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Healthy eating on a budget!

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This is so helpful for a tight-ass like me!

Drink 10-16 fluid ounces of room temperature water on an empty stomach (first thing  upon rising a.k.a before you brush your teeth ) and you will surely increase your changes of getting one bowel movement 1 hour later

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Harvard’s Health Eating Plate  v.s. USDA’s MyPlate

Harvard’s is much more thorough and helps people make smarter choices. If we’re following MyPlate, we could be eating hot dogs for proteins, potatoes for vegetables, and fried rice for grains. At least MyPlate is better than the old food pyramid, which recommended 6-11 servings for breads, cereals, and grains a day and only 3-5 servings of vegetables.

Read more about it at Harvard’s School of Public Health Site

1) Wash the melongene

3) Score the melongene to make mini sloths all around 

4) Peel & rough chop four cloves of garlic

5) Place the garlic in the sloths, all around the melongene (6 shows the garlic within the melongene)

7) Place the melongene on the stove top, with the burner on high or medium heat

8) Leave the melongene’s skin to get chard/blackened before turning it

 

9a) After all the sides of the melongene are chard/blackened, remove from stove top and place in a bowl

10) Cover the bowl with a plate or plastic wrap and leave to cool for 5-10 minutes

11) Gather and prepare ingredients to flavour the roasted melongene- Pepper sauce, onion powder, salt, black pepper and green herbs (Note: Oil can be added, if you like but it is not necessary)

12) Peel off the chard skin, scraping as much flesh off the skin (you will notice the garlic becomes soft)

15) Once all the chard skin is removed, mash the flesh of the melongene along with the flavouring ingredients

 16)  Be sure to mix the roasted melongene flesh & flavour ingredient well.

Spread on bread, roti, flour tortilla. It can be eaten as a dip with tortilla chips or other vegetables

** This recipe can be easily be made fat-free or low-fat (by adding 1 tsp of oil). Either way it is a flavourful dish once seasoned well.

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*** An easier way to prepare this recipe would be:

 To wash the melongene, place it on the stove top minus the garlic. Peel off the chard skin and season to taste before serving.  

Everyone has their favourite type of chocolate chip cookies — some people prefer
1) chewy cookies,
2) others thin and crispy and
3) there are those who like their cookies puffy and cakey.
But often-times when you make a recipe for chocolate chip cookies, you never know what the results will be, unless you test every single chocolate chip cookie recipe.
The guide below, shows you how to adapt a standard chocolate chip cookie recipe to get the texture you want:

View the original article showcased on Kitchen Daily via Huffintonpost.com 

Cookie image sourced from: Chewy Cookie, Cakey Cookie, Crispy Cookie 

Trying to understand why commercial frozen meals get so much LOVE  is challenging.

 

2) The caloric content is reasonable ….in terms of total calories

3) The fat content is acceptable, depending on the nature of the meal 

4) The sodium content is often moderate to high, unless labelled otherwise

 

 5) The presentation of the meals  after re-heating are down right unappealing

 

e.g soft vegetables,  soggy bread,  soft rice grains,  hard crusty cheese or mash, and dry protein -chicken or fish

7) The ingredient list for most are abnormally LONG

 

Bottom-line, the choice is yours. Here are some practical tips suggested by a Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator to take into account when shopping for frozen meals.

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2) Lean Cuisine. (2010). Lean Cuisine, Sausage Egg and cheese Breakfast panini. Available: http://www.leancuisine.com/Products/Details.aspx?ProductID=10958. Last accessed 25th Oct, 2010.  
3) Tasty Lies. (2010). Frozen Meals. Available: http://www.zoimfgrt.com/tastylies. Last accessed 25th Oct, 20104) Smart Ones. (2010). Canadian Style Bacon English Muffin Sandwich. Available: http://www.eatyourbest.com/product/canadian-style-bacon-english-muffin-sandwich.aspx. Last accessed 25th Oct, 2010. 
5) Don Miguel. (2010). Flautas. Available: http://www.donmiguel.com/shredded-steak-flautas.php. Last accessed 25th Oct, 2010. 

Walk down memory lane through the through the Pages of TIME- Food and Nutrition articles.

Dec 18, 1972, The Perils of Eating, American Style
Whether they are simply trying to get thin, or whether they are pursuing health or even salvation through diet, Americans are perhaps more preoccupied than any other nation with what to eat, what not to eat, how to eat and even when.

 
Monday, Nov. 02, 1981, Diet and Exercise Dangers.  
Regular exercise is good for the heart rate, blood pressure, respiration and metabolism. Says Jim Barnard, research cardiologist at U.C.L.A.: “It’s similar to tuning up your car’s engine to make the car run more efficiently.” Vigorous physical effort helps release tension too. But it can also do a lot of damage, especially if the athlete is a neophyte or weekend warrior, both of whom tend to try to do too much too soon.

Mar 15, 1982, Salt: A New Villain?   KILLER SALT screams the book cover from a huge display of volumes with titles like Shake the Salt Habit!, Cooking Without a Grain of Salt and Halt! No Salt. These days they are selling in the the hundreds of thousands.

Mar 26, 1984, Hold the Eggs and Butter.  Cholesterol is proved deadly, and our diet may never be the same This year began with the announcement by the Federal Government of the results of the broadest and most expensive research project in medical history. Its subject was cholesterol.

Jul 15, 1991, The Fight over Food Labels. By launching a holy war against misleading claims, the government could clear up some of the confusion on supermarket shelves and help Americans become healthier consumers.

Nov 01, 1999, The Low-Carb Diet Craze. Fad diets come and go, but this one is exploding. Can you really lose weight by feasting on beef, eggs and bacon? And should you?

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Every little bit counts, flexibility is a great asset when it comes to maintaining fitness and getting the most out of your muscles during a workout.

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