Life without Maggi
Monday, May 18, 2015 at 9:36PM Maggi is an inherent part of our diet right now! The Nestle made noodles are a favorite evening snack for kids at least once a week and also a dinner option for daddy and the kids at least once a week!
Daddy is the Maggi expert and can make it in many different ways with any combination of vegetables, as a soup, just with enough water or cook it so that the "noodles don't stick to each other", depending on what the kids feel like on any given day.
When we come home after any all day outings, dinner is always Maggi, as it can be done by the time kids go take a shower.
So it is a rude shock to see headline news that Maggi has lead and a lot more MSG in it than it is supposed to. Given Nestle is an international brand, the expectation was always that there will be "some" quality control.
One good thing I do is to not use the Masala packet that comes with the noodles. Instead I use a combination of :
Salt + Sambar powder (made in India with my Grandma or mom's recipe) + turmeric powder + a small pinch of asafoedita (kids like it, I skip it)
and we save the masala packets. Think I have posted on this earlier as well.
Given all the Maggi consumption, we have a drawer in the kitchen just dedicated to noodles and masala. Today I decided to go clean out the Maggi drawer and this is what I saw..
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poured it on the ground and counted the packets to clear it out..
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That was 670 packets of Maggi Tastemaker masala! This is just from Jan of this year.
Going by some crude math, we would have possibly injested enough lead to make us brain dead for the next seven generations if the reports are true!
Then again, we do not know how much of the stuff is in the noodles. Will watch the reports. Maybe the New Jersey Nestle that imports it from India will do some spot checks?
It is also true that noodles (be it Maggi or Ramen) have a lot of wax in it.. so I do boil the noodles to remove the wax on occasion or dry roast it to get rid of the wax before using the noodles.
Given the data, we are not an occasional noodle family! So we should take this seriously. In the meantime, we are going back to adai, dosai, kunukku for "tiffin" where possible.
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Reader Comments (2)
Adai/dosai/kunnuku all definitely much healthier options compared to Maggi. We probably consume three packets in two months, and I still think it's too much.
problem is prep work for those other items. still we are making a concerted effort to do more adai/dosai stuff
:)