Convenient Ideas for Endless Great Eating With Whole Foods
Whole foods are so tasty that, if you are not into cooking, you can still have excellent not-meals with little kitchen time. For example, after work, one of my favorite quick dinners is green lentils with vegetables on a whole grain tortilla.
The lentils cook from their dry form in about 40 minutes. I mix them with freshly steamed or leftover brown rice or some frozen organic corn. Then spoon onto the whole grain tortilla with some chopped leafy greens, salsa, and/or spices. Steamed fresh vegetables round out a super simple but yummy and filling start to an energetic evening.
Sometimes, though, I want a more elaborate taste experience. Just as important, I find chopping and mixing colorful whole foods to
Working with beautiful whole foods is fun and relaxing
be relaxing and fun. If you never liked cooking before, you may change your mind when you go the whole foods route.
Want cooking ideas? An unbeatable site for thousands of whole foods recipes is fatfreevegan.com. This super blog is friendly, fun, and overflowing with enough recipes to keep you happily hanging around your kitchen for years.
This site features food photos that will make you hungry if you aren’t already. The advanced search function helps you find a recipe to use up ingredients that are filling your garden or refrigerator. The home page has an extensive, convenient list of five star recipes.
Cooking ideas are conveniently grouped into categories either by ingredients (such as beans or vegetables) or kind of meal (holiday dishes, kid friendly), not to mention by cooking method (such as pressure cooker or quick and easy).
You’ll also find an overview of why it’s healthy to eat a whole foods diet, without added oils (which are, after all, a manufactured food). There is general information on whole foods cooking that will help you put together your own recipes, or quick, informal not-meals (such as my lentils and greens on a tortilla).
Once you check out this site, you will never again think cooking without animal ingredients or oils is a challenge or deprivation. Instead, whole foods will blossom into the pleasure they really are. Eating any other way becomes the undesirable state.
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Blog by Janice Stanger, Ph.D. Janice authored The Perfect Formula Diet, a nutrition book built on sustainable food choices. Enjoy six kinds of whole foods for permanent, hunger-free weight loss and health.
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I recently lost over 60lbs and went from size 42 waist to a 34. Exercise was a huge factor, but I would have to say what we eat and when is a more crucial factor. I try to eat 5-6 smaller protein-rich meals with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Also, I eat my biggest meal of the day in the morning and taper off with subsequent ones throughout the day. This helps get the metabolism going and keeps the appetite under control. Obese people often eat less than I do, except they skip breakfast, chug sugary sodas all day, snack on greasy carb-laden junk food and then gorge before dinner and up until bedtime. By doing that, you are essentially telling your body to store fats and metabolize foods at a slower rate.