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I have used mimimalist baker for many recipes. They are all meant to be prepared in 30 minutes or less with 10 or less ingredients. She has tags for sugar free, vegan, gluten free, etc.
My husband made a dramatic change in his eating practices last summer. He lost 50 pounds, lowered his cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure without restricting calories, just types of food. (He ate plant based, gluten free, sugar free, as per doctor orders.)
Here is a typical day for him.
Breakfast -Oatmeal with blueberries, coffee with oatmilk and monkfruit sweetener (Pretty sure the daily oatmeal helped the cholesterol a lot.)
Lunch/afternoon snacks - leftover soup or curry in a thermos
baby carrots with guacamole
sweet potato crackers with hummus
(Hummus and guacamole are in single serving containers from costco)
small bag of cashews
banana
sometimes an apple or tangerine
Dinner - recipe from minimalist baker, or vegan vegetable curry or beans and rice or veggie burger and roasted potatoes and carrots, or chickpea pasta with sauted mushrooms and onions (or marinara) etc. Lots of soups in the winter.
He does eat other things too but is sparing about veering from his diet. His doctor was amazed. (Not because the diet worked but because I think few people actually do what he suggests.)
Smoothies are wonderful in the summer. Frozen banana, oat milk, spoonful of cocoa powder, greens (frozen kale or spinach - this time of year we have fresh comfrey leaves so I use that.)
Eating out our favorites are Smoothie King and Chipotle or Indian or Thai.
Anyway, this is just one of a thousand possibilities for a healthy day.
Let us know what healthy options you find work best for you!
~Mama to Many~
Healthy Meal Ideas
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We can do simple.
For sure there are a whole swag of cookery books out there and it can be confusing all right.
Not all of them concern healthy meals though and most are complicated for someone in a hurry / "Time Challenged", new to cooking or can't be bothered/not their thing. But, help is at hand if you know where to look and want to take matters into your own hands, so that you can better begin to appreciate what goes into your food choices.
My favourite recipe book has currently gone missing/walk about but is entitled "Food for Flatters". No, not members of the Flat Earth Society, but those who ... you know!
Number two would have to be a relatively new book: Jamie Oliver's "Five Ingredients" (Quick and Easy Food as seen on Channel Four (UK)): Penguin Books. It takes a certain sort of genius to come up with dozens and dozens of 30 minute meals of maximum flavor with minimum fuss using only five ingredients. What's not to love? Jamie is a big fan of health food by the way. He revolutionized healthy lunches in UK schools.
3) I love the convenience of "Crock-pot" cooking and it is economical too! If you are organized and not in a hurry for your curry, then Crock-pot cooking is definitely the way to go. This system enhances/brings out the flavors too. I am a fan. Try "Crock-pot Cooking for NZ Homes" by the "Maggi" Company.
4) I have always had a soft spot for "Junior Cook - Book 1" by Mary Pat Fergus: Shortland Publications I don't know if it is readily available over there or might be out of print who knows? It is the book a friend GAVE me (What are friends for?) when she listened to my sad tale of WOE, how I ended up marooned on a tug boat all those long years ago, having been deluded into thinking I was going to be doing the navigating but found out to my utter consternation and bewilderment that they had been seriously looking forward to getting their new COOK! Yikes! I was not too popular until I eventually served up the best meal of the voyage! The police had taken the cook away to help them with their inquiries and they had been living on sandwiches for two weeks!
Good luck with your food choices.
Another Tale from Down Under
