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Category Archives: Low Calorie
Easy Breakfast Ideas
Eating clean and healthy foods for breakfast is not as difficult and time consuming as one would think. In fact, many healthy breakfasts can be prepared with common items out of your own pantry.
Since breakfast is the first meal of the day it only takes some common sense to realize that this meal sets the tone for the rest of the day. Assuming your last meal from the previous day was eaten somewhere in the evening then approximately 8 to 10 hours will have passed since your last bite of food.
It is important to remember that you need protein and some carbohydrates at breakfast. Protein is important in helping to build healthy muscle mass and carbohydrates are important because they give you sustainable energy until your next meal. The following is a list of some really healthy meal ideas:
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A Little Bit About Beef Jerky
Beef jerky is believed to have originated in South America in the early 1800s or earlier. Ancestors of the Inca Empire made a product similar to beef jerky, using the meat from game animals such as deer, elk and buffalo. They salted strips of meat and allowed them to dry in the sun or over hot coals for long periods of time. This method of drying allowed the natives an excellent source of food when fresh meat was not available. The dried meat, if properly stored, could be kept for very long periods of time. Upon the arrival of the Spanish explorers the secrets of ch’arki (charqui) were shared with the rest of the world. The pioneers of North America built smoke houses and hung pieces of meat, (buffalo and beef) over a fire to smoke cure the meat. Beef Jerky is made when the meat is flavored first and then dried and smoked. By adding spice and herbs they were able to make the dried meat much more palatable. Over the years Beef Jerky has become a very popular snack and comes in many, many different flavors and flavor intensities. It takes about 5 pounds of meat to make 1 pound of jerky. You can use most wild game meats, deer, moose, or elk to make jerky as well as domestic meats, including beef, pork and turkey.
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Reasons For Using a Hot Air Popper
Why use a hot air popper
Popcorn is the best snack there is, period. It’s tasty, high in fibers and you can season it with everything from butter and salt to Parmesan. The introduction of the microwave has meant more for popcorn than for any other food, and most of us satisfy our popcorn cravings by just preparing a bag of Pop Secret. But microwave popcorn does have its downsides: it’s high in calories and relatively pricey.
Where microwave popcorn poppers usually use oil, hot air poppers allow completely oil-free use. As you would have guessed, these poppers use hot air to pop the kernels.
Some hot air poppers can throw out very hot kernels during the first phase, so you have to be careful. To avoid this, hold the popper at an angle for the first thirty seconds and set it down again when the first kernels have popped.
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The Ways to Lighten Up Recipes
No matter what the setting or occasion, today’s conversations almost always turn to dieting. Losing weight has become a national obsession – one that concerns almost every member of our society because every family has someone in it who needs help. Here are some really easy ways to get great results:
CHOOSE LEAN MEATS AND COOK THEM IN TASTIER WAYS THAT DON’T ADD TONS OF CALORIES. Any butcher will be happy to tell you that FAT IS FLAVOR. When I was in culinary school, we actually used to chant that in butchery class. Without the natural mouth-feel, flavor and tenderness of fat, lean meat is more of a challenge to cook to rave reviews. There are, however, some tricks to creating flavor. For example, marinating is a wonderful method for adding a lot of flavor, tenderness and moisture to lean meats. You can also pound these meats to break up the protein strands and then you can use quicker cooking methods. When cutting leaner meats, cut across the grain, which also breaks the protein strands and in turn tenderizes them. Especially in the case of a flank steak, when you cut across the grain, you can even quickly grill the meat – just a couple of minutes on each side – and it will be tender.
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