If you enjoy smoothies and fruit juices, why not make your own at home? All you need are the fruits / vegetables, some ice, water and a blender. It is easy and cheap too!
So, here I present you a recipe for a healthy cooling drink that is both good for health and has a deliciously fresh taste to it!
Due to our recent lifestyle changes for more healthy foods in our diets, I did some research and found that these foods are really great for our heart wellness. Our hearts and body will thank us if we incorporate some of these foods into our daily diet:
1. Salmon
This freshwater fish contains a lot of heart healthy nutrients such as Omega-3 acids. It is the doctors’ advice that we should consume foods rich with Omega-3 at least twice a week for good health especially the heart. This fish is extremely delicious too and can be prepared various . . . → Read More: Heart healthy foods you should add to your diet
Burdock root is not commonly used for cooking but now it is slowly catching on with burdock root being sold at supermarkets and wet markets nowadays.
When cooked, it is very sweet and tasty. Burdock root is also quite healthy, according to these facts:
It contains a lot of minerals, vitamins, protein and amino acids such as lysine, proline, choline, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, folate, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium. It is considered as a type of vegetable and is also low in calorie – 118gm of burdock root contains only 85 calories. It is one of the vegetables . . . → Read More: Burdock root rice
I simply love the ‘Lengau th’ng’ (Lotus Root Soup) and it is actually one of the first soups I learn to cook when I started venturing into the kitchen to prepare my own meals. Lotus root is one of the more common vegetable used by Chinese for soups and stir-fry dishes. It is especially good in soups because of its sweet taste. So, why are the Chinese so crazy about lotus root?
Well, I checked and found that:
lotus root is a good source of Dietary Fiber, Thiamin, Vitamin B6, Phosphorus, Potassium, Copper and Manganese, and . . . → Read More: Lotus Root and Peanut Soup and its benefits
When I say honey, I meant the real honey, not the human type of honey….heh… So, honey has quite a few uses from making a drink, being used as a substitute for sugar and to being used as part of a marinating sauce for meat.
So, is honey nutritious at all?
So, here are some facts about honey:
1. It is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium
2. A tablespoon of honey contains 64 calories, all of it are carbohydrates.
3. It contains folate, vitamin C, choline, betaine, potassium, fluoride, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and a lot . . . → Read More: Honey, oh sweet honey
I still remember the months I had to cook porridge day in day out for my son when he first started out on solid food. Not one to resort to packaged or bottled food which I find kinda tasteless, too high in sugar and salt and lacking in nutrition and vitamins in comparison to home cooked food.
It is also one of the easiest meals to cook because you only need to dump all the ingredients into the rice cooker and then press ‘on’. Easy, simple and importantly healthy and wholesome for baby and the family!
I am a bread addict. Not just any bread, I only eat wholemeal bread from certain outlets and no, it does not include Gardenia or any other supermarket mass production type of brands. I prefer to go for local bakeries which produces freshly baked bread daily.
Nowadays, we can never be too careful when it comes to purchasing foods that has shelf life as most bakeries tend to put in a lot of preservatives to make sure the bread does not become moldy too fast. This is not good. I do not want to be eating too much chemicals . . . → Read More: Healthy bread without preservatives
