Saturday, February 26, 2011

Recipes for healthy eating - 5 simple ideas

With a little simple meal planning is possible to eliminate a lot of stress from your daily life. There is nothing worse than getting to the end of the day and wondering what on earth you are going to feed a hungry family with. As often with extraordinary precision and attention we apply to our work schedules of our children all of ourself in order to make everything work well, but when it comes to the simple act of coming up with recipes for healthy eating that taste good and at the same time can provide us with some nutrients, we can not. 

Here are 5 simple ideas you can start using !

1. Double up on a few simple ground beef recipes

It sounds so obvious to double up on recipes but how often do we think about it? Somehow we have visions of being knee deep in pounds of raw ground beef and chopped onions. However, if you will cut up an onion you can also cut two. 
If you are going to brown one pound of ground beef you may as well brown two. 
And so on, you have one dirty pan but two meals. A time to eat and act like one of those freezer meals, a total blessing in the chaotic days. 

So, if you apply the rules above you can take two pounds of ground beef and use the same healthy recipe for both. However, you can play the game Chili Con Carne and neighbors in a country Beef Taco Recipe. 


2. Slow Leg of Lamb Roast

Whilst a Leg of Lamb is not an economy cut, it is nevertheless honest! You can easily make a delicious roast with a fresh recipe - in this case Olive, Cashew and Feta Salsa- It seems unusual for a sauce for lamb roast but it is quite tasty. 


3. Double up on Easy Beef Recipes

Just as with ground beef you can double up on beef recipes. You can make an easy Beef Stew Recipe and the next night you can pop some puff pastry on the same easy beef recipe, you will produce an impressive Beef Pie Recipe!
Furthermore, if you add some good beef stock to your leftover Beef Stew and throw in a little barley, you have the makings of a respectable Beef Barley Soup Recipe. 

4. Make the most of boneless chicken breast recipes

People have illusions that this red wine chicken dish is difficult to achieve but nothing could be more simpler. Better yet, you can double this recipe by adding a pastry topping and you have a healthy recipe for chicken. 
Alternatively you could add leftovers to some pasta shapes and you have a simple "Chicken Pasta Bake" -some of the pasta recipes-

5. Cloves Garlic Mashed Potatoes
This is a mashed potatoes recipe sausages very simple to make, however make a little extra mash potato and you have the base for a formidable Salmon Patties Recipe. 
Mild with fresh cilantro, capers and cucumber flavored, this is one of those recipes, canned salmon, which is also good in lunch boxes. An all round winner. 
So with a little help of this tips the thinking and planning the meal is not going to be a problem anymore, you can save time, money and start a healthy eating life!  

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