The essence is to eat simply, once or twice, so that one can spend as much time as possible in spiritual activities.

• All Fruits (Fresh and Dried)
• All Nuts and Oils Made from Nuts
• Potatoes
• Pumpkin
• Cucumber
• Radish
• Squash (But No Loki)
• Green Papaya
• Lemon
• Jackfruit
• Avocado
• Olives
• Coconut
• Buckwheat
• All Sugars
• All Milk Products
    Exceptions:
    Pure Milk & Yogurt During Caturmasya
    Sweets with Starches on Ekadasi

• Turmeric
• Black Pepper
• Ginger
• Salt (taken from new or clean package)

• Tomatoes
  Eggplants
  Cauliflower
  Broccoli
  Bellpepper
• Peas
  Chickpeas
  All Types of Beans – including products made from beans
  (Papadams, Tofu, Tempeh, Grain Beverages, etc.)
• Indian Vegetables:
  Karela (Bitter Lemon)
  Loki
  Parmal
  Toroi
  Kunli
  Drumsticks
  Okra (Lady Fingers)
  Banana Flower.
• All Leafy Vegetables:
  Spinach
  Salads
  Cabbages
  Leafy Herbs
  – Like Parsley, Curry Leaves, Neem Leaves, etc.

• Grains:
  Millet
  Barley
  Farina
  Dalia
  Pasta
  Rice
  Corn
  All Types of Dahl
  All Types of Flour Made from Grains and Beans
  – Like Rice Flour, Chickpea Flour, Urad Dahl Flour, etc.

• Starches from Corn
  Grains and Products Made from and Mixed with these Starches
  – Like Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Certain Soft Drinks, Custard, Certain Yogurts, Puddings, Cream Cheese, Sweets, Candies and Tapioca.

• Oils made from Grains:
  Corn Oil Mustard Oil Sesame Oil etc.
  And Products Fried in These Oils: – Like Nuts, Potato Chips, and Certain Snack Foods.

• Honey

• Sesame Seeds
• Cumin Seeds
• Hing
• Fenugreek
• Mustard Seeds
• Tamarind
• Fennel
• Celery
• Poppy Seeds
• Kalonji Seeds
• Ajwain Seeds
• Cardamom
• Nutmeg
• Cloves

• Onions
• Garlic
• Meat
• Fish
• Eggs
• Carrots
    ...or products thereof.

• If you have observed a complete fast (without even water), you do not need to break it with grains. You can break it with caranamrita or fruit.
   
  
• If you have observed Ekadasi by eating fruit and vegetables etc., then it should be broken the following day by taking grains at the time specified in the Vaisnava Calendar.
   
  
• Mahadvadasi is observed like Ekadasi.

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