Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category
Four Ways to Use Chicken Leftovers
Once you start buying chicken in bulk and doing bulk cooking, you’ll eventually wind up with some leftovers. In an ideal world, you’ll even plan to! Leftovers are your friends: they save you time and effort, and they help keep the grocery bill down. Here’s how to get creative with your new “friends,” so that you can get the most out of your time with them.
Leftover Champagne Recipes
Happy New Year!
After all the festivities have calmed, the fireworks next door have failed to burn your house down, and you can finally see straight after too much champagne you notice there’s still some left over. So wastefull to throw it out…you could make a mimosa…but OJ is quite a bit of sugar that you really don’t need…
Turns out it’s great for all kinds of fantastic sea food dishes! Champagne is just really bubbly white wine, so it works great in place of white wine in any recipe. Here are some great ideas for using that leftover champagne in recipes that won’t bust your new year’s resolution and will set 2012 on the right track!
Top Ten Low-Carb Power Packed Foods
What is the secret to a long and healthy life?
It is in the food that we eat. As you well know, all foods are not created equal. Choosing and eating the right foods may help increase your life expectancy as well as the quality of your life.
Here are ten of the top power packed foods designed to give you energy, vitality and all around good health!
Atkins Shopping Tips
When you start the Atkins diet, you are entering a new world of eating. And nowhere is that more apparent than at the supermarket. Suddenly, all of your stand-by foods like macaroni and cheese, pasta and bread are no longer on your shopping list. When you go shopping for the first few times you may feel like a fish out of water. However, with a bit of practice you’ll feel just as comfortable as you were with your previous shopping lists.
Successful Atkins shopping starts before you reach the store. There are many resources for shopping lists online and in Atkins books. Before you head for the store, make a list of the week’s recipes and then decide what you’ll need to make each meal. Make sure to purchase low-carb snacks for in between meals.
3 Common Dieting Mistakes
Even though there is so much information available about weight loss, the same diet mistakes are being made over and over every day. I’m not not talking about little slipups where you stole a french fry off of hubbies plate, but big mistakes that lead to failure to lose the weight that you want to lose. Understanding these errors can help you develop the attitude that will lead to permanent weight loss for you.
Eating Right With A Busy Schedule
When it comes to eating right many of us find that the number one hindrance to our success is the lack of time to prepare the proper meals and snacks for our dietary needs. It is often much more convenient to throw one thing in the crockpot for the family or resort to the fast food last resort rather than preparing the healthy and nutritious meal that we should be eating. If you’re like me when time runs out and stress enters the equation all healthy intentions fly out the window.
Planning, prepping, and organization ahead of time is the real key to success on a low-carb eating plan or any eating plan for that matter. You have to work at eating right and there are a few things you can do that will reduce the temptation to hit the drive thru and keep you on course.
