Nutrition meets comfort food.

 

Nutrition meets comfort food.

Who does not enjoy palatable delicacies! When we talk about nutrition, all we think of is compromising with taste. Though, we all know how nutrition, is important to make us healthy, fit and disease free.

A balanced diet with a bit of changes in menu, is all we need where the food is served in at home at healthcare institutions, restaurants, canteens as well as at workplaces.

Let’s look at four points on how we achieve our nutritional goals with comfort food.

1. Gone are the days when healthy food, was referred as boiled or blend food.

Do you know, you can eat all that you wish for without jeopardizing your taste buds? Have you ever tried Frozen greek yogurt instead of ice-creams? Or maybe a rice bowl with tofu, pita bread and salsa? You can, swap your regular oily fried food with grilled or baked food. Instead of paneer curry you can have tofu curry, wheat bread with whole wheat bread. There are wide range of fresh fruits, vegetables, gluten-free grains and also desserts made of stevia to please your sweet tooth without causing any harm.

2. Home cooked vs Take – Away.

We are hooked up in our busy schedule, that we get no time to cook and end up hopping on street food or all that unhealthy food.

We need to plan our time, where we pre-prep all the ingredients in advance. For instance, making batch of gravy which we can use as per convenience. Today food provided outside, are produced inexpensively for the production being a byword. The emphasis is more on taste and ease of cooking. Therefore, preparing your own meals is essential part of healthy eating, it also will prevent you from over eating and will keep nutrition on point. One should not depend on junk or processed food for a longer time period. Try, watching one recipe and making it all by yourself, I am sure you will become curious to try new recipes whenever you can.

      3. Understanding Significance of healthy diet.

Firstly, adapting changes in your diet must be a lifestyle change. The kind of meals which you can eat, should feel satisfying so you can stick to it for life long. It surely seems challenging, though it takes time to get used to changes. Therefore take one step at a time. Initially try cutting refined-carbs from at least one meal or just by reducing sugar intake. Once, you get habitual of eating all the nutrient dense food there will be no going back. You will be surprised, to see what changes, you will start feeling energetic, bloating will be gone. It simply is , “We are what we eat”. If we think rationally, isn’t it a minimal modification to opt for rather than, being caught up by an lurgy.

4    4. Understanding how to eat.

There must be right proportion of carbs, protein and fat on your plate when you are on balanced diet. Everybody, have unalike bodies and it’s  requirements. To make it easy, start counting macros as per our muscle, fat, age and other BMI factors. This will help you keep, right protein, fat, carb proportion in  check. This small practice not merely but also, aids us to stay under required calories and circumvents us from binge eating. To make it more sustainable, do have a short term goals. Who said you can treat yourself for achieving them! Haven’t you heard about cheat meals too?  

If we look onto the internet we have ample of resources, which can help us break monotony by providing variety of dishes to try. We often get bored of diet because, we are given same food to eat. We are blessed with multiple cuisines around the world. All we have to do is try it, and fit it into our meals.