Overview
- The Health and Family Welfare Department set menus for government meetings, large events, and office eateries, stressed hygiene, and urged buying from cottage industries, self-help groups, prison kitchens, and nutri-gardens.
- For large functions, the advisory calls for at least one millet-based snack and two millet dishes at meals, plus brown rice, fresh salads, and fresh fruit or low-sugar juices.
- For office meetings, it recommends millet-forward, low-fat, low-sugar, high-fibre snacks with fresh cut fruit, sprouts, and roasted unsalted nuts, along with green tea or low-fat buttermilk.
- Departments are told to avoid microwave-heated or processed food, fried snacks, heavily spiced or high-fat dishes, carbonated drinks, high-sugar juices, alcohol, milk tea or coffee, and plastic-bottled water.
- The document is advisory with no described enforcement, so uptake will vary by department and could nudge daily habits at work while cutting single-use waste.