| Number of meals: food intake reported at different times over the day was counted as 1 meal. It was not considered |
| a meal if any of the following item was taken alone: a cup of tea, betel nut (chalia), toffee/sweet, spicy powder (churan). |
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| High starch foods: 1 bread slice, 1/2 roti (unleavened flatbread made with wheat flour), 1/2 paratha (fried wheat roti), |
| 1/4 nan (commercially made roti of refined flour), 1/2 c boiled rice, 1/2 bun, 1/2 c cooked cereal, 1/2 c cooked vermicelli, |
| 2 biscuits, 1 papa (rusk), 1 potato, 1 corn on cob 1 plain cake slice, 1/2 vegetable patty |
| (flour wafer with filling of potato and amp; peas), 1/2 samosa (fried savoury snack made of flour with filling of potato), |
| aloo chaat (spicy potatoes). |
| Animal protein: 15 g of meat/fish/chicken, 1/2 egg. |
| Plant protein: 1/2 c lentils cooked, 4 pakoras (fried balls made of gram flour and vegetables), 1/2 c nuts and seeds, |
| 1/2 c nimco (fried savoury usually made of gram flour may contain peanuts), 2 pappadams (papar: thin fried |
| savoury item usually made of gram flour. Quetta site 24 HDR report this as chips papar), 1/2 c karhi |
| (gram flour based gravy item), chips nimco shingar (savoury fried moong lentil). |
| Milk: 120 mL milk, 1/2 c yogurt, 1/2 c milk desserts like custard or kheer (cooked milk and rice dessert), 1/2 c ice-cream, |
| 1 kulfi (local ice-cream), 1/2 c falooda (local ice-cream with noodles). |
| Vegetables: 1/2 c cooked, 1/4 c raw, 1/4 c boiled peas, 1 corn, 1/2 c salan (local curry which in our study |
| areas was made of vegetables). |
| Fruits: 1 medium-sized fruit whole, 1/2 c diced, 1 c fresh juice. |
| Tea: 1 cup. |
| Miscellaneous: 2 toffees, 2 sweets, 1 chocolate, 1 packet wafer chips, 1 c or 1 tetra pak fruit |
| drink, 1 packet chalia (beetle nut). |
| Mixed traditional dishes: |
| biryani is a traditional dish of rice and meat cooked in spices. I serving was entered as 1 meat + 1 high starch serving. |
| Chole chawal is a traditional dish of rice and chick peas. Quetta has reported two servings = PKR 2:00 1/2 c, |
| PKR 5:00 1 c. This has been entered as 1 high starch + 1 plant protein serving |
| Chaat is a cooked mixture of chickpeas and potatoes. 1 serving was entered as 1 plant |
| protein + 1 high starch serving. |
| Reference for serving sizes: Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics by Zeman and Hansen [9]. |
