Quick Healthy Cooking Recipes: Dieting and Grain Free Recipes

By Anne Cox

Quick Healthy Cooking Recipes: Dieting and Grain Free Recipes Everyone can benefit from quick, healthy cooking recipes that won't break the bank. Whether you're hoping to achieve quick weight loss or just want a few quick dinner recipes to help you get food on the table after work, this cookbook can help you do it. You'll be able to choose from foods intended for a variety of different diets and personal requirements, so it's easy to suit any diner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781632872265

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Quick Healthy Cooking Recipes

Dieting and Grain Free Recipes

Anne Cox and Katherine Reed

Copyright © 2013 Anne Cox and Katherine Reed

All rights reserved.

Introduction

We all hear about how it's important to eat healthily, but surprisingly few sources address how difficult this can be. While your doctor might tell you to add in more fruits and vegetables, most won't tell you how to accomplish that. You can end up feeling like you just don't have time to improve your health, or as though healthy eating will cost more than you can afford. Many people end up frustrated with the complex techniques and labor-intensive cooking skill required to make food from whole ingredients. Others find that they have trouble seeking out healthy meals in a sea of fast food and instant products.

Without the right guidance and the appropriate recipes, it can be hard to figure out how to include healthy foods in your day to day diet. You might even wonder if trying to do so is worth all the time and effort it seems to require. Eating healthy can be very beneficial, however. It has been shown to prevent or reduce the risk of many diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers.

Plus, changing your diet could help you feel happier and better, especially if you have conditions like IBS or celiac disease. The average American diet contains all kinds of harmful substances that can wreak havoc on your system. By avoiding these substances, you can Conditions that have made your daily life hard could become considerably easier to deal with as you find the kind of healthy food that your individual system has been craving.

Even with all these benefits, you might find that eating healthy food can be surprisingly difficult. Many people feel that it requires you to make big changes in your day to day life, especially if you normally rely on convenience meals. If you aren't already an accomplished cook, the foods available to you may seem limited. In fact, the high percentage of nutritionally-poor, processed products on the market can even make a healthy diet feel impossible!

If you're faced with a supermarket full of foods that hurt instead of healing, healthy recipes are your best friend. They allow you to start with simple, fresh ingredients while still producing meals that taste great. These recipes have been designed to support good health without requiring a degree in food science or the background of an expert chef. You just need to be willing to experiment. This ebook has been designed to guide you through the process of becoming a healthier eater.

This book is divided into two distinct sections, one focusing on weight loss and the other on grain-free cooking. Both can contribute to your improved health by helping to decrease your susceptibility to diseases. They also encourage you to remove unhealthy foods from your diet.

The first part of this volume covers a range of different approaches to better living. That makes it easy to tailor your healthy recipe choices to your own diet and preferences. If you're reducing the fat in your diet to support your cardiovascular system, help minimize the symptoms of gallbladder problems, or simply to lose weight, you'll find a range of fresh, protein and flavor-rich main dishes that will keep you excited about meals. Fresh fish, chicken, lean beef and turkey make these hearty but healthy meals instant favorites.

You can also select great low-carbohydrate recipes. These are excellent for anyone who's using a low-carb diet such as the Atkins plan, but they also work for people who suffer from diabetes or a pre-diabetic condition, as well as any cook who wants to reduce his or her reliance on white flour and sugar. If you're hoping to lose fat without harming your core, try muscle-building recipes that will help you boost your metabolism while staying fit and healthy. You'll get the protein you need to keep your energy levels up and build strong, lean muscle.

Fish has long been recommended as a healthy food, rich in the omega 3 fatty acids that are so rare in most of the American diet. Adding a little fish to your diet can help you cut out less healthy red meats while still keeping your meals high in protein. This book offers an assortment of fish recipes to tempt your taste buds, along with simple raw recipes to help you experience the goodness of ingredients in their natural state. While an all-raw diet can be difficult, most people benefit when they take a break from their usual cooked foods and substitute fresh, uncooked alternatives.

The second part of this volume focuses on healthy recipes that eliminate grains. While a diet that contains grain foods might not be inherently unhealthy, refined grains contribute to the unhealthiness of many people's diets. These foods have changed significantly from the grains consumed by our ancestors, and for some people they can contribute to poor health and increased weight gain. Your individual circumstances will determine whether you need to stop eating grains entirely, avoid just a few like wheat, or choose grain-free meals occasionally to help diversify your diet.

You'll find healthy, delicious recipes designed to support a variety of special diets, though all of them are appropriate for people with restrictions, too. Categorized by their gluten and carbohydrate contents and paleo-friendliness, these recipes rely on wholesome natural ingredients that your body can utilize most efficiently. Most are simple to prepare and require only tools that most people already have around the kitchen. Try substituting a few of these grain-free recipes for meals that normally contain bread or pasta. You might be surprised by how different you feel after just a few days.

If you've been hoping to improve your diet but simply haven't been able to get started, it might be time for a change. These easy to understand healthy recipes could be the key to helping you improve your eating habits and feel stronger and happier. With these simple recipes, you'll soon be incorporating lots of healthy new foods and enjoying exciting new options for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Remember, you have the power to improve your body through delicious, healthy food!

Section 1: Dieting Cookbook

Is losing weight easy? Well, the answer to that question depends a lot on how you define the word ''easy.''

Many do want to take the easy way out and this is rarely a good idea.

If you are looking for a diet that can help you shed 15lbs in a month, there are no easy answers. Then again, that statement can be amended slightly. You can lose quite a lot of weight in a month if you take advantage of fad diets that entail starving yourself via calorie restriction. No one will deny those diets will help you lose weight. Granted, the weight you lose will be mostly water and muscle. Anyone looking to target fat will find these diets do not deliver on expectations.

There also is that nasty little thing about crash diets leading to binge eating. Of course, once you go on an over the top binge, you will find yourself gaining all that weight you tried to lose in the first place, plus more on top of it.

No, none of these dietary strategies is a good one and they do not contribute one iota to losing weight for the long term and