For the first few years of my stay in Mumbai, I ate out all the time. I was staying as a paying guest and had nowhere to cook or employ a cook.

All the restaurants in Bandra know me now because I've visited them so frequently with friends.

On Hill Road, there is this Karachiwalla [Karachi Sweets] which has the best pani puri. I just can't live without it!

I crave for home food. I just don't want food even if it's from the best restaurant in the world.

I have arrived at the conclusion that there is nothing to beat the homely dal-chawal. I eat very light food cooked in very little oil.

I eat meat twice a week and I have a lot of salads and soups.

Normally, I skip breakfast. But since I started exercising, I get dizzy so I eat a bowl of cornflakes or muesli with cold milk for breakfast.

During the day, I have a lot of fruit juices.

Lunch is light -- something like dal and chapatti.

I have dinner out if I have spent my day at home. Then I eat anything. I don't count the calories.

I have been trying to cook. I take recipes from my mother and aunts and try to make them, but they don't turn out the way their dishes do!

I'm cool with food but, unlike Bengalis, I don't like sweets, so that helps cut calories. Lucky me! But I love fish and can eat it all day!