So What's All This About Healthy Eating?
What Is A Healthy Diet
A healthy diet is one which includes all the food groups, even the so-called 'unhealthy ones', in moderation. Too much or too little of anything is not good. You need Vitamins, Proteins, Minerals, Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre in balanced proportions. Along with that you need plenty of fluids. Your body is largely composed of fluids and you need to keep it well watered, or just like a neglected plant it will wilt and wither!
There are some fantastic healthy eating recipes here, courtesy of my friend Annie Horthorne, who has a wonderful blog all about eating healthy and eating well called The Healthy Eating Guide - it's well worth a visit, there are lots more recipes there and some good information on how to have a good, balanced diet.
Keep Healthy - Keep Hydrated
Healthy Eating Doesn't Mean You're On A Diet!
The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life
Amazon Price: $18.48 (as of 07/06/2009)
Just read the description - and you'll see why this is such a fantastic way book for any foodie who wants to be healthy!
"Do you think that healthy food couldn't possibly taste good? Does the idea of "eating healthy" conjure up images of roughage and steamed vegetables? Author Ellie Krieger, host of Food Network's Healthy Appetite, will change all that. A registered dietitian, Ellie is also a lover and proponent of good, fresh food, simply but deliciously prepared. And she's not about denial--no nonfat foods here, because when you take the fat out of natural foods, in go the chemicals. Don't deny yourself butter--use a pat of it, but put it front and center on those mashed potatoes, so you can revel in it with all your senses. The Food You Crave is all you'll need to change the way you eat and change the way you feel. It contains 200 recipes that cover every meal of the day and every craving you might have. Every recipe contains a complete nutritional breakdown, as well as tips on ingredients and techniques that will keep you eating smart and eating well." (Amazon Book Description)
'Warm and Satisfying' or 'Cool and Sophisticated' - luscious soup!
Healthy Food Recipes - Starters
Carrot Soup With Cinnamon and Ginger
Serves 4
1 Onion - finely chopped
1 lb (400 gms) Carrots, washed and chopped
Small piece of Root Ginger, peeled and crushed
2 inch Cinnamon Stick
25 fl ozs (600 mls) Vegetable Stock
7 fl ozs (175 mls) Orange Juice
Finely grated rind of 1 Orange
4 tbsp (60 mls) Yoghurt
1 Egg Yolk
Put the Onion, carrots, ginger stock, orange juice, cinnamon and orange rind into a large sauce[an.
Bring to the boil and and then simmer for 20 - 25 minutes.
Remove the cinnamon stick and blend the soup until smooth.
Mix the egg yolk and the yoghurt and add a little of the soup, then add to the rest of the soup stirring gently.
Heat for 4-5 minutes but do not allow to boil.
Serve Hot with crusty bread or cool and serve with a swirl of yoghurt and garnished with mint.
This soup is rich and warming, full of vitamins and low in fat and salt.
Here's my favorite link:
Eggs - Quick, Easy and Full of Protein
Healthy Eating Recipes - Light Meals
Devilled Poached Eggs
Serves 4
1 Onion finely chopped
1 tbsp (15 mls) Sunflower Oil
6 Tomatoes - seeded and chopped
3 ozs (75 gms) button mushrooms, shopped
1 tsp (5 mls)wholegrain mustard
1 tbsp (15 mls) tomato puree
1 tbsp (15 mls) Worcestershire Sauce
7 fl ozs (175 mls) Vegetable stock
Tabasco Sauce to taste
1 tsp (5 mls) Vinegar
4 Eggs
4 Slices Wholemeal Bread
Cook the onion in the oil until soft.
Add the Tomatoes and Mushrooms and cook for two or three minutes
Add the Mustard, Tomato Puree, Worcestershire Sauce, Stock and Tabasco Sauce and simmer for a few minutes.
Meanwhile add the vinegar to a large pan of boiling water, and slide the eggs in one at a time. Poach gently until just set.
Toast the Bread and spread with a little margarine or olive oil spread.
Put an egg on each piece of Toast and spoon the hot sauce over the top.
Serve Hot
Healthy Food Recipe Books You Will Like
Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food
Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009)
You Are What You Eat : The Plan that Will Change Your Life
Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009)
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why
Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 07/06/2009)
Greens Glorious Greens: More than 140 Ways to Prepare All Those Great-Tasting, Super-Healthy, Beautiful Leafy Greens
Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 07/06/2009)
The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating
Amazon Price: $13.60 (as of 07/06/2009)
An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away - and these come with Cake!
Healthy Eating Recipes - Cakes and Treats
Spiced Apple Cake
8 ozs (200 gms) Wholemeal Flour - plain
2 tsp (10 mls) Baking Powder
1 tsp (5 mls) Ground Mixed Spice
6 ozs (150 gms) Light Soft Brown (Muscovado) Sugar
4 ozs (100 gms) Polyunsaturated Margarine
1 tbsp (15 mls) Bran
2 Medium Eggs
1 lb (400 gms) Apples, cored, peeled and diced (I use some eating and some cooking apples)
1 tbs (15 ml) Demerara Sugar
Using a large bowl mix the flour, baking powder, sugar, bran, margarine, eggs, mixed spice until evenly blended.
Gently mix three quarters of the apple into the cake mix.
Put into a greased and floured 8 inch loose bottomed cake tin and level the top.
Scatter the rest of the apple over the top of the cake and sprinkle with the Demerara sugar.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180C, 350F, Gas Mark 4 for around 75 - 90 minutes, covering the top after about 60 mins to stop it burning.
Cool in the tin before turning it out.
Serve with a spoonful of thick Greek Yoghurt.
Low in Fat and Sugar and high in fibre and fruit, this is a delicious cake. It keeps well too (not that we have any problems eating it in my house!)
Foods In Season - A Passion For Asparagus
I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about eating foods in season - your body craves warm, filling foods in the winter and crisp light salads in the summer. There are also the environmental issues to consider as well - food travels too far these days and is often not as fresh as it might be! I am fortunate to live in the Vale Of Evesham which is renowned for it's fruit and vegetables - and in particular for it's Asparagus, or Gras as it is known locally. It is the best in the world in my opinion! My friend, Chris Sheehan, who is an expert in all things Asparagus has written the most superb book, A Passion For Asparagus, which tells you everything you will ever need to know about the best vegetable on the planet. The history of Asparagus growing, the lore and legends that surround and not a few excellent recipes - including Asparagus Ice Cream!To eat Asparagus in the true Asum (Evesham)way you should add a small sprig of mint to the water in which you cook it, serve it with melted butter to dip the tips in and have just brown bread and butter with it. Delicious - and if you don't go overboard with the butter, it's pretty healthy eating too!
My Favourite Healthy Food Recipe Site
Annie Horthorne has loads of Healthy Eating Recipes that are delicious and not too much like hard work to prepare...
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All the Food Groups - On a Stick...
Healthy Eating Recipes - Main Course Meals
Chicken and Pineapple Kebabs
Serves 4
8 ozs (200 gms) unsweetened pineapple cubes - keep the juice!
1 tbsp (15 mls) white wine venegar
1 tsp (5 ml) ground cloves
1 tsp (5 ml) finely chopped root ginger
2 onions, peeled and cut into sections for skewering
1 Red pepper cut into squares
1 green pepper cut into squares
12 oz (300 gms) chicken breast, cubed
Mix the pineapple juice, vinegar, cloves and ginger.
Add the chicken and marinade for at least two hours - keep the marinade.
Alternate chicken, pineapple, onions and peppers on a skewer and brush liberally with the marinade
Cook under a hot grill for five minutes to seal the meat, then cook under a moderate grill for a further 10 - 15 minutes until the chicken is well cooked through.
Keep brushing with the marinade.
Serve with Salad and Rice
Bananas - Neatly packaged vitamins, minerals and carbohydrate!
Healthy Eating Recipes - Puddings and Desserts
Fruity Brulee
Serves 4
2 Bananas
8 oz (200 gms) ripe black or red grapes, halved and seeds removed
5 fl ozs (125 mls) Greek Yoghurt
5 fl ozs (125 mls) Soured Cream
1 oz (25 gms) Light Muscovado (soft brown) Sugar
Slice the Bananas and mix with the grapes. Divide amongst four Ramekins or heat proof dishes.
Mix the Soured Cream and the Yoghurt together so that they are well combined then spoon over the fruit mix.
Cover and put in the fridge for at least one hour.
When required sprinkle the sugar on top and either put under a preheated grill or use a burner to caramelise the sugar.
Eat!
Healthy Eating - Boring Or Fun?
Healthy eating hasn't always had the best of reputations- what do you think?
Does Healthy Eating = Boring Eating
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zazaodh says:
Healthy food is only boring if you are boring! With so many ways online to get thousands of amazing recipes, why eat boring food?
Posted November 07, 2008
TomBoyd says:
I love eating healthy food as much as I can. I just feel so much better for it and when I do slip and eat a few bad meals I feel tired and 'bleh'!
Posted July 17, 2008
Logitco says:
Do it right and it's delicious. My favourite way to eat healthy is when it's also spicy! Nothing quite wakes up vegetables like a bit of kick.
Posted May 09, 2008
Winebuff says:
We always try and eat healthily it's not boring at all and these days takes little effort. The occasional treat does not then feel too bad.
Posted May 04, 2008
I'd rather eat the plate
Healthy Fizzies the Kids Will Drink
Healthy Eating Recipes - Drinks
Fruity Fizzies
Serves 4
Odds and Ends of fruit - sliced
Juice of 2 grapefruits
Juice of 2 oranges
Juice of 2 lemons
Juice of 2 limes
- or fruits of your choice.
Chilled sparkling mineral water
Natural food colouring of your choice (optional!)
Place the sliced fruits into ice cube trays, fill with water and freeze. (I keep a supply of these ready made)
Mix the fruit juices and pour into tumblers
Add the colouring of your choice
Add the 'fancy ice cubes' and top up with mineral water.
The children love to choose their own colours and will often make Rainbow Drinks.
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What Do You Like Best?
What's your favourite healthy recipe, do you think healthy eating is boring, or even just what you think about this lens - share it with us.....
kiwisoutback wrote...
Asparagus Ice Cream? I'd be scared to try it, but I would. Great lens!
Posted October 14, 2008
garethjax wrote...
this lens is making me hungry! Just watching the pictures is making me drool!
Posted July 26, 2008
Logitco wrote...
One of my favourites is home-made hummus! I'd use it in a wrap with fresh veggies. Delicious!
Posted May 09, 2008
Winebuff wrote...
Nice lens with great information, I love asparagus but have to be careful - too much does not help my gout.
Posted May 04, 2008
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