The Breakfast Club

It’s true when they say breakfast is the most important meal of your day. Our metabolic system is largely dependent upon the kind of breakfast we have. This isn’t what I am saying but researches have proved it time and again. A study, about which I had read in a medical journal, clearly stated that missing breakfast can increase the risk of diabetes and heart attack in adults. It is the 1^st meal of our day, needless to say it has to be healthy and filling. Even corporate catering services and catering for events and conferences include breakfast under the variety of meals they offer.

Even though everyone emphasises on breakfast it is sad that most of us ignore it. Mornings are usually very busy. All we do is get up, get ready and leave for work in a jiffy. We have no time to accommodate the so called important meal of our day. Research says that one in four people skip breakfast in a week. If we are one of these people then it should ring in bell in our heads and we must try and modify this lifestyle. The solution can lie in carrying a breakfast tiffin or a school tiffin in case of kids. We can thus finish our breakfast while traveling to our destined place. At least we don’t skip it.

Another problem might be that we do not have the kind of time in the morning to prepare the breakfast or even pack it. Even this has a solution. Order a tiffin. There are plenty of tiffin services, like Chadaro (about which I had mentioned in my earlier posts) who offer breakfast tiffin services. The tiffin delivery is done at our doorstep, where ever we want them to. And the kind of breakfast offered is healthy and a treat for our taste buds too.

A healthy Breakfast

Do anything and everything but make efforts not to skip breakfast. It’s true when they say ‘All happiness depends upon a leisurely breakfast’.

Dabbawala - on time , every time.

A dabbawala is a person whose job is to deliver freshly made food from home in lunch boxes to office workers in Mumbai. There are about 4000 to 5000 dabbawalas in Mumbai who work with utmost punctuality to deliver their assigned set of tiffin. Mumbai tiffin service largely runs because of these dabbawalas. This Dabba service in Mumbai is an example of a perfect management.

The tiffin delivery system works on a simple colour coding system for every tiffin. An ID generated with the help of destination and the recipient thus helps the system to run smoothly. The success of such a system largely depends upon teamwork and time management. The BBC has produced a documentary on dabbawalas, and Prince Charles, during his visit to India, visited them .Owing to the tremendous publicity, some of the dabbawalas were even invited to give guest lectures about dabbawala tiffins in top business schools of India.

We might spot a Mumbai Dabbawala either roaming around a bicycle or carrying a wooden crate for the tiffins, dressed in a white cotton kurta-pyjama and the white trademark Gandhi topi (cap). Dabba services use no modern technology yet are the most successful services in Mumbai. We indeed owe the timely delivery of all the school tiffins and lunch boxes to these guys.

It’s very interesting that now one can order a tiffin via a dabbawala through a sms or through online booking. Many famous tiffin services have an exclusive tie up with the Dabbawala across the city. A web site, mydabbawala.com, has also been added to allow for on-line booking, in order to keep up with the times. An on-line poll on the web site ensures that customer feedback is given importance.

Mumbai Dabbawalas no wonder attract such a lot of attention from all over the globe. One should really take some time off and observe their brilliant way of functioning. 

P.S here is the link of the website , which enables online-booking -

http://www.dabbawala.in/

School ka 'Dabba'

The title of this post might remind many of us of the famous hindi movie, ‘Stanley ka Dabba’.The movie was about Stanley and his efforts of getting a perfect dabba to school. It indeed was a movie with a soul and lots of food. If we actually give it a thought then really school tiffins are very important. As a child I remember being bothered so much about my tiffin. My dabba was a matter of pride for me, better and yummier the food, cooler would I be in my class.

Every school child wishes to carry the yummiest dabba to school. For some its for their taste buds, for some its their hunger, and for some others its just a show-off of an awesome dabba and thus an awesome Mom. School tiffins need to be healthy and filling. Children spend a great amount of time in school. Hence the meal they have during school hours is important. Their energy level for the remaining day largely depends on their meal in school. I know of many schools which offer two recesses for the kids, and that’s how even a breakfast tiffin or a short break tiffin is carried by many kids.

Kids need the best of nutrition, hence I would say, ‘School ka dabba’ is the most important dabba and so should be given the most of all the attention.

A filling tiffin