EXCLUSIVE! Juhi Chawla's tiffin troubles
| Updated: Mar 20, 2017, 13:54 IST
Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla feels that it is an ongoing battle in her house when it comes to packing healthy food for her children Jahnavi and Arjun's tiffin boxes to school. Ask her what does she prefer to pack for lunch, for her kids and she says, "It is only an attempt to pack healthy food."
She tells us how it is quite difficult to pack health food for her children and many times the box comes home the way it was packed. She says with a laugh, "When it's healthy and not to their liking it gets rejected and comes right back home. So it's a bit of an ongoing battle. I try and pack hummus with carrot or cucumber sticks along with lavash, but invariably the lavash and hummus get eaten and the carrot or cucumber sticks travel back home. But we put them anyway, thinking some day we will get lucky. We try many things like sandwiches with avocado, or sandwiches with egg and tomato filling, potato salad, a baked dish with veggies and little pasta stuffing, pasta with pesto sauce (homemade) and pine nuts and a green salad, or it could be something very Indian - paneer tikka with paratha. I get very upset with my staff if they put packaged junk food just to please the kids. Now more than ever it's become a strict no-no."
She tells us how it is quite difficult to pack health food for her children and many times the box comes home the way it was packed. She says with a laugh, "When it's healthy and not to their liking it gets rejected and comes right back home. So it's a bit of an ongoing battle. I try and pack hummus with carrot or cucumber sticks along with lavash, but invariably the lavash and hummus get eaten and the carrot or cucumber sticks travel back home. But we put them anyway, thinking some day we will get lucky. We try many things like sandwiches with avocado, or sandwiches with egg and tomato filling, potato salad, a baked dish with veggies and little pasta stuffing, pasta with pesto sauce (homemade) and pine nuts and a green salad, or it could be something very Indian - paneer tikka with paratha. I get very upset with my staff if they put packaged junk food just to please the kids. Now more than ever it's become a strict no-no."