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Choose Your Eating Habit With Healthy Food

January 22nd, 2010

As you may know, healthy eating habit is necessary for your life. For many people, health is the most expensive thing that should be taken from a lot of methods including how they choose the food to eat. It’s not only about delicious food, but it’s also all about balanced and moderate eating, consisting of healthy meals at least three times per day and exactly with a good menu. People need to eat many different types of foods, not limiting themselves to one specific food type or group. Food as a primary of people need precisely contains a lot of substances inside. Not at all of foods are good. Some of them even cause disease for human being. People need healthy food that can help to prevent or reduce the severity of diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and others. It may also help reducing the risk of developing some cancers. A main way of combating obesity and overweight is to eat a healthy food. Choose your eating habit with healthy food isn’t difficult to do. These are some easy tips you can apply in your daily life and even you don’t need to spend much money because it’s cheap food.Eat Plenty Fruits and VegetablesIt is recommended that we eat at least 5 portions, and ideally 7-9 portions, of a variety of fruit or vegetables each day. They contain a lot of fibers which can help you keeping the bowels healthy. Be sure you serve fruit or vegetables at every meal.Eat nutritious healthy food It can give the body all the nutrition it needs in order to maintain good health. It shouldn’t contain any harmful substances. Some other good resources of nutrition are lean meat and protein resources, such as fish, eggs, beans, and nuts. Don’t eat too much fat, choose healthier cooking methodsDeep fried foods aren’t good for you and your family. Choose low fat dairy products and when you want to cook your recipes, try to cook them with better methods, such as broiling, grilling, roasting, and steaming. It’s better than fried ones which can give you fatty supply. But if you want to cook fries, choose liquid oils for cooking instead of solid fats that can be high in saturated and transform fats. Limit fast food and low nutrient snacksYour children usually like eating snacks and fast food such as candy, chips, soda, etc. You should limit it but don’t completely ban your favorite snacks at home. Make them ‘once in a while’ food, so kids don’t feel disappointed. Also beware with sugary drinks. Serve water and low fat milk instead.Eating too much of even healthful foods can lead to weight gain. Watch your portion sizes. It’s easy for food to become a source of conflict, but it’s better for you to change your daily habit of food consuming before disease attack your body. Trying to find more healthy recipe and food will give more benefits for your family life. Health is expensive, once you get healthy, more you can do.

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Fresh vs. Processed Foods

January 13th, 2010

After turning the television off to do some work, I realized that most of the commercials this morning were of processed foods. In fact, the airwaves are inundated with processed foods-even the so called dietary foods are processed. So what’s the big deal? Well, back in the day before “latch key” children, McDonald’s and other fast foods, there was no such thing as “processed” foods. Foods took time to prepare. People sat down and ate their meals without rushing. Food was a necessity that was cherished and relished because it brought people together. Even snacks were not processed. That’s because snacks were usually a piece of fruit or a home made cookie with some milk. Granted, most women were “stay at home” mothers (mine being one of them). So, she took the time to prepare healthy, delicious meals. In fact, she and my dad were ahead of their time in eating healthy and exercising. Both suffer from high blood pressure, so they changed their eating habits early. When I was a little girl, my mother took my sister and me to Texas to see our grandfather. We stayed for 2 weeks. My sister and I had the best time, mainly because our grandfather spoiled us. Go figure…Anyway, he lived near a river that was teeming with catfish. He knew that we loved fried fish, especially catfish. And for those of you who have only had it blackened, you haven’t really tasted catfish. There is nothing like fried catfish! Anyway, he would get up early every morning and go to this river and catch catfish. He’d come home, clean it and soak it in batter and fry that bad boy up. OMIGOSH! With some grits, eggs and biscuits, that was the ultimate breakfast. Now, PaPaw was a very old school cook. Any time he fried something, he put a big dollop of lard in the frying pan first. Oh, and that included if he was frying bacon! The bacon came from the hog that was slaughtered in the backyard and the lard came from the bacon fat. He loved his grease. And he also smoked his own rolled cigarettes. By now you’re wondering why I’m sharing this childhood memory. Well, my grandfather was in his 90’s when he passed away. He died of emphyzema, not hardening of the arteries. Probably would have lived longer had he not smoked.The point I am trying to make is that back then, in “his day,” there were no processed foods. Everything was fresh. Even when I was growing up, if the food at the supermarket was not fresh, it was in a can or frozen-but it was just food. The Adorr Milkman came by our house and delivered milk, fresh eggs, fresh butter and cheese a few times a week. The Helm’s bakery truck came by every day selling freshly baked breads and other pastries-including donuts that Krispy Kreme wishes they could copy. People in our neighborhood grew their own vegetables and had fruit trees. And we all shared. Even though my elders were serving their children fried foods almost everyday, the food was still “pure.” The veggies served were either fresh from someone’s backyard or from the supermarket. The ingredients on packaging was very simple. It was exactly what you were buying. There were no additional words that no one could pronounce. It was what it was.In this day and age, it may be virtually impossible to cut processed foods out altogether. However, these foods should not be a major part of a healthy lifestyle. The foods that should be a part of everyday livestyles are pretty simple. They’re foods in the food pyramid. These are foods that are pure and necessary for healthy bodies. They are proteins and carbohydrates. Both are necessary for a healthy body, not one without the other. If we continue to get sucked in by the processed food commercials, we will continue to fight a losing battle with obesity. If we go back to basic eating, then most of us Americans will no longer be morbidly obese, but at the very least, healthy.

I am in my mid 50’s and have learned through trial and error how to live a healthy life. From 27 years as a flight attendant, I was aware of the hostile environment early on. I believe I am a true testimony that one can maintain a healthy lifestyle without breaking the budget by purchasing high end products to “look young,” or going under the knife.
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Make your family addicted to home cooking instead of fast food

January 5th, 2010

When everyone in the family is having their share of pizzas and chips and fries and coke, how can they deny it to the kid brother? So he too gets his fill. In short, everybody gets his share of fast food, but hardly ever its alternative, which is home cooking. However, things are a bit on the reverse gear these days, and that is a welcome trend. Both the Internet and the print media are doing yeoman service here, because they offer an endless variety of free recipes and easy recipes. All these can help in improving the quality and variety of home cooking, which will definitely give a fillip to de-addicting people from fast food dependency. And fast food addicts would also do well to calculate the money that they are spending on these fast food goodies, which also go by the name junk food. With half the money that is spent on a junk food meal, people can have healthy and fresh home cooked vegetarian food. Interest in vegetarian delicacies is also a current trend, and is amply aided by the vegetarian recipes that are doing the rounds on the Internet these days. Whether you want to eat to live, or live to eat, recipes could be an ideal answer to both. There are plenty of veg recipes that are remarkably fat free and have a high content of vitamins and minerals that are required by the body. These veg recipes are the perfect antidote to fast food, which drip with fat and aid obesity. However, there are plenty of non-vegetarian home cooking recipes also, that have low calorie value and high nutritive value and are easy to prepare. Some of these can be as tantalizingly attractive as fast food but will not do half the harm that fast food does. These provide step-by-step guidelines for preparation, including directions for the right way of garnishing.Vegan recipes appeal to different people for different reasons. There are animal rights activists who swear by vegetarian food and so are always searching for new veg recipes. Then there are people who avoid eating non-vegetarian food for health reasons. Whether you are vegetarian or non-vegetarian, it is better to master a few veg recipes, because a certain amount vegetables have to be part of a person’s daily diet. Having said that, chicken and mutton are kings of the cooking pot and vegetables can never completely replace them. There are elaborate recipes for preparing meat and fish, and some of the meat preparations are perfect home cooking recipes, even if they are a bit time consuming. No harm in trying out a couple of elaborate ones on festival days and holidays and you can ask the rest of the family also to join in the efforts. When you ask them to be a part of your cooking ventures, whether these dishes are based on easy recipes, or elaborate ones, you will be giving them the first lessons in home cooking and in the importance of keeping off fast foods. Please do visit our site for hundreds of Free and easy Recipes for Home Cooking – http://www.veggievixen.com. Veg Recipes, Vegan Recipes, appetizers, salads, soups, main course dishes, chili recipes, desserts, Cookie Recipes, Chocolate recipes and an extensive cooking guide.

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Prepare Your Own Food For Health

January 3rd, 2010

If you eat fast food every day for lunch, try having it just every other day. When you start by taking small steps, it does not seem like you are cutting out all of the foods you love and you can take your time to learn about healthy foods which, believe it or not, you can love equally as well. Who would not agree to that old adage – health is wealth.

Life is so much better if you are free of disease and you can enjoy an active life style. Proper diet and adding good exercise can keep many diseases at bay.If the body receives the proper nutrition, it is better for the immune system in it’s fight against infections and free radicals in the body. When your immune system is healthy, if you get ill, recovery is much faster.

Cook at home. Home cooking provides a better control of food and noticeably reduces consumption of trans fat, sugar, salt, and numerous food additives. Commercially prepared foods like hamburgers, hot dogs, fried potatoes, chips, cakes, and crackers are probably the biggest source of trans fats in our diet. Make your own pizzas, burgers, cakes and other things you like. Sure it takes time, but what is your health worth?

cook with the seasons and use ingredients that are as fresh and locally produced as you can get without undue expense or hassle. Organic produce is desired because it is better for you and the dirt. We don’t think about it, but fertile dirt is a precious resource. Without it, we don’t eat.

Cooking at home also provides a more relaxed, laid back, slower atmosphere for the meal. Joy is a wonderful anti-aging remedy, so enjoy and savor your food! When you eat slowly, you taste the food more and you are satisfied with less. Eating slowly gradually reduces your appetite right from the time you start to eat. Mealtime is fun and relaxing. It’s a time to catch up with friends and family and enjoy each others’ company. I believe that it’s really important to be relaxed and ready to eat. Relaxation aids digestion and nutrient absorption.

The hard part about cooking at home is that you sometimes find yourself at a loss for what to make. Here you are going through the cupboards trying to please everyone with something interesting but everyone responds with “no I don’t like that” or “no thats boring” or “no we had that 2 days ago”.

Most of us never know that many of the tasty and rich dishes as well as the side dishes that we relish at parties, receptions and restaurents were in fact prepared very quickly and easily with little effort. Therefore this means that if you have the will and ideas, you too can make many delicious dishes during a special occasion with little time. The trick is to choose a simple meat dish and dress it up with more decadent side dishes. You will be surprised to know that the rich side dishes which were in greater number then the meat dish, were, in fact very simple and easily made while the main meat dish had to be prepared with great culinary skills.

I usually don’t cook with precise measurements and like to vary the dishes seasonally. After you follow a recipe once, play around with seasonings the next time to suite your own tastes better and use what you have on hand. Another useful tip for cooking for special occasions is never cook anything that is foreign to you or you don’t really know about its process as this will take a lot of your time and you may make mistakes.

When you are on a journey to healthier eating and preparing healthy meals, it can be challenging because many of the foods you prepare may seem bland and frankly, boring. To compensate, you turn to seasoning spices, which are a terrific way of adding flair to your healthy meals, making it much easier for you and your whole family to enjoy. When we are trying to eat healthy we often use spices to make our dishes more appealing and exciting.

Dinner is a great classic. That is the time when families bond; daily activities are shared; we reveal our secrets and form lifetime memories. Not enough people make the time for an enjoyable dinner with friends and family and great food. Take-out has taken over. The positive thing to cooking at home is that it’s made with all KNOWN ingredients and your not surprised by what ends up in your dish or what ends up on your waistline.

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Homemade Fast Food Favorites

December 30th, 2009

As tasty as fast food is, it simply isn’t economical to dine out as often as we would like, particularly if you have a large family. So if dining in is to be your fate, why not make the best of it and enjoy a nice home-cooked spin on your favorite fast food dish? We’ve prepared a few instructions to get the meal you’re craving at a price you can afford.

First up is the great American burger and fries. For this, you’ll need some ground beef or ground steak, 1 egg, a dash or coriander and paprika, salt and pepper, about a tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, and finely chopped onion. Adjust all of the seasonings and the onion to your taste preferences. Mix all the ingredients into a bowl until they’re fully blended. Roll the seasoned meat into balls, and then flatten into a patty shape. Place in a slightly-oiled skillet on a medium heat (or on a barbecue grill) and cook thoroughly, turning occasionally. Top with condiments of your choice, such as onion, tomato, lettuce, pickles, ketchup/mustard, etc. If you can, toast your burger buns just before serving to give it that little extra something.

For the fries, get a few large potatoes (peeled), and cut into 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch strips. Add oil to a Dutch oven and heat to about 320 degrees F. Completely submerge the potatoes in the oil–try to work in small batches–for about 3 minutes or until the potatoes are floppy and pale in color. Remove them, pat them with paper towel, and allow them to cool. Put the Dutch oven back into the oven to heat to 375 degrees F. When the oil is heated, put the partially-cooked potatoes back into the oil for another 3 minutes. When they’re done, remove them and pat off any excess oil. Serve hot.

Pizza is another fast food favorite that can put a nice spin on any night in. All you need is a packet of or tube of pizza dough (very cheap at your local grocery store), pizza sauce (also cheap, but you can make it yourself with a bit of tomato sauce and Italian seasonings), grated cheese, and the toppings of your choice. Simply roll out the dough, spread a bit of sauce evenly over the dough, sprinkle with cheese, and add the toppings of your choice. Ground beef, bacon, mushrooms, peppers, onions, and even pineapple are all tasty toppings that many people have on hand. Cook the pizza according to the instructions on the pizza dough package; serve hot and enjoy!

Another great fast food favorite is Long John Silvers’s fish (or chicken). The batter for this is simple: 1 cup of plain flour, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, a bit of garlic, 1/2 cup of cornstarch, 1/4 tablespoon of salt, and 3/4 cup of water. Mix all of the ingredients until the batter is smooth. Dip your fish (or chicken) into the batter until it’s fully coated, then deep fry at 400 degrees F for 3 – 5 minutes until batter is golden brown. You might want to stick a knife in to make sure the fish is thoroughly cooked. Serve with cole slaw and fries and you’re set!

These recipes are easy to make and you’ll find yourself saving a great deal of money when compared to what you’d spend at a fast food joint—plus you can always save the left-overs for later!

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Fast Food Recipes – Make Them at Home!

December 28th, 2009

Have you ever wondered how your favorite fast food restaurants make those delicious menu items you love so much? What is it that we just can’t get enough of? It’s no secret, Americans love fast food. Every day millions of people head to their favorite fast food restaurants to indulge in their favorite guilty pleasures. If you include traditional restaurants, the average American dines out more than 3 times per week. That’s a lot of money, and a lot of calories.
There are several cons to eating out frequently. The first is the costs. Eating out 3 to 5 times per week is expensive whether its fast food or a restaurant. It may not seem like much at the time, but it adds up. If you eat out just 3 times per week, it will likely cost you over $1000 dollars per year, minimum. Then to add insult to injury, you have the high fat and carb content. Restaurant foods, especially fast food, is often very fatty and contains a lot of bad oils and simple carbohydrates. This leads to a bigger belt size among other health problems. Restaurant food also contains very high levels of sodium, which is a leading cause of high blood pressure. These are all great reasons to cut back on fast food and restaurant food in general.
But what if you can’t resist? It’s hard to avoid our favorite fast food and restaurant dishes. Whether it be burgers, tacos, or pizza, we love eating out. So what can you do in this situation? One simple solution is to cook your favorite fast food recipes at home. It may sound strange, but you can actually make all your favorite restaurant dishes at home for a fraction of the price. Not only that, but you can use low fat alternative ingredients to make the dishes healthier without compromising flavor. It’s an excellent alternative to eating greasy, salty fast food, and you don’t have to give up your favorite dishes.
Here are some simple tips to reduce the fat and calories of your favorite fast food recipes:
1. Cook in low fat oil rather than deep frying
2. Use low fat mayonnaise, sour cream, and other dressings
3. Use lean ground beef instead of normal ground beef
There are many other ways to tweak your favorite restaurant dishes to make them taste delicious and while still being healthy. Not only that, but you can save a fortune. To make these dishes, all you need are recipes and some common household ingredients in many cases. Copycat recipes for many of America’s most popular dishes are available to you, all you need is a kitchen. Their surprisingly easy to make, and taste just like the originals! It’s a great balance between taste and health.
So save yourself a few belt sizes and a few dollars by cooking your favorite fast food and restaurant recipes at home. It’s fast, fun, and really simple. You’ll be glad you did.

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Children Eat What They Live

November 27th, 2009

Nutritious eating habits are generally formed long before children start to select their own foods. Children adopt the eating habits of their role models. Parents and child care providers are the first role models that children have contact with.
Children are great observers. When children see what is going on in the kitchen, they can create a complete dialogue with their invisible friend on how to fry french fries or prepare a salad.
In several studies involving the eating patterns of children, researchers found that their eating habits, including preferences for certain foods was traced back to the patterns and preferences of their parents.
As children transition from bottles to bacon, they beging to develop eating habits that stay with them throughout their lives. Nutritious eating habits that are started at a very early age will follow them through adulthood.
Since it is documented that eating healthy can prevent serious illness, it is vital that role models start giving a carrot stick or an apple for a fun snack rather than a sugary snack. Children eat what they see adults consuming.
Parents do not realize the major influence that they have over what their children learn to eat. Following the eating habits of children, research confirmed that the rules about food are almost as genetic as the color of their eyes. This fact puts a lot of stress on caregivers.
But understanding the far reaching implications of this study will result in healthier kids and healthier caregivers.
Parents can relate to the fact that they associate both positive and negative memories with food. When children are involved in fun activities, they tend to be snacking on junk food. The food offered at the park is all about hotdogs, ice cream and sugary snacks.
The smell of Grandma’s cookies baking in the oven might bring back feelings of love and security. While the smell of vegetables cooking might invoke a negative memory of having to finish their plate of vegetables before getting dessert.
Bribing a child to eat nutriously is a short term strategy that will generally backfire. “These contingency strategies are effective in the short run; they elicit the correct response, says Dr. Fisher, Ph.D, assistnant profession of Pediatrics at Baylor College of medicine. In a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Dr Fisher made a direct link to the eating patterns of children and their parents.
Dr. Fisher and her researchers made some startling discoveries surrounding the eating habits of children. The children of caregivers who ate lots of fruits and vegetables in turn had children who also ate the same types of foods. Alternatively, caregivers who only encouraged healthy eating but led an unhealthy eating lifestyle, had children who ate low amounts of fruits and vegetables.
Children will like and react to the power of influence. Because nitritious eating habits are as important for parents as it for the children, the commitment to eating healthier will be easy.
The moral of the study is that if you want your children to follow healthy eating habits, the general rule is you must show them – don’t just instruct them.

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