South Indian pregnancy veg diet plan | First trimester: Plan 3

In your first trimester, you need to eat folate-rich foods as well as take a folic acid supplement. We've highlighted in light orange foods that are rich in folic acid. You'll need plenty of iron-rich foods as well to help your body make red blood cells for your growing baby. We've highlighted in green foods that contain iron.

If you're feeling nauseous, foods rich in vitamin B6 may help with morning sickness. We've highlighted in brown foods that are rich in vitamin B6. Throughout pregnancy, you need to limit your caffeine intake as it can pass on to your baby. We have highlighted in dark orange the foods containing caffeine.

Tip: Eating smaller and more frequent meals or snacks can ease nausea.

Breakfast Snack Lunch Snack Dinner

• Vegetable vermicelli Sapota • rice • Apple juice • Black eyed peas upma • Colocasia masala dry • Peanuts curry • Banana milkshake • Radish spring onion sundal •

salad • Parotta Monday

• Appam Mango • Sweet potato and • Buttermilk • Pasta in spinach • Vegetable stew peas sambhar (moru/majjige) and tomato sauce • Coffee • Snake gourd • Black gram • Steamed broccoli palya/poriyal and green beans

Tuesday • Rasam • Chapati/rice

• Masala oats porridge Watermelon • Mint rice • Almond milk • Mixed vegetable with mixed vegetables • Bottle gourd and • Mixed sprouts curry • Coconut water yellow lentils • Finger millet (ragi) (moong) dal idiyappam

• Cucumber raita Wednesday

• Potato and peas Pomegranate • Radish sambhar • Vermicelli • Kidney beans curry masala • Beetroot palya/poriyal payasam • Rice • • Curd • Rice Thursday • Orange juice

• Chapati with mashed Walnuts and • Vegetable pulao • Mango juice • Oats with banana, raisins and dates • Pigeon peas dal with • Chickpeas vegetables jaggery fenugreek greens sundal • Coconut

Friday • Watermelon juice • Tomato and onion raita

• Tomato onion Handful of • Stuffed ladies' finger • Lemonade • Cottage cheese uthappam raisins, dried • Shallot sambhar • Puffed rice (paneer) masala • Coconut chutney apricot and • Rice with peanuts • Carrot and cucumber • tea almonds • Curd salad Saturday • Chapati

• Semolina (rava) idli Grapes • Ash gourd buttermilk • Tender • Mushroom masala with mixed vegetables curry coconut water dosa • Tomato chutney • Raw banana • Beetroot • coconut • Sapota milkshake palya/poriyal kosambari/ko chutney • Pepper rasam sumalli Sunday • Rice

Note: Lentils (dal) are also a good source of folic acid. www.babycenter.in