Posts tagged ‘low sodium’
Keeping Up with Changing Times
Times are changing; people are eating healthier. Many more people are developing allergies to foods. People want better foods; better food for them and their families. They are finding cooking from scratch to be a healthy alternative to all the processed foods on the market. We here and on our sister site, www.emealsforyou.com, are teaming up with registered Dietitian Lisa M. Ronco, MS RD CDN, to provide you with great recipes and meal plans that are healthy and assist you in preparing meals for those family members with health problems.
Currently in conjunction with our numerous recipe and meal plan categories ( to see all the Recipe and Meal Plan categories on emealsforyou.com click here ) we provide Foodie quality recipes and meal plans designed around:
Diabetic Healthy, healthy eating that your whole family will enjoy! Balanced Recipes and Meals; providing suggestions that are not only good for you but great tasting. These are meals you can make and your whole family will ask for over and over again. Simply put in the number you are feeding and we will do the math.
Every diabetic is unique and we suggest you follow a comprehensive program developed with your physician.
Diet Friendly, good for you, balanced recipes along with Careful and Carefree Meal Plans providing 4 full weeks of meal plans (3 per day) and snacks (2 per day) fully scalable to the number of people you are feeding. As an added bonus simply click a button and print a shopping list for your choices.
Gluten Free, gluten free doesn’t have to be tasteless.
Sodium Reduced, healthier recipes for sodium restricted diets.
Vegan, for those who choose a diet based on a respect for the natural world.
Vegetarian Entrée, great ways to get balanced meals.
WOW (Watching Our Weight), our great recipes scaled down but not out.
Our Weekly Meal Planner provides you with 5-day meal plans with no repeated entrees and 20 full weeks of meals. All of our recipes and meal plans are automatically scalable; design your menu around feeding 1,2,4,6,8,10 or 12 people. Simply drop the recipes and meal plans in your Favorites Box and you are two mouse clicks away from printing a complete shopping list.
In the coming weeks we will add recipes and meal plans for creating diabetic friendly menus. Additionally, Lisa M. Ronco, MS RD CDN will be creating a method to provide guidance for those who wish a more “hands on” approach to healthy eating.
You Can Reduce Your Salt Intact – A Rant
Seems everywhere I look someone is telling me to reduce my salt intake. This is a much easier task then you think. The first step is to stop eating all that fast, takeout food. Sure it taste great; they load it up with salt to make it taste great. Then you ask them to put some extra salt into the bag, just in case they shorted the fries.
Look, I have been telling everyone for over a year that they need to start preparing meals at home. The more you make at home the less you are at the mercy of the 16 year old working the fry machine. The second easy thing you can do is to stop using all of those pre-prepared foods. Again, the companies load these up to make them taste good, taste good but very bad for us. Make meals using fresh ingredients, check out any canned goods you use in cooking. There are low sodium versions of almost everything on the market these days.
So finally let me hit home…do it for the kids. Make their meals and besides healthier meals , you may just have the opportunity to spend some quality time with them. And as an added bonus, eating healthier yourself may just keep you around to see their kids.
Is there life after the Doctor says lower your salt intake?
(www.emealsforyou.com Recipes/Sodium Reduced/Chicken Piccata)
This post is in conjunction with Lisa’s St. Paddy’s Day post below, “Don’t Pass the Salt”. Most people I know are constantly trying to lose weight or watch their weight. A good percentage of these have been told by their doctors to lower their sodium intake. The majority of these think their food enjoyment days are over. Well I am here to call “bs” on this. As Lisa says, moderation and walking away from processed food where possible is key to a healthier life style.
You can keep ALL the flavor in the foods you eat simply by cooking from scratch and adding the spices and herbs you prefer to your meals. At www.emealsforyou.com we are currently posting a category of Sodium Reduced recipes; these are our great recipes redone with an eye to reducing sodium and not flavor. Most of these can be prepared in less then 30 minutes and are “good” enough to feed to the entire family; no need to prepare food for dad and another meal for the kids. We have recipes for everything from Southwest Chicken to Peach Melba Sorbet.
I will make you a deal. If you find a recipe in one of our other 23 recipe categories, with hundreds of recipes, and would like us to make it reduced sodium just send us an email. I truly believe once you get used to cooking from scratch and not from cans you will enjoy the food more and more importantly improve your health. Don’t pass the salt but do pass the flavor.
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