Substitute Sugar with No Calorie Sweetener, Available in Supermarkets

Fruit shakes

Fruit shakes are especially useful to start weight loss, experts urges limiting weight loss no more than two pounds per week. A lot of people drink fruit shakes not just because they want to loss weight or maintain an ideal weight, they drink fruit shakes because its healthy, delicious and packed with vitamins and minerals needed by our body to work properly. Fruit shakes can also be anti aging, thus making you youthful and glowing.

Tips:

Use skim milk or low fat milk instead of full cream milk or evaporated milk in making fruit shakes.

Substitute sugar with no calorie sweetener, available in supermarkets

Ingredients:

1 apple

1 banana

1-2 oranges

handful of strawberries or blueberries

fresh peach (optional)

Method:

Combine all ingredients in a blender and make a smooth and creamy texture, you can also put ice if you want a thicker, colder concoction . Serve immediately and enjoy.

Italian Lettuce Salad

A healthy recipe that promotes good health, jump packed with fiber, carbohydrates, protein and all other essential vitamins and minerals needed by the body to work properly. Nutrition deficiency can result to major health concerns that can be sometimes irreversible. Its better to start an early than to regret in the future. For this recipe you'll need.

Ingredients:

1 head lettuce, washed & cut up
1 c. chow mein noodles
3 tbsp. sesame seeds
1/2 c. cashews, chopped
6 slices cool, crisp bacon, crumbled

Dressing:

1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 c. cooking oil
4 tbsp. sugar
6 tsp. apple cider vinegar

½ cup mayonnaise

Preparation:

Put lettuce in large bowl, make sure to cut it into bite size pieces. Just before serving combine fried chow mein noodles, sesame seeds, cashews and bacon slices. Add the dressing by combining salt, pepper, oil, sugar, apple cider vinegar and mayonnaise. Toss and served, best served if chilled.

Words and Definitions

Apple (noun) : a fruit (as a star apple) or other vegetative growth (as an oak apple) suggestive of an apple

Bowl (noun): a concave usually nearly hemispherical vessel; specifically: a drinking vessel (as for wine)

vinegar (noun) : a sour liquid obtained by fermentation of dilute alcoholic liquids and used as a condiment or preservative

seeds (noun) : the grains or ripened ovules of plants used for sowing

blender(noun): one that blends; especially: an electric appliance for grinding or mixing

noodle(noun):head, noggin

pepper(noun) : either of two pungent products from the fruit of an Indian plant (Piper nigrum) that are used chiefly as condiments: (1) : black pepper(2) : white pepper

evaporated milk (noun) : unsweetened milk concentrated by partial evaporation