Even if you’re a loyal, daily diner on breakfast bacon, biscuit sandwiches and lunches of cheeseburgers and fries, consider a variation in your routine. You’ll be surprised at how delicious your meals can taste when the predominant flavors aren’t salt and fat.
Fresh strawberries- are a sweet treat for breakfast. For less than the cost of a bacon biscuit, you can purchase a pound of strawberries. Blended with a banana and a cup of yogurt, you have a sweet, creamy, and filling instant breakfast. Packed with vitamins, it’s low calorie and easy to digest, too.
Miso- instead of a cup of coffee, add a cup of boiling water to a tablespoon of miso paste. Prepared from soybeans, it delivers vitamins and rich, beefy flavor. Add leftover cooked noodles or rice and bits of cooked meat and vegetables to this savory broth for instant soup. Available in natural food stores, miso is the Japanese equivalent of fine wine.
Olive oil- this green golden oil offers deep flavor and unsaturated fat. It is best used cold in salad dressings or for dipping bread and vegetable sticks. A brief sauté of fresh vegetables such as chopped onions, garlic, peppers, and mushrooms will preserve the rich flavor of olive oil.
Popcorn- air popped popcorn makes for satisfying snacking and ample fiber. Even better, you can limit your consumption of salt. Commercial bags of popped corn, pretzels, and potato, corn, and tortilla chips are blanketed with it even when they include other seasonings.
Nuts- crunchy and a good source of protein, nuts offer enough unsaturated fat to make a satisfying snack. Their variety means you’ll never be bored. If peanuts and walnuts seem too mundane, try almonds, pecans, pistachios, and macadamia nuts. Consider eating raw instead of roasted nuts. They are chewier and lower in calories.
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