DIFFERENT HEALTHY COOKING STYLES

Cooking can be very  hectic for mostly career oriented people but at the same time it is the most rewarding activity. if you want to practice having a good and healthy meal every day then you have to find a way to create time for that healthy meal.
Making your own meals is not only healthy but also very economical for you. Healthy in the sense you get to be in control with whatever is added in your meal and economical in a sense, cook once, eat twice.

I would like to share a few of my cooking styles that getting me going when am on the run.

1. RAW COOKING- This is a way of preparing a meal that is not cooked or heated at any temperature. For example fresh vegetables, nuts, fresh fruits,seeds. its ois quick and fast but it's not easy to adopt but very good for the body. 
2. JUICING AND BLENDING- This can fall under raw cooking but its a bit different, with juicing you are literally removing all the fibrous materials leaving only the liquid from the fruits and vegetables. While with blending, you have it all, the fiber and the pulp, i personally blending works for since smoothies are my best friend and easiest food in the morning. They fill me up and keep going the early hours of my day and good source of energy and honestly you get to have all your nutrients without losing any and very economical so a win win situation.😜😜
3. STEAMING- With this kind of cooking you need to have a steamer, it is the best way of cooking vegetables without losing their nutrients and not becoming soggy. it is a simple and quick way of cooking.
4. WATER SAUTE'- Basically this is an art of cooking without any oil involved. Have a pan heated put some some and include your vegetables. it is mostly used for vegetable dishes, fish and eggs which others call poaching .
5. STIR FLYING- This basically a chinese way of cooking, heating of vegetables, meat, chicken on a high heat with oil and wok as being stirred with ingredients.
6. SOUPING- It is the easiest and quickest way of cooking. Saves a lot of time and very healthy, basically all you have to do is cut all your fresh vegetables and put everything in the pot with your broth and boil.

Dinner is saved

Home-cooked meals are so refreshing, so i made a little something just came up with this recipe.

CHICKEN MEATBALLS

3pcs of the chicken breasts

2cups of spinach

1 Onion

1 clove of Garlic

1teaspoon of dry basil

1/2 teaspoon of paprika

1/4 teaspoon of Cayenne pepper

Chop the chicken in small pieces and all ingredients and place in the blender

Puree into a paste.Transfer the paste in a bowl and add some oat flour to make paste hard so that it's easy to form the balls when you roll it in palms

After you make the balls deep fry them but I don't deep fry I use the air fryer.

Serve with steamed zucchini's and quinoa 

Before

Dinner is served

what are we reading today

Dying of boredom, having nothing today, why don't we grab a book and refresh our minds

 After all knowledge is power. So let's share what we all reading for better minds

You be surprised how this book relates to your life and the people surrounding you.

Enjoy the read.....

PRIMARY FOOD VS SECONDARY FOOD

We all struggle to keep a sane and healthy body and soul but what we don't know is how to rightfully feed our bodies. All we do think about is nutrition and calorie count or how much we consume on a daily basis, but all that comes in as secondary source of energy/food.
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Think back at the time when you were happy and in love or had a very exciting project to look forward to, how that made you feel, or worst case scenario when your self esteem was low and you were feeling depressed or lonely, what was the first instinct that came to your mind when you got home? Your first instinct will be to look in your refrigerator for something to eat yet all you need is a hug or someone to talk to....

That's where primary food comes in, No amount of food on your plate(SECONDARY FOOD) will be enough, you can eat as much as you want but never satisfied because the fun, excitement and love of daily life have the power to feed us so that food becomes secondary.

PRIMARY FOOD; Feeds us but it does not come on the plate, examples include; love(meaningful and good relationship), an inspiring career, meaningful spiritual practice and a very exciting physical activity-yoga, running, walking, gym anything that gets your heart pumping.


Hence the more primary food we receive, the less we need or depend on secondary food the reverse is true,the more we feed our bodies with secondary food the less primary food we are able to receive.
 

ALWAYS TAKE TIME TO EXPLORE YOUR PRIMARY FOOD FIND WHAT YOUR MISSING ,DO YOUR BEST TO FEEL IT AND ALWAYS ENJOY AND HAVE FUN IN LIFE.

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we are what we eat