When Shah Rukh Khan said he has only been eating sprouts, broccoli, grilled chicken and dal repeatedly for several years: ‘Mujhe pakwan pasand nahi’

Claiming that he doesn’t diet, Shah Rukh Khan said, “I naturally prefer very simple food. I eat two meals a day: lunch and dinner. I eat nothing apart from these two meals. Mujhe pakwan pasand nahi (I don’t like fancy foods). I eat sprouts, grilled chicken, broccoli, sometimes a little bit of dal. This is all I have been eating repeatedly on a daily basis for several years.”

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Shah Rukh, however, clarified that these food habits are only limited to when he is alone. The actor shared whenever he travels or visits a friend’s house, he adjusts his food habits to whatever is available and offered.

He said, “If I am travelling, in a plane, or visiting friends and family for dinner or lunch, I eat everything they have to offer, be it biryani, roti, paratha, ghee, lassi. I eat anything that they offer.”

Shah Rukh Khan’s answer more or less remained the same when last year in an interview with The Guardian, he shared details about his sleeping and food habits.

He said, “I go to sleep at five in the morning. When Mark Wahlberg gets up, I go off to sleep. And then I wake up about nine or 10 if I am shooting. But then I will come home at 2 am, take a bath and then work out before I go to sleep.” There too he clarified that cutting down on his meals was his personal choice and has nothing to do with intermittent fasting or any other diet.

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In the same interview, Shah Rukh shared he learnt to work out during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said, “At the age of 55, I took a kind of sabbatical. During the pandemic there was nothing else to do and I was telling everyone: learn Italian cooking and work out. I was working out. I built a body.”