The choice of cereal-pulse mixture, which for example in a 50g mix, may include cereals ranging from 20-40 g and pulses ranging from 10-30g in a 50g mix with cereals including parboiled rice 20-40g or other raw milled rice (20-40 g) or borken rice (20-40 g) or wheat (0-10 g) or maize(0-10 g) or pearl millet (0-10 g) or sorghum(0-10 g) or ragi (0-10 g) and pulses such as black gram dal or (0-10 g) or bengal gram dal (10-30 g) or red gram dal (10-30g)or green gram dal (0-20 g) or moth dal (0-20 g) or lentil (0-25 g)or val dal (0-10g) or horse gram (0-10g) as claimed in step 1.