions-any? Well, our Millennial chef, Varun Arora, who himself is extremely fond of fast food and well-understands the cravings of the kids, has created nutritious meals that are easy to create, and are the perfect replacement of the notorious junk foods. So, next time when your kids demand junk food, prepare these quick and easy junk foods that are healthy substitutes to popular junk foods.

Check out our delicious recipes here

Shop Now