Making good choices
Anyone who knows me also knows the emphasis I place on
not just good but intelligent nutrition. What it really comes down to
is making good choices.
To make a good choice means making an educated choice. While eating
fresh fruits and vegetables and preparing your own meats and fish is a
simple way to ensure the basis for good nutrition, our time-pressed
society encourages diets rich in processed, packaged or fast foods
instead. As such, it is important for everyone to have a solid
understanding of the nutrition labels. Luckily, nutrition labels are
readily available, whether you are purchasing items in the grocery
store or fast casual/fast food restaurant.
For starters, check out the following website which provides a
wonderful in depth discussion of food labels today:
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html
Then also adopt some of these helpful hints:
Pay attention to serving sizes. A serving of cereal may only be 3/4 of
a cup, not half the box.
Look for foods low in sugar. Read the ingredients
(listed in order from greatest to least amount used in product). Corn
syrup, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, molasses, etc., are
all types of sugar.
Recipes
Watermelon with Red Onion, Feta, Pine Nuts and Tomatoes
Grilled Steak with Warm Shallot Vinaigrette
Shrimp and Scallops in Creamy Roasted Tomato Sauce over Linguini
Chianti Baked Pears with Vanilla Bean Mascarpone
Five Spice Shrimp Skewers with Papaya Chile Salsa
Grilled Tuna with Smoky Almond Romesco Sauce
Crunchy Parmesan Crusted Salmon with Lemon Wine Sauce and Asparagus
Classic Risotto with Tomatoes and Parmesan
Roasted Red Onions Stuffed with Sweet Potato Puree
Pancetta, Sun Dried Tomato and Fontina Tartlets
Passover Leek and Cauliflower Kugel
Matzo Scallion Pancakes with Smoked Salmon
Quinoa with Zucchini, Carrots and Currants