Friday, October 24, 2008

Fit Calories Loss Foods into Your Menu, Fit into Your New Jeans

By Rowena French

To make sure that you reach your weight loss goal soon so you can enjoy the benefits of this, rid your kitchen of all that high fat, high calorie food. Replace this with some low calorie snacks and cooking supplies that you should always keep on hand when you want to promote a calories loss in your daily menu. If you always have these low calorie snacks and food in the kitchen, when you want to cook a low calorie meal or have a quick low calorie snack you will have some right there and ready to go.

Sauces and condiments can add substantially to the taste of both vegetable and meat dishes without adding unwanted calories. They can often be purchased or are easy to make and generally dress up meals well, especially when they include vinegar, olive oil, soya sauce, as well as well known salt, pepper and even lemon salt. These flavors can also be derived from herbs and spices like coriander and cumin found in popular Thai dishes or from other Asian recipes as well as foods from the Middle East.

Fresh salsa is a wonderful low calorie condiment for a salads and a tasty snack that will help maintain your calories loss each day. There is no need to deprive your body of sweetness during your weight loss program, especially at breakfast when a slice of toast can provide you with energy across the morning. Choose from a wide selection of reduce sugar fruit spreads or jams at the supermarket and enjoy a limited spread of these daily.

Canned items can be kept for years and are always good to have around when you want to whip up a tasty, low calorie meal. Keep canned goods like tomato paste stocked in your kitchen to make your own low calorie spaghetti sauce, canned beans to make as a side dish, canned vegetables to throw into a casserole and canned fruit (in fruit juice not syrup) for desserts or over low calorie ice cream. These foods are all easy to prepare and all lead to calories loss each day.

Get organic soups and broth when you can and throw some soup in your bag for a quick work lunch or use soup as a base in a low calorie meal especially those using organic broths that are a great base for calories loss meals. Tuna is a quick protein pick me up or last minute casserole, hummus a Middle Eastern dip that makes a great low calorie snack and peanut butter that every house needs to stock.

Buying fresh fruits and vegetables can be expensive but you should try to have some around whenever possible. During the spring and summer, hit the local farmer's market to get great deals on fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables. Most of the time, fresh fruits and vegetables are cheaper than frozen during the spring and summer but to maintain your calories loss across the year, you might need to use frozen fruits and vegetables during the fall and winter when the markets close and fresh produce is harder to find.

Add some healthy crunchy snacks to your shopping list to replace those junk food chips or candy, both of which are high in calories, by buying nuts, trail mix, pretzels, popcorn, and tortilla chips. An entire pita has less than 200 calories so bake a pita until it gets nice and toasty and break it into small chips to eat with fresh salsa or some olive oil. This kind of meal makes sure that your calories loss will help you lose those extra pounds while still enjoying food!

Although eliminating junk food from your daily food may take some effort and willpower at the outset, you will be able to retrain your palate and begin to enjoy alternatives that can cater for the calories loss you need in your menu to impact on your consistent weight loss. This does not mean that snacking is out of your life for good. You can continue to enjoy a snack during special occasions during the week, but the quality and the impact of these on your changing body will be much, much better! - 15438

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