Quick Easy Healthy Recipes: Healthy Grain Free and Smoothie Recipes

By Louise Barnes

Quick Easy Healthy Recipes Healthy Grain Free and Smoothie Recipes This Quick Easy Healthy Recipes book has delicious and easy recipes and cooking ideas for dinner and more. Who says that eating healthy requires a lot of time and preparation? This book proves otherwise, as there are two diet plans featured, both to offer healthy solutions with a healthy recipes approach for busy lifestyles. The Grain Free Diet and the Smoothie Diet both prove that cooking healthy recipes are easy. The Grain Free Diet offers delicious chicken recipes for dinner, while the Smoothie Diet offers a means to make breakfast recipes easy. The Grain Free Diet plan offers a healthy recipe for each meal of the day and enough choices to be able to plan meals for a couple of weeks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781631879531

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Quick Easy Healthy Recipes

Healthy Grain Free and Smoothie Recipes

Louise Barnes

Copyright © 2013 Louise Barnes

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Quick Easy Healthy Recipes Introduction

Today's lifestyles are busy and hectic. We are so rushed we enjoy the fast convenience foods, but they take a toll on our life if we enjoy them too much. Often people will admit to wanting to eat healthier if they had the time, but since they do not they opt for the fast food. The good news is just because you have a busy lifestyle does not mean you cannot also eat right. The first step is to decide you will do it, and just do it. The second step is to plan ahead, if you are truly busy take some time to plan a grocery list and the meals, so you can work on preparing them faster if you have everything you need.

If you want to cook and eat meals that take preparation time, plan and cook them in advance. Take a weekend afternoon and cook up the meals that you will be too busy to prepare during the week. Freeze them or refrigerate them for a few days. If you have a meal that takes some preparation time like soup or chili or stew, make extra portions of it and serve it for a couple of meals. Leftover soup is very delicious.

Remember snack time when planning meals. This is the time when, if you do not have something quick to grab, you may fall off the dieting wagon and fail at the diet. When you are planning the meals for the week, include the snacks. Since you have decided to eat healthier, you cannot grab junk food snacks, instead you will have to either prepare snacks from some of the recipes here or purchase nice fruits and nuts. Prepare these too when working to prepare the meals ahead of time. Put them in snack bags so you can grab and run while still eating, snacking healthy.

Lunches are also a time when busy people tend to go through the fast food lines rather than take the time to eat a healthy prepared at home meal. Before you do that, find out if your favorite restaurants have options to help keep you on the Grain Free or Smoothie Diets. Many are getting better with adding nutritious options, but still you may find you are still getting more calories, fat and even grains when you do this. Again, prepare ahead of time, including your lunches. If you are on the smoothie diet, you can simply make your smoothies in the morning and carry them with you for your lunch.

Since we are discussing what it takes to make these diets work with a busy life you will need a few things to carry with you if you work away from home. You will need a cooler, so you can carry all the vital foods to keep on the diets, especially the Smoothie Diet. You will need storage containers, so when you do have the time to cook you can store and freeze them in the appropriate containers. You will find that by preparing before you start the diet you can shave off valuable time and eat right without spending a lot of money. Look at the cooler and storage containers as an investment. Keep a total of the amount you are spending on food and the equipment to prepare and store it next to a total you would have spent eating out at fast food restaurants. You will see a savings very soon.

Here is something else to keep in mind about eating healthy meals with a busy lifestyle; nutrition is the first step to staying healthy. If you stop and think about how junk food affects the body, you will realize that a lot of illnesses and infections stem from the bad diet. If you eat junk food, your immune system gets weak and you get sick easier. You get sick and have to stay home from work, you lose work you lose income and productivity.

The immune system is directly related to the digestive system. The foods we eat are what fuel the body. If we do not give the body the right type of fuel, it will not run right. Think about a car and filling it up with bad gas. The car will sputter, jerk, and not run right. The same is with our body. The immune system is the engine that runs our systems, and if it is not working right, then we are sick. If we take the time to fuel our vehicles with good gas, the vehicle will run well for us. The same for our body if we take the time to fill it with good nutritious foods our body will be healthy we will have energy.

Strengthening the immune system is done through the foods we eat. If we consume the proper nutrition then our immune system is stronger. This alone saves us time from having to deal with an infection or an illness or worse, some detrimental health condition. You can clearly see the long reaching affects that our diet does to our body.

With all of this in mind, you can see the value in taking the time to prepare nutritious healthy meals, even if we are living a busy lifestyle. There is no reason to rely on fast convenient foods for your meals. Each diet has recipes that are easy to prepare and some are even fast to eat. The Grain Free Diet is a hard diet to maintain outside of preparing your own meals. You will do well to grocery shop and plan ahead. Use the recipes within this book to plan a couple weeks in advanced. You can double the recipes to make more to eat a couple of times a week. Grab a container and carry some for lunch.

The smoothie diet is easy to maintain with a busy lifestyle. Many of the recipes will allow you to make ahead and just store in ready to drink containers. Some smoothies are even able to be froze, so you can make when you have a few minutes and freeze for later use.

Section 1: Grain Free Diet

What are the benefits of eating a grain free diet? Normally people who go on a grain free diet are ones who suffer from grain allergies and intolerances. Unfortunately, many do suffer from such issues. Really, the issues are with the protein of the grain, the gluten. Grains are found in breads, pastas, and flours and come from corn, barley, wheat, oats and bajra. Another grain is rice, but rice does not contain gluten. Rice is not a protein it is a starch. Rice is included in this grain free diet book since it is not gluten. The replacement for grains comes from foods like peas and legumes (beans), soy, and nuts. But when people refer to a grain free diet they literally mean a wheat free diet, or a diet that is gluten free. Some of the recipes within this book do contain corn and oats, but none

[Farcasescu Roxana · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Good recipes, but no pictures included in the book. I wish those could have been there.