Tips And Recipes For Healthy Cooking At Your House 0 komentar

It's time to bring it all back home: Now that you know how to make healthy decisions at the supermarket, it's time to implement a few new habits in the kitchen. This will be simple, and don't worry, I won't have you eating cardboard or rabbit food. By following a few general rules, and making a few changes to your culinary routine, you'll find that you can lighten up most of the recipes you enjoy. Here is a list of tips and suggestions you can refer to (and refer to often) while cooking at home:
* Substitute Stevia or Splenda for sugar wherever possible. You can also use applesauce to sweeten cakes if you are baking.
* Use vanilla whey protein powder to replace the bulk of processed white flour in sweet baked goods. You can also try a 50-50 mix of protein powder and nut meal.
* Use nonstick cookware so that you can cut down on oils and butters and brown your foods using less fat. If you need oil, use it sparingly to cut down on calories. Try cooking sprays like Pam or apply oil with a pastry brush so that you have as light a coating of fat on your food as possible.
* Replace fat-laden heavy cream or half and half with whipped evaporated skim milk. For best results, pour the canned evaporated skim milk into a metal mixing bowl. Place the mixing bowl along with your electric mixer's beater attachments in the freezer for about 30 minutes, or until ice crystals form around the edges. Remove the bowl and the beaters from the freezer; whip on high speed until soft peaks begin to form. Use at once.
* Use spices and lemon to flavor foods rather than fattening sauces or heavy, sugary marinades.
* Choose low-fat, low-cal, low-sugar, or low-carb versions of a food if they exist. Get low-fat dairy products like skim milk, low-fat cheese, and sour cream. Rethink all of your favorite condiments. Try out some low-cal, low-fat salad dressings until you find one you really like. Switch to fat-free mayonnaise and light variations of gravies and sauces. There are a wide range of low-carb condiments on the market including ketchups and barbecue and steak sauces. When you're cooking meat, choose the leaner cuts. Remove skin from chicken, but not until after cooking, so the meat will retain some of its moisture.
* Steam, bake, grill, braise, boil, or microwave your foods instead of frying them.
* When combined with water, bouillon cubes are a great low-cal way of adding robust flavor to most recipes that call for beef, chicken, or vegetable stock. You can also add bouillon cubes and water to stir-fries they enhance the flavor and reduce the amount of fat needed to cook.
* Try using different vegetables as starch replacements. Spaghetti squash is great for replacing pasta, strips of zucchini or yellow squash can be cut with a shredder or vegetable peeler to replace lasagna noodles, and you can puree cauliflower as a stand-in for mashed potatoes. Be creative the possibilities here are endless.
* When browning vegetables, put them in a hot pan, then spray with oil, rather than adding oil to the pan first. This reduces the amount of oil the vegetable can absorb during cooking.
You can use the above suggestions to transform recipes into healthier versions of old standby favorites, but you can also use them to come up with new dishes of your own. Be creative, think outside of the box, and you'll be astonished at how well you will be able to eat while still staying totally healthy. Just so you know I'm not lying to you, and so you can get your imagination going, I've included my favorite healthy and delicious! recipes for breakfast (on the-go style and traditional sit-down), lunch, dinner, dessert, and snacks. Many of these won me major points with my team members on The Biggest Loser. But you needn't take our word for it, try them and see for yourself!

Asia Foods, Have You Ever Tried? 0 komentar

Sushi and Sashimi
Yes, some people are a bit revolted by the idea of eating raw fish, but these two Japanese dishes are oh so good, especially when the vinegared rice is prepared just right and the fish is so fresh that it's still in rigor mortis. Fish and seafood used for sushi include salmon, tuna, though not the overfished bluefin, eel, flounder, octopus, shrimp, abalone and salmon roe. If the dieter really can't bear raw fish, they can have sushi made with avocado, sweetened egg, or cucumber.
Dashi
Dashi is a broth made with a sheet of kombu seaweed and dried bonito flakes, bonito being a fish. It has a delicate taste and aroma and is the basis for many Japanese soups. It is wonderful to drink with nothing in it on cold winter nights.
Tempura
The calorie count with this dish might be fairly high because it involves dipping food in batter and deep frying it. The great thing about tempura is that it can be made out of anything, including chunks of seafood, sliced Japanese eggplant, carrots, tofu, green squash, slices of lotus root and green onions. It should be drained and eaten while it's hot, for cold or left over tempura has lost much of its appeal.
Hot and Sour Soup
This delicious soup is made from tree fungus, dried tiger lilies, dried shiitake mushrooms and tofu in beef stock. All of the ingredients can be found easily in an Asian market and they're inexpensive. The dieter shouldn't worry about the tree fungus. It's also called cloud ears and is a black mushroom that's grown on logs. It's dried and when it's rehydrated it seems to grow ten times its size, then it's sliced and added to the soup. The soup only needs one or two to suffice.
Peking Dust
This dessert is a bit fussy to make, but it's heavenly. It uses raw chestnuts, sugar, a pinch of salt, heavy cream, one orange and glaceéd walnuts. The chestnuts are pureed, then garnished with the orange and walnuts and slathered with whipped cream in a mold.
Lamb Korma
This is an Indian dish where chunks of lamb are cooked in a creamy curry sauce and served with rice, chutney, raita or onion sambal. Made with coriander, cumin, cardamom seeds, ginger, cloves, red pepper and garlic, it smells as good as it tastes.
Wontons Stuffed with Pork, Cabbage, Scallions and Ginger
Though a lot of people may have bought wontons at their take-out place, there's nothing like making some at home. They're not that hard to make, and practice makes perfect.
Onigiri
These are rice balls and are very popular in Japanese picnic boxes. The ingredients include fresh salmon fillet, one sheet of dried nori, which is also used for wrapping sushi, bonito flakes and umeboshi, pickled and salted plums. Onigiri are a bit labor intensive to make, but, again, worth it.
Miso Soup with Oysters and Bean Curd
Miso is soy bean paste and this dashi-based soup uses red and white miso, fried bean curd, regular bean curd, about 16 oysters, Japanese parsley, fresh ginger root and sansho powder. It's very, very delicious indeed.

Finding A Best Deals at Restaurants 0 komentar

The first piece of advice would be to find as many restaurants that have regular specials as possible. An example of this would be a restaurant that has a special every Tuesday that lets you buy two meals and only pay for one. Quite a lot of the bigger chain restaurants run these kinds of specials. For example, Spur runs a special where you can buy two burgers on a Monday and only pay for one. Dros is another one of the restaurants in Johannesburg that have regular specials and really great deal.
The next piece of advice would be to keep up-to-date with once-off deals happening at restaurants around Johannesburg. Social buying is a great way of doing this. Social buying websites basically make deals with different businesses and restaurants in Johannesburg and offer really great discounted vouchers to the public. You would have a limited time to buy these vouchers and they are usually redeemable for up to 6 months.
Great examples of these social buying websites here in Johannesburg include Groupon and UCIT. You simply register with the website free of charge and they send you emails daily about the specials on offer for the day. If you are looking for a great deal at restaurants in Johannesburg then you would simply look at the meal specials. These include great deals such as paying R100 for a voucher and being able to order food for the value of R200 at the restaurant. You would have to use your credit card to buy vouchers and they are then emailed to you. Simply print these and take them with you when going to the restaurant for the meal.
The last piece of valuable would be to look for restaurants that offer loyalty cards or programs. These would reward you with a voucher for a free meal or discounted meals if you frequent the restaurant. One of the restaurants in Johannesburg that have one of these loyalty programs in place is Spur.
There are numerous blogs, websites and search engines that can assist you. All you need is an internet connection and a device with which to browse the internet. There is tons of advice and information not just about finding the best deals at restaurants in Johannesburg, but information and blogs about how to be a financially savvy South African as well.

Plastic Containers in Small Number - Purchase Number of Containers for Your Needs 0 komentar

You may think that if you're looking to purchase from a plastic manufacturing company that you'll have to order a huge amount of containers. The thought of that may be preventing you from ordering what you need. If you don't need a large quantity of containers, your best bet would be to find a plastics manufacturer who specializes in small quantity orders.

You don't want to use your company's budget on unnecessary items. So finding just the right amount of containers would be a great benefit. The advantage of ordering in small quantities is, you'll get to decide what will be the right amount of plastic containers for your needs.

Find a company that offers high clarity, high impact clear PVC plastic. PVC is a great general purpose plastic. Make sure the plastic containers you're purchasing are FDA approved, food grade plastic. With this you can be assured food will be safe if it comes in contact with the plastic. There won't be any harmful chemicals. With this in mind you'll be able to display candies, nuts, and snack items, such as pretzels or beef jerky.

Also look for containers that have wide mouth openings. Then if you're displaying merchandise it will be easy for potential customers to handle the items. If a customer holds something in their hands, they're more likely to buy it. So find a container that makes this step less cumbersome for your customers. It's best to find a company that offers lids as well because transporting your merchandise should be worry free.

Let's say you're a business owner looking to set up displays of your merchandise at trade shows or your shop. Clear plastic containers would be perfect for displaying a variety of items specific to your business. For instance if you're in the hardware business you could take advantage of containers that highlight nuts, bolts, screws, nails, small flashlights or tape measures.

If you're in the beauty business, plastic containers are perfect for displaying nail polish, lipstick, fingernail files, lotions, and small hair care products such as brushes or combs.

Some times in business, deadlines sneak up on us and we panic. To help alleviate this panic it's best to find a plastic manufacturer who can ship most orders in 24 hours.
Also look for a company that has drop ship capabilities.

If you're running your own business you know that your business has exclusive needs. Your merchandise is your business, how you display your merchandise is part of your image. Find a clear plastic manufacturer who offers different sizes and shapes of containers.