Eating Healthier - your favorites?
 

Ok, I have to get my daughter and I on a healthier diet - do you eat healthy and if so, what are some of your favorite recipes for a healthier living?

Not all out rabbit food crazy - but less fat, white bread, things like that - pasta - all has to be cut quite a bit - not out, just lower than has been.

What are some of your healthy favorites? I am pretty good with this, but I want NEW and different things to add to my list. :winkwink:

One of my favorite new things I found that we all like is roasted carrots and potatoes - tossed in a little olive oil and a roasted garlic and herb seasoning and in the oven til brown and tender - this one was shockingly a favorite here. lol

This a great site with seasoning and recipes available - http://flavorgod.com. Its what I use on all my ground turkey and chicken. If weightloss is your only goal you can begin replacing your carbs/starches with veggies and keep rice/pasta/breads down to around 100-150G (not sure of your height/weight just making an approximation here) a day you will be on the road to a new body in no time.

replace cutting out fats with cutting out carbs/sugars and you are on a better path.

http://www.whfoods.com/cookhealthy.php

I think that I eat healthy, but I don't know how this question should be answered. I just make my food/ eat using some common sense. No magic recipes or such.

But one recipe is here, for soup: potatoes, carrots, leek (or similar), spice cubes (or whatever it is in English) and cow/ pig meat (grinded, sliced, etc.) Portions are about 30-40 % potatoes, 20-30 % carrots and leek, and the rest is meat + water to well cover the ingredients. I make it usually so that about half is meat, but it is quite meaty then. I make the meat ready on frying pan. I fry it using some brassica rapa oil or rapeseed oil and add the meat to the soup when the other ingredients are practically boiled ready.

Weight is of course an issue - but healthy is the key factor here - I am Diabetic and I eat pretty ok for ME, but my youngest is having some digestion issues and I need to get her on a more healthy path too - we eat a lot of fruits and veggies - but we also eat alot of what I know are wrong things - but having something new and different is always good - I seem to get stuck in a rut - I see a LOT of recipes, but having someone that has actually eaten and cooks something decent always helps. lol

We have noticed that anything with her in the area of flour, as in breads, pizza crusts and pastries, they all seem to toy with her pretty bad! So we know that has to be altered pretty drastically! :Oh crap

This sounds really good - thank you! :thumbsup

yes...good fats for the win.

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I'm so healthy I eat egg whites at mcdonald's.

Try making wraps, some low fat meats or fish and a little cheese to mask all the rabbit food. Stay away from creamy dressings or spreads. Lightly salted and other seasonings. I like veggies myself but this works for those not interested in their greens.

I have managed to self correct my bad eating habits to reduce my Novalog injections to almost none. Still hit the Levimir injection at night before bedtime though for that extra bit of control.

I eat more Chicken and Fish then Red Meats now and try to avoid most processed meats and cold cuts altogether.

Moderation is a major factor also.

It is all mind over matter, you know.

And as mentioned there are good fats and essential fats, do not cut fats out totally.

http://ruled.me is my cook book.

Nope, I found that out in a hurry - the whole good fats and bad fats thing -

The wrap thing my husband mentioned a long time ago because I am REALLY not a fan of bread at all - so that is on the list - :)

Koopa - thanks, I pinned it and will be checking that out.

I am so happy you find this amusing - :Oh crap

I swear on fermented foods and legumes ...

Lost and kept off 38 pounds this way.

Fermented foods is not something I am even remotely familiar with - but the list I found, almost everything on it are things that I know she cannot have - I looked up food bad for Pancreatitis and most of those things are things she cannot have - but some look interesting, for fure - thanks for sharing that.

pornguy - I bookmarked that one for sure... ;)

Main staple of my diet is 8 eggwhites each day and lots of veggies.

For digestion issues you should try this smoothie

Fresh raw ginger
spinach / kale
banana pineapple and oj

Just at buy real food and no bread and drink only water, after a month go get a vitamin blood test and supplement in wat u need

I really like doing stir fry. Just get some random veggies, little bit of spices, toss it all in a small amount of stir fry sauce.

easy, and healthy.

the only bad fats are trans fats... and those are easy to avoid.

its worthless without exercise :2 cents: fruits and veggies

Go vegan. I lost weight drastically, dropped off high blood pressure medication, running 5K every other day. It is life altering :-)
If you need some reading material I can give some book titles.

"There's no such thing as eating yourself thin" -- Don't let doctors or anyone tell you this. It's not true at all.

I just keep a few simple rules in my daily diet. I've never really been interested in white bread anyway so that's not an issue. I stick to whole grains, rye, 100% whole wheat, etc, for bread. Same with cereals, all whole grain.

If I need something sweetened I avoid sugar or aspartame and instead put a dab of honey in my coffee, tea, etc.

I always eat breakfast. Whole grain stuff mostly, but a few times a week I eat eggs, bacon or sausage, fried potatoes, etc. No sense giving EVERYTHING enjoyable up, right? :D

Mid-morning I eat some grapefruit slices.

Graze throughout the day on handfuls of raw vegetables, nuts, cheese & crackers, yogurt, etc. Whatever's around, just graze. At least every two hours or so have a little something.

Dinner -- anything goes, but I tend to cook lean meats, I don't add extra salt to my food at the table (what seasonings I put into the pot is enough), and I make it a point to have a large vegetable portion with my evening meal.

If I feel like having a god-dammed dessert, I have it!


Specific recipes? They don't exist in my house. I wing it always, no matter what it is I'm throwing together. I do make a rather mean chili though I must say.


Following those guidelines I lost roughly 22 lbs a couple of years back and have managed to keep it off ever since.

GRAZE!

This :thumbsup

Check out "The Starch Solution" by John McDougall MD.

This :2 cents::2 cents:

Juice one meal a day (Lunch or dinner) and use 1/4 cup of the cereal Dyna Mo developed a few years ago. I have lost over 60 lbs and kept it off while enjoying all the craft beer I want.

I am that way, nothing ever tastes the same way twice in my house because everything I make, I change something to see what that does versus what it was last time - lol

But yeah, I am the same way, I am not food driven so giving up most things is ok with me, and it is for her so far, I am so proud of her - we value body parts far more than we do the food that causes us to lose them. lol

I am all about the stirfry thing too - I just thought maybe there might be some things out there we can do that are different and so far we have found a few things here - I appreciate you all - I know having this discussion here would be worth it - we tend to get stuck in ruts and it's nice to find out what others do for new ideas - :thumbsup

I can't cut her meats out, or mine - that's been said already - well, I guess we could, but it isn't being advised right now!!

Try the mcrib

Eric laid out a pretty solid Paleo centered plan that he and his girl had been using for a while for me. That combined with a juice cleanse every few weeks have my girl and I feeling pretty great lately.

read labels. Its amazing what they put in food. I stay away from all processed foods fast food chain restaurants etc. I am on a no sugar low sodium diet.

An excellent book, great reading and easy to follow high carbs low fat diet :-)

That's what I do, juice one meal or smoothie one meal. I actually feel more energy. Altho sometimes my juice / smoothie is for breakfast.

http://www.health.com/health/gallery...533295,00.html looks like they are almost everywhere, not so sure about easy :)

Fermented soybeans are delicious. Very good for your cholesterol. Great with white rice or other vegetables grilled or boiled. Really great with Japanese pickles if you can find them. Two small hand fulls of rice, pickles and fermented soybeans make for a healthy light meal.

Seaweed/nari not roasted. There are many varieties. Try them out.
If you have any Asian markets near you, check for daicon. (dye-kone). Excellent for soup stock with potatoes, onions, carrots. They have lots of fiber and easy to pass.

Burdock root - tons of fiber. Chopped or shredded - Excellent with other veggies and spices to taste. Be careful burdock is fiber loaded.

Japanese sweet potatoes - not as sweet as yams and full of fiber. Excellent roasted or micro-wave steamed.

Tofu and miso soup. Both are cleansers and good for your digestion.
Tofu, grilled with scallions and small bits of lean pork if you are having a "wreckless" day.
Tofu with a little soy sauce.

Get her pancreas back on track. I saw an interesting doc recently that suggests the pancreas may be running the human body show more than the brain. Metabolism, digestion-wise. I was unaware of this.

Eat as little meat as possible. Small amounts of fish are okay but red meat, pork and chicken even are proving to be not so good.

Olive oil is indeed your friend. Can she handle chick peas? Hommus and olive oil with arab/greek pocket breads are filling and pretty healthy, easy on the system.

We've been making organic salad lately with cucumbers, tomatoes, cottage cheese and olive oil. Really delicious with no salt saltines.

For healthy, blendtec blender and then blend all fruits and vegetables in it... drink it daily.

Throw the greens, the fruits, the greek yogurt, avocado with the pit, drink it daily is the key. Unfortunately I only drink it weekly so can only give you weekly results :(

Also heard drinking a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar daily keeps the doctors away. Mary Poppins told me so :thumbsup

Thank you so very much for taking your time to type all of that out, I know it had to be a pain in the ass, but I appreciate it very much. She sees an Upper GI Specialist on Wednesday and we'll get more answers on what is going on and how exactly to manage it - it just keeps going up and down and her Dr has not given us one damn reason why.

disinfected - she loves blended drinks, so that may be a great idea - she's been pretty damn accommodating and very low on the rictor of battling me on this whole thing - so we'll be looking into that for sure.

Interesting opinions, saved some links :thumbsup

Something about these. The studies about red meat have figured out correlation between eating much red meat and some diseases, but it is mostly unclear why it is so. So, taking into account that we are predators, those use meat and plants, it is good to eat the meat too. And chicken should be very safe and fish too. With fish it is good to eat different kinds of fish and preferably from clean places, as there are environmental toxins in fish. Usually fresh water fishes from some clean lake is the best choice toxin-wise. And small fishes are better regarding this issue than bigger ones. I like to buy the kind of small fishes those I can eat as a whole (excluding the head), after cooking of course.

If you take same kind of studies than with meat, the more you eat fish, the smarter you are, but this too shows just the correlation. Maybe smart people just eat more fish.

Regarding the oils, rapeseed oils are better than olive oil, as rapeseed oils contain omega-3 fatty acids (same stuff than in fish), about 10 times more than in olive olis.

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I haven't had any fast food or soda in about 15 years. When possible, I choose fresh organic vegetables, fruits and meats. Carbs consist of whole grain or whole wheat bread / pasta and brown rice. I avoid processed food, canned food, junk food, milk, candy, salt, sugar & sugar substitutes.

The following is a good start to eating healthy. For me, the only things on that list are alcohol and some non-organic foods.

16 Cancer Causing Foods You Probably Eat Every Day

This is very interesting - I can't say that I have ever heard of rapeseed oil though, but will definitely h ave a look into it. For a little while I thought someone was meaning grapeseed and it was just a typo, but I keep seeing it, so I guess not, huh? lol

I've been a label reader since 2007 when they said I have Diabetes - and I have to say it is shocking what we put in our bodies that we can't even say - I've more and more been into "if I can't say it, I shouldn't eat it" kind of thing. lol

No, it is not typo. :) It is probably the most common oil in here, although there is lot of olive oils too, at least shop shelf space-wise. Although we use mostly a bit different rapeseed specie, but I read that there is no English word for it, just latin name, so let's call it rapeseed. I read that they are almost identical anyways.

Just remember to buy it for human use, as there is not so edible versions from it, but I don't think you can go wrong when buying it from food store. :)

"With the shift to rapeseed 00 in the European Union, the low erucic acid content of the resulting rapeseed oil and its specific fatty acid composition make it a highly appreciated edible oil"

http://www.soyatech.com/rapeseed_facts.htm


And here is whole guide for rapeseed oil:

"Rapeseed oil - why it's a healthy choice

Rapeseed oil has a favourable balance of 'good' and 'bad' fats:

Less unhealthy saturated fat than all other cooking fats and oils - e.g. 50% less than olive oil

High in the healthy mono and polyunsaturated fats omega 3, 6 and 9

It is also a rich source of vitamin E, a natural antioxidant

And contains plant sterols - which may contribute to the cholesterol lowering properties of rapeseed oil
"

http://rapeseedoilbenefits.hgca.com/...eseed-oil.aspx

One key is whole foods as much as possible. Become an ardent label reader, but also take the time to understand what you're reading. Often things labeled as diet or lite tend to have chemical replacements that are worse than what they are substituting.

Go back to real butter, grass fed is better, if you can find it and afford it.

Coconut oil (cold pressed if you can get it) is your friend., We use it as much as possible, even as a mouth rinse. Don't be scared of the price of coconut oil. It may seem expensive, but a little bit goes a long way. We even use it in the home made babywipes we make for our youngest.

Lots of high fiber foods like beans and legumes. We always have some cooked beans on hand in the fridge. They are great for making home made dips, refried beans, chilis, soups, etc.

Start a little herb garden and grow your own fresh herbs. If you have the space, a little garden where you can grow your own produce.

Those who know me through Facebook and offline, you all know my wife is a very crunchy hippy woman. She researches endlessly and between her knowledge and mine (spent years as a sous chef before going into this business), we manage to eat healthy and are raising our two daughters together to eat healthy (and we still all enjoy the occasional trip to Taco Bell or McDonalds). My older children have also taken a page from our book and are eating healthy.

Make it a family thing and let your daughter help choose a menu and some recipes. Let her help shop for the ingredients. Teach her (and learn yourself) about healthy eating and what to look for on labels as well as in quality produce.

We have raised our kids to know how to cook for themselves so they don't just live on fast foods - they HAVE to learn this from as early as I can possibly get them interested and so far have had great luck with it. She is my youngest and she is a great cook - and she often helps and will be even more now - she is old enough to say what she likes and to try new things and is always open to that idea.

Coconut oil - I bought a jar of that recently - someone told me to use it to pop my popcorn but I REALLY think I did something bad wrong because it was the worst popcorn I've ever had or made. lol I either bought the wrong thing, mixed it wrong, used it wrong - something just went sideways on it hard. lol

We actually prefer to eat healthy as we can and we all love fresh over canned but sadly in my area, it is so hard and so expensive - they don't get up out of the box much and when they do, it is the single most expensive project you can imagine.

I tried to grow my own herb garden, more than a few times, and somehow I kill them, I think my green thumb was stolen by someone else - because I can't raise anything remotely resembling a plant for my lifes sake. lol

The rapeseed oil, I am looking into that for sure - thank you - we use a lot of olive oil, went back to real butter about a year or so ago when we realized how much water and nasty shit was in margarine. I have been doing my best to go as much more naturl as I can for a good while -

BUT

As you see why I started this thread, you guys have so much more valuable info than I could find on any search - I wanted people who actually eat this way and not just trying to sell me on something, I don't want to be sold on how to feed my daughter and end up with her in worse shape.

So I thank you!!

If it has a label you probably don't need to be eating it.

If popcorn came out bad when popped in coconut oil, then yeah you did something wrong or somehow bought the wrong thing. :)

Get extra virgin coconut oil and it will have a certified organic symbol on it. I use it for everything except in tomato based sauces and breads, where I continue to use olive oil. It is not typically on the cooking oil aisle... but in the natural foods aisle or section. Or on Amazon.com or elsewhere online. Nutiva is a good brand.

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Now THATS the fucking truth cut and dry!

I seem to recall goodgirl making popcorn with coconut oil not long ago and it was a definite #fail

Use just enough oil so it covers the bottom of a medium pan. Use only enough popcorn to cover the bottom of the pan in one layer. I've never heard of popcorn coming out less than stellar with coconut oil, except twice in this thread! wtf

I forgot to mention Salsa as an ingredient that will help increase vegetable consumption. I use it on burgers, certain fish, chicken, pork, roasts as a marinade/glaze, sandwiches, in recipes calling for crushed tomatoes, even put it in the occasional meatloaf instead of bread or other fillers. Great on Pasta with some sort of low fat meat for a meal or as a side salad for cook outs.

I made Tuna Wraps last night like I mentioned above.

Diced tomatoes and green pepper, shredded some lettuce, chopped onions, a little cheddar cheese, solid white albacore Tuna packed in water drained and broken up, a pinch of salt, black ground pepper, oregano, thyme, and a dash of garlic powder on a large burrito tortilla.

Had a few friends over that do not like veggies but they ate the wraps and were looking for more and the recipe afterwards.

I do not buy my vegetables from the supermarket. I only buy them from farmers markets, roadside stands, and my own homegrown veggies always taste so much better then the stuff they sell in stores.

Some of the best meals I have eaten were culinary experiments.

It is not what you prepare but what you prepare it with.