365 Salad Recipe Cookbook
August 12, 2008
This cookbook gives you 365 salad recipes that will help you incorporate fresh fruits and vegetables into your every day life.
Review: That’s right 365 salad recipes. Hard to believe huh? I thought so until I checked it out. How could anyone come up with 365 different salads? My thought was if you want fresh fruits and vegetables you can only make so many different salads and 365 wasn’t even close to the number I was thinking. Boy was I way off.
One thing I found to be common in almost all the diet books and healthy eating books I have read are that fresh fruits and vegetables are good for you. No matter how you fix them, no matter how much of them you eat or whether you dice them, slice them or eat them whole they are good for you. The other thing I have found is that most of these books don’t really give you a lot of options in how to get your family to eat these types of foods. For me that was a very hard battle that I was losing on a daily basis.
I realized that my family did like salads so I thought I could use salads to get them to eat their fruits and vegetables. It worked for about a week. I kept serving the same types of salads day in and day out and they became sick of eating the same thing. So my idea just went out the window. When I found this cookbook that all changed.
I now make salads for just about every meal. In this cookbook I found salads for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Salads made with seafood, creamy vegetable salads and fruit salads. My family is in seventh heaven and they don’t even realize how good it is for them.
With 365 different salads I’m sure to find something new every time. Of course there are a few we don’t care for, but for the most part we have enjoyed these salads. I even look forward to making a new one and seeing how my family reacts to it. It’s fun to see the look on their face when I put something new on the table. It’s even more fun to know I’m giving them healthy foods and they like it.
If you want to make a fresh start and eat healthier but are afraid to try because your family may bulk at the idea, try this cookbook. You’ll see as I did that eating healthy can be easy and even a fun thing to do.
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Brown Bag Lunches for Adults
August 6, 2008
With the cost of living as high as it has become, we all need to watch our spending habits. One of the expenses that we need to watch is how much money we spend each day on food. At work, it’s fashionable to eat out with the group at least a few times a week. The trouble comes when we tally the monthly lunch bill and find we’ve spent fifty to seventy-five dollars in one month on those “fashionable” lunch outings. Imagine how that money adds up and what you could spend it on that would last longer than the meals we are eating. Taking our lunch to work more often would definitely save some of that money, right? Here are some brown bag lunch ideas for adults that will help save money and provide a delicious meal.
Whether you work in an office, a school, a hospital, or some other trade, lunch time can vary from day to day. Maybe everyone wants to go at noon but you can’t go until one o’clock. What do you do? The easiest thing would be to pack your own lunch.
Eating out every once in a while is okay, but the choices are mostly the same. When lunch comes from home, it can include whatever you want or desire to eat each day. The possibilities are endless when you think about it.
Adults want something more than sandwiches, chips, and a soda. With big and small lunch bags, a person has the choice to pack as little or as much as they want or need. Maybe you work twelve hour shifts. During that time you would eat two meals and a couple of snacks versus someone who only works 8 hours a day and only needs one meal and snack food. Keep things like this in mind when planning your lunch each day.
Lunch bag containers come in many sizes. They even make salad containers that have a compartment for the dressing. This eliminates the need to lug the entire bottle to work or pour the dressing on the salad in the morning. Adults can bring leftovers like pasta salad, fettuccine alfredo, and pork loin with crunchy vegetables and have it taste just as good as it did the first time.
With a brown bag lunch, we can create our favorite meals but with less fat and calories than the original. When you eat out, who knows what ingredients went into that meal. At home, you can make beef stroganoff is with fat free sour cream and lean cuts of beef along with egg noodles to have a lunch just as yummy as the one you would order at a restaurant, but healthier. Someone can feel good about eating a brown bag lunch when nothing is a mystery about the food.
Snacks can be fancy in an adult brown bag lunch. Instead of pudding, how about dishing up some apple cobbler? Homemade cobbler with fresh fruit tastes much better than store bought frozen alternatives. Instant pudding made with low fat or fat free milk has fewer calories than store pudding.
Don’t be afraid to experiment with the brown bag lunch. What you want is flavor and something exciting to eat. When you fix lunch at home, what you get is exactly what you want.
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Brown Bag Lunches Kids Will Love
August 6, 2008
Brown Bag Lunches: Kids Will Love These Ideas & So Will You
For kids, one of the highlights of the school day is eating lunch with friends. That lunch would be better if it were something that they actually wanted to eat. Here are some ideas for packing brown bag lunches kids will gladly carry to school.
Have you seen the old commercial where the kid looks in his lunch bag each morning and frowns, “Tuna fish again?” it’s hilarious but exemplifies a true fact – kids are visual. They like variety, especially once they reach a certain age. Satisfy that need with a wide array of choices for sandwiches, snacks, and drinks in their lunch bag.
Remember that kids don’t normally have a lot of time to eat. They need a nutritious meal but time is of the essence. Brown bag lunches that provide what they need with very little preparation get a “10″ in my book.
Younger kids love finger foods. They can eat a lot, talk, and get stuffed all at the same time. Crackers shaped like nuggets or sticks paired with cheese sticks provide easy to open goodness for any child. Sandwiches cut into four or more pieces let them eat as much or as little as they want.
Older kids appreciate sandwiches. Finger foods probably won’t fill their hunger, so a sandwich of some kind impresses them. Wraps, pita sandwiches, soups, and even leftovers make positive lunch options.
Middle or high school kids lack a refrigerator but many school cafeterias will have a microwave. Heating up leftovers is easier for them. Slicing the food into smaller bits requires less microwaving time. Depending on what it is, they might like to eat it at room temperature too.
Adding a fresh fruit salad or a small green salad won’t upset your kids. In fact, baby carrots, broccoli, and cucumbers dipped in ranch dressing appeals to most children. Fruit can be eaten with fingers and shared with friends. Add a cup of peanut butter for dipping and they’ll be even more pleased. Good nutrition is important for everyone.
What else do kids like? The snack included in a brown bag lunch complements the sandwich. For example, since a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is already sweet, choose a bag of pretzels or another salty snack. Mixing flavors allows each one to be tasted individually. It’s like when you eat a donut and drink coffee. The coffee doesn’t taste as sweet after a bite of donut.
Kids are not so hard to please as long as you let them sample a variety of foods. This way, they get used to healthy foods as well as a few sweets every now and again. Opportunity for mixing and matching abound when you prepare brown bag lunches for your kids. Experiment with various items to find the perfect lunches that your kids will love.
