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I mentioned diet recipes and chicken soup to my buddy the other day and he asked me why I don’t have a book out on what I eat on a daily basis. He said it sure would be helpful to know how a trainer prepares, stores and makes his meals on a daily basis.
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While some people may think that being a vegetarian seriously limits your options for dinner, that’s not the case at all! Vegetarians have just as many options for good tasting, healthful dinners as anyone else. For the vegetarian looking to introduce some Asian flare into their kitchen, some popular vegetarian recipes follow.

Spicy Confetti Noodles

3 mdm green onions, cut into thin strips
2 mdm bell peppers, cut into thin strips
2 medium carrots, cut into thin strips
2 packages (10 oz. total) Japanese curly noodles or uncooked spaghetti
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There are times when you just have to have that rack of barbecue ribs. Maybe they have been sitting in your freezer since fall and you just can’t wait any longer, you just have to have those ribs. But with the cold of winter set in getting out to the grill is more of an exercise in survival making it hard to truly enjoy the barbecue experience. Throw in some snow and wind and the idea of cooking barbecue ribs on the grill goes out the door.

Now if your are truly hardcore you can put on your snow boots, bundle up in hat, coat and gloves, shovel a path out to the grill, get it lit and hope the wind doesn’t blow it out. The next part may be even trickier; actually grilling the ribs. While barbecue ribs aren’t all that hard to make they do need constant attention. Standing outside in the cold and wind can make this difficult not to mention that it’s either getting dark out or the sun has already gone down. Grilling in the dark, even with a flashlight, is not easy because it’s hard to tell if and when the ribs are done. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody loves stir-fry! There is a ginger flavour from the dressing that is super! This is a good one for making a double or triple recipe and keeping it in your fridge. This way when you are really hungry you can still stick with your diet by eating already prepped food right from the fridge. 

Prep Time: 10 minutes - takes 20 minutes total

Ingredients:

• 1 pound (500 grams) boneles beef sirloin steak, cut into thin strips.
• 2 tsp minced garlic
• 1 package of frozen stirfry vegetables (750 grams) (or cut your own)
• Half cup of Kraft Asian Sesame Dressing
• Quarter cup of lite soy sauce
• 3 cups of hot cooked long grain rice (brown is best for getting a six pack, not flavour!)

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Apple Juice (0.33 cup)

Brown sugar (3 tbsps packed)

cinnamon (0.5 tbsp)

Granny Smith Apple (4 raw, with skin)

Nutmeg (0.5 tbsp)

raisins, seedless (0.5 cup, packed)

 
Preheat oven to 350° F.

Core apples; cut a slice off the top of each apple.

Place apples in a 2 quart casserole dish.

Combine the raisins, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg; spoon into center of apples.  Pour apple juice into bottom of casserole dish.

Bake apples for 40-45 minutes or until apples are tender, basting occasionally.

Today I have a really tasty comfort food recipe.

This is good one from moms kitchen.

Beef Barley Soup

Time to prepare: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour but the longer it sits the better.
Servings: 8

What do you need?:
1 pound of beef but I like Bison
1/4 pearl barley rinsed and drained
2 onions
1 turnip cut into little cubes
2 cups of chopped carrots
4 stalks of chopped celery with leaves
2 TBSP of beef broth (powder)
1 tsp dried thyme leaves
1/2 tsp dried sage
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
2 crushed garlic cloves
1 bay leaf
1 TBSP soy sauce
2 litres of water

How do you make it?
Dump it all in a pot and let simmer for an hour or longer! Enjoy!

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The importance of home-cooked food, whether or not you are on a diet or a weight loss program, can never be overemphasized…

BODY OF ARTICLE: The importance of home-cooked food, whether or not you are on a diet or a weight loss program, can never be overemphasized.

For one, home-cooked food is definitely more nutritious and healthy than outside food as it is not produced on a mass scale, and more importantly, it is prepared by your family members, which further goes on to ensure 100% hygiene and wholesomeness. Moreover, home-cooked food is fresh, unlike restaurant food, where there are chances that you may be served food that has been sitting in a warmer a good part of the day.

Therefore, it is easy to deduce that if you are weight training or if you are on a diet, then home-cooked food has no parallel ? it ensures you stay on a healthy diet.

diet and Restaurant Food

Eating at a restaurant while you are on a diet can play havoc with your weight-training program, rip your diet plans to shreds and reverse your weight loss process. Here’s how:

1. Restaurants offer a whole lot of fatty accompaniments such as toppings, sauces, gravies and overly refined foods that can actually make you overweight instead of helping your diet cause.

2. By and large, the raw food in any restaurant may have been frozen and it is likely that some preservatives would be added to such food. Preservatives, and for that matter restaurant foods contain a lot of sodium and, as you know, excess sodium leads to water retention and, hence, weight gain.

3. Restaurants are around because they make tasty food. And tasty food needs quite a bit of fat (especially, saturated fat) to give it the taste. The bottom line is: Most restaurant foods are not in tune with your weight loss diet plan.

4. Since you pay good money to restaurants, you’ll be tempted to bite off more than you can chew and in the process, increase your intake of unnecessary calories that your body does not require.

If you’re binging on restaurant food while on a diet plan, you’re most likely reversing all the benefits you’ve gotten so far. So you’ll be better off eating home-cooked food.

Still, if there’s no escape from eating out while you’re on a weight loss program, here’s a list of foods you must avoid: sauces, gravy, red meat, fat from broiled meat, creamy desserts, meat in salads, creamy salad dressings, wontons, sweet and sour choices, anything that tastes sweet and oily. Period.

If you eat home-cooked food while on a diet, stick to your diet plan and exercise regularly, you will find that your weight loss program will work wonders for you.

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Ingredients:

4 Egg large egg whites

16 oz tofu burger mix

1 cup chopped onion

1 cup chopped green pepper, bell peppers!

½ cup sliced carrots

3 cloves garlic

16 oz crushed canned tomatoes

16 oz tomato sauce

16 oz can of kidney beans

1 tbsp chili powder or to taste

Dash of cumin to taste

¼ tsp cayenne pepper or spice it up a bit more.

  

Destructions:

Use one package of vegetarian burger mix and cook through. This should be roughly equal to the amount you would use for four burgers. Chop the onions, green peppers and garlic. Combine the rest of the ingredients in a large pot. Crumble the burger and add to the chili sauce. Simmer away for thirty minutes.

  

Nutritional Information Per Serving:

Calories: 360

Protein: 30 grams

Carbs: 62 grams

Fat: 3 grams