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goji berry plantsPreparing a Healthy Eating Menu
It's one of those things we keep meaning to do but putting off. Preparing a healthy menu is one of those tasks we really should do but somehow it seems to elude us. Yet it can be fun to sit down for a few quiet minutes and decide what we're going to eat later today.
Menu planning in modern day life often doesn't get much beyond the perennial question of "What am I going to eat tonight?".
When "tonight" arrives, we're still no closer to the answer. The unhealthy option of fast food beckons as we dream about pizza or a burger or fried chicken (now helpfully renamed to it's initials to help us tune out the fried part from our minds).
It doesn't have to be like this.
Keep a few healthy staples in your fridge and store cupboard and you can rustle up a healthy meal in minutes. Often quicker than the so called fast food it's replacing.
Before you go shopping, eat.
It's been proven that we impulse buy less on a full stomach, so if you're moving towards a healthier diet make sure that you eat before you go to the supermarket.
Make a shopping list. It won't take long.
In fact, if you keep a running list attached to your fridge with a magnet and jot down food when you run out (or low) then you'll probably have your list ready made.
If you're not that organized, that's fine too. A few minutes thought will produce your list. It's not as though shops close for long (if at all) nowadays, so anything you miss is no great hardship.
When you reach the supermarket, stick to your list. You may think you look daft crossing items off your list as you go round the aisles but many other shoppers will be secretly jealous of how organized you are.
Don't buy anything that isn't on your list (unless it's something you've obviously forgotten). Be especially wary at the end of each aisle, where supermarkets traditionally tempt us to open our wallets.
Take a detour round the candy and snack aisles. It's easier not to buy these items if you don't walk past them. If you feel your trolley dragging you down them, do a u-turn!
Keep a list around your home of quick, healthy recipes that you enjoy eating. Delve through these before you are tempted to reach out for fast food.
Soon, you'll be eating healthier and likely cheaper than before. Well done!
Find a bunch of healthy eating recipes that work well for children and adults & are easy and quick to prepare as well as delicious to eat at healthy eating for kids
Easter - A Time for Family, Love and The Traditional "Easter Lamb Cake"
Easter holds such beautiful memories from my childhood. Every year we would drive "over the river and through the woods" to my grandmother's house. There was a feeling of excitement in the anticipation of the traditional Easter Egg Hunt. With eleven grandchildren that was a lot of Easter eggs! As much as grandmom was an expert in the kitchen, Grandpop von Hohen was a expert Easter egg hider! He got such a kick out of it! There was always "one more egg" which no one could find. It would usually turn up in a basket grandpop had tied to the ropes of the flagpole and hoisted to the top of the pole! We'd all laugh when the older cousins would finally discover its location and try to get it down.
This special holiday comes at a most wonderful time of year - spring time! Adding to the fun and festive atmosphere of the day was the beauty of my grandmother's gardens. There were bulbs galore! All different varieties and colors of daffodils, tulips and narcissus. There was also a lovely backdrop of the forsythia hedge. Oh, and who could forget those fuzzy pussy willows! We'd be running around the yard in our Easter bonnets and it felt more like we were in the middle of a fairytale. The beauty around us seemed almost magical.
The beauty of the outside graced the inside of grandmom and grandpop's cozy home with colorful floral arrangements scattered throughout the dining and living rooms. But what always graced the center of the Easter Sunday Dinner table? It was the traditional Easter Lamb Cake. This was a pound cake baked in a lamb shaped mold and covered with white frosting and coconut with jelly beans for the eyes, nose and mouth. The silver tray it rested on was beautifully decorated with paper doilies, green Easter grass and sprinkled with colorful hard boiled eggs and all types of Easter candy - jelly beans, chocolate butter creams and coconut nests are the ones I remember most.
I hope you are making beautiful memories for your children and grandchildren. If not, why not start now? They will be so impressed with YOUR Easter Lamb Cake as a centerpiece to your holiday table. Below is the recipe for the Easter Lamb Cake. Enjoy!
Best Pound Cake
Take 2/3 cup sweet butter and 1� cups sugar and mix together until creamy. Add � teaspoon lemon rind, 1 teaspoon vanilla, pinch of mace or nutmeg and 1 jigger (equals 1 shot) of rum. Sift 2 cups flour, � teaspoon salt and � teaspoon baking powder. Blend with butter and sugar mixture with 2/3 cup milk. When blended add 3 eggs, one at a time, beating each one in well. If preferred add � cup nuts or currants. Pour into a buttered and floured lamb shaped mold and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Fluffy White Frosting
- 1 cup sugar
- � teaspoon cream of tartar
- 2 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine sugar, cream of tartar, 1/3 cup water and a dash salt in a saucepan. Cook and stir until bubbly and sugar dissolves. In a large bowl combine egg whites and vanilla. Add sugar syrup very slowly to unbeaten egg whites while beating constantly at high speed about 7 minutes or until stiff peaks form. When cool, frost the cake and sprinkle with coconut. Make eyes, nose and mouth with appropriate colored jelly beans.
Carrie J. Gamble is co-author, editor and publisher of Grandmother's Cookbook, a collection of recipes, treasured memories, wildflower watercolors and feelings from the heart. Details about the cookbook and more delicious recipes of Carrie's grandmother, Elizabeth Rose von Hohen, can be found on their website. You'll experience "living life the old fashioned way" with Grandmother's Cookbook. Visit the website and download FREE recipes and "A Family Love Letter" chapter at http://www.grandmotherscookbook.com Enjoy!
Goji Berries - What Are They
The Goji Berry is sometimes referred to as the Wolfberry or it's Latin name - Lycium Barbarum. They are an exotic berry superfood that contain huge amounts of nutrients and antioxidants. Goji Berries originated mainly from Tibet, China and other Himalayan regions.
Goji Berries have been used for their healing and medical properties for centuries in many parts of the Far East. They have been very popular in Asia but it�s only recently that they have started to become more widely known and consumed in Europe and North America.
Goji Berries contain more vitamin C than other fruits like Acerola cherries and oranges. They also contain more antioxidants than any other known food even including Acai berries that are one of the most popular superfoods after Goji Berries. Grown in the pristine unpolluted valleys of the Himalayan Mountains, the Goji Berry is one of the most nutrient rich foods ever to be found.
Also in recent years (particularly in the US and Canada) there has been a huge rise in the popularity of Goji Juice and various other Goji drinks.
Goji Juice has also been used to good effect in some medical experiments but not much has been documented properly as of yet. However, the Chinese Journal of Oncology in 1994 published a study that found that 79 out of 100 people responded better to cancer treatment whilst taking Goji.
It�s important that you get your Goji Juice and Goji Berries from the Himalayan regions as the berries have a spectral signature depending upon where they are grown. This makes sure the berries contain the four unique polysaccharides that are thought to be the key to the amazing health benefits that the Goji Berry provides.
People from all walks of life are now deciding to include Goji Berries and Goji Juice in their daily food regime because of their nutritional qualities.
This article was written by Arthur Martin who has been an expert on health foods in general, and has owned a health food shop for several years. He has now become one of the leading distributors of Goji Berries in the UK.
For some of the best information about Goji Berries and some interesting research videos into health benefits of goji berries you can visit his website.
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