Eat for health

All Healthy Food Recipes shows you the ways, methods and how to cook and eat in a way that promotes good health.  It is not about food fads or crash diets, but about a wise, long-term pattern of enjoying eating.  The all healthy food recipes prepared here do not involve giving up good food and are designed to create a wide selection of dishes that you would choose to eat, and all the more readily because they observe the rules for a healthy diet - Eating For Health and Pleasure.  In the creation, testing and selection of healthy recipes for this website, all the nutritional targets and guidelines have been borne in mind and they are elegant yet simple to produce.

 

A good healthy diet should supply just enough nutrients for growth, repairs and chemical processes, and give ample energy for daily tasks.  Knowing what to cook for is crucial in checking whether your diet is healthy.  Equally crucial is knowing what you are eating, so in most of the recipes, there is a chart with each recipe to show what nutrients a single serving contains.  When you choose a recipe, be sure to read all the ingredients and instructions before you start making it.  You may need to soak beans or prepare a stock or tomato sauce in advance.  Where ingredients are given in spoonfuls, they have been measured with standard measuring spoons.  You should use a level spoonful when this is listed; a rounded spoonful can be twice as much as a level spoonful and would affect the taste if the ingredient is ginger or basil, for example, and the consistency if the ingredient is flour for thickening a sauce.  Some of the recipes are very quick to prepare, some take longer, and some require a little preparation the day before.

 

Choosing and preparing meals is worthy of thought, planning and effort.  Do not gobble or eat on the run; make a meal an occasion even if it is at an office desk.  Devote time to it, eat slowly and relish your meal.  Food is not a weakness, a fad, an obsession or a sin, but one of life's necessities and one of its most enduring pleasures