The only thing in your kitchen drawers is a stack of Chinese take-out menus, and you haven’t carried a packed lunch since grade school. You seriously need to start cooking. It’s the easiest way to eat healthier and get in shape. In fact, whatever they are cooking, people who cook regularly consume fewer calories per meal than those who eat out, according toresearch from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Plus, unlike your other get-fit efforts, cooking will actually save you money. Here are eight easy, tasty, healthy recipes—courtesy of top chefs,nutritionists, doctors, and trainers—to help get you started.

1. Greek-Style Yogurt [...]

Milk is a complete diet. Many milk drinkers look to the fat free variety to get their thirst quenched and because milk is low in fat grams and overall calories. However, does a low-fat content mean some of milk’s natural health attributes are missing from the final product? There are many good reasons to drink milk, but is the fat free version healthy?

The answer is…yes it is. Fat free milk, otherwise known as skim milk, is the logical choice if you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Let’s take a closer look at why fat free milk is healthy.

Taste

The first thing a person who does not like skim or fat free milk says is, “I don’t like the [...]

No matter what people say about it, this is probably the only cuisine that really makes you happy. The word MSG doesn’t mean anything to you and you can hog noodles, dumplings or spring rolls even in the middle of the night. You crave for Chinese like a baby for milk! Read on to relate.

 

1.) You prefer hosting your birthday parties at a Chinese restaurant.

8 facts that will prove you are a true chinese lover

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It goes without saying that all your special occasions have to be marked special by visiting your favourite Chinese restaurant. And perhaps, those are some of [...]

Ingredients:

1 large egg 2 egg whites 1/4 large celery stalk 1/4 small onion 1 Tbsp. low fat mayonnaise 1/2 tsp. mustard, prepared 1/4 tsp. dried dill 2 slices low sodium whole wheat bread

Directions:

Hard-boil eggs; immediately plunge in cold water and allow to cool. Chop egg and egg white(s), celery and onion; set aside. (You may discard the egg yolks of the excess eggs). In small bowl, combine eggs with mayonnaise, mustard, dill, celery and onion until well mixed. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes to meld flavors. Serve on bread.

Also Include:

1 cup mixed salad greens 1 Tbsp. salad dressing, low fat or nonfat; low sodium 3 cherry tomatoes 1 small [...]

Amla candy is an Indian desert , which is both healthy and refreshing.

You should definitely try this easy and amazing desert

 

Course: Desert

Cuisine: Indian

Servings: Serves 10

 

Ingredients: 250 g – Amla [gooseberry]

1 tsp – Cumin seeds powder

1 tsp – dried Ginger powder (saunth)

150 g – Sugar

2 tbsp – Sugar powder

1/2 pinch – edible food color (optional)

 

How to Prepare:

 

Wash and dry gooseberry with kitchen towel. Boil enough water in a vessel, add gooseberry, boil for 2 minutes and drain excess water. Cut the gooseberry [...]

Monsoon Always bring new joy and enthusiasm in our life. One of the inseperable part  of this joy is food. Some food items can double your enjoyment. Their taste get amplified during monsoon and seems to make your taste centres go mad.

Here are list of ten food stuff you should try this monsoon to increase your joy.

 

Freshly roasted corn on the cob with lemon and chilli. Our beloved bhutta‘s are monsoon favourites.

 

   

 

Just off the tava, hot  Aloo Parathas  There’s no better treat in this chilly weather.

 

 

Piping hot Pakodas, be it aloo, kanda [...]

Coooking time: 25 min.

Servings: 2 persons

Ingredient Name Quantity Unit Chilly flakes  1 Teaspoons Cheese  1 Tablespoons Cold milk  1 Cup All purpose flour  25 Grams Salt To Taste Nut Meg powder  1/4 Teaspoons Garlic chopped  1 Tablespoons Butter  2 Tablespoons Spinach  1 Cup Corn  1 Cup chopped onions  2 Numbers bread slices  5 Numbers

 

Directions Take a pan heat butter add garlic chopped, chopped onions, nutmeg, salt, all purpose flour cook till raw flavor is gone, add corn, reduce the flame and add cold milk, mix it till smooth consistency and add spinach cook it and switch off the flame, Take spinach and corn [...]