Saturday, May 23, 2009
reciperewards.com
new website here, or at least new to me. this one is http://www.reciperewards.com/?refer=1288950 . you can also access it through the site http://usmgr.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=0&.rand=1ns35n459gkdg again it is the reciperewards.com website. this one has recipes and quizzes. the recipes include weight watcher and healthy as well as more traditional groupings. the quizzes cover topics such as snacking, vegetarian eating and dining out. some of the answers are rather obvious, but that is at least better than too hard. ciao, l
Thursday, May 21, 2009
diet blogs and hyperlinks
this is a list of three hypersites and one blog site with a description:
- http://www.diet-blog.com a large list of blogs by a large number of people trying to lose weight.
- http://www.dietfacts.com a large site with numerous hyperlinks and the ability to check brands for caloric information (for example, haagen dazs vanilla icecream, not that you eat that, of course)
- http://calorielab.com a website a bit like dietfacts.com
- http://www.nutritiondata.com a website a bit like dietfacts.com.
and now some musings on a report by the cdc (see diet-blog.com) on the rating of states as to the obesity or overweight status of each state. first, obese and overweight are not the same thing. i hope i am overweight only. obese is far worse. i am not sure of the difference exactly. what matters, though, is that the least obese state is hawaii, and the most obese states are in the deep south. writers concur that the southern states eat poorly and exercise little. one blogger noted that he had seen neighbors in the south get on their riding lawnmowers to go out to the mailbox!
but why is hawaii the leanest state? is it diet? do hawaiians eat lots of fresh fruit and fish, which are both good for the heart and health in general? or is it that they have a better climate, although what difference that makes, i don't know? or is it that they have abundant beaches and can exercise more readily?
most importantly, what does this have to do with my state, which is ohio? a good question. now i need to find a good answer.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
foodieview.com
in my newspaper today, the usa weekend segment of the sunday paper had on p. 4 a reference to http://www.foodieview.com/ which says it is a website that searches its 130,000 recipes (i didn't verify the number) for dishes that are heart-healthy. it certainly does that, but it does more. it functions as a blog for its members on the subject of food. you can not only get the recipe for a winter squash soup curried with almonds, but read blogs about its preperation by a writer living in the south of france.
it also has reviews of cookbooks, restaurant guides for major cities (i do not live in a major city), databases for types of cuisine, such as french, italian, or chinese, and types of diet, such as diabetic or vegan and vegetarian. the recipes can be placed into your recipebox, if you plan to make them some day, or printed off. i did not find, though there may be one, an e-mail option so you can send recipes to friends/relatives.
not all recipes or sites that make up this hyperlinked website are always heart-healthy. i came across food & wine, which can be a bit on the cholesterol-laden end sometimes. i also did not notice, on the only recipe i checked, a dietary information breakdown on items such as sodium, fat, calories and protein. outside of that i saw no problems with the site.
this may be the best recipe hyperlinked website i have yet seen. it is free. there is also a find a friend portion, which i did not try, for those (i know who i am) who would like more friends.
ciao a tutti, l.
it also has reviews of cookbooks, restaurant guides for major cities (i do not live in a major city), databases for types of cuisine, such as french, italian, or chinese, and types of diet, such as diabetic or vegan and vegetarian. the recipes can be placed into your recipebox, if you plan to make them some day, or printed off. i did not find, though there may be one, an e-mail option so you can send recipes to friends/relatives.
not all recipes or sites that make up this hyperlinked website are always heart-healthy. i came across food & wine, which can be a bit on the cholesterol-laden end sometimes. i also did not notice, on the only recipe i checked, a dietary information breakdown on items such as sodium, fat, calories and protein. outside of that i saw no problems with the site.
this may be the best recipe hyperlinked website i have yet seen. it is free. there is also a find a friend portion, which i did not try, for those (i know who i am) who would like more friends.
ciao a tutti, l.
Monday, May 11, 2009
free recipes site
Just saw a show on the discovery network which posts recipes that are healthier for you on http://www.health.discover.com . There are a number of sites posted here, including health items and fitness. The recipes seemed quite good. Just FYI. Ciao, L.
Monday, May 4, 2009
cook yourself thin
ok boys and girls, it's time to talk about cook yourself thin on lifetime network. Basically it is a show where three women meet with real women who weigh too much. The women have different reasons for losing weight but don't want to give up their favorite foods. These include fries, hamburgers with cheese, shakes, steaks, lasagna, pizza and cupcakes.
the challenge is to lower the calories of the meal to 1/2 or 1/3. And without losing taste. The show is really good. and the recipes seem good. here's how to find the recipes. navigate to http://www.mylifetime.com/ Click on the show advertisement, which is a you-tube sort of thing. At the end of it scroll down to the descriptors of the show and select the word recipes. it will be in blue probably. this will take you to the actual recipes which are downloadable and printable and even emailable.
there is also a cookbook, also called cook yourself thin. hunt it down. one plus about having food with fewer calories is that you can eat more sometimes! They preach a sort of easy formula for weight loss, which is that your target weight times ten should equal the number of calories you eat per day. So if you want to drop to 150 lbs, say, you should eat 1500 cals per day. Simple. But seriously, watch the show. I mean pizza for 475 calories per serving, incredible.
the challenge is to lower the calories of the meal to 1/2 or 1/3. And without losing taste. The show is really good. and the recipes seem good. here's how to find the recipes. navigate to http://www.mylifetime.com/ Click on the show advertisement, which is a you-tube sort of thing. At the end of it scroll down to the descriptors of the show and select the word recipes. it will be in blue probably. this will take you to the actual recipes which are downloadable and printable and even emailable.
there is also a cookbook, also called cook yourself thin. hunt it down. one plus about having food with fewer calories is that you can eat more sometimes! They preach a sort of easy formula for weight loss, which is that your target weight times ten should equal the number of calories you eat per day. So if you want to drop to 150 lbs, say, you should eat 1500 cals per day. Simple. But seriously, watch the show. I mean pizza for 475 calories per serving, incredible.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Cookbook Review
WeightWatchers New Complete Cookbook (2006).
There are many of these cookbooks, about one per each year. The books are laid out in notebook format in a ring binder and have 16 categories of foods. Foods range from easy and every day to complex and impressive. The recipes are marked in WeightWatchers style, with the number of pts per recipe. Also more complicated recipes are marked, as are spicier ones and so on. All recipes come with caloric information. These are two of there recipes.
Stuffed Peppers (the author notes that this dish is actually French in origin. S/he suggests using various colors of peppers for eye appeal)
Makes 4 servings
1/2 lb lean ground beef (10 % or less fat)
1 cup cooked white rice
1 onion, finely chopped
1/4 cup thawed frozen green peas
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 tbsptomato paste
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp minced fresh thyme
1 tsp minced fresh basil
1/2 tsp minced fresh sage
4 green, red, or yellow bell peppers, topped and seeded
1/2 cup tomato puree or tomato sauce
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine all the first ten ingredients in a large bowl and mix it. Loosely stuff the peppers with this mix and stand them in a baking dish. Pour the tomato puree over the peppers and add enough water to the dish to cup 1/4th the way up the peppers. Cover with foil and bake, bastingoccasionally with the juices for 30 min. Uncover and bake until the pepper and rice are tender and the filling is completely cooked, about 20 min longer. Let stand 5 min and serve.
1 pepper has 224 ccals, 6 g. fat, 3 g sat fat, o g trans fat, 19 mg chol, 268 mg sodium,29 g carb, 4 g fiber, 15 g. prot and 107 mg calc. points = 4
Banana Cream Pie (yoghurt here replaces the cream)
Makes 8 servings
12 low-fat honey graham crackers (3 full sheets) made into crumbs
1 tbsp butter
1tsp water
4 bananas, thinly sliced on the diagonal
2 tbsp fresh lime juic
1 env unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups plain fat-free yoghurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
Grated Lime Zest
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a nine inch pan with nonstick spray.
Combine the crumb, butter and water in a medium bowl with a fork. Press this into the bottom and up the sides of the pie plate. Bake until firm, 3-5 min, cool.
In another medium bowl toss the bananas with the lime juice and reserve one cup. Arrange the remaining bananas over the crust.
In a small saucepan sprinkle the gelatin over the cold water and let stand 2 min. Add the sugar and cook on medium high heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture boils and the gelatin and sugar dissolves (2-3 min). Remove from the heat and whisk in the yoghurt and vanilla. Pour into the pie plate. Arrange the remaining bananas over the pie and sprinkle with the lime zest. Refrigerate, covered with plastic wrap, till chilled, 2-3 hours.
A serving = 1/8 of a pie. 146 cals, 2 g. fat, 1 g sat fat, 0 g trans fat, 5 mg sod, 32 g carb, 2 g fib, 4 prot, 86 mg calc. Points=3
There are many of these cookbooks, about one per each year. The books are laid out in notebook format in a ring binder and have 16 categories of foods. Foods range from easy and every day to complex and impressive. The recipes are marked in WeightWatchers style, with the number of pts per recipe. Also more complicated recipes are marked, as are spicier ones and so on. All recipes come with caloric information. These are two of there recipes.
Stuffed Peppers (the author notes that this dish is actually French in origin. S/he suggests using various colors of peppers for eye appeal)
Makes 4 servings
1/2 lb lean ground beef (10 % or less fat)
1 cup cooked white rice
1 onion, finely chopped
1/4 cup thawed frozen green peas
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 tbsptomato paste
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp minced fresh thyme
1 tsp minced fresh basil
1/2 tsp minced fresh sage
4 green, red, or yellow bell peppers, topped and seeded
1/2 cup tomato puree or tomato sauce
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine all the first ten ingredients in a large bowl and mix it. Loosely stuff the peppers with this mix and stand them in a baking dish. Pour the tomato puree over the peppers and add enough water to the dish to cup 1/4th the way up the peppers. Cover with foil and bake, bastingoccasionally with the juices for 30 min. Uncover and bake until the pepper and rice are tender and the filling is completely cooked, about 20 min longer. Let stand 5 min and serve.
1 pepper has 224 ccals, 6 g. fat, 3 g sat fat, o g trans fat, 19 mg chol, 268 mg sodium,29 g carb, 4 g fiber, 15 g. prot and 107 mg calc. points = 4
Banana Cream Pie (yoghurt here replaces the cream)
Makes 8 servings
12 low-fat honey graham crackers (3 full sheets) made into crumbs
1 tbsp butter
1tsp water
4 bananas, thinly sliced on the diagonal
2 tbsp fresh lime juic
1 env unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups plain fat-free yoghurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
Grated Lime Zest
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a nine inch pan with nonstick spray.
Combine the crumb, butter and water in a medium bowl with a fork. Press this into the bottom and up the sides of the pie plate. Bake until firm, 3-5 min, cool.
In another medium bowl toss the bananas with the lime juice and reserve one cup. Arrange the remaining bananas over the crust.
In a small saucepan sprinkle the gelatin over the cold water and let stand 2 min. Add the sugar and cook on medium high heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture boils and the gelatin and sugar dissolves (2-3 min). Remove from the heat and whisk in the yoghurt and vanilla. Pour into the pie plate. Arrange the remaining bananas over the pie and sprinkle with the lime zest. Refrigerate, covered with plastic wrap, till chilled, 2-3 hours.
A serving = 1/8 of a pie. 146 cals, 2 g. fat, 1 g sat fat, 0 g trans fat, 5 mg sod, 32 g carb, 2 g fib, 4 prot, 86 mg calc. Points=3
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