Help with healthy eating

[Jennifer Cluckey]

My husband is entering the Army National Guard and has to lose a few pounds. So as a family (we have 2 children) we have decided to start eating healthier ( I am also a little overweight and can stand to lose about 30 pounds). We also want to instill in our kids healthy eating habits. Does anyone know some web sites that offer low calorie and low fat recipes? I have found a few but not as many as I would like. Any help would be appreciated. A web site that I have found that offers great recipes is www.allrecipes.com. You can register for free and save the recipes in your own online recipe box. You can also read reviews of the different recipes that people put online. Food Network has a good site for recipes also but they usually require more expensive ingredients and weird food that I know my kids wouldn't touch.

[Gina Stevenson]

Jennifer, 'was going to give you a link or two, but the plethora of links that came up when I did a search were just too many to even try to tab them all and then copy/paste here.

So, perhaps you could go to http://www.dogpile.com and enter what I did; that is, if you would also like some nice healthy recipes for those times when you've had enough meat, it's a warm day and something cool rather than cooked might be a good menu option. Anyway, in the search portion I entered (with the quotes, being more than one word):

"raw food recipes"


Don't even have time to check them all out now, but will keep this tab open so I can check some out maybe tomorrow night. There's even a site that mentions such food for dogs/animals; will have to check that out for my "little girl" Sasha (4-footed one, that is). :rolleyes:


My husband is entering the Army National Guard and has to lose a few pounds. So as a family (we have 2 children) we have decided to start eating healthier ( I am also a little overweight and can stand to lose about 30 pounds). We also want to instill in our kids healthy eating habits. Does anyone know some web sites that offer low calorie and low fat recipes? I have found a few but not as many as I would like. Any help would be appreciated. A web site that I have found that offers great recipes is www.allrecipes.com (http://www.allrecipes.com). You can register for free and save the recipes in your own online recipe box. You can also read reviews of the different recipes that people put online. Food Network has a good site for recipes also but they usually require more expensive ingredients and weird food that I know my kids wouldn't touch.

[Barb Bouldrey]

Just follow this simple rule: AVOID WHITE FOODS.

That includes breads, potatoes, pastas, white flour, sugar.

SIMPLE RULE NO. 2: AVOID FATS AND COOKING WITH FATS

Add more vegetables and salads and take a walk after supper each night. Serve two vegetables instead of a potato and vegetable. Eat fruit for desserts.

This is a basic carb-free diet, a basic diabetic diet.

Barb

[Gina Stevenson]

Agreed with all, but this one thing ... since the body does need some sort of oil(s), you can use some, but careful as to what kind you use. You want these to be mono- or poly-unsaturated ... such as olive oil, and a few others (not sure enough to list ones I think of, so this can be found somewhere on-line ... those oils comparable to olive oil.

Well, actually, I guess -- if we differentiate between things technically "fat" as opposed to "oil," perhaps we could say "ALL FAT" should be avoided, since a lot of "fat" is animal fat/lard. Anyway, we do need some sort of oil, whether olive or other mono-/poly-unsaturated oils.

Here's to healthy eating! ;)



SIMPLE RULE NO. 2: AVOID FATS AND COOKING WITH FATS

Barb

[Gina Stevenson]

'Just noticed this at the heading of some recipes. 'Sounds like a lot of my cooking tends to be. 'Can't always give someone a recipe if they say, "I like this!" because I tend to do it via taste ... unless it's baked goods, as they tend to have to have more exact measurements to come out with the correct texture. ;)


"Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements."
~ Marcel Boulestin