Your Best Healthy Meals

[prendrefeu]

Just finished a late lunch with a little experiment. I think it was good, but would like suggestions on things to try out and make it fabulous:

1 can of tuna (red/dark meat, in spring water or oil, your pick).**
1 bed of fresh baby spinach on your plate. Your pick on how much you want.
-add salt/peper to your choosing.
-laced around the tuna with a balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing.


**I used a Persian Tuna can that I got from a Persian market, but still need to figure out how it's different from regular tuna.

(also had some fruit, cottage cheese to finish up the lunch and clean the pallet. But whatevs.)

[Mikedirectory2]

Originally Posted by MErider

Quinoa is a superfood and I'd highly recommend you try it. It's cheap and so easy to make (you just boil it for 8 minutes). It's called a grain but it isn't. It's a seed from a green plant. It has a mildly nutty flavor and it's very high in protein (for a plant food) and the protein is high quality and has many of the needed amino acids we get from meat. The carbs are very low on the gylcemic scale and unlike bread or pasta, quinoa will not leave you craving sugar or carbs within a couple of hours.

I love it and I love Teff (another "better choice" carb). Both are exotic but well worth trying and using. Just my two cents...

I tried it once before and I wasnt a fan of the taste. Do you have any suggestions for flavoring?

[VegaVixen]

Bump, just because I like new recipe ideas!

[danahs]

i like to goto the salad bar at whole foods for lunch... probably not the cheapest way to eat ($15 salad lol) but certainly the best alternative to fast food/any other restaurant

[Mikedirectory2]

Does anyone know how to spice couscous? I buy whole grain now instead of the packaged stuff from Near East, but I can't figure out what spices they use in theirs and mine keeps coming out nasty.

[VegaVixen]

I put fresh mint and fresh parsley in mine, along with fresh lemon juice and finely-diced Roma tomatoes. A bit of garlic powder adds additional flavor. Yes, this is something like taboulleh, but that's how I add flavor to mine.

[worshiper]

In my healthy meal I always prefer green vegetables.Vegetables are valuable for maintaining alkaline reserve in the body. They are valued mainly for their high vitamin and mineral. Vitamins, Band C contained in vegetables in quantities equal. Faulty cooking and prolonged careless storage, however, destroy these valuable elements.

[VegaVixen]

Originally Posted by worshiper

In my healthy meal I always prefer green vegetables.Vegetables are valuable for maintaining alkaline reserve in the body. They are valued mainly for their high vitamin and mineral. Vitamins, Band C contained in vegetables in quantities equal. Faulty cooking and prolonged careless storage, however, destroy these valuable elements.

You should start a new thread in this subforum, and elaborate on this very important topic, given your concerns. Also, what are your thoughts on nutrients in vegetables when cooked (non-"faulty," natch) vs a those in vegetables consumed as part of a "raw" diet?

While you're at it, care to post up a recipe or two in this thread as examples of your "healthy meal"? You can include your special cooking tips, so that nutrients aren't destroyed.

Or are you just posting up to shill a website in your sig?

[smoke]

reds, vitamin C, and cocaine

[VMac]

Originally Posted by robertkat

Loves me the quinoa.My fav is to cook the stuff in veggie stock with a good dose of Sriracha for a kick.

Just started a quinoa kick in an effort to replace my pasta habit with a healthier grain. Love it... usually add veggies and, of course, Sriracha. Everything is better with cock.