Food and Drink
Illness is one of the main pitfalls of travel in India and Nepal. Nearly, 50% of the time, the fault lies at the hands of the traveller (not the place they had their last meal). We have put together some simple suggestions (Many of them are common sense. Again, you have to see whether it is suitable to you specifically):-

• Be more careful about food and drink in the early part of your trip. See how your stomach behaves and then judge depending upon the immunity level you have built.
• If possible keep the stomach light (i.e. eat less). This is hard especially when the food is tempting and very economical. Avoid food sold from hawkers and peddlars on rail stations, streets etc (purely your immunity level issue).
• Drink more especially in warm areas that you travel. Bottled water is readily available in India and Nepal. But check the seal at the time of purchase. You may need water purification tablets (again purely personal pertaining to you). One of the safest drinks is tea. It is boiled.
• Eat plenty of fruit (but not cut fruit or cut salads). For example: It is safer to peel your own banana or orange or cut your own papaya. Cut fruit could have been anywhere.
• If you can, try and stick to vegetarian food. There is a very big choice. You do not know if the meat has been kept out or in.
• Where possible, go for full thali meals rather than a la carte meals. Thali meals are produced for the large masses, and, thus usually safe.
• If you have one spicy/greasy meal the next one should be non-spicy and non-greasy (this does not have to be western. It can be Indian non-spicy such as Chappati, Daal, curd). You may blame the last meal, but the damage may be done a few meals ago. Many flavours which you get in Indian restaurants in the West can be achieved using different ingredients. One of these ingredients may not suit you.