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What are some healthy recipes and foods I should be buying/trying? Whats your favorite healthy meal for breakfast lunch and dinner? Also can I still eat beef and chicken?
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The general tips for eating healthily are:
- Choose wholegrain pasta and bread, and brown rice instead of the white variety. They're higher in fibre and will help your digestion. They can also make you feel full/satisfied for longer.
- Eat lots of fruit and vegetables. They're full of vitamins and fibre and pretty nutrient dense.
- Choose low fat milk, cheeses and yogurts. Dairy products are important for calcium. If you're lactose-intolerant, find calcium-enriched types of soy/oat/rice-milk or other calcium-enriched foods. Dairy products, especially yogurt, can help our digestive systems. They're also high in protein, which is needed for our body's growth and repair.
- Fish and lean meat/poultry are better choices than more fatty-types such as lamb and ham. If the meat you're eating has visible fat, cut it off and avoid eating it.
- Eat more unsaturated types of fat, cut down on saturated fat and eliminate trans fat from your diet. The unsaturated fats, found in foods like nuts, seeds, avocados plant oils and oily fish are good for your heart and brain.
- Cut down on salt. Too much salt can cause problems with blood pressure.
- Use cooking methods such as baking, boiling, grilling and steaming over frying and deep-frying.
Here are a few sites with 'healthy recipes':
http://www.whfoods.com/recipestoc.php
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/Healthy-eating
http://uktv.co.uk/food/homepage/sid/6037
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/healthy/
For breakfast, I quite like having fruit dipped in fat-free yogurt along with some soy milk and a high-fibre cereal bar (the alpen light ones). Sometimes, when it's cold, I enjoy having some wholemeal toast with olive oil spread, egg whites and tomato.
For lunch, I love the layered salads - especially the prawn and tuna ones - that supermarkets like M&S and Sainsbury's do. I also love trying some of their sandwiches - especially salmon or tuna ones. I usually also have some fruit and low-fat cheese or a yogurt with it.
For dinner, I like having the layered salads. I also love chicken lasagne with some cut vegetables (e.g. tomato, cucumber, pepper). Seafood dishes taste great too. I love it when my mom makes steamed sea bass with chilli and vegetables and boiled potatoes with a little drizzle of olive oil. She grows her own spring onions and chilli, and make everything taste amazing. <3
Chicken and beef are actually quite healthy sources of protein. Just remember to choose lean cuts of beef. Chicken breast is usually the lowest in fat, sometimes leg is ok too, just avoid the skin and usually the thighs.
The general tips for eating healthily are:
- Choose wholegrain pasta and bread, and brown rice instead of the white variety. They're higher in fibre and will help your digestion. They can also make you feel full/satisfied for longer.
- Eat lots of fruit and vegetables. They're full of vitamins and fibre and pretty nutrient dense.
- Choose low fat milk, cheeses and yogurts. Dairy products are important for calcium. If you're lactose-intolerant, find calcium-enriched types of soy/oat/rice-milk or other calcium-enriched foods. Dairy products, especially yogurt, can help our digestive systems. They're also high in protein, which is needed for our body's growth and repair.
- Fish and lean meat/poultry are better choices than more fatty-types such as lamb and ham. If the meat you're eating has visible fat, cut it off and avoid eating it.
- Eat more unsaturated types of fat, cut down on saturated fat and eliminate trans fat from your diet. The unsaturated fats, found in foods like nuts, seeds, avocados plant oils and oily fish are good for your heart and brain.
- Cut down on salt. Too much salt can cause problems with blood pressure.
- Use cooking methods such as baking, boiling, grilling and steaming over frying and deep-frying.
Here are a few sites with 'healthy recipes':
http://www.whfoods.com/recipestoc.php
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/Healthy-eating
http://uktv.co.uk/food/homepage/sid/6037
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/healthy/
For breakfast, I quite like having fruit dipped in fat-free yogurt along with some soy milk and a high-fibre cereal bar (the alpen light ones). Sometimes, when it's cold, I enjoy having some wholemeal toast with olive oil spread, egg whites and tomato.
For lunch, I love the layered salads - especially the prawn and tuna ones - that supermarkets like M&S and Sainsbury's do. I also love trying some of their sandwiches - especially salmon or tuna ones. I usually also have some fruit and low-fat cheese or a yogurt with it.
For dinner, I like having the layered salads. I also love chicken lasagne with some cut vegetables (e.g. tomato, cucumber, pepper). Seafood dishes taste great too. I love it when my mom makes steamed sea bass with chilli and vegetables and boiled potatoes with a little drizzle of olive oil. She grows her own spring onions and chilli, and make everything taste amazing. <3
Chicken and beef are actually quite healthy sources of protein. Just remember to choose lean cuts of beef. Chicken breast is usually the lowest in fat, sometimes leg is ok too, just avoid the skin and usually the thighs.
I need some very simple, yummy and healthy vegetarian meal ideas?
Q. I think I have breakfast sorted, but I'm getting bored of what I have for lunch, and especially dinner. Lunch is usually salad, soup or beans on toast. What else could I make? And I'm really running out of ideas for dinner. Sometimes I have different kinds of beans with dressing, or Quorn burgers or something but I need something more interesting.
Answer
There are probably an infinite variety of options based on sandwiches!
Try some of the following:
Rice and Peas. There are lots of recipes for this online. Here is a very simple one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/riceandpeas_81543
Baked potato with butter, or with beans, or with cheese, or with pesto (ready-made from a jar if you are in a hurry)
Stir-fried vegetables with noodles, possibly with marinated tofu. Web search "vegetarian Pad Thai" for a particularly nice variant, or take a "normal" Pad Thai recipe and miss out the shrimp and fish sauce.
Pasta with red sauce made from chopped onions, garlic, basil, oregano, chopped courgette (zucchini), chopped bell pepper (capsicum) and topped with grated cheese or mixed with a dollop of cream, fresh natural yoghurt or mascarpone.
Cheese Pasty and chips (with peas maybe). Healthy enough if it's once in a while, just for a bit of variety.
Fried mushrooms on toast. Use just a tiny drizzle of olive oil (no need to spend a fortune on extra virgin olive oil) so no worries about fat. Add black pepper perhaps.
There are probably an infinite variety of options based on sandwiches!
Try some of the following:
Rice and Peas. There are lots of recipes for this online. Here is a very simple one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/riceandpeas_81543
Baked potato with butter, or with beans, or with cheese, or with pesto (ready-made from a jar if you are in a hurry)
Stir-fried vegetables with noodles, possibly with marinated tofu. Web search "vegetarian Pad Thai" for a particularly nice variant, or take a "normal" Pad Thai recipe and miss out the shrimp and fish sauce.
Pasta with red sauce made from chopped onions, garlic, basil, oregano, chopped courgette (zucchini), chopped bell pepper (capsicum) and topped with grated cheese or mixed with a dollop of cream, fresh natural yoghurt or mascarpone.
Cheese Pasty and chips (with peas maybe). Healthy enough if it's once in a while, just for a bit of variety.
Fried mushrooms on toast. Use just a tiny drizzle of olive oil (no need to spend a fortune on extra virgin olive oil) so no worries about fat. Add black pepper perhaps.
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