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Najm
AsSalamOAlaikum WaRehmatuAllah WaBarkatuhu
Dont tell her :embarrass
I eat and chew my food way too well!!! I spend too long, and always the last one off the table! Alhamdulillah! However i do drink during the meal because the food doesnt want to go down?:embarrass
For sehri we have the usual curries( chicken or meat) and 2 vegatable dish and of course rice. Is that ok is it too fatty??
What food do you eat and what do you suggest (for sehri)??
I still got the puking feeling and i feel very weak already imsad Pray for me !
FiAmaaniAllah
Bro, I will consult 'Medicine of the Prophet' so that you are given the best advice inshaAllah :)
In the meantime, avoid oily curries. I know some pakistani people put so much oil in their curries, you have spill it off before you can reach the curry.
Also stop drinking with meals. The food should go down if you are chewing it (you said you do) and also if you don't take big mouthfuls in the first place. The Prophet (saw) used three fingers when he ate. You can't get a lot of food in three fingers, which suggest small mouthfuls.
And remember oil and water don't mix- oil floats to the top. So drinking water with an oily curry doesn't sound like a good combination to me. Drain off excess oil, if you can't avoid it altogether.
Myself, I rarely eat curries. If I want something meaty, I seal some chicken in a tiny amount of oil and add stir-fry sauces and spices, which I eat in wholemeal wrap/roti with salad. This is my fave thing. Sometimes, I cook stir-fry vegetables in sauce and have those in wraps/roti. I have other mad international mixes of recipes I make up, but they are all simple. I mainly cook this food for my son. If he is away, I don't always bother and will have millet or corn flour chapatti with perhaps a little saag curry or lightly buttered on their own. And at times I'll just have some dates/glass of milk/two slices of brown bread for a meal or a chapatti on its own.
To be honest, I never imagined eating so simply until it hit home (heart) how little the Prophet (saw) survived on. He (saw) Allah's beloved Prophet would often have no food for days, and at one time no meal was cooked in the Prophet's home for two months. They survived on dates and milk.
Guilt that I'm stuffing myself when my beloved Prophet faced such hardships? Love for the Prophet (saw)? But something just changed. I could barely eat without crying and remembering. I didn't intend to I suppose. The change just followed from how I felt. I also read that the Prophet (saw) said that man only needs a few mouthfuls to survive (yaani per meal) but if he must have his fill then he should have 1/3 for food, 1/3 water and 1/3 for air. Over eating also makes one lazy for ibadah.
So a combination of things, has lead me to eat less than before, and as I get accustomed to eating little, I realise what a huge problem food has become for mankind. It's an obsession! lol We are eating ourselves to death.
Khayr, didn't mean to bore you lol. I like to share so that maybe someone else might benefit inshaAllah. But for real advice I will consult the book and tell you some fascinating facts on food consumption, food combining (its dangers) and more - all from our beloved Prophet's medicine. :statisfie