Not too long ago, my mother and I are talking about food and diet. “Your grandmother used to feed you pasta five nights a week,” insisted my mother.
“It’s not!” I exclaimed, stung. After all, I remembered my grandmother as a wonderfully varied cook who could make anything taste wonderful. It serves all kinds of food, not just pasta! There was spaghetti, of course – was Italian, after all. But also living with vegetables. A linguini. And the tuna casserole. .. elbow macaroni. At the time I finished the name of the typical week worth of menus, I had to let his mother’s point – but I mine as well. “But … no feeling that we eat pasta every night!”
Is there a place for this story, I promise, and here it is:
One of the biggest reasons why people take off their diets and eating plans boredom.
It’s very easy to look at the foods allowed on your diet and see it as restrictive and boring. Chicken four nights a week. Fish three times a week. Green leafy vegetables, and from which your ears. Who would you bored?
The answer is – someone with a good set of cookbooks and a healthy imagination. Decorate your cabinet with spices and fill your fridge with fresh fruit and vegetables, then look for new ways to combine.
Here are some tips for non-boring, healthy, low-cal meals
1. Spice it up!
Spices is one of the fastest ways to stagnate from the diet. Rosemary and fennel with chicken, mint friction on the pork, pepper and lemon mint for fresh fish – the ‘blander’ the food, the greater effect on the spices.
2. Dress it up.
Fruit vinaigrette dressings make wonderful marinades for meat and dressings for warm and cold vegetables. Try broccoli drizzled with raspberry vinaigrette or cabbage spiced with apple vinegar and pepper.
2. Herb-made olive oil – tarragon, ginger, fennel and more.
3. My brother the chef gave me three oils for Christmas one year and it completely changed the way I cook forever!
4. Low sodium soy sauce is a great way to taste anything.
5. Fruit
The bitterness of dark leafy vegetables like spinach were practically designed to be eaten with Mandarin oranges, raspberries, or pineapple chunks.
Still need some help? Here is a list of the absolute best cookbooks on the market to help you fight those diet boredom blues!
Mediterranean Diet cookbook
This cook polenta, couscous and more!
Laurie’s Low-Carb cookbook
This everyday chef shares recipes that are so easy to do!
Low-Carb Meals in minutes
With this book and get six weeks worth of complete menus that include shopping lists.
Dr. Atkins New Diet cookbook
This from the author on the Atkins Diet
The South Beach Diet cookbook
The book is packed with more than 200 recipes for delicious low-fat-food
Moosewood Restaurant low-fat Favorites
If meat is not your thing, this cookbook shares recipes from one of the most famous vegetarian restaurants in America
American Heart Association Low-Fat Low Cholesterol cookbook
Are trying to lower your cholesterol, or take care of your heart? This book has great tasting recipes that are good for you-and your heart!
American Heart Association Meals in Minutes
If you ever eat fast food because it simply do not have the time to create great tasting healthy meals, take a look at this book!
Joslin Diabetes Center in diabetic vegetarian cookbook MEATLESS and vegan recipes that are low in fat, high fiber, and delicious
Guilt-Free Gourmet Famous cruise ship chef Sam Miles together this wonderful cookbook from his six years traveling on the ship as a cook.
So, now you have some ideas and some resources-there should be no reason that you have to live with boring foods-even if you are on a diet!
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