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March 6th, 2009

Low Calorie Snack Ideas

Weight loss programs mostly advise multiple small meals and snacks instead of three heavy meals a day. Some of the most delectable low calorie snack options are readily available from your local supermarket. You could even prepare snacks to satisfy your cravings in your own kitchen.

March 6th, 2009

Nuts and Seeds in Your Diet

Nuts and seeds are rammed full of dietary essentials and easy to add into your diet, they can be hard to digest so mill them in the blender or grind them up in your single auger juicer to help your body get the best from them. Milling or grinding will break the seed or nut down a little and make them easier for your body to digest. Nuts contain protein, fiber, vitamin E and a good selection of minerals. They are potent and calorie rich though so you only need a few.

March 6th, 2009

Weight Loss Shake Recipes - Healthy and Slimming

Here are a few shake recipes to help aid you on your weight loss journey. And to make things better, they taste great! Weight loss shakes make great meals for people who are trying to shed some quick pounds. They are easily prepared, great tasting, healthy and leave you feeling good about yourself and your eating habits.

March 6th, 2009

Healthy Kids Recipes Even the Adults Will Love!

Healthy family recipes can be hard to find but this is one that everybody will love! Ground turkey soup is a healthy recipe for kids and adults that I found in a cookbook for slow cookers called Fix It and Forget It Lighty (I highly recommend it for healthy slow cooker recipes). In the original recipe they called for hamburger but I use ground turkey and I find that it’s even better!

March 6th, 2009

Fat Free Does Not Equal Calorie Free

If you are watching your weight you may be looking for “fat free” announcements on food labels. But they can be quite misleading if what you are really looking for is lower calorie foods. Surprisingly, some low fat foods do not have significantly fewer calories per serving than the original product!

March 6th, 2009

Broccoli Raisin Salad

When I first saw broccoli raisin salad on a salad bar, I wanted to, well, hurl. I mean, I can get my arms around a

broccoli salad with bacon, but a broccoli salad with raisins? Seriously?

March 6th, 2009

The Many Faces of Salad Dressings

Whenever it’s already salad time, people will begin to ready the key ingredients to complete the meal. Every recipe for salad includes lettuce and other vegetables, cheese, bacon bits and croutons. And to top it all off, the final recipe to flavor-up the salad - the dressing. Nowadays though, there are just so many salad dressings to choose from, so let us tackle some of them to help you decide on what to use for your salad.

March 6th, 2009

Organic Salads - A Great Change in Your Menu

In today’s work environment, you generally tend to eat something or the other from outside, which is easily available for lunch. A fast food joint soon becomes your favorite eating joint and you depend on it for catering to your food requirements almost everyday. Unfortunately, we end up picking up food, which is less nutritious as compared to the food cooked at home that we resist getting to our office. In the past, even a chocolate cookie along with peanut butter would have sufficed for a mid day meal.

March 6th, 2009

How to Store Lettuce the Right Way

Let me give you a scenario. You’re extremely hungry and craving for salad, and you know you have that leftover lettuce stored back in your fridge. You think that vegetable will be your lifesaver, and you open the crisper expecting to begin making the salad. However, all you see is some brown, mushy vegetable. That happens quite a lot, right?

March 6th, 2009

Shrimp Salad - Always a Great Dish

Shrimps are always a great choice for a meal. It is tasty, quick to prepare and versatile. Shrimp can be prepared in several ways and combined with so many different ingredients. You can, for instance, prepare great salads with shrimp. Shrimp salad is a great dish not only for hot summer days, but for every day of the year.