You Can Enjoy The Holidays Healthy
December 7th 2009 -
Advent and Christmas season, the days “between the years” and the New Year bring us many traditional culinary temptations. It begins with small, sweet treats and culminates in large festive menus. Many subsequently loses the various delicacies, with nausea, bloating and unnecessary kilos. This is by no means needs to benefit from losing to feed aware of during the holidays. With a little thought can be the worst of which is to avoid fattening foods and junk foods at all, and a full meal and good taste are not mutually exclusive.
If you are fed all year about what is right is not already tempted to strike at the end too much over the traces. Good advice is, if one is vegetables, fruits and whole grains with meals at the center? that keeps you fit and taste. Plenty of fat and calorie food and lack of exercise lead something quick to malaise.
Many traditional Christmas dishes contain considerable amounts of fat and sugar. Who can exercise at the homemade biscuits, but a little creativity, you can get by with fewer calories. Firstly, there are many recipes for full value variants, on the other hand you can almost always reduce the sugar content on third, without the good taste is lost. Even spices such as vanilla or anise bring a note to the sweet treats. For dried fruit and nuts or sesame seeds can be produced delicious fruit candy, which also contains more valuable ingredients and dietary fiber of the fruit. Also grease the baking can be easily saved by starting from that specified in the recipe for butter or margarine quantity quark replaced by a few grams.
Even on holidays, you are doing something good if you stick to the “5 a day” rule: five servings of vegetables or fruit, fresh, just cooked, as juice or secure supplies of essential nutrients and fiber. The day starts is best done with a light breakfast, eg a cereal with fresh fruit and a freshly squeezed orange juice. For all hot meals: a gentle preparation of food makes them easier to digest? from steamed or cooked vegetables are low in fat, fried or grilled lean meat, poultry or fish can be prepared a delicious meal. For dessert, suitable or homemade yogurt with fresh fruit pureed berries. In the meantime, a fruit juice cocktail without alcohol is a real bomb and a super soft vitamin. For coffee, you should give a fruit cake in preference to butter cream and cream cake.
Who is also still to overcome, rather than take a lunch nap a brisk walk, has done the best for well being, fitness and figure, and can start the new year without a guilty conscience.
Tags: 5 a Day, Junk Foods, Traditional Culinary Temptations
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