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MADE AT HOME

Many women have taken to grinding their own culinary powders at home. “It was difficult to make the initial shift. But now, it has become a routine,” says R. Mamtha, who grinds a sufficient quantity of turmeric, chilli, coriander and cumin powder in her neighbourhood flour mill — enough to last her for a year.

Lavanya Kumar grinds a combination of wheat soya, ragi and corn to get a wholesome chappathi flour. “Rather than a pinch of off-the-store garam masala powder, just add clove, cinnamon and cardamom to the fresh masala you grind,” she suggests.

You can also prepare your own foaming herbal shampoo powder (shikakai, boondi kottai, paasi payaru in the proportion 1:3:1, with a sprinkling of methi seeds, after sun-drying the ingredients).

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