December 24, 2009
To develop easy free weight loss healthy recipes you should first know the meaning of a healthy recipe. We tend to perceive healthy recipes as recipes that have no fat in them, no salt, no cream or dairy, and no red meat. We also perceive healthy recipes as recipes that contain vegetables, chicken, grains or recipes that are developed by the weight loss industry that are delivered to us packaged as frozen dinners and lunches.
What are Healthy Recipes?
The first thing we are going to learn in this segment of free weight loss healthy recipes is that fat is good for you. Using the right type of fat in your free weight loss healthy recipes is necessary for optimal health. Fat is also necessary to give your food taste and flavor. The best fat to use in your cooking is Extra Virgin Olive Oil raw or cold pressed; you could use also sesame oil, grape seeds oil, peanut oil or coconut oil. I should explain in detail the reasons why I think Olive oil is the best fat ever for cooking in my post about low fat free weight loss recipes.
A healthy recipe calls for organic vegetables either fresh from the market or frozen; do not use canned vegetables or dehydrated vegetables. The same goes for fruits. If you have to use non organic vegetables, then use the ones that are less contaminated with chemicals and toxins. Prep your vegetables just before cooking, and cook them just before serving for maximum benefit.
Organic frozen vegetables are the best choice for free weight loss healthy recipes, even though this should depend on the manufacturer processing method, but most of them know that the sooner they blanch the veggies and flash freeze them the longer the shelf life. Freezing vegetables halts the biochemical activities and preserve the nutrients and the quality of the veggies.
We consume too much salt in our diet, actually twice more than recommended by health experts. The part of salt implicated in high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes and kills 150,000 Americans every year is Sodium. Your table salt that you use everyday in your cooking contains 97.5% of sodium chloride and 2.5% chemicals such as moisture absorbents, and iodine, dehydrated at over 1,200 degrees F. which alters the natural chemical structure of the salt. In order for you to prepare a healthy recipe for you and your family do not use table salt. Healthy recipes do not contain table salt. Use instead Himalayan Salt, Celtic salt or natural sea salt.
Healthy Tomato Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 chopped onion
- 2 tablespoon Extra Virgin olive oil
- 1 tea spoon Himalayan salt and
- 1/2 tea spoon ground ginger
- 2 minced clove garlic
- 3 cups diced fresh tomato
- 1/2 cup chopped parsley
- 6 oz can tomato paste
- 1/2 tea spoon dried or fresh oregano
- 1/2 teaspoons chopped dried or fresh basil
- 1/2 teaspoons chopped dried or fresh thyme
- 1 bay leaf
Directions
- Heat up the cooking pot and add the oil, onions, garlic, spices and herbs.
- Stir well and cook over high heat for about 3 minutes.
- Add fresh tomatoes and stir for few more minutes.
- Add tomato paste stir well and add filtered hot water to your consistency.
- Let it cook for 5 minutes.
- Add parsley, turn off heat and check taste.
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December 15, 2009
In my practice my clients ask me for a free weight loss sample menu, because I would just educate them on how to eat healthy, and what type of food is beneficial for healthy recipes. As a holistic nutrition consultant I am not allowed to prescribe but my job is to educate and teach my clients how to produce weight loss recipes, low fat recipes, low calorie recipes, or low carb recipes. However, I am allowed to suggest free weight loss recipes or a free weight loss sample menu. But first let me give you some general information about food and weight loss.
Eating high quality food is the best way to lose weight and achieve optimal health and inner satisfaction. If you compromise your nutrition and the quality of food you are eating because you want to lose weight and be thin, you will suffer dire consequences, and I am not exaggerating. Our culture and society is asking us to become thin fast and now, otherwise it will reject us and demean us. So we starve ourselves, and waste our money and energy on diet plans and programs that hurt us more and eventually make us fatter and heavier.
Eating fresh fruits and vegetables, at least 10 servings a day is the first step into a healthy thin body and replacing all your drinking liquids with a good amount of filtered water daily should help rejuvenate your body organs and your blood flow. Anyway let’s go back and give you what you came here for free weight loss recipes. But this time it is better it is a free weight loss sample menu.
Free Weight Loss Sample Menu
Breakfast
2 scrambled eggs with 1/4 brown rice and filtered water.
Ingredients
- 2 organic eggs
- 1/4 cup quartered mushroom
- 1/4 cup diced red pepper
- 1/4 cup minced onion
- Himalayan salt to taste
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon Extra Virgin Olive oil (Cold Pressed)
Directions
- Add the olive oil in a small skillet over high heat, add onions and spices, stir and add the mushrooms and peppers. Cook for 3 minutes.
- Pour in eggs, and cook, stirring constantly, until they reach the desired consistency (soft).
If you want to make this dish healthier, add ¼ cup of chopped parsley at the last stir, just before you pull the skillet from the fire. Cilantro will do too.
For the brown rice I suggest Uncle Ben’s parboiled brown rice, just follow the direction on the bag and skip the fat. Prepare enough for few days.
Snack
1 peeled carrot or 1 apple and filtered water.
Lunch
Mesclun salad with Sardines and filtered water.
Salad Dressing Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lemons, juiced
- Himalayan salt to taste
- 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh garlic
- 1/8 ground ginger
- 1/2 cup Extra Virgin olive oil
Directions
- Mix together lemon juice, Himalayan salt, ginger, garlic, and Extra Virgin olive oil until smooth. Adjust salt to taste.
Before service mix Mesclun salad with dressing and add and open a can of Sardines Use the Sardines that are canned in tomato sauce if you can.
Snack
Walnuts, cashews, sunflower seeds or dry fruits, and filtered water.
Dinner
Baked Flounder with green peas, carrots, and corn and filtered water.
Ingredients
- 1 pounds flounder fillets
- 1 tablespoon Extra Virgin olive oil
- Himalayan salt and ground ginger to taste
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/2 cup diced fresh tomato
- 1 cup fresh spinach
- 1/2 cup cooked sliced carrots
- 1/2 cup corn
- 1/2 cup green peas
- 1/2 teaspoons chopped fresh basil
- 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Oil a medium baking dish, add the vegetables season and mix.
- Arrange flounder in the medium baking dish on top of veggies. Dot with butter, season with salt and pepper, and sprinkle with olive oil and lemon juice. Top with tomato, basil, and garlic.
- Cover, and bake 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until fish is easily flaked with a fork.
Snack
Seeds and nuts
The above menu is just free weight loss sample menu, in holistic nutrition we follow a customized diet depending on the individual needs and deficiencies. This was just to give you an idea about how a real healthy weight loss sample menu looks like. I hope you’ve enjoyed it and hope to see you soon here at free weight loss recipes.
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December 14, 2009
I am going to provide you with free weight loss recipes, and with a simple method to design low calorie recipes, low carb recipes, low fat chicken recipes and soup recipes.
I used to be famous when I was a chef for my gourmet soups. Now that I am a holistic health counselor; I find it easy to give good advice on weight loss recipes and cooking.
Before I give you some free weight loss recipes, I want to give you some basic information about weight loss diet. The ideal weight loss menu diet plan consists of four day rotation diets one for each season of the year. This can not be emphasized long enough, eating seasonally is very important for a successful weight loss diet plan.
I know that following a natural and seasonally based diet can be extremely hard, because of our lifestyle and hectic schedules, but seasonal menu will help you lose weight and gain back your health. Since it mainly have little or no prepared or pre-packaged foods, like pizza, or McDonalds’ burgers, fries and soda, or the boxes and cans that usually fill the supermarket shelves.
Every time I add a post I will add some free weight loss recipes with it, please feel free to add your comments below, or if you know any good free weight loss recipes, free juice recipes for weight loss, or healthy chicken recipes.
Baked Vegetables Recipe
Get fresh vegetables and prep just before cooking. Slice them and lightly oil them. Bake in the oven at 325 Deg.
Ingredients
- Extra Virgin olive oil, (cold pressed)
- 2 potatoes, sliced
- 1 carrot, sliced
- 2 onions, sliced
- 1 green bell pepper, thick julienne
- 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon Himalayan salt
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
- Lightly oil potatoes, carrots, onions and bell pepper.
- Sprinkle the rest of the ingredients on the vegetables and mix well.
- Bake, covered, for 15 minutes. Uncover, stir and bake for 10 minutes more.
Yield 6 servings
Amount per Serving Calories: 107 | Total Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 0mg
Here are the seasonal vegetables for this free weight loss recipe:
Autumn Recipe: Acorn squash, Butternut squash, Artichoke, Potato, Celery, Spinach, Corn, Bell pepper, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Carrots.
Winter Recipe: Onions, Cabbage, Potatoes, Artichokes, Kale, Leeks, Swiss chard, Broccoli, Cauliflower, sweet Potatoes.
Spring Recipe: Wild greens, Beets, Brussels sprouts, Asparagus, Carrots, Spinach, Chard, Green Onions.
Summer Recipe: Snow Peas, Corn, Eggplant, Yellow Squash, Zucchini, Green beans, Beets, New Potatoes.
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