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5 min
11/02/2026
The breakfast you eat is going to establish the way your body will deal with energy, hunger and concentration for a whole day. Pancakes and waffles have more refined flour with added sugars, whereas parathas (when made from whole wheat or multigrain flour) provide a more balanced way to provide your body with an extended level of performance from complex carbohydrates, fibre and fats.
When you eat pancakes and waffles in the morning, you get your golden, sweet and comforting breakfast, and then often right after that will have a mid-morning crash that you will try to ignore. It is possible that the problem is not breakfast at all, but what is regarded as the standard for breakfast food. Even though they aren't as traditional to eat for breakfast in the West, there is a good chance that a soft, stuffed paratha is nutritionally and practically doing a lot more work than a stack of pancakes loaded with syrup. The goal of a breakfast reset is to challenge habits, not to demonise indulgence, and to ask one simple question: Will your everyday stuffed paratha replace pancakes or waffles and still allow you to feel free in the morning?
When you eat pancakes and waffles, you are eating lots of fast-digesting carbohydrates. Foods made with refined flour, sugar, syrups, and spreads all digest quickly, giving you a burst of energy, but soon after you eat them, your blood sugar goes up and down just as quickly, which can leave you feeling hungry and out of it, or you will find yourself wanting to eat some other food. Because these types of foods are fine to eat occasionally, based on their nutrition when you are using them as a food source, they are not the best choice for everyday use.
In contrast, a savoury breakfast promotes a slower digestion process, which is beneficial. For example, a paratha is a combination of carbohydrates, fats, and sometimes protein from vegetative fillings (e.g., paneer, dals) that creates a balance that helps with digestion as well as ensures that the energy released from the food will be available to you throughout the day. Because of this balance, you will have more energy for longer, will feel satisfied longer, and have greater mental stability longer. In other words, the energy and energy release will be done quietly and not in a flashy and quick way.
Not all flours behave the same way in the body. For example, a paratha made with 100% whole wheat Aashirvaad Shudh Chakki Atta, which is ground using modern technology and has 0% maida, retains the fibre and nutrients that are lost with refined flours. The fibre and nutrients in the flour allow the dough to hold on to water, creating a soft, fluffy paratha that will digest much more slowly than a pancake does.
Most pancake and waffle breakfasts are low in fibre content unless you change them around. Aashirvaad High Fibre Atta with Multigrains is a total game-changer because it contains six different kinds of grains that are rich in fibre and have an amazing taste at the same time. Wheat, soya, chana, oats, maize, and psyllium husk make the list of grains that contribute to a very high fibre content that could be found in three rotis or many servings of vegetables. When eaten, fibre slows the absorption rate of glucose, increases the digestion process, and delays the feeling of hunger, which pancakes and waffles don't typically do.
Breakfast is not just about feeling full right away; it's also about having energy to last through the day until lunch. Parathas made from Aashirvaad Select 100% MP Sharbati Atta have been uniquely sourced from Madhya Pradesh, which allows for a more consistent size of each grain and colour of each grain that has been used to make this flour. Because of the increased absorption of water during processing, this flour is created into dough that produces very soft, thin, pliable rotis that remain soft for longer, so you can do a lot of hard work without having to rely on sugary snacks between your breakfast and lunch.
Psychologically speaking, eating a sweet breakfast often causes you to crave more sweets for the rest of the day; whereas savoury breakfasts squash your taste buds early on, so you will have an easier time making balanced choices later on. A paratha does not feel like a "diet substitution," instead, it feels familiar, comforting, satisfying (without the crash), etc.
Most of my days are predictable, yes - and they are generally comfortable. Pancakes and waffles can be saved for special occasions (such as weekends) or as a celebratory breakfast. However, on weekdays when you need energy, focus, and fullness, there is much more sound nutritional logic and less drama to eating a flavourful, quality-made paratha than there is with anything else. Its purpose is to provide all-day benefits after breakfast.
