Merry Christmas - Learn and Celebrate Your Day With Easy To Cook And Healthy Recipes

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Merry Christmas - Learn and Celebrate Your Day 

With  Easy To Cook And Healthy Recipes

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Christmas is a challenging time to embrace healthy foods when you see all the tempting food advertised and marketed throughout the week. Christmas is recognised as a celebratory affair – it certainly shouldn’t be a time to feel guilty about enjoying yummy Christmas food! Well, a walk on such food during Christmas wouldn’t do any harm to burn off those calories.

However, it is still possible to cook Christmas treats that are healthy as well delicious. It is just the way they are being prepared, cooked and served - often loaded with fats such as salt and butter. And this is where the nutritional value can be depleted. Consider adopting the following healthy food recipes and party tips this festive season.

1.Spinach Balls

This appetizer allows you to incorporate some vegetables into your Christmas feast. Made using spinach, eggs, grated cheese, panko crumbs, fresh herbs and garlic salt rolled into balls kept in a freezer for a while before baking and serving them as an appetizer for your meal.

Ingredients

• 1 Bowl of spinach
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup breadcrumbs
• 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 2 tbsp melted butter
• 2 tbsp plain yogurt
• 2 tbsp green onion, thinly sliced
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp paprika

Preparation

• Chop the dried spinach leaves.
• Add all the ingredients together in a large bowl and mix well.
• Form it into balls, squeezing tightly.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 13-15 minutes, turning once.

2.Vegetable platter with dip

Ingredients for the dip 

• 1 cup plain non-fat yogurt.
• 2 tbsp chopped fresh dill leaves.
• 1 tsp garlic powder.
• 1 tsp sugar, ½ tsp salt, ½ tsp ground white pepper.
• 4 tsp white vinegar.

Ingredients for vegetable platter 

• 8 cups broccoli 
• 3 cups sprouts
• 2 cups green beans
• 1 cup cauliflower
• 1 cup peas
• 2 cups cauliflower
• 9 cherry tomatoes
Preparation 
• Boil water in a saucepan and keep a separate large bowl of cold water aside.
• Blanch broccoli, beans, sprouts peas and cauliflower for 1 to 2 minutes and drain well.
• Transfer only broccoli to cold water, to retain its crunchiness and drain well.
For the dip 
• Whisk yogurt, dill, vinegar, garlic powder, sugar, salt and pepper in a bowl.
• You can replace dill leaves with fresh coriander or cilantro.
• Garnish it with herbs of your choice.
Serve
In a larger serving tray arrange the dip in the center and arrange the blanched vegetables around it and garnish it with cherry tomatoes.
Apart from these two easy to cook dishes there a number of other healthy dishes one can easily prepare for Christmas, such as
1.Quinoa Stuffing
2.Roasted Lamb with blackberry chutney
3.Rosemary garlic marinated vegetables 
4.Lemon and fennel rubbed turkey or chicken
5.Lemony brussels sprout salad
6.20 Minute Cauliflower soup 
Reduce your holiday stress while pleasing your Christmas party guests with the following baking tips and tricks.
• Use mistletoe and snowflakes stamps and add a sophisticated design to the Christmas sugar cookies.
• Use cookie cutters to mold fudge into festive shapes like Christmas trees and snowmen.
• Create chocolate curls using a potato peeler making pretty garnish for cakes and cupcakes.
• Use frozen cranberries to add flavor to your drinks while adding a pop of festive color to your table decor.

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Know And Understand How To Drink Or Sip Tea Effectively For Visible Weight Loss

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Know And Understand How To Drink Or Sip Tea 

Effectively For Visible Weight Loss

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Apart from going on a diet and / or hitting the gym, there are many natural ways to shed the extra kilos. One of these highly effective ways is drinking / sipping tea. Consuming Green tea, nowadays, has become very popular because of its many health benefits.

Also  tea is very effective at improving cellular function and your body's immune system.

Tea Contains nutrients known as phytonutrients that are found in fruits and vegetables. Also its flavonoid content can help you in losing significant amount of belly fat.

To help you to lose weight while improving your overall health, it is recommended to have tea without any milk or sweetener added into it. The many different ways that tea can help you to lose weight are

1.Adding tea drinking When you are working out/going to gym:

• A study reveals that having 4-5 cups of green tea every day alongside a 25 minute workout for 12 weeks can help an individual lose 907 grams more weight than an individual who doesn't drink tea.

• Another Brazilian study has highlighted the fact that individuals who take about 3 cups of green tea every day tend to experience fewer cell damage brought on by workouts. So, to accelerate your body's recovery rate following an intense workout, it is best to consume green tea.

2. Before heading out for dinner

Having a cup of green tea before going out for a dinner can significantly reduce your desire to eat. This is because EGCG, the active compound found in green tea, brings about a boost in the production of the cholecystokinin (CCK) hormone, which is responsible for suppressing hunger. The more this hormone gets released, the more your desire for food decreases.

3. Before going to bed

Tea is also known to contain compounds that can reduce your stress levels, induce sleep and subsequently cut down your body's ability to store fat. For this reason, making a habit of having tea before your bedtime will prevent you from experiencing sleep deprivation, which is a factor that contributes to weight gain.

Before going to sleep, consuming a cup of chamomile tea can help to calm your nerves and release stress.

4. After you wake up

Having green tea right after you wake up can help in weight loss, as this is the best time when your body is better at absorbing EGCG, the active ingredient in green tea that is responsible for fat burning.

5. Adding it to your salads as a dressing

Adding green tea to your salads can increase your chances of losing weight. A study found that when used in salads, green tea can reduce your appetite by 40%, thereby helping in losing weight. 

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Know And Follow These Tips To Prepare / Bake / Make Your Own Low Calorie Healthy Plum Cake / Christmas Cake And Make Sure It's The Best

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Know And Follow These Tips 

To Prepare / Bake / Make 

Your Own Low Calorie Healthy 

Plum Cake  / Christmas Cake

And Make Sure It's The Best 

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With all the parties, late nights and heavy food, the festive season is notorious for weight gain. Along with a decorated tree, Christmas is synonymous with Christmas cake that tastes wonderful, but does nothing for your health and waistline. Store bought Christmas cakes are loaded with sugar and hence if possible, it is always better to bake your Christmas cake at home. As with any other type of food, home cooked food is always healthier than store or restaurant food. This is because you get to control the ingredients of your cake.

So here are a few tips on making a healthy Christmas cake

No added sugar

Unlike other cakes, Christmas cake does not really need additional sugar as the fruit inside it adds natural sweetness. Do not sprinkle the fruit in, but maintain a high ratio of fruit to flour. You can include all types of dried fruits, berries, apricots, dates, prunes, pineapples etc. in your cake. Traditionally, these fruits are used in their candied form, but for a healthier version of this cake, try using them in their natural or dehydrated form.

Almond meal

If you buy a cake, it is likely to be made with refined flour. Refined flour has negligible nutritional value, but is very high on calories. Hence, when you’re baking a cake, consider replacing this flour with almond meal. Almond meal is lower in calories, gluten free and adds moisture to the cake. It is also rich in vitamin E, magnesium and potassium.

Fresh fruit juice

Along with the pieces of fresh and dried fruit, the juice is also an essential element of Christmas cakes. Avoid opening a can here and instead use freshly squeezed juice as far as possible. Fresh fruit juice has no added sugars and is loaded with vitamins as compared to canned juice. It is also free from preservatives. You can also include the pulp that is extracted while juicing fruits like oranges into your cake.

Coconut oil

A little oil is a must in cakes to make them moist and spongy. Replace your refined oil with coconut oil when baking a Christmas cake to make it healthier and more wholesome. Coconut oil has a high level of good cholesterol and when used wisely can also reduce the accumulation of fat in the body.

Sides

Christmas cake is usually served with custard or ice cream; both of which are loaded with sugar and are unhealthy. Consider replacing these sides with natural yoghurt that has been sweetened with a drizzle of honey. Alternatively, you could also try some flavoured greek yoghurt and almond flakes. This will make your dessert light on the stomach and easier to digest.


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