Healthy Habits: Theresa Albert’s Best Bets for Fall

Healthy Habits: Theresa Albert’s Best Bets for Fall

Nutri-News

As the weather turns colder, you are turning to carbs, right? There are darned good biological and psychological reasons for this but the bottom line is, if you keep doing so, you are going to feel it in your, er, bottom line.  Your secret line of defense is soup.  Studies show that having a bowl of broth based soup before a meal actually helps you eat less during that meal. 

Sipping on a cup of miso soup at 3 pm instead of a latte may nourish you right up until dinner for a mere 20 or so calories. Here are some more tips for making simple, great soups.

Key Ingredient

Beans go well beyond the few kidneys in your chili. It has been shown to improve your risk of heart disease if you add just ½ cup of beans to your diet each day.  There are insanely delicious ways to accomplish this starting with adding canned chick peas to salads to including hummus on every sandwich.  They don’t need to play a starring role in the day, even a handful of roasted soybeans as a snack can help.  That said, there is nothing like a French inspired cassoulet to warm up a day.  This bean dish often has sausage and or poultry stewed in but a vegetarian version is great as a side dish when you have a flexitarian household to keep happy.  Here’s a simple cassoulet recipe to get you started.

Useful Tool

Slow cookers are a boon to the rushed or non-cooks, but do you ever wonder why slow cooker recipes lean so heavily on cans and jars (and are therefore stratospheric in salt)? It’s the inherent flaw in the cooking method that is to blame. There are two important elements missing from slow cooker food that end up begging for the compensating effects of salty cans. (Maybe) In order to develop colour and flavor in any dish, you need high heat and evaporation.  Two things that the slow cooker is designed to avoid.  Here is the simple solution.

 

By Theresa Albert, www.myfriendinfood.com


Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/customer/www/sweetpotatochronicles.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/trendyblog-theme/includes/single/post-tags-categories.php on line 7

You might also like

By Season

Chef Notes: Smoking Made Easy Peasy

Just the idea of smoked food gets my mouth watering. Who doesn’t love smoked oysters, smoked turkey breast, or smoked beef brisket? It’s one of the oldest ways of preserving

Articles

Vitamin Week: What’s So Great About…Avocado

What isn’t great about avocado? They’re creamy and rich…and they’re fruit!  Which means the creamy and rich part is okay, right?  As it turns out, it’s not just okay, it’s

Nutrition

What’s So Great About Wheat germ?

Let’s take a groovy time machine back to the far out 1970’s today. Not all things from the ‘70’s are worth resurrecting (the Pet Rock comes to mind). But wheat

2 Comments

  1. rhonda
    September 27, 09:19 Reply

    Would love to have the recipe for the soup in the photo – looks like soba noodles and tofu?

  2. Jes
    September 28, 10:55 Reply

    Is there a recipe for the picture of the miso soup? It looks delish!

Leave a Reply