Sep 16 2009
Truly Healthy Living Recipes
You are most likely tired of all the fake healthy living recipes. These are the recipes that make very unhealthy, but tasty foods into healthy foods while trying to stay palatable. Nevertheless, you can’t make a candy bar out of healthy foods like lime extract, dates and peanuts. This is not going to happen Nobody will ever make a candy bar out of dates and limes.
But, once you realize this, it can be very liberating. You will, in fact, start liking your food in an entirely different way. So stop trying to make foods that taste like cardboard that are supposed to be healthy and focus on making dishes you will actually like.
See below for a few tips on making your own delicious healthy living recipes that will leave you satisfied:
• Keep in season
Seasonal foods are a treat. Making sure you always treat them like that. Seasonal fruits can always be engineered into delicious main courses or dessert parfaits. Try fresh peaches in summer, and sweet mandarin oranges in winter. Apples are perfect in the fall and berries wonderful in the spring. You can still enjoy these fruits the rest of the year, but if you eat them when they are at they best, they can be quite the treat.
• Accentuate the positive
Generally, you should avoid heavily processed foods when you are eating healthy. This means no processed or pre-packaged foods. Instead of bemoaning the loss of your “little debbies” or packaged cookies, instead focus on how delicious your homemade treats are. Make sure to be proud of yourself not just for eating right, but for creating a healthy living recipe that you can enjoy.
• Focus on family
You may not think this is really a recipe at first. However, when meals become about time spent together rather than food, you will find that everything tastes better. Your meal can become a time of self-reflection if your schedules don’t allow for regular family dining. Drink some green tea and relax. Think about yourself and how your day was, while eating slowly. Soon you will see that this makes meals easy when you aren’t eating foods high in fat that you really want.
So healthy living is about more than the food. Its all about the way you live. Truly effective healthy living recipes factor in every aspect of the meal, not just the sugar and preservative content.
