Vegetable Salad Recipe Food Cooking International Guide
Vegetable Salad Recipe With Your Favourite Meals
By Julia Taylor-Fernandez
Vegetable salad recipe ingredients are always available in food
stores, just need to ensure you can buy your choice of fruit and
vegetables when they are in season. When you cook your favourite
meals, you should include plenty of vegetables, to get plenty
of fibre, complex carbohydrates and anti-oxidants into your system.
Always remember, eating more vegetables, means you are eating
less cholesterol and less fat. If you are on a low fat diet, then
eating more vegetables would be one of your main targets. You
should also reduce the impact of high calorie ingredients in your
meals, by reducing these ingredients and eating more vegetables.
One mistake made by many people, is to include a high calorie
salad dressing on their salad. This defeats the purpose of making
a salad. Your option is to either use a low calorie salad dressing
or use olive oil in your favourite vegetable salad recipe.
Eating Fruit And Vegetables Every Day
We’ve all heard the 5-9 servings mantra ad nauseum. The government,
our doctors, magazine article, health websites – if you’re above
ground in the 21st century, you’ve heard it. The usual problem
faced by the diner is, “How the heck am I supposed to eat that
many fruits and veggies in a day and have room left over for anything
else?”
Well, for one thing, a ‘serving’ is measured in half cups. Take
out your half cup measuring cup and take a look. It’s really not
much. You can fulfill your daily quota with just one, meal sized
veggie salad.
Eating Your Meal With A Vegetable Salad
This article focuses on the veggie aspect, in particular, vegetable
salad recipes. Veggie salads are a dieter’s BFF. The veggie salad
is also an excellent choice for diabetics, heart patients, or
people with elevated blood pressure or high cholesterol conditions.
As a matter of fact, vegetable salad recipes are good for every
one of us. If you don’t now have any particular health problems,
veggie salads are a good way to avoid developing any of these
problems. Of course, vegans know the virtues of veggies. A veggie
salad is a filling meal for a hot summer’s day.
More Fiber, Reduced Calories And Fat
A good vegetable salad recipe is high in fiber, low in calories
and fat, nutrient dense and full of antioxidants, those powerful
anti-cancer agents. What more could you ask from a meal?
Veggies are typically high in fiber, good news for everyone.
Dieters benefit from the fact that it usually requires at least
as many calories, or more, to digest the fiber as are contained
in the food. Negative calories, anyone?
The fiber content of any vegetable salad recipe is an excellent
tonic for the digestive system, helping to thoroughly flush any
accumulated toxins from your system.
Complex Carbohydrates Take Longer To Break Down
As for carbs, a whole plate of veggies may add up – a concern
for diabetics. However, these are complex carbohydrates, which
break down slowly into sugars. This is a good deal for the diabetic.
The adrenals aren’t taxed with a quick load of sugar, as is found
in a soda or candy.
Almost all veggies are low in calories and fat. A good thing
for dieters, and good for your heart, cholesterol levels and circulatory
system as well. Veggies, particularly the brightly colored veggies
and green leafy ones, tend to be nutrient dense and rich in antioxidants.
Adding Freshly Minced Garlic To Your Salad
Every vegetable salad recipe should be doused with a couple of
teaspoons of freshly minced garlic. Taken daily, garlic helps
lower your BP and bad cholesterol, while raising the good. Worried
about ‘garlic breath’? Counteract that with a few sprigs of fresh
parsley, a good source of vitamin A and iron. Parsley does away
with bad breath.
When making your vegetable salad, appearance matters! A colorful
selection of veggies is not only attractive, but provides a well-rounded
assortment of nutrients.
Making a vegetable salad recipe on the fly is easy. Start with
a bed of dark green lettuce or raw spinach. Search the frig for
leftovers, such as that bit of corn or onions from last night’s
dinner. Keep a few hard-boiled eggs in the frig to add some protein
to your daily vegetable salad recipes.
Stock On Peppers
In summer, when you see red, orange and sweet bell peppers at
a good price, stock up. Dice them all and freeze in serving sized
freezer bags, with water to cover and a tad of lemon juice to
retain color and nutrients.
Vary your vegetable salad recipes daily, so you don’t become
bored of the tastes. Use onions, mushrooms, sliced carrots, radishes,
artichoke hearts, broccoli and cauliflower, according to your
preferences.
Fresh Cilantro To Reduce Blood Sugar Levels
Although technically fruits, tomatoes and olives are still more
choices to add to the mix. Diabetics will benefit from adding
fresh cilantro, which helps reduce blood sugar levels. Finally,
unless you’re a vegan, a few broiled chicken breast slices are
a tasty addition to your salad.
Replacing High Calorie Salad Dressing
Many people these days, either buy a low calorie salad dressing,
or replace salad dressing with olive oil. If you want to enhance
the taste of your salad, without adding a mountain of calories
when you add a normal salad dressings, then a low calorie salad
dressing or olive oil would be a better choice.
To save you traveling to the food store every time you need some
fresh salad items, you may look at having your own organic fruit
and vegetable garden. There may be some room in your backyard
for a garden. All you need to do now, is go to the nursery and
purchase your seedlings or organic seeds, to start your organic
garden with your favourite fruit and vegetables.
Fresh Fruit And Vegetables From Your Own Organic Garden
The advantage of your own organic garden in your yard, is that
you have genuine fresh off the branch, fruit and vegetables. When
you buy fruit and vegetables from the food store, you do not know
how long they have taken to transport the food to the store and
how long the food products have been sitting on the shelves.
With your own garden, you can pick your choice of fruit and vegetables
and use them with your vegetable salads recipe on the same day.
About the Author:
Julia Taylor-Fernandez has written a number of articles on food,
cooking and dieting including General
Nutrition, Meal
Plans, Salad
Dressings, Organic
Baby Food, Fruit
Flower Baskets, Fresh
Fruit, Latte
Coffee, Teen
Weight Loss, Nutritional
Information, Teen
Diets, Low
Carb Dinners, Health
Food Store, Food
Packaging.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
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