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a-bit-of-owlish-fun · 4 years

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Quarantine Shopping and Meal Planning

So I asked about this over on @steve-rogers-new-york and there was a positive response, so here we go. Date: 15 March 2020

Before I start, let me be clear that I am not a professional, just someone who deals with stress by planning, and who has some experience with emergency preparedness having lived in New Zealand during the more recent large earthquakes. Feel free to correct me or make positive additions. For clarity, I am currently in Ontario Canada, and cooking for one person, but have made allowances to feed my unprepared housemate in a pinch.

Priorities with this Pandemic Planning

Unlike some other emergency preparedness priorities, power, water, and phone do not appear to be issues. So you have greater flexibility with what you can make and keep. Your priority should be having a comfortable amount of food on hand in case you cannot leave the house. Don’t go nuts, don’t overbuy, and don’t buy thoughtlessly.

Planning What to Get and Make

When thinking about what to buy and what to make, you want to consider a few things:

How many meals do you need to make? That is, how many people are you feeding and for how long? Calculate the number of meals you need in total and make sure you have enough meals planned to cover those. Obviously, if you can prepare for more than that is good, but don’t go too nuts.

How many portions can a recipe make? You don’t want to be making single-serve meals. It’s inefficient and short-sighted. So pick recipes that make large quantities, that can be portioned up in containers to be chilled or frozen.

Am I being efficient with my ingredients? Are the quantities listed in regularly used recipes the most practical for your current ingredient availability? For example, if you’re making a stew with beef, but beef is in short supply, half the amount the recipe asks for, and then bulk up on potatoes, carrots, zucchini, etc.

What ingredients will last best? Don’t JUST get non-perishables! That just sounds miserable. I’ve had no issue so far getting fruit and vegetables, and if you’re smart with your choices and storage fresh foods can be good choices. This when picking items how long they will hold in your fridge or if they’re freezable.

Don’t forget about breakfast and Lunch!

If money is tight and buying ahead is challenging. Think laterally. Make use of dollar stores like Dollarama, Dollar Tree, or whatever your local variant is. They will often have a great range of shelf-stable foods like pasta, rice, canned goods, and other ingredients at really low prices. And from my experience so far, they seem to have passed the attention of many shoppers and are still in good stock-levels. Start there first, hit multiple ones to get a good variety, then shop at supermarkets for whatever you cannot get there. The quality is good, sometimes brand-names, and they can be far superior than supermarket prices.

Do you have a large stockpot, fry pan, and deep baking dish to make these large meals? If not, see about getting them. Large lasagne pans and other kitchen items can be found cheap at many dollar stores.

Don’t have a car? Me neither. Grab a backpack and some good re-usable bags and make multiple trips for heavier items like cans. Also, consider grocery delivery services. They can be hit and miss right now, as it’s harder to adapt to products being unavailable. This being said, they can be a good way to get bulk, heavier items to your house. Also, consider asking friends or family to get you items when they go and drop them off to you.

What Foods Hold Well and Go Far

Non-Perishables that can extend meals

Pasta and Noodles — Pasta is a great item for entending a meal. Be it soups, stir-fry, oven-bake, or just able anything, you can either cook-in, mix-in, or have as a plain side. They bulk up a meal and make it go further.

Rice — Same as above.

Lentils and Other Legumes — Lentils are great for bulking up and extending soups and stews. Also consider chickpeas, beans, and other legumes.

Potatoes — Potatoes are great! The can be a great base, addition, or side to many many meals. While these will not last indefinitely, if you keep them cool and dark then they will last quite some time.

Non-Perishable Ingredients and Flavouring

Canned Vegetables — Don’t be picky. Yes, get fresh veggies where you can, but also suck it up and get some canned goods as a back-up. Carrots, peas, beans, tomatoes, all that. They’re good, they taste fine, and go well in so many recipes.

Canned Fruit — Many fruits have a shorter shelf-life, so consider some canned alternatives.

Herbs and Spices — Make sure you have a nice spread of these. It’s easy to grab the base ingredients for food, but if you don’t have something to flavour those meals with, you’ll have a miserable time.

Sauces — Same as above.

Canned Tomatoes and Tomato Paste — Yes, I’m listing this separately because of their versatility. With canned tomatoes, you can make soups, spaghetti, lasagne, chilli, curry...so damn much. So grab a good stock of these.

Perishables

Eggs — Eggs are so damn versatile. Get eggs. When kept in the fridge they keep for a good long time.

Vegetables — Think smart. Get items you know last well in your fridge, and avoid items you usually have to throw-out or use-up within a week or two.

Fruit — Same.

Breads — Same. Also, consider freezing loaves if you have the space to do so. It tastes just as good as fresh, honest.

Frozen

If you have the capacity to get things frozen or to freeze them. Do it. Frozen peas, corn, stir-fry veggies, meats...they last well and taste good.

My Grocery List

This is what I have been buying myself. Not all at once but in multiple trips over the last couple of weeks.

Pantry

Top-up herbs and spices: ground cumin, garam masala, oregano, basil.

Spaghetti pasta

Spiral pasta

Lasagne pasta sheets

Large bag of rice

Flour

Canned tomatoes (4 large cans)

Tomato paste

Canned asparagus

Canned coconut milk (2 cans)

Lentils

Potatoes (6 large)

Onions

Fridge

Eggs (12pc)

Milk

Cheese

Zucchinis (3)

Carrots (large bag)

Lemons (2)

Limes (2)

Bag of spinach

Bell pepper (1)

Crescent Rolls

Freezer

Peas

1kg minced beef

750g stewing beef

Box stuffed chicken breasts (I love ham and cheese and a good addition to any meal)

500g lamb (for curries)

500g stir-fry beef

Household

ONE pack of toilet paper. Seriously. Just get what you personally need.

A couple of small packs of cheap toilet paper from the dollar store.

Pack paper towels

Any cooking materials like tin-foil, parchment paper, that I use regularly.

3-pack tissues (I have killer allergies so I’ll always need them)

Plastic containers for portioning meals in the fridge or freezer.

Meals I have Planned

These aren’t full recipes, but rather a list of ingredients and volumes for grocery references. I might write-up full recipes later if people are interested.

Lasagne

This is my fav vegetarian lasagne that also have minced meat. It makes around 6-8 servings (depending on home much you eat and size of baking dish).

Lasagne sheets (dried) or just those baby lasagne pasta if you like them better. 4 cups Milk 250g Cheese Butter Flour Nutmeg Chicken stock 3 Large Carrots 3 Large Zucchini Large bag of fresh spinach leaves 400g Canned Tomatoes Fresh/Jarred Garlic 500g minced beef Light Herbs (oregano, basil, etc to taste, but not too much)

Vegetable Stew

Technically a soup, but I never blend it and just eat it as is. Makes 3-4 servings alone and 5-8 servings when served with cooked rice.

2 cups dried lentils (soaked overnight) 1 Large Can Tomatoes (not pre-herbed, just used plain) 2 cups Chicken or Vegetable Stock 2 Large Carrots cubed 2 Large Zucchinis (quartered then cubed) Fresh/Jarred Garlic 1 Tbsp Cumin 1 tsp Ground Coriander Fresh Coriander (lots) Fresh ground peppercorn

Beef Stew

500g Stewing Beef 3 Large Potatoes cubed 3 Large Carrots cubed 1-2 cups Frozen Peas Fresh/Jarred Garlic 2-3 Tbsp Flour Fresh ground peppercorn 1 Large Onion 3-4 cup Beef Stock 3 Tbsp Tomato Paste Rosemary 2 Tbsp Cornstarch

D.’s Curry

This is just and random mash-up curry I make. It can be cooked with or without lamb and both taste great. It is not spicy. Makes 2-3 servings

2 Large Onions (one minces with spaces, one sliced) Fresh/Jarred Garlic Fresh/Jarred Ginger Ground Cumin Ground Coriander Ground Cardamon Whole Cardamon Seeds Whole Cumin Seeds Garam Masala 300ml Uncooked Rice (then cook it, obviously)

Closing thoughts

Once you have these items, don’t use them. Carry on like normal and don't use these items unless you need them. Now I have my meals planned, I am back to making normal meals with what I can get. Always have that TWO WEEK buffer on hand at all times.

Purchase your groceries gradually. Don’t buy out in one go, be considerate. Take only what you need.

Visit multiple locations, sell-outs are not the same everywhere and while one supermarket may be sold out of something, another may still have a fresh stock.

More stocks WILL come. So if you cannot find something, make alternate plans, find a substitute, and return every now and then to check stocks. Supermarkets are constantly restocking as they can.

Be kind to customer service workers. They are just trying to get through this like you are. They are not paid well, have no control over their employers' stocks or decisions. They have the same stress you do and you being an asshole is just causing them MORE stress they do not deserve. Be. Kind. Be. Understanding.

Support others. Friends, family, neighbours, co-workers. We do this together.

DON’T STRESS OUT! Be prepared. Be aware. But don’t become overwhelmed, it will all be FINE. We just have to adapt and ride it out <3

I hope this was helpful. Have further suggestions or any corrections, please do let me know, I’m always happy to correct myself. If you have any questions feel free to comment and message me. And if you want those full recipes likewise let me know!

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purplesurveys · 4 years

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1. What’s the last thing you ate? Shawarma. It was a usual meal of mine at school so I’ve been missing it a lot during this quarantine, and I was happy when my dad got me a couple ones yesterday.

2. What’s your favourite cheese? I haven’t been super experimental when it comes to cheese mainly because the better ones are a little expensive and I’m more willing to spend my money on other foods...but the best one I’ve had is feta.

3. What’s your favourite fish? My favorite cooked or grilled fish is tilapia and eel; as for raw fish I love tuna.

4. What’s your favourite fruit? I don’t really like fruit but I’m open to eating avocado-flavored things like shakes and cheesecake; and I’m okay with strawberry-flavored candy hahaha.

5. When, if ever, did you start liking olives? I’ve never liked olives. I take them out of my pizza and such.

6. When, if ever, did you start liking beer? I never *liked* beer but sometimes I’ll have a bottle if and only if it’s to socialize at a party. I just keep the grimace to myself lol because I personally never found it good. I had my first beer at Marielle’s debut, four years ago.

7. When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish? High school. That was when my palate started to expand and I wanted to try being more adventurous with food. I got into shellfish pretty early on and my mom even used to buy a kilo of mussels just for me.

8. What was the best thing your mum/dad/guardian used to make? I love my dad’s laksa, risotto, curries, and chicken wings. My mom doesn’t cook much but I do like her spaghetti.

9. What’s the native specialty of your hometown? My city doesn’t have native food of its own; and I’m not sure about my province’s specialtes either only because cuisines from other provinces are far more popular. I can say though that most visitors who come to the country often try adobo, sinigang, kare-kare, and bulalo.

10. What’s your comfort food? Cheeseburgers, samgyeopsal, pad thai, and chicken wings.

11. What’s your favourite type of chocolate? Milk chocolate. And it gets a lot of flak because it’s not actually chocolate, but I do enjoy the flavor of white chocolate too.

12. How do you like your steak? Rare.

13. How do you like your burger? I like mine with caramelized onions, a mayo-based sauce, and brioche buns; barbecue sauce or jalapeños are add-ons I have no problem being put in my burger. I don’t like tomatoes, pickles, and lettuce.

14. How do you like your eggs? Scrambled if on toast; omelette with cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, and bell peppers if with rice; and obviously, poached if on top of an Eggs Benedict. I don’t have a preferred style for eggs.

15. How do you like your potatoes? As French fries or mojos.

16. How do you take your coffee? If someone is making the coffee for me, I request for lots of cream and sugar. I’d drink any kind of coffee but black. If I’m at a coffee shop I typically get caramel macchiato.

17. How do you take your tea? I enjoy lemonade iced tea. I don’t really like hot tea.

18. What’s your favourite mug? I suppose my favorite is the only mug I own, which is a white mug that changes colors depending on the temperature of the drink inside.

19. What’s your biscuit or cookie of choice? I can’t stand biscuits anymore because those are what my grandma/mom packed for my recess nearly everyday throughout grade school. I don’t like store-brought cookies either because they taste super processed, but my favorite as a kid were the Presto peanut butter cookies.

20. What’s your ideal breakfast? Garlic rice, a packed omelette, and hashbrowns if I’m somewhere fancy. Scrambled eggs and hotdogs when I’m at home.

21. What’s your ideal sandwich? Monte Cristo or banh mi.

22. What’s your ideal pizza: Quattro formaggi. If we’re talking more experimental pizzas, barbecue pizza is a guilty pleasure.

23. What’s your ideal pie (sweet or savoury)? I’m not a big pie person but I do love savory a lot more, like chicken pot pie. I think most of the sweet pies out there are fruit-based anyway.

24. What’s your ideal salad? Spicy tuna salad. I’ve been having such a craving for it :(

25. What food do you always like to have in the fridge? We always have white bread, eggs, my mom’s cranberry juice, and veggies.

26. What food do you always like to have in the freezer? In the freezer we never run out of various meats and frozen meal packs, like frozen bangus, hotdogs, chicken nuggets, French fries, etc. We also often have ice cream, but it’s not a must-have for us obviously.

27. What food do you always like to have in the cupboard? Pasta, canned food like luncheon meat and corned beef, cup noodles, various condiments like soy sauce and fish sauce, 3-in-1 coffee.

28. What spices can you not live without? I can’t cook but I do know I like salt, pepper, paprika, and cumin. I’m sure I’m missing other essential ones lol

29. What sauces can you not live without? Sriracha, bagoong, banana ketchup, gochujang, peanut sauce, gravy, barbecue sauce, aioli, mayonnaise.

30. Where do you buy most of your food? My parents don’t have a supermarket preference; they just go to wherever is most convenient for them at the moment. Once I start doing my own grocery shopping though I would rather go to a supermarket where they’d have a wider selection for foreign foods, like those that would have Pop-Tarts and sriracha sauce. Just the foodie in me that constantly has to have food from other cultures.

31. How often do you go food shopping? My parents do the groceries once every two or three weeks, I think.

33. What’s the most expensive piece of kitchen equipment you own? Aside from the obvious ref or cooking range, probably the coffee maker. Not sure how much it cost my parents but it’s supposed to be branded haha.

34. What’s the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen? Dad bought a couple of pans because he didn’t like how our old ones were starting to get too many scratches.

35. What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without? Refrigerator. So many things would spoil without it...that’s why when we get blackouts the first thing we worry about is how long the ref would stay cold.

36. How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients? I’ve only done it once.

37. What’s the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients?

38. What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig and poultry? Crocodile, carabao, lamb.

39. What’s the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor? Don’t remember exactly when but it has to be sometime recently. I’m not too grossed out by this.

40. What’s the last time you ate something you’d picked in the wild? I have never done this.

41. Arrange the following in order of preference: Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Sushi – Indian, Thai, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican. This question is a teeny bit annoying and a little offensive. How would you like it if I referred to American food as ‘ribs’ lol

42. Arrange the following in order of preference: Vodka, Whiskey, Brandy, Rum – Vodka, rum, (some) whiskey. I don’t drink brandy because that’s what my grandpa, who had alcohol issues, used to drink.

43. Arrange the following in order of preference: Garlic, Basil, Lime, Mint, Ginger, Aniseed – Aniseed, garlic, basil, ginger, lime, mint.

44. Arrange the following in order of preference: Pineapple, Orange, Apple, Strawberry, Cherry, Watermelon, Banana. –

45. Bread and spread: I don’t really munch on this particular food. Toast and butter is enough for me.

46. What’s your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order? It’s either KFC or Jollibee. In KFC I get a Zinger and a brownie; in Jollibee, I usually order the chicken-spaghetti set, large fries, and a Yum Burger. If they have tuna pie on the menu I’d get that too. My appetite gets exceptionally large when it comes to Jollibee hahahaha.

47. Pick a city. What are the best dining experiences you’ve had in that city? I no longer remember what exactly I ate but I had a blaaaast eating in Bali. I also had a sushi platter in Fukuoka that I’ll never forget.

48. What’s your choice of tipple at the end of a long day? I don’t drink regularly but if I’m out with friends and we want to chill after a tiring day, we get a pitcher of a mixed drink.

49. What’s the next thing you’ll eat? Eggs and hotdogs for breakfast. Probably with bread.

50. Are you hungry now? A little bit, considering it’s nearly 10 and I still haven’t had breakfast.

51. Do you eat your breakfast everyday? I’ve been having it everyday now because I’ve been home for...most of the year...sigh. But I skipped it all the time when I was in school because getting to class on time and having a clean attendance record mattered to me more than filling up my stomach. 52. At what time do you have breakfast? On weekdays I have it between 9-10 AM. On weekends when my parents are home, we have brunch instead at around 10:30-11 AM because they wake up late.

53. At what time do you have lunch? I normally skip lunch now. In school I just had tiny eating breaks throughout the day, but I didn’t have lunch per se.

54. What do you have for lunch? My usual purchases were instant noodles/kwek-kwek, tapsilog from Rodic’s, or shawarma rice. Thrived on these three for my entire college life.

55. At what time do you have dinner? 7-8 PM, depending on whenever my dad is finished cooking.

56. What do you have for dinner? My dad likes changing up our dishes everyday :) It’s one of my favorite things about quarantine. Outside of the quarantine, I’ve never had a main dinner dish.

57. Do you light candles during dinner? No.

58. How many chairs are there in your dining room and who sits in the main chair? 6 chairs. We don’t have a ‘main’ chair that’s larger than the rest, but my dad is the one who sits on the chair on one end of the dining table, or what we call the kabisera in Filipino. My mom, siblings, and I sit on either side of him.

59. Do you eat and drink using your right hand or the left one? I use my right hand for the spoon and my left hand for the fork. I drink with my right hand most of the time.

61. Mention the veggies that you like most: Broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, cabbage, spinach, asparagus, string beans. Idk what eggplants and bell peppers are but I like those too.

62. What fruit and vegetable do you like the least? Cucumber and ampalaya. 63. You like your fruit salad to have more: Air. Hahahaha I do not like fruit salads.

64. You prefer your vegetable salad to contain more: I love vegetables but don’t really eat vegetable salads? I don’t think I’ve even heard of those.

65. What’s your favourite sandwich spread? Whatever goes on banh mi.

66. What’s your favourite chocolate bar? Whittaker’s peanut butter chocolate.

67. What’s your favourite dessert? I really love macarons, cupcakes, and cheesecake.

68. What’s your favourite drink? Just water. Other drinks make me fuller more quickly.

69. What’s your favourite snack? Pringles, French fries, corndogs...anything deep-fried, really.

70. What’s your favourite bubble gum flavour? Strawberry, or just the original bubblegum flavor.

71. What’s your favourite ice cream flavour? Salted caramel, queso real, or cookies and cream.

72. What’s your favourite potato chip flavour? Original or sour cream and onion.

73. What’s your favourite soup? Miso. Have to have it whenever I have Japanese food.

74. What’s your favourite pizza? Already answered this, but I will always order quattro formaggi if I see it on a menu.

75. What’s your favourite type of dish? I have lots of favorites, but I think chicken curry takes the cake for me.

76. What food do you hate? Fruits, any dessert with fruits.

77. What’s your favourite restaurant? Yabu. It’s a Japanese restaurant that doesn’t even serve sushi (because I’m still ticked off by that sushi question lol).

78. Do you eat homemade food, or food delivered from outside? These days I eat food cooked by either parent. But when I’m on my own, I buy my food.

80. Who cooks at home? My dad does most of the time. My mom will make breakfast on the weekends.

81. What kind of diet (e.g. low-fat, high-fiber, high-carbohydrate, balanced diet etc.) do you have? I’m not on any.

82. How do you keep yourself fit? I just moderate my food intake in general and make sure I stop eating once I feel full. I don’t work out or count calories and stuff.

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benjamingarden · 4 years

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How We Cut Our Grocery Budget In Half (without couponing)

I shared how we paid off our debt with meal planning last week and now I want to share with you the tips and tricks I used (and mostly still use) to trim our grocery budget to less than half of what it had been. A quick recap. Because we had accumulated a fair amount of debt we were stuck in a cycle of paying the minimum or just above the minimum due. Living on a pretty tight budget, the only place we could find to free up money to start to attack this debt was within our grocery and food budget. I had absolutely no idea how I was going to do this, all I could do was to hope I could figure it out. And figure it out I did. We successfully freed up extra money and paid off all of our debt! (not the mortgage - just over $10,000 consumer debt) Although I cringe to tell you this number, I will share what our previous grocery bill was...... We went from spending $140.00 - $200.00 per week down to $60.00 per week (food only, excludes paper products & toiletries). We are no longer in debt (except our mortgage which we are working to pay off early) and our average weekly grocery bills now total $60.00 - $80.00. We cook all 3 meals at home each day, so this amount is for all food, including any eating out. Regardless of whether or not you have debt to pay down, cutting dollars from your grocery budget will allow you extra money to use or save. Although it does take some work initially, it becomes a new normal quite quickly! 15 Techniques For Cutting Your Grocery Budget In Half: (includes affiliate links) Don't Buy Beverages One of the quickest ways to put a dent in your budget is right here. Drink water. If you are currently drinking bottled water, free up some money so you can invest in a small system (like a Brita) to filter your own. This will save you some money very quickly. If you are currently purchasing bottled beverages, think outside the box to figure out a cheaper alternative. Don't Buy Cold Cereals And if you do, only purchase them when they hit a rock-bottom price and then stock up. Cereal pricing is quite high so finding an alternative for breakfast will be a big savings.

Plan Simple Meals With Inexpensive Ingredients Selecting meals that use a limited number of inexpensive ingredients will help to save money (and time). If you can put a few of these on the menu every week you'll notice a difference in no time. Write A Weekly Meal Plan I've written about meal planning here, here and here, and I can tell you that this is the best way to control your grocery budget and ensure you can get meals on the table every day. It may seem daunting or like something you don't want to fit into your life but I found out the hard way that if you stick to it, it eventually becomes a routine part of your week.

Inventory Your Pantry, Fridge, & Freezer Before meal planning take an inventory for two reasons: 1. to use up any perishables you have left so they don't go to waste and 2. so you are using items you've stockpiled in your pantry and/or freezer in your meal plan, saving you money. Stockpile Good Deals We aren't talking about hoarding here, instead, buying items in a larger quantity than you need when they hit rock-bottom pricing. Items that can be stored in your freezer or pantry for long-term use. Set 5-10 dollars per week aside, if you can, to devote to stockpiling. This becomes a money saver because you will pull from your inventory for meal planning, rather than buying the item, and when you do purchase the item you'll be buying it at a discounted amount. Read more about this concept here. Use A Cash Budget For Groceries Determine what amount you can afford and place that amount in an envelope. Do NOT use your debit card or credit card - the cash you've got is all you can spend. If you have any cash leftover, place that back in the envelope for the next week's budget for additional money available or to allow for stockpiling on good deals (see above).

Use Meat Sparingly This takes some time to get used to, but think about it this way. If you serve meat on it's own, you will usually eat a lot more meat than if it were a part of a dish. As an example, if you cut up chicken and thread kabobs with chicken, cherry tomatoes, zucchini and onion and serve this with a small amount of whole grains (rice, quinoa, etc.) you can easily eat a half a chicken breast or less because of all the veggies. If instead you marinate the chicken breast, grill it, and serve the meat with a side of veggies and a side of whole grains, you will likely eat more chicken because seeing it cut up any smaller would make you feel deprived. Incorporating meat chunks into pasta, rice, quinoa or other whole grain dishes will provide you a way to fairly easily use it sparingly. Plan For Leftovers And Use Them When we first started down the road of frugal eating my husband was completely against leftovers. I mean, wouldn't eat any at all! We discussed it, but I couldn't get him to change his mind. I would eat them for my lunches, so that made my lunch a lot easier to prepare every day. Then one day he suggested he could take some leftover chicken enchiladas to work for lunch. He liked it and the it certainly helped that the other guys were a bit jealous as they smelled it heating up in the microwave. That got the ball rolling and he was then ok eating leftovers for lunch a couple days per week. Particularly if you're making a casserole or something similar, it's so cheap to make a tad bit more to have for 1 or 2 lunches as opposed to what the typical lunch items would cost. And if you've got a spouse who's willing to eat leftovers at dinner, it's not only a cost savings but a huge time savings too! Go Out To Eat Once In A While How in the world is this saving money?? you ask. Well, in order to not feel deprived, planning a night out from time-to-time is a great way to celebrate your frugal budgeting. The meal out should be planned ahead and worked into your weekly budget. The way we do it is we eat from our pantry, fridge and freezer for the most part of the remainder of the week. We also select affordable restaurants and decide ahead of time how much we will spend on dinner (with tip).

Shop Weekly Store Sale Ads When meal planning, after you look at what you've already got on hand in your pantry, fridge and freezer, the next stop is the weekly store ads. Items that are featured on the front and back are usually at rock-bottom pricing. Shop At Multiple Stores Because you are working with multiple store sales ads, you may end up shopping at grocery stores not regularly on your shopping route. For your other items that are not on sale, purchase them at the stores where they are cheapest.

Eat Meatless A Couple Days A Week I know, I know. This is probably listed in any and every grocery bill slashing hack you've ever read. But it's there for good reason - it really helps reduce costs while still getting a fully nutritious meal. You don't have to live with meatless meals forever, just until you start to get a good grasp on your finances and until you have a nice stockpile created. My husband is not a fan of meatless meals so I would create meatless versions of what I was cooking for me a couple days a week and serve the meat to him. I didn't mind at all and as long as I didn't have to amend the recipe except for the protein, it wasn't difficult at all! Keep A Few Inexpensive & Quick To Make Back-Up Meals On Hand It is inevitable that you will forget to defrost something for dinner, forget to prep something that needed to be prepped, have a life event come up which leaves little time for dinner, or simply don't want to eat what's scheduled on the menu. Those are the times when expensive last minute options are usually selected. In order to prevent a budget buster, keeping inexpensive ingredients on hand to prepare a simple dinner that your family will enjoy, will be a huge life saver. Things like jarred spaghetti sauce and a box of pasta, or a frozen pizza, or a bag of frozen veggies and rice. You can also choose to keep a few freezer meals on hand that, if they aren't used in an emergency, get worked into the regular meal plan the following month. Rather than making special meals for freezer meals, simply make 2 of a couple meals each month and eat one and freeze one. Shephard's pie, Enchiladas, Pasta with Sauce and Meatballs, or Meatloaf will all freeze and cook up beautifully.

If You Have The Space & Desire To Grow Herbs Or Veggies, Grow Either What's Most Expensive Or What You Eat The Most Of Most people don't have the time, space, or desire to grow all of their vegetables. I get it. If you have some space and some desire, however, you can save yourself some money by growing what's most expensive for you to buy at the store or farmer's market and/or what your family eats the most of. Tomatoes, herbs, eggplant, peppers, and potatoes are what we first started with when we lived in a condo. I planted them in our flower beds, partly because I didn't have space to devote to a garden and partly because of compliance with condo rules. We weren't able to grow all we used but we were definitely able to grow enough to make a difference. Plus, is there anything better than picking your own veggies and herbs from your backyard? A quick note - just make sure your planting area is safe from pets (going to the bathroom and/or eating) and spraying of herbicides/pesticides.

Cutting your grocery budget drastically isn't easy and isn't always enjoyable. It takes some work to come up with creative ways to make things from very little. Honestly, the stockpiling is really the key to keeping it going. It allows you to eat a little better, and allows for some breathing room. I sincerely hope you are able to find some new ideas for getting your own grocery budget under control. Getting a rhythm of how you can save money on groceries will also help if you have weeks where you find it necessary to cut your grocery budget even more for a period of time. I remember feeling a bit helpless and lost when I first started this process and how much of a relief it was once I began to get a good system in place. What tips and tricks have you used to slash your own grocery bill? We would love to hear it!!

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Transition to Becoming Greener Without Becoming Overwhelmed

I am a mom. I have a toddler, and have another little one on the way. I work a full-time job in management, teach yoga once to twice a week. I do my best to stay active, to eat healthy, to make time for my friends and family, to get 8 hours of sleep, etc., etc. Is your head spinning yet? Mine sure is. I wouldn’t be surprised if many of you live a similar life... maybe not with all the same components, but definitely a life that is full of wonderful intentions and loads of activities.

I wouldn’t change my life for anything, and I have consciously made the choices I have made to live this life. However, time constraints have definitely put added pressure on finding ways to do things faster and more efficiently, especially when it comes to all of the other responsibilities that are imbedded in our day-to-day (e.g., shopping, cooking, cleaning, beautifying, etc.). Industries have worked out ways to make things easier to process, easier to buy, but also easier to throw away. Everything is in place for us to minimize time invested in what some might call ‘peripheral things’, but to the detriment of Mother Earth!

So how to become greener without becoming completely overwhelmed (in a world where we may already somewhat feel overwhelmed)? Although going through a full-on ‘green transition’ is ideal, this often discourages people from making any change at all. Instead (unless you are ready for the overhaul), I suggest taking one step at a time, and to make it interesting. Here are some areas you can tackle first (followed by some ideas on how you can make it fun):

Shopping:

Say no to plastic bags - always: To ensure that you are not balancing all of your purchases in your arms, always ensure you have a reusable bag with you, including reusable produce bags (there a small ones that fit in your purse!)... think of it as remembering to lock your car before you head into the store.

Choose your stores: Try cutting out ‘Fast-Fashion’ (see my ealier blog post ‘Social Responsibility Looks Freakin’ Good on You’) from your list of places to hit up. Yeah, these places may be cheaper, but the clothes will literally fall apart within weeks or months. You don’t have a lot of free time on your hands, so why not invest in better quality clothing (prioritize natural fibres), and less shopping.

Try somewhere new and green: Walk into a bulk store, or even better, a zero-waste store, and check things out (a few spots in my broader hood include Nu Grocery, Sol Natural Foods, La Boîte à grains - even your local grocery store may have a ‘bulk’ section... just make sure you can use your own containers to get your goods, or at a minimum borrow some of their reusable containers, with a small deposit). Find one thing that you think you would like to buy in a waste-free fashion (e.g., some delicious looking pickles, some body cream, some cookies). Once you’ve tried something that you like, make it a habit to go back to this new store regularly to replenish your supply. You’ll get hooked in no time, and will notice yourself transitioning more and more of your purchases to this new gem. Like your reusable plastic bags, always ensure you have a few reusable containers in your car, so you’re ready to go ‘bulk’ when needed.

In the Kitchen:

Try out a zero waste meal: Choose one meal that you would like to prepare ‘zero-waste’ style. What might that look like? Well, why not explore a vegetarian curry? You can find your beans, rice and spices in a bulk store (using your reusable containers), and can purchase all of your vegetables using your reusable produce bags only.

Transition a few items to bulk: Choose a few ingredients that you commit to only buying in bulk, using your reusable containers. Maybe it’s your spices, or your nut butters, or your grains, or your dried fruit.

Make one ‘homemade’ item: Instead of buying something already-made in plastic packaging, try making something yourself, like hummus, nut milk, pesto, granola bars, etc. Many of these items are quick to make and fun to prepare.

Get equipped: Ensure that you have some zero-waste items in your kitchen, such as glass containers and plastic-free food wrap (like Abeego) for leftovers. Other interesting kitchen items include reusable straws (I like the stainless steel and silicone straws), reusable napkins (enjoy choosing some fun designs!), and dish soap bought in bulk.

In the Bathroom:

Moving away from paper: The bathroom is definitely a place where we waste mountains! Don’t worry, I won’t recommend that you transition to ‘reusable toilet paper’ (does that even exist... hummm?), but would encourage you to explore shifting from things like throw-away make-up removers to reusable cotton pads (I absolutely adore the Öko products), and considering the use of washable menstrual pads or a menstrual cup. Another fun fact: tissue paper is compostable in the Gatineau area (what?!?) - so think about including a small ‘compost bin’ in your bathroom to collect this type of waste.

Mouth hygiene: Consider switching to a bamboo toothbrush, or try this cool Bioplastic Toothbrush With Replaceable Head (where you can simply replace the bristles; some stores, like NU Grocery, will even take your old toothbrush head back for recycling purposes!). Another fun item to consider is some Plastic-Free Dental Floss with reusable glass container. I have all of these items at home and love them.

Body love: Choose a few body products that you’d be willing to go bulk on. Again, stores are exploring the transition to bulk beauty products, such as deodorants, creams, body washes, etc. Bring your bottle and fill her up! You can also consider moving towards soap bars rather than liquid soap. I’ve recently started using the BKIND Shampoo Bar, and fell in love. You only need a little, it lathers well, doesn’t leave a residue, and lasts forever (I’ve had mine since November and haven’t made much of a dent!). Using your bars of soap as your body wash is also a great switch to consider in order to minimize waste.

Squeaky Clean:

Go product free: Consider exploring more product-free cleaning tools such as those offered by Norwex. Their cloths are developed using special materials that clean and disinfect without requiring any cleaning agents (I particularly like their Dusting Mitt, EnviroCloth and Veggie and Fruit Scrub Cloth).

Try DIY: If you prefer to stick with cleaning products, opt for trying some do-it-yourself mixes. Companies such as doTerra and Saje offer a wide range of essential oils that can be used to create your own homemade blend.

Go green: Turn to greener products that are free from harmful chemicals, and consider going towards refillable items (Terra 20 offers an ecobar where you can fill and refill your empty bottles).

Now these are just some ideas to get your started. By integrating new practices, one step at a time, you can start to make changes in your life that will actually stick, without feeling overwhelmed and discouraged.

Here are a few thoughts about how to make this interesting:

Start a challenge: Why not integrate one new practice or item per week or month? You can even create a calendar to help you follow your progress, or create an ‘idea jar’ that you can pick out of on a regular basis;

Team up: Ask your family, friends or co-workers to join in the fun, either through a group challenge, or by rotating who is responsible for thinking up a new way of going greener, and educating and sharing their tactic with others;

Make your gifts ‘green’ gifts, and treat yourself: Need to buy a gift? Why not choose something ‘green’ for the lucky recipient, and treat yourself with the same item at the same time?

In any case, please SHARE your ideas and new ways of doing things with your community, either informally (at your weekly family dinner), or through more formal channels like social media. By showing how YOU can make transitions, you are sure to inspire others to do the same.

Want more ideas? Follow a few cool groups on Facebook that are sure to get you inspired, including Reduce, Reuse, Rethink and Zéro Déchet Gatineau.

Cheers!

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I know that literally no one asked, but I just wanted to take a minute here to talk about healthy habits. Let me just preface this by saying I’m not suggesting this is a one-size-fits-all “solution” and that some people need structure in their wellness plans. They want to count calories and measure weight loss. I’m also not suggesting this is “easy.”

For most of my life, I have dealt with disordered eating (specifically “exercise bulimia”). I’ve been a vegetarian for nearly 11 years, but the only reason I became a vegetarian in high school was because I was starving myself and wanted a convenient excuse for changes in my body. So while these were “easy” changes for me to make based on where I am in my life, I also know that what’s easy to me might sound like torture to you.

Since college, I’ve gotten better. I don’t over-exercise, but until maybe 6 months ago my eating habits were still pretty shitty. I had a job that made me so miserable and paid me so little I could barely function – so I would skip breakfast and lunch most days, and then eat a big dinner or go out and get a giant burrito bowl to sustain myself. I just didn’t have the energy (or a lot of money) to make myself eat regularly. I’ve always been really good about drinking only water with the occasional coke or root beer as a treat. But I was horrible about portioning out my carbs properly, or looking at the ingredients in the frozen meals I was buying…knowing they were packed with sodium and added sugar, but assuming it couldn’t be THAT bad since it was vegetarian.

Long story short, I got a new job that pays me a livable wage and have since motivated myself to start making substantial changes in the way I feed myself.

(Another disclaimer…I love fruits and vegetables. I don’t mean for that to sound like a Gwyneth Paltrow “I just gravitate toward everything that’s healthy…I don’t even know what…how you say… ‘high fructose corn syrup’ is? Sorry, I’m fluent in French and sometimes forget your silly American words” statement. But adding fruits and vegetables to my meals is literally never a problem because I love them. For a while, I was just carbing up because that’s what I could afford and it was easy.)

-No frozen meals. Just cutting them all out. Byyye. Now, this doesn’t mean no frozen FOODS. I’ll buy frozen spinach and other individual ingredients. I’ll also buy Morning Star products because I can’t say no to their veggie buffalo wings and bacon. I’m just talking about heating up an entire meal, here…I try not to do that anymore.

-Making my own sauces. Again, lots of sauces are packed with sugar and sodium, and the beauty of making them yourself is that you have control over what goes into your batch. I make my own bbq sauce and my own pasta sauce. And *annoying food Instagram blogger voice* I will never buy pasta sauce from a jar again. I mean it, though. Making it yourself is far more rewarding and when you mix a little red wine into it?? Holy shit, man. (Also, making your own salad dressing. My basic white girl card should probably be revoked because I truly believe ranch dressing is a crime against humanity. Just use olive oil and vinegar, people!!!)

-FOOD PROCESSOR!!! I love my food processor. I will legit just throw in a shit ton of veggies into my food processor and then dump those veggies into my homemade pasta sauce. Also great for making your own black bean burgers.

-I’m an annoying person who loves the taste of water, though sometimes I will infuse it with a lemon/mint/berries/etc. for a little something different. And when I want something carbonated, I’ll drink a sparkling water from Trader Joe’s. And, you know what, sometimes I will drink a coke or a root beer because I fully believe in #treatyoself. But *Gwyneth Paltrow voice* I really just don’t like the taste of sugary sodas.

-Making my own bread. Not only does it taste so much better than store-bought bread, but you’re only using a handful of ingredients. Pop it in the freezer and put it in the oven (about 400F) whenever you want to eat it.

-Snacks! The fun…or torturous part…of deciding not to buy (most) prepackaged foods is that, if you want a snack, you’ve gotta put in the work. So if I want a chocolate chip cookie, I have to spend a good 45 minutes-1hr making those cookies and deciding if I even want one, or if they’re going in the freezer or my office’s break room. I even have organic popping corn from Trader Joe’s, so if I want popcorn, my ass has to stand over the stove and pop it myself. Then I have to put in the olive oil, salt, butter, paprika, etc. on my own and think about what I’m doing. So most of the time I just end up eating frozen grapes or carrot sticks.

-Vice: Coffee. Not to sound like an “OK but first coffee” t-shirt…but honestly. That is my life. Because my mother didn’t raise a weakling, I can drink straight black coffee. But because I believe in small indulgences and happiness, I will usually splash it with some whole milk or half-and-half. I don’t fuck around with sugary coffee or creamers. But…back to #treatyoself…I did have a small s’mores Frappuccino the other day. Why? Because some coworkers wanted to go over lunch and I can fucking do what I want.

-Vice: Booze. Alcoholism straight up runs in my family so I try to be careful. But I can’t deny it – I love to drink. But I don’t party as much as I used to, and nowadays I’ll just get a glass of wine at a restaurant rather than ordering a cocktail. I’m also South African so I practically came out of the womb drinking wine.

-Vice: Peanut butter, Nutella, chocolate. The other night I literally took one spoonful of peanut butter, and another spoonful of Nutella and put them together. I don’t really know what to say, here. I always have a big jar of Nutella in my apartment. And whenever I’m spreading it on my bread, I tell myself, “This is an Italian product. Who cares if the first ten ingredients just say PURE SUGAR. I trust the Italians.” (I also say this when eating pasta and gelato.)

OK…I know this sounds like a lot of effort, and I’m not even outlining all the changes I’ve made. But here’s the thing: As much as I love convenience and would rather spend my time relaxing than standing in my kitchen, I also LOVE food and love trying new recipes. Back when I used to get most of my dinners out, I would usually rotate between Chipotle and Bibibop. So eating was just boring. But it should be fun!!! Food should be enjoyable!!!!

And another thing: Really the only change I made is cutting out 99% of processed foods. And then I just forced myself to figure out what to do with all the individual ingredients.

It’s not a fad diet or quick fix. I will still eat my popcorn if I make it, or buy a chocolate bar from Trader Joe’s on a day I feel like I could use a pick-me-up. I’m not cutting anything OUT. This isn’t low-carb paleo 1300 calories a day bullshit. It’s just being more aware of ingredients and the food I’m putting into my body. And my clothes are looser, my runs are longer and less tiring, my skin is clear, I’m not bloated, and overall I just feel like a healthier person. I don’t weigh myself, I don’t count calories.

While I wouldn’t mind weighing 20 pounds or so less, I don’t have any desire to obsess over every little number. Been there, done that, you know? It doesn’t work for me.

When I counted my calories, I lost weight rapidly and it made me happy. But you know what else happened? Whenever I went 200, 300 calories over my daily budget, I immediately felt like a failure and fell into that real fun “well who cares, I messed up!! Might as well eat whatever I want now!!!!” mindset. When you’re not tracking anything, your “slip ups” also aren’t on your radar. And that is so freeing in a way you would not believe.

#FOOD #eating disorder mention

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20 Foods Women Over 40 MUST Avoid If You Want A Flat Belly

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20 Foods Women Over 40 MUST Avoid If You Want A Flat Belly

Trying to lose weight after 40?

Make sure you avoid these 20 foods at all costs, they will cause you to gain weight and ruin your flat belly dreams.

Every birthday that you celebrate is not just about the cake and candles.

It means you are getting older and soon enough, you will clock 40.

You will find it hard to shed even just a few pounds.

Even though we all wish that we could reverse the cycle back to our teenage years, there are some changes that you can make to your diet to slow down your aging rate including refraining from certain foods.

We are going to explore the worst foods to eat for forty-year-olds, and shame all those age pushing bandits.

They are found in most meals, and they have excess amounts of added sugar, sodium and saturated fat.

Unfortunately, we consume them daily, and the only way we can shed some pounds is by eliminating them from our diets.

1. Soda

It’s better to pour water into your glass instead of soda.

Choosing the latter puts your health in the line.

Why are dieticians against the sweet beverage?

According to studies, consuming sugary drinks regularly will increase the risk of heart disease.

Another study showed that women who consumed a can of Coke or Pepsi a day had a 75 percent higher risk of catching gout.

There are many reasons you should quench your thirst with H2O rather than a beverage.

2. French Fries

Every time you pass by a fast food joint and buy some mouth-watering fries, do you ever wonder whether they change their oil after every batch?

They actually reuse the same oil over and over again, and it’s not healthy at all.

According to a study by the Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, heating oil to its smoking point while stir-frying decreases the number of fatty acids.

Those fatty acids nourish your skin and joints.

Rather than buying fries, make some at home and include some fresh herbs.

3. Too Much Coffee

Coffee is good, but too much of something is always dangerous.

We are all aware that coffee has a lot of antioxidant benefits but taking over five cups is not good at all.

Taking six cups will ruin a good sleep.

As humans age, their hormones change, and they become more sensitive to caffeine.

It’s capable of affecting your sleep, and lack of quality sleep boosts aging.

4. Sugary Cocktails

Maybe you would get away with minimal sleep when you were 20’s, but when you clock 30’s and beyond, the script reads differently.

After some hours of partying and several drinks, it becomes hard to get enough night rest.

When you lack sleep at night, you develop sugar and carb cravings the next day, probably eat them, and gain more weight in the long run.

Also, avoid sugary cocktails.

They are filled with artificial sugar.

5. Cupcakes and Muffins

A single bite of these foods feels like you are out of the world, but never underestimate the adverse effects these sweets have on your body.

Unless you are baking them with veggies and stevia instead of sugar, you should reduce your intake.

According to a report by Clinics in Dermatology, glucose and fructose compromise both collagen and elastin that boost your skin’s elasticity and therefore avoiding baked foods with added sugars will help to keep wrinkles at bay.

6. Bottled Coffees

Coffee is good for your health, as long as you don’t take more than five cups a day, but the bottled one isn’t recommended.

For instance, there are two popular flavors which are almond coffee and salted caramel that even though they are delicious, they have a negative impact on your body.

Each flavor has an astonishing 270 calories and 53 grams of sugar, which are double the daily stipulated amount.

You don’t want diabetes to come knocking.

Excess sugar increases the chances and affects your hormones resulting in collagen decrease.

You already know what it means to your skin after collagen decreases.

7. Gluten-Free Foods

Unless your doctor instructed you not to eat foods with gluten because your body is gluten sensitive or you have celiac disease, eliminating wheat products from your diet is one of the worst decisions you can ever make on behalf of your body.

Most whole-grains including wheat contain fiber which flushes out toxins, puts your blood sugar on an average level, and keep you fit.

Furthermore, gluten foods are rich in magnesium which is an essential compound to your body.

8. Domesticated Fish

Farmed or domesticated fish doesn’t have high levels of inflammatory omega 6 fatty acids like the wild ones.

Eating such will make you full, but you won’t get the most critical nutrients for your skin.

Wild salmon is naturally red because they feed on krill and shrimps.

Farmed shrimps are dyed artificially to be marketable.

Always opt for wild fish over farmed ones.

9. Jarred Pasta Sauce

Pasta is good for your health, no doubt about it.

After all, it’s a wheat product.

But when it comes to processed foods, the story changes.

Processed pasta sauces contain tomato paste, but they also have loads of added sugar, inflammatory oils, and salt.

The alfredo sauce especially is bad for your health.

The creamy sauce contains almost 40 grams per cup-serving which are too excessive for consumption in one sitting.

10. Canned Soup

Rather than picking canned soup at the nearby store, why don’t you prepare your own soup at home?

Homemade soup is fresh, warm and you will add all the spices you like.

Canned soups are packed with additives like MSG to boost your appetite, and they also have too much sodium.

While making soup in your own kitchen, add grass-fed bone broth which helps your intestines in wonderful ways.

Bone broth also heals and protects the digestive tract and is filled with collagen which is essential for your skin.

11. Fruit Juice

As you get older, it becomes more difficult to shed some weight even after often jogging around your block.

That’s the time you should start cutting on things that can trigger too much weight.

For instance, are you the kind of person who takes fruit juice with your breakfast?

At 40 or over, you have to say goodbye to your favorite juice.

Fruit juice contains fructose which dieticians have accused of causing abdominal fat.

The dangerous fat can cause metabolic diseases, and you also would want to maintain that athletic look.

12. Butter

You probably never knew that the older you get, the more you become exposed to heart diseases.

A little salted butter on your bread once in a while never hurt anyone but making it mandatory will punishing your body.

No matter the temptations, avoid dressing your recipes with butter.

It contains over six grams of saturated fat for every tablespoon and using two tablespoons just pushes you past the daily limit of fat intake.

13. Doritos

Doritos are mouth-watering.

Before you realize it, you will have consumed too much of them, if you aren’t careful.

These delicious foods are actually dangerous to your health.

Doritos contain MSG, and they are also colored with artificial dyes believed to cause cancer.

To make it worse, it also has artificial flavors as ingredients.

If you want to avoid cancer, and look younger in your 40s, keep your hands off those Doritos.

14. White Pasta and Bread

Those white grain products you eat have been stripped the most nutritious compounds including fiber to achieve that white color.

The refined bread and pasta can cause your blood sugar to rise and consuming too much of these foods can lead to obesity or even worse, diabetes.

Opt for bread and pasta rich in fiber such as sprouted bread and banza chickpea pasta.

Your body needs more of it.

15. Bacon and Hot Dogs

Bacon and hot dogs are some of the most consumed meaty snacks.

They are packed with protein and are keto-friendly, but they can also interfere with your health.

These kinds of snacks are packed with nitrates and nitrites that cause cancer.

Bacon and hot dogs have significant amounts of blood pressure causing sodium.

According to a 2013 study, sodium nitrate boosts oxidative stress which then causes damage to collagen and elastin, the compounds that contribute to youthful skin.

16. Low-Fat Flavored Yogurt

Food without flavor doesn’t sell! Food dealers are well aware of that fact.

If they tell you that low-fat foods are the best for your health, it will be a straight lie.

Those foods labeled low-fat have secretly been added sugars to compensate for the flavor gone with fat.

So, when you look at that low-fat yogurt container on the supermarket shelf, be aware that on top of its natural sugar, there is some added sweet stuff.

Instead, go for a dairy product that has fats.

Dairy fats have been known to keep you satiated and your gut slimmer.

17. Pancake Syrup

One of the many ways you make your morning great is baking and preparing some pancakes for your breakfast.

The pancakes are good, but the syrup that you drizzle on them can be a tragedy to your tummy.

Maple-flavored syrups are produced from high fructose corn syrup which has been blamed for metabolic issues like excess fat around the gut, increased triglycerides, and abnormal weight gain.

Dress your pancakes with the real maple syrup instead.

18. Commercial Protein Shakes

Just like the name suggests, they are packed with protein, and the shakes are meant to keep you full before your next meal.

But watch for those shakes.

They aren’t as good as they seem.

Most shakes have added artificial additives, preservatives, added sugar, hydrogenated oils and more calories which you consume in a single meal.

You guessed it right.

Shakes can contribute to weight gain.

19. Toaster Strudel and Waffles

Your childhood was probably filled with these foods for breakfast, but after 40 years since you escaped your mother’s womb, you better leave toaster strudel and waffles to younger people.

The meals can’t keep you full.

These aren’t the foods you should eat for breakfast while at home or in the office.

Besides, they don’t even have the fiber or any protein to maintain your muscles.

20. Commercial Weight Loss Bars

Younger folks can have a fun-filled day without taking their breakfast in the morning.

They can also get away with eating starchy weight loss bars, but if you are 40 and above, you aren’t supposed to consume over 30 grams of protein in every meal.

These so-called weight loss bars exceed that limit and also have a ton of unnecessary ingredients such as inflammatory palm oil and artificial sugars which can lead to weight gain.

Final Words

Everyone wants to look younger even though we are aging.

Some people, especially celebrities have gone the extra mile including going for cosmetic enhancement to enhance their beauty and look more youthful.

Watching what goes into your mouth can play a pivotal role in helping you look half your age while at your forties.

Besides, natural is better than a cosmetically enhanced look.

A Secret ‘Carb Trick’ That Burns Up To 1 Pound Per Day

If you’re like most women trying to lose weight… you diet, you count calories, you tear up the treadmill, and… nothing.

That’s how 40-year-old Sarah Donovan, an overweight mother with prediabetes was feeling…

She did “everything right” and never lost an inch.

Until she stumbled on this strange “carb-pairing” trick and burned away an unheard of 22lbs pounds in just 13 days.

And because of this one simple shift in her eating, she shed pounds and inches from her body without starving herself and without a lick of exercise!

With the same “carb-pairing” trick Sarah dropped a total of 37lbs in the FIRST month and she shocked her doctor by completely reversing ALL pre-diabetes symptoms!

If you’re a woman over the age of 25 who wants to reclaim her life inside the body she DESERVES, you should check it out for yourself.

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Commonly our team forget the fact that the treat dishes our experts make may be scaled down to accommodate our requirements. This may be as simple as taking a typical dessert recipe as well as separating all the ingredient portions in one-half or even in fourth, but not every dish might be therefore suitably downsized. When exploring for simple dessert dishes, be actually on the keep an eye out for the serving sizes detailed for each recipe. Some dishes are particularly made for a little number of guests and these will spare you a great deal of hassle as well as fear.

Small dessert dishes are easier to create and they cook a lot faster also. This is particularly thus if your kitchen area isn't as large as you desire it to become, or you don't possess sufficient sizable bowls. Additionally, bear in mind that desserts are usually eaten after a big, total dish, and also smaller effortless dessert dishes will certainly complement the attendees. If you possess any visitors that are actually trying to keep command of their weight, they are going to thank you for this as well New Jersey.

2. Components Required

The greatest simple treat dishes to opt for are preferably those with convenient ingredients that you may effortlessly locate in your neighborhood establishment. If you reside in a surge, at that point you might wish to choose a very easy dessert recipe that can be actually created along with the active ingredients you currently possess on submit your kitchen or even fridge. Recipes that need far fewer elements will normally be much easier to make. Try out seeking dishes with 3 to five elements for maximum ease in creating.

3. Element Substitution

Numerous long-winding recipes could be made much easier to some level through easy element alternative. If specific parts of a specific effortless treat recipe could be store-bought, it will certainly conserve you a whole lot of effort and time. As an example, when creating a tiramisu, rather than must create the ladyfingers and cheesecake dental filling from scratch depending on to the recipe, it would certainly likewise be achievable for you to buy pre-made package deals of ladyfingers from the store, and also ready-to-eat cheesecake filling up as well. At that point only include coffee syrup or even other flavor depending on to your flavors, and assemble it for an easy tiramisu pudding 07901.

Some folks might remonstrate this stating that those conventional elements perform not bring in a pudding that samples like the ones you make your own self. Effectively for me, I think that this in on its own is a craft. It takes a particular quantity of know-how and adventure to know which brand of active ingredients is actually of the greatest high quality and work out all together. Certainly simple dessert recipes that are actually made coming from scratch will certainly typically taste far better, if done right, as a result of the attempt and thought taken into all of them. However the difference is not consistently that large, as well as there are opportunities when our experts do not constantly acquire traits carried out straight. If you're only a novice that is simply beginning, then this is an excellent place to start as well.

Why You Should Favor Healthy Dessert Recipes

If you have kept yourself up to time along with what is actually going on around the world, I am actually certain you know that our team are currently facing a wellness legendary. Research study has shown that there has been actually a 95% increase in the lot of adolescents that are obese as well as experiencing different health conditions. The primary reason to people being actually obese has actually primarily been sourced to the desserts that they consume. Because of this there has actually been a great deal of desire from health care professions to obtain individuals to eat healthy treat recipes in contrast to normal ones. The benefit about all of them is that they are actually understood not to raise your body weight so long as they are actually consumed symmetrical. Many physicians are actually prompting everyone, no matter your age, to switch over to dishes for healthy treats. Eating desserts on a regular manner happens in nearly every house. For this main reason it is vital that most of us focus our attention towards eating healthy treat dishes. There are a lot of reasons why these recipes are far better than regular pudding recipes United States.

The really good point regarding these well-balanced recipes is actually that they are understood to contain a minimal degree of sweets. All of these dishes are actually recognized to make use of some form of alternative in relation to providing the dessert a "wonderful" preference. Many of them are actually recognized to utilize sweeteners or even glucose that is actually suggested for diabetics. If you have actually ever before attempted recipes for desserts that are well-balanced, you will definitely be actually shocked to view exactly how they supply the very same flavor as usual desserts yet don't leave you a hundred extra pounds bigger. There are a lot of spots where you can discover these recipes.

If you are actually considering to make an effort a handful of well-balanced pudding recipes, at that point there are actually many locations where you may start looking. There have been some books posted on them however the expense element may place you off a bit. In addition to the trouble of going down to the manual establishment. Therefore you may be actually far better off searching for a different source that provides these dishes. One area where you can find details just about immediately on recipes for healthy and balanced desserts is online. There are numerous websites online that are actually giving a variety of dishes that you may pick from.

When seeking web sites that offer dishes for healthy desserts, create sure that it is coming from a trustworthy resource. There are actually many websites that are actually installing typical dessert recipes as well-balanced pudding recipes. If you are someone that is discovered in the kitchen a lot, I am actually certain you are going to easily have the ability to indicate recipes for healthy and balanced desserts because of the active ingredients that are made use of. If you are still unfamiliar of which are really healthy and balanced, only intercross recommendation your outcomes. Essentially search for a known website to locate your dishes, as in this manner you will definitely ensure that they are truly well-balanced United States.

Why Individuals Love Reading Gourmet Food Blogs

Food preparation is among the absolute most usual tasks individuals perform each and every single time. Having said that, some individuals normally cook the exact same meals products. As a result of this, numerous family participants, a lot of especially little ones shed their hunger. If you want to cope with this concern, it is well for individuals to look for new recipes.

Naturally, preparing food manuals are the most ideal choice. Regrettably, there are cases when typical food items can certainly not match your family's flavor. Thus, it is better to browse the web and also search for exquisite meals blogs.

When discussing fine, many individuals think of those elegant as well as luxurious meals things helped in 5-star restaurants. But, there are additionally some fine foods items that may be served in the home. Besides that, premium meals blog posts can easily give other features. Below are actually a number of the complying with.

To know pointers in readying, preparing food as well as presenting foods

One of the most ideal features of reading meals blog sites is you can get numerous ideas in readying, cooking food, and also providing recipes. Cooking is essential because you need to make certain that the substances are clean and fresh. Through blogging sites, you can attain pointers in choosing components 07901.

Cooking tips and techniques are actually likewise discussed on weblogs which can easily help individuals help make cooking exciting, quick and easy, as well as risk-free. To cover it all off, fine meals blog sites also deliver ideas on exactly how to show recipes properly along with charm. This will definitely permit you to entice your kids in eating their dishes despite of utilization elements they perform certainly not desire like veggies United States.

To locate brand-new and also distinct dishes

Another benefit of going through food items blogs is you can find brand-new as well as one-of-a-kind dishes. Of course, many individuals wish to experiment with brand new foods. They likewise really want to use various other active ingredients that are not usually consisted of in the food items that they prepare. With the help of weblogs, it is easier to generate an excellent meal that can match your taste.

To get expert viewpoint coming from specialists

There are cases when individuals experience some troubles in cooking particular fine food items Luckily, individuals can easily get experienced opinion coming from experts. Due to this, they may boost their understanding in cooking food, which may also help improve their lifestyle.

To raise their expertise about meals.

Eventually, fine food items blogging sites can aid individuals enhance their expertise concerning food items. This is actually needed to have since there are various methods cooking and prepping food items. Other than that, these methods can also be used in the course of particular occasions in your home, which can surely delight your visitors' preferences New Jersey.

Benefits of Reading Food Blogs

There are many perks one may get coming from putting in the time to go through a wide array of food blogging sites. These very useful information can easily be actually taken advantage of through people with little bit of to no cooking food knowledge, along with through cooks who presently have a level in cookeries. All you need to have is actually a passion of food, and a desire for more information concerning the subject.

To begin with, a variety of cooking recommendations could be located simply through reviewing these weblogs. You may know the proper temp to cook your chick, the greatest length of time to spend marinading your steak, or even which treats are well offered when commemorating an enchanting night. You might even uncover ideas that aid you cook better and properly.

Second, you are bound to find out foods you have certainly never even become aware of in the past. As an example, I found Anzac cookies, which were in fact produced for soldiers during the course of World War I in Australia and New Zealand. The cookies take a long time to spoil, so they were effortless to carry to the soldiers. They likewise try great. It could be enjoyable to attempt your submit developing a dish that is new and interesting.

Third, meals blog posts offer visitors an opportunity to discover exactly how to use everyday meals in a number of methods. Eggs could be become Western omelets, quiches, covered dishes, and also custards. Pork chops may be cooked, breaded, as well as smoked. You may shake kielbasa in a noodles tossed salad, or even cook it with blueberries and also brownish sugar. There are actually a lot of various mixtures that it produces sense to explore the suggestions of others and also record down everything that sounds like it will quickly end up being a preferred in your residence.

4th, you'll really have the capacity to maintain to day on famous person chefs and also what dishes they are actually creating. People like Paula Dean, Rachael Ray, Gordon Ramsey, as well as also Martha Stewart message fabulous brand new recipes at all times. Likewise, if you have a favorite famous personality chef, you'll manage to learn about any type of approaching food items competitions they might be in, or discussion shows they may be seeing.

Meals Blogs - A Great Source for Dessert Ideas

Treat is one thing little ones anticipate consuming, offered that they have actually eaten each one of their supper first. It may be challenging to come up with various dessert suggestions each which, which is why turning to a few food blogs is thus useful. Professionals as well as newbies alike have come up with brand new treat dishes that they are actually greater than ready to share with the planet. Why shouldn't you benefit from that?

The very first thing you need to have to carry out is keep an eye on any kind of cooking recommendations that are actually provided in the blog posts. The primary main reason a pudding doesn't often appear is actually given that the instructions were actually certainly not observed. For instance, if the dish requires melting delicious chocolate as well as other ingredients in a dual boiler, at that point do not make an effort to liquefy it in the microwave. Sparing time is great, but certainly not if it triggers your dark chocolate to burn or even continue to be misshapen. In some cases developing new desserts is a labor of passion New Jersey.

Next off, you would like to miss any sort of dishes that need you to make use of home kitchen tools you don't have, unless you possess the capability to borrow the home appliance coming from a good friend. You can not create waffles along with homemade frozen yogurt or custard on best if you do not have a waffle iron. Only include the waffle iron to your Christmas list as well as carry on. There are actually 1000s of dishes accessible, therefore don't obtain put up on one you are certainly not competent of crafting.

You are likewise mosting likely to desire to comb both overall food blogs as well as specialized meals blogging sites. General blog sites have a mix of meals and puddings, and often have a bunch of standard manages that have been actually shown to stand the exam of opportunity. Certainly, specialized blogging sites are even more edgy and promotion sweet pastries and also other such goodies along with a twist that you may not have considered using. There are 365 days in a year that need to have a pudding, therefore why not make use of dishes coming from both types of internet sites.

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MRE’s enjoy unending popularity within prepper folds, although sometimes the issues – weight, waste, size, and expense – lead us to looking for alternatives. Palatability is another common kicker for many, and the lack of fiber also gets some attention. Happily, we have plenty of options for DIY alternatives.

“Ready to Eat” = Water Weight

There’s a pro-con balance to everything. MRE’s are designed to sustain highly active 18-25-year-olds, so they’re typically jam-packed with calories. They’re also designed with some points like a variety of options and pocket-snacks in mind.

They’re heavy because almost all of those options are ready to eat. Much of the weight comes from water they already contain.

Trying to dodge the weight isn’t new. Even the U.S. military continues to address it.

Homemade alternatives commonly lean heavily on reducing the water in foods, like many backpackers.

There’s nothing wrong with that, so long as water is available.

In many disasters and some bush conditions, water resupply is an enormous challenge.

The water weight adds up, especially in a pack, but rather than spend as much time sourcing and treating water as making headway, following the trend of military rations with ready-to-eat options – versus just-add-water meals that basically compete with our hydration – has a lot of value.

Supermarket Pricing, Supermarket Quality

Whether we’re more interested in replicating an MRE or an FSR for evac kits, walkout bags, or home kits, we can find options sitting in nearly any supermarket or budget shopper’s store.

While some will match the separate-entree prices available online, they’re nowhere near as expensive as fresh, full MREs with their full shelf lives, particularly if we also have to pay shipping. Buying by the box/case can make things even less painful on the pocket.

The tradeoff is the invariably shorter shelf life compared to an MRE.

Even so, it’s easy to find 1+ years left on best-by dates, and commonly 18-24 months. Those items are also easy to rotate into our daily meals or donate, and for people who don’t like MREs due to taste, consistency, nutrition, and preservatives, supermarket options can have even greater appeal.

Heat-and-Eat Pouches

Uncle Ben’s is the most prevalent in my markets, but there are some generics and other name brands out there that can be found in Mylar pouches or small tubs. They readily heat in a pan of water or dumped into a sierra cup. Or, like MREs, they can be eaten cold instead of heated.

There are a few that contain beans, but the portion is small and doesn’t appreciably affect the proteins contained in either the cup or pouch versions.

For a more complete balance, tote some of the pouched chicken, ham, or Spam, some generic Slim Jim’s or mini summer sausages, or make sure to boost the protein in other areas of the meal packs.

The Uncle Ben’s rices are also a little bland to my tastes, so pack some Old Bay or Tabasco or spare Taco Bell packets.

Much better on both those fronts are the Prego-Pace-Campbell’s Ready Meals.

The Pace pouches are right about fifty-fifty rice to “other” with a fair portion of beans and-or meat in there with veggies. They’re typically a little more saucy than the other rice pouches I’ve had, and are borderline too spicy for me (which makes them spot on for everyone else in my life).

I abhor pretty much all canned and MRE pastas and am unimpressed with even the French RCIR pastas, so use that as a baseline when I tell you: The Prego meals aren’t too bad.

There are some others out there on the internet or by market, to include some fairly nice oriental meal versions that range from having only little specks here and there in their noodles or rice, up to 50% meat and veggies.

The Homestyle Express beef teriyaki rice meals have enough sauce and goodies to spare that I do the same as the too-spicy Ready meals, and add a little extra rice to them.

Since I have dogs, even on the trail none of the extra rice is getting wasted, even though none of the supermarket pouches have zippy-close tops.

All of these supermarket pouches are gusseted on the bottoms for easy-standing and easy eating, and have readily finger-tear tabs and respond well to pocket knives as you work your way down. (Most MRE entrees still don’t.)

I tend to find all of them for just under $2 in my stores, and typically take that route, although the Prego-Campbell’s-Pace meals will jump as high as nearly $3 sometimes and I’ve found 6-pack boxes online that break out to be $1.25-$1.50 instead.

Price it out locally.

If you can get the MRE sides and entrees on sale, with decent shelf lives left on them, depending on shipping, they may work out better, especially compared to the $1.50 versions we’ll have to add a $0.75-$1.25 pouch/tub/can/roll of proteins to.

On the other hand, if you hate the chemical seasonings and textures of MREs, either the “complete” meals or augmenting with pouched meats may be a better option all the way around.

We’ve come a long way in what’s available on that front. Very little appeals to me daily, but enough others go for the flaked chicken, Spam, and pulled barbecue and all the crazy flavors we douse tuna and salmon in now that Walmart and other grocers have their own competing lines.

Most of the pouched rice and pasta meals and sides have enough room in them for the single-serve packets to be easily mixed in.

The meats are also viable for wrapping up in tortillas or topping crackers – which are also pretty compact and have nice shelf lives, and value all on their own for the ability to not eat another soft meal with a spoon.

Tub Solutions

Plenty of entrée-replacements are also available in poly trays, cups and bowls that can help expand our meal options without adding the weight of metal cans.

I don’t find a real difference in survivability in the back of a pickup with a black camper shell that lives where we hit teens and periodically single digits in winter and 110+ with 90+ humidity in summer versus the pouches.

Nor is there a big price difference in my area for the tub options that already include proteins versus the pouches. It’s a little higher to get the tray meals, but only a little and I can regularly find case sales or coupons that leave them in the $2-2.50 range instead of up into $3+.

I tend to find them a bit better in texture and taste than tinned and MRE versions. The Hormel egg versions are head and shoulders above MRE/IMP eggs, more akin to a frozen meal. If you’ve had poly-tray “t-rats” in UGRs, that’s about what you’re looking at for the rest.

They’re viable for heating in pans of water, and they tend to heat faster and more evenly that way compared to the little microwave tubs and cans.

They’re not homemade, but the options that provide larger pieces can be a welcome change to rice and meal-replacement bars, and the plate/bowl can be easier and nicer than dealing with a pouch in some circumstances.

Some like the eggs are viable for making wraps with, which appeals on a number of levels, and the actual (sorta-actual) chunks of meat make most of my family a lot happier.

None of the prepackaged solutions are going to fill my family up. Still, it’s a fairly similar serving size to MRE entrees.

And, just like MREs, augmenting with snacks allows us to boost calories, proteins, nutrients, and belly-filling satisfaction, and to spread our consumption out through the day.

Add-Ons

Our local supermarket, Dollar Tree, Aldi’s or Walmart are loaded with calorie- and protein-boosting options for our DIY-ing our own MRE’s.

While many military rations do include a power bar and protein shakes, some of them also get their calories from snack cakes (muffin tops), for-real Pop-Tarts, snack crackers like Combos and Cheez-Its, and filled pastries.

MREs, FSRs, and the CCAR that’s due for field testing in 2020 are filled out with candies, nuts, applesauce, wet-pack and dehydrated fruits, pretzels, sandwich crackers, dry cookies, jerky, trail mixes, and shakes very similar to Carnation and Slim Fast.

Those are all options we, too, can replicate, at nearly any grocer. As with the entrees, buying by box/case even if we want individual packaging can lower the price, whether we’re Dollar Tree or Whole Foods shoppers.

We can also truly DIY similar components with homemade biscotti, ration bars, granola bars, fruit-nut-seed bites, jerky, pemmican, and dehydrated fruits.

Don’t Forget the Water Aspect

While DIY-ing MREs tends to come from trying to dodge the cost, taste, or weight, remember that the “Ready to Eat” part is a biggie. Whether we’re trying to pack a bag, a tote for evacuations, or an emergency pantry, make sure to include options that don’t require water.

For some other ideas for MRE-like emergency meals, check out blogs and websites for ultralight and no-cook backpackers.

Many are water friendly, and by their nature, they’re as or even more compact and portable than U.S. MREs, and equally focused on fueling people who are burning lots of calories in austere environments. Some of them also include child-friendly, pet-friendly, and labor-saving tips that can be useful for preppers even at home.

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Discover how to make use of your fingers when cooking (immediately after washing them diligently 1st of course!). Fingers will be the most delicate nevertheless flexible cooking utensil you will own. They can be utilized for mixing, measuring and tests whether a product is cooked sufficient. A cake, for example, will reveal that it is undertaken by springing back when touched frivolously that has a finger on its top.

One of the most tricky and time-consuming point about cooking is working on every one of the prep operate. You should buy pre-prepped vegetables or prep your elements the working day ahead of to chop down for the time you might be inside kitchen. This is often especially effective if you happen to demand to have meal out inside a hurry.

When sauteing elements inside a fry pan make sure that you don't overcrowd the pan with as well much food stuff. Hoping to cook dinner far too substantially at the same time will only lower the temperature in the pan and produce steaming in contrast to browning. It happens to be wiser to saute the components in two individual batches, if essential, and this will manage the standard of cooking.

When deep frying foods, keep the food stuff under the oil with the tongs for your couple seconds. Keeping the food stuff under the oil for approximately 5 seconds will construct a helpful seal around the food items. This seal will give good results to avoid it from sticking to the bottom of the pan.

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Put salt on the chopping board. It could be tricky to cut herbs on the cutting board. They have an inclination to go in all places. To keep this from happening, just sprinkle somewhat salt with your cutting board before you start out. This will likely function to keep them from slipping close to.

To prepare for the meal that you are gonna cook dinner, make a detailed record of everything that you're going to have to have to cook your meal while you go to the supermarket. This can help you stay as organized as you can so there isn't any portion of your respective meal that you pass over.

Soon after getting rid of corn from the cob, scrap the cob together with the back of your respective knife. Engaging in this may extract the "milk" from it. Drizzle the "milk" about the corn to add increased flavor.

Since you're going to generally be using a great deal of sharp knives with the kitchen area to cook your meals, you are going to prefer to manage precautions in any respect periods. Rather than only placing your knife during the drawer, be sure that which you place a wine cork to the tip to safeguard from cuts and scrapes upon use.

Damp paper towel including a plastic bag can prolong the lifespan of your greens. For those who wrap your contemporary herbs or fresh new greens that has a damp paper towel and afterwards position them inside of a plastic bag, they may previous longer. They're going to regularly keep recent three to four days more when you do.

A very good tip to complete when it comes cooking and preparing foodstuff could be to prepare most of the critical elements that you simply will need at nighttime, that way when early morning comes you are not stressing about them. This may help you concentrate for the endeavor at hand that's getting ready food items inside best way feasible.

An effective element to recollect pertaining to cooking is always to keep your components and spices inside of a amazing darkish spot rather than on top of your stove. It is because humidity and light tend to result in spices and herbs reduce their flavor. This is one thing new cooks have a tendency to forget.

When cooking or planning for somebody very important such as your boss or possibly a new date it happens to be most effective to cook dinner meal that you will be great at. Do not ever consider to cook dinner a fresh recipe or use a new component you have not experimented with earlier than. This can make cooking fewer stress filled.

Make use of a collapsible steamer basket to make one of the best steamed greens. These gadgets can be found commonly and cheaply. They're able to slip into pretty much any pot you already have and might be employed for basically any vegetable you would like to appreciate. Ensure to observe your cook dinner the perfect time to steer clear of obtaining mushy veggies.

If you end up seasoning a salad, include a small dose of olive oil furthermore to normal sea salt. This could assistance to offer your salad a crunchy enchantment even once you increase the dressing. Maintaining your salad as crunchy as possible will design a feeling of freshness on usage.

Growing the dough involves patience and an optimal setting. Don't just depart the bowl along with the dough just where you'll find it not inside of your way. Design a wonderful ailments to obtain the greatest benefits. Find a area with steady, hotter temperature without any draft. Regularly adjusting temperature and draft helps make the dough increase slowly and gradually and unevenly.

When cooking your next huge pot of spaghetti, add a fall of oil for the boiling water. This tends to continue to keep the pasta from sticking alongside one another and improve the flavor. Your boiling time will continue to be the very same and there is no extra get the job done extra by making use of this process.

When you are boiling pasta, be sure that that you choose to really don't put much too a great deal inside pot. This could not cook your foods during and will style very uncooked and thick. Strive to restrict the amount of pasta that you put inside pot to optimize style and top quality.

In case you arrange on seasoning the foods you're going to make, attempt to incorporate seasoning in levels. This could bring out essentially the most style, and show you how to to layer your spices for the food items of your respective pick. Inject seasoning into your foodstuff to maximize its appeal and style.

To go ahead and take metallic flavor from canned pumpkin pie filling, heat the filling with your whole spices first of all. Just mixing your filling aided by the other ingredients after which baking traps the metallic flavor in the finished pie. But by heating your pumpkin filling alone with the spices first of all, you launch the metallic flavor of your filling and at the same time imbue it with the richer flavor of spices like nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger.

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Dear Mark: 21-Day Challenge Rapid Fire Edition

For one of the 21-Day Challenge contests last week, you guys asked dozens of questions. Today, I’m answering a bunch of them in rapid fire style including how to get kids to eat more meat and veggies, how to get adults to eat greens, whether keto can coexist with high-carb, if it’s better to eat seasonally and many, many more. Don’t expect long, drawn-out answers. I’m answering quickly and succinctly. If you have any further questions after hearing the answers, toss ’em in the comment section. There will always be more Dear Marks down the line.

Let’s get to it:

I struggle to get my kids (4yo twins) to eat meat or vegetables. The only meet I can guarantee my son will eat is bacon and pepperoni. My daughter will eat a piece of chicken occasionally. They eat fruit out the wazoo, and breakfast is always grain heavy (after 4 years primal I’m still alone in my quest for optimum health), but I can sneak in a berry “pancake” (100% egg) once or twice a week. I worry that they aren’t getting enough protein though.

My question is whether I should stress about it. I fell like the battle is not worth the reward at this time; eventually they might just follow my lead, but until then, should I be more diligent in getting them aligned primally?

Matt

Nope, it’s not worth it. In my experience, the battles will only make them battle-hardened veterans committed to rejecting the food you foist upon them.

Smoothies are your friend. Handful of greens, a raw yolk or two, some kefir or yogurt, a little fresh juice, some frozen berries, maybe even a frozen green banana (for resistant starch)? That’s a nutritious breakfast that most kids would love.

If you’re doing oatmeal in the mornings, whisk a few eggs and stir them in toward the end.

I see nothing wrong with eating good quality bacon every morning. If you buy from a local producer at a farmer’s market whose bacon is less homogenous, you can generally find cuts with more lean muscle and less fat (or vice versa) to increase the protein.

I wouldn’t eat pepperoni every day, but good stuff a couple times a week? Sure. Maybe use the bacon or pepperoni to make other dishes more appetizing. Chop it up and stick it in an egg scramble.

Whatever you do, don’t give in. If they don’t want to eat the steak, green beans, and whipped butternut squash you made for dinner, they don’t eat. They don’t get a bowl of grapes “just to get some calories.” Don’t drop everything to whip up a separate batch of bacon. Kids won’t starve themselves.

Mark,

I have been primal a while now but I was having problems shedding subcutaneous (hope I spelled that right) body fat. Recently I have switched to a very ketogenic approach restricting my daily carb intake to 30 grams or less (mostly less) a day. Question: Since I am doing this, what is your feeling on carb backloading or reloading-would it help at all. Thanks for your time buddy!

High carb intakes can work alongside ketogenic dieting, provided you time it correctly.

Here’s how I’d try it:

Low-carb/keto on rest days. Focus on protein and fat when you’re not working out.

Higher carb, with your carbs coming post-workout, on training days.

Many programs follow this basic structure. Leangains, carb backloading, cyclical keto all involve eating very low carb for most of the time and eating high carb adjacent to training sessions when insulin sensitivity is high and muscle glycogen stores are starving. This allows you to restore muscle glycogen (and not insignificantly enjoy carb-rich food from a hedonistic standpoint) without impacting ketosis much.

Whatever option you choose, you’ll need to deplete glycogen if you want to include carbs in a ketogenic diet. As long as you have a glycogen debt, any carbs you eat will go toward restoring those glycogen stores and won’t interfere with ketone production. Since you’re talking carb backloading, I’m guessing you train regularly (carb backloading is big in the strength training community). This is good. Hard training is necessary for keto and carbs to co-exist.

How often do you switch things up vs maintaining a routine? Even within this 21-day challenge, I find myself making sure I keep to a fairly regular schedule to make sure I eat healthy and get a good amount of sleep.

But I’m worried about monotony setting in where I’m less “responsive” when there are disruptions to the schedule – late night event I want to attend, etc.

The people who go out every night and wake up at noon may seem like they’re better off, like they’re handling the sleep insults better than you, but they’re really just forcing their circadian rhythms to hew to an unnatural cycle. It’ll catch up to them, even if they’re inured to the negative effects right now.

Folks who sleep better more regularly will actually bounce back from sleep insults. Every day you get to bed at a good time and wake up refreshed, you’re paying off your sleep debt. Those nights out with your pals, the dinners that stretch past 1 AM, the comedy shows, the live music, the Netflix binges are less harmful, provided they remain special occasions, against a backdrop of solid, regular sleep.

Mark,

I’ve found that going low-carb tends to spike my LDL-C from around a norm of 70 up to 120 (with a corresponding LDL-P of 1,300). The LDL-P number is concerning, but I am loathe to give up low-carb Primal. Should I be concerned?

Thanks,

Aaron

I always urge people to experiment with different macronutrient ratios if they feel something’s amiss.

So hey, use this 21-Day Challenge to try a moderate carb Primal approach. More roots, tubers, fruit. Less fat. Keep protein as constant as you can (although that’s hard, as fat generally comes attached to protein).

Whatever you do, it’s crucial to see how subjective perceptions align with objective measurements. Your LDL may “improve,” but your energy levels decrease, you start gaining body fat, and you perform poorly in the gym. Or the opposite may happen.

How do you feel right now? Are you loathe to give up low-carb Primal because it makes you feel great or because you’re wedded to it ideologically? The distinction matters.

Note that I’m not leading you either way. I myself prefer and perform best on low-carb Primal, and for most people that seems to hold true, but it’s not for everyone. Find out for yourself and be honest about what you discover.

Is it better to eat locally/seasonally or focus on getting a variety of foods? For instance, is it preferred to eat roots and tubers for the winter in the northeast rather and save leafy greens and other veggies for the spring when they are in season? Any thoughts on this would be terrific!

There are good arguments for both.

Local/seasonal eating has the potential to be:

More nutritious. When food is local, you get it shortly after harvest. When food is trucked in from the other side of the country, you’re getting it well after harvest.

Easier. Fewer options mean you make fewer decisions about what to eat.

Cheaper: Not always, though.

Focusing on variety gives you:

Wider range of nutrients. You get to pick and choose what to eat, taking the best from every region.

More choices. Some people love and thrive with choices.

You probably know my answer: take the best of both. Buy local produce whenever possible, eat frozen blueberries shipped in from Canada because they’re so good and good for you. Don’t follow the rules (they don’t actually exist), blend and break them.

So long as the overall volume and intensity level of physical effort wouldn’t put one into chronic cardio/ black hole zone, and appropriate rest is accounted for, should daily “play” be acocunted for in any specific way during the challenge?

Personally, I’m asking if it’s ok to continue with the wrestling practice schedule I had before the challenge started, in which I had been tapering effort and participation to recovery based on both intuition and HRV scores?

Keep wrestling. Physical play trumps formal workouts, at least for me. Having fun while getting a great workout is basically hitting the fitness (and life) jackpot.

And since you’re tracking your recovery using proven biomarkers and intuition? You’re way ahead of the game. Absolutely keep wrestling.

Can you please share some tips on sneaking greens into my diet? I’m willing to eat them for health’s sake, but so many greens taste very bitter to me.

There are tons of ways. A few of my favorites:

Smoothies: See the smoothie recipe I mentioned up above.

Meatballs: Mix steamed, chopped, or pureéd greens into balls of animal flesh with spices. Cook, eat, ingest green stuff without really realizing or tasting it.

Bone broth: Toward the end of making broth, throw in some greens. Even if you toss the greens, many of the nutrients will have leached into the broth.

Salad: Find a dressing you absolutely love, so much that you’d eat cardboard shavings if they were smothered in it. This one’s pretty decent. If you’re doing a hardy green like kale, give it a good dressing massage a half hour before you plan to eat. This gives the greens more time to soften and become more palatable.

Hi Mark,

I have a 8 month old, a new job, am in graduate school, and am trying to complete the 21 day challenge. As a personal addition to the challenge, I am trying to incorporate a 24-hour fast one or two days a week (dinner to dinner). I’ve had success fasting before, but stress is at an all time high these days. I’m wondering if I’m doing more harm than good by stressing my body a bit further by not feeding it, or if, by relying on my energy stores between my waist and my belly button (aka my love handles), I am actually taking some of the stress off my body. In short, does fasting help or hurt when dealing with periods of very high stress?

Thanks,

Sam

I lean toward not fasting in this situation.

However, some people deal with stress naturally by not eating. Others crave food. If you’re the type who inadvertently stops eating when you’re stressed out, fasting may work well for you. If you’re the opposite type, or you don’t really know, I’d suggest not fasting and focusing on other aspects of the challenge.

What are some easy ways to get calcium without dairy? Dairy triggers serious skin issues such as acne for me. I try to eat lots of almonds, greens, and broccoli, but I find myself full before hitting the recommended amounts of calcium. On normal days, I hit about 70% of the DV. Second question: is it possible my body is telling me that I have enough?

Canned, bone-in sardines are fantastic for calcium (and omega-3s, and protein, and ocean minerals, and lots more). I like Wild Planet best.

– If I go to bed early enough for 8 hours, I ALWAYS wake up around 3 or 4 hours later. I generally use the bathroom at this time and in a weird way, I look forward to this as a sign that I did go to bed early enough. But still, waking up early when I try to sleep is odd, right?

– I wake up after 7 hours of sleep anyways. And this time when I wake up, it’s difficult to fall back asleep because my body just feels awake at this time.

So, given my case, would 8 hours be the number to shoot for or should I just go for 7 since it seems I get 7 hours regardless?

1. This can be perfectly normal. There’s some evidence that natural human sleep is biphasic, two 3-4 hours blocks separated by an hour or so of quiet contemplation, quiet (or not) sex, reading, meditation, or whatever else people did before smartphones. So no, you’re not odd.

2. If you feel awake, you’re awake. You’re probably one of the lucky ones that only needs a good 7 hours to feel rested and complete. Embrace it.

Thanks for reading, everyone. Any followup comments or questions go right down below. Grok on!

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