Meet the mums who wake up at dawn to make healthy school lunches for their kids


Nithya cooks and packs lunch for her school-going children every day. Clockwise from left: Hashwin, Harshini, Hemant and Nithya. — NITHYA PUSPANATHAN

Every weekday come rain or shine, stay-at-home-mum Nithya Puspanathan, 37, is up at the crack of dawn i.e. 6am. From Mondays to Fridays, she makes her way to her home kitchen and begins firing up the stove as she prepares hearty meals of spaghetti carbonara or stir-fried noodles for her three school-going children – Hemant Puspanathan, 11, Harshini Puspanathan, eight, and Hashwin Puspanathan, seven.

Once she’s done with the daily cooking, Nithya packs the kids’ meals neatly into lunch boxes for them to take to school.

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