Healthy Recipes?

[Dev]

Evening all!

I'm weeding through Google trying to find sites devoted to healthy recipes, and a lot of them are lost within sites that have a bunch of decidedly unhealthy things in them.  Does anyone here have a favorite source for good, healthy food?  Or even an individual recipe you'd like to share?

[Rachael]

The only suggestion I have is, around here at least one grocery store chain has dietitians and puts out recipies for healthy cooking. 

A rule of thum you can go by, (smart answer) 

if you take a bite and think you can swallow it then it's not healthy,

if you take a bite and can barely choke it down then it's healthy. 

There is a book they gave me at cardiac rehab that gave calorie, sodium, cholesterol, and other things at major restarunts if you eat out. I don't remember the name. 

There are a couple of company's that sell meals heat and eat that are healthy.

eat fit go is one, fresh fit meals is another. I have the newspaper article if you are interested . I hope this helps eating right is something a lot of us have to watch. In my case I may not eat enough and can tell at times. It's a fine line. Good luck finding the spot that helps you. 

[Dev]

If you could share that article, Rachael, I'd appreciate it.  I'm taking everything I can get right now.  

[Charlize]

We became vegetarian years ago and cut way down on the intake of fats due in part to my heart disease.  We eat a great many Indian dishes as well as stir fries.  The Seven Day Adventists have wonderful recipes you might want to look at.  Eating healthy takes more time but i find that rewarding at this point and my body and mind seem to enjoy the change as well.  I could offer more but my wife is the chef.  She looks at the internet and what the fridge holds and plans our menu.  I chop, prep and set things up so she can work from a stool.  Having MS she is in a wheelchair much of the day but still  gets on a stool for cooking.  Protein isn't as hard as one might think.  Beans, tofu, TVP, and mushrooms seem to give me all i need for the farm work.  Perhaps i need less as my wight is back to where it was in college so i'm carrying less of a load around day and night.

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[Rachael]

If you are good with computers  the article is in the August 15 2017  Des Moines register.com 

i picked up a couple meals from( www.eatfitgo.com) local store and they were pretty good I have a menu  somewhere. It gives all the important information.  

I will try to send you a private message. 

[Rachael]

The article is in the August 15,2017 Des Moines register.com section E starts on page 1 and ends on page 4 

hopefully someone will be good at computers

sorry I forgot to tell you where it is in the paper 

[tracy_j]

Personally I think it is really a state of mind as I notice others eating healthy and then ruining it with snacks between meals etc.

My take, is a good varied diet. I generally do not follow recipies as I often do not have all the ingredients to hand, so make up my own. Experiment a little, not slavishely following someone else's ideas. It does not work all the time but when it does it's very rewarding (especially being relaxed using what's to hand). I have cut back on meat in a big way of recent years (since the kids left home), but still have it. Plenty of fish too, along with varied veg, berries, nuts and seeds. In a short time you will become far more knowlegable about food and what is good, likely enjoying what you make.

In general it is understanding that being varied and not eating anything to extreme which I think helps me. I do have excess sugar as I have a very sweet tooth - that is my main failing , but I am not particularly overweight and am limiting it quite a bit (very little chocolate ).

Tracy