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A Healthy Diet While Traveling And Healthy Eating At A Restaurant

Saturday, April 23, 2011

This is probably not the best time in which to start a healthy diet, but if you are currently making healthy choices in your foods already, modifying your diet slightly to accommodate travel is not as it first may seem.
If you are traveling by airplane, a healthy diet may have to include airplane food, which can often be poor for your healthy, depending on the selection. When you book your flight, ask about your food options, ask if a vegetarian dish is available. Vegetarian dishes are sometimes more nutritional in this case, but it really depends on what they will be serving. If you can, eat a larger meal before your flight so that you don’t have to eat the entire meal that is served to feel full.
When driving or taking a bus, you may be tempted to stop at fast food restaurants and eat the foods found there. Avoid this whenever possible! If you’re on vacation, you may wish to splurge a tiny bit, but having fast food more than one during a week can really be bad for your health. If you must, choose the healthiest options available, like chicken breasts and diet soda.
Also, remember that you can take your own food when traveling. Carrying a loaf of whole-wheat bread or pita wraps, some lean lunch meat, and low-fat cheese in a cooler is a great way to avoid high-fat and high-cholesterol junk food meals. These are much better choices and you’ll save a lot of money as well. Call ahead to ask if there will be a refrigerator in your hotel room.
Lastly, make smart choices when you eat out. If you choose salads or pasta get the dressing on the side and ask about low-carb options. In fact, many places print these dieting options directly in the menu for the health-conscious people. Control your portions by ordering lunch menu sizes or splitting the meal in have and getting a doggie bag, and you’ll be well on your way to healthy eating, even away from home.
Yes, eating healthy foods when you travel can be a challenge. However, your health is worth it. When you eat good foods, you will also fight illnesses that you are likely to encounter when traveling and be more alert so that you can enjoy your trip.
In many cases, you would be correct. However, you can still enjoy restaurants occasionally and maintain your healthy diet. Its all about making good food choices, which starts with learning about the nutrition you need to stay happy, physically healthy, mentally stable, and active.




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Having a Restaurant in My Home

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Eating and meal planning while sticking to a food budget of 0 a week for a family of four can be pretty challenging. Variety is required you so you do not become bored. I have added another personal challenge to feeding our family.

In the past we would dine out twice a week minimum. When we found something that was extremely tasty I would spare no expense and recreate that flavorful meal at home. I would purchase the highest and most expensive steaks. Shopping at the finest food distributors was always a spectacular experience. Spending - was still considered to be a savings when compared to what we had recently paid for one meal. I have modified how we eat since we began this new grocery budget. Now I am adding a challenge just like they do on the T.V. Show survivor. The challenge I have added is to recreate one of our meals that we would eat at a restaurant. The meal can be from a fast food place or it can be from an up scale restaurant and anything in between. The recreation of a meal is easy enough to do but I also must stay within my 0 a week food budget. This challenge will require some creativity, some foods will have to substituted for less pricey alternatives. Let me give you an example, fillet wrapped in bacon for four people can easily take the whole weekly budget. Substituting fillet with rib eye can maximize the meat while still giving us decent quality.
 
Naturally the first time we do this we will start with something very simple. In the future we hope to increase the difficulty. My food challenge this weekend is to make the In n Out meal known as combo #1. Normally we eat the 4 double cheese burger meals with onion on three of them. I will give you a list of all the ingredients we purchased at the store and the unit cost as it relates to the making of the meal.
 
Here is the list of ingredients purchased. 1 pound of hamburger .29, 1 egg .09, head of lettuce .29, Kraft American slice cheese 8 slices .94, 4 store brand hamburger buns .44, tomato .34, onion .61, 2 large potatoes for fries .05, 4 litres of coke products .54.
 
This meal will be hand made with no short cuts such as purchasing already made patties. Back in the early 1980's I was given an old fashion Tupperware patty maker. I still use it today as I can make up to 8 patties with one pound of ground meat. I always make my patties with one egg per pound of meat. I never use bread crumbs, as one wise chef told me that would make it meat loaf not a hamburger patty. The one thing I have not counted was the sauce on the bun. We put a little mayo and some thousand island dressing. We will estimate this added cost at .25
 
total cost to make our at home in n out combo #1 for four people came to a grand total of .74. While this is expensive for a single meal on our budget of 0 a week, it was very tasty. The cost of going out to feed the family would have been .
 
Making this meal at home saved us .26.

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Having a Restaurant in My Home

Rick and his wife have been able to reduce their grocery budget by almost 50% since they started this challenge of feeding a family of four for 0 a week in 2010. They have now included creating restaurant meals into the challenge without changing their budget. We will put the challenge under the title My Kitchen You can make suggestions for your favorite meal at their blog http://feed4forunder100week.blogspot.com/

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