Healthy Cooking In A Jiffy: The Complete No Fad, No Diet Handbook: How To Cook Everything In A Jiffy, #7
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A Complete No Fad No Diet No Nonsense Healthy Eating Cookbook And That Too In A Jiffy
If you have ever wondered how you can be healthy at home without dieting, following any peculiar fads, eating any expensive, esoteric foods, injecting any hormones or downing any pills, potions or supplements, you have come absolutely to the right place.
˃˃˃ In fact, without bothering about the risk of sounding so old fashioned, author Prasenjeet Kumar declares that...
He does not think that anyone should be on a perpetual diet to stay healthy. In this book, therefore, he recommends that you do not follow any of the rather peculiar diet regimes such as a low carb high protein diet, low fat diet, Vegan diet (unless you truly believe in the vegan philosophy) or any kind of crash diets. From his own experience, he says that that they will all do you more harm than good.
˃˃˃ Instead, the author recommends going to the basics that of following a balanced diet regime.
In that background, this healthy cookbook presents a veritable cornucopia of easy recipes to give you an idea of what you can cook to achieve your target of having regularly a balanced diet. You will find ideas on not only healthy Indian cooking, but also on how to cook your vegetables in a simple and tasty manner, how to handle pasta recipes, chicken recipes, fish recipes, mutton recipes, milk shakes (even if you hate drinking plain milk), quick healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner recipes and some healthy Asian recipes when you feel the need to have something different and exciting.
˃˃˃ Surprisingly, you will find some supposedly "unhealthy" recipes as waffles, pancakes, French toasts, lasagne and lamb moussaka too in this "healthy" cookbook for two.
The author's short answer is, that the wonderful taste of these dishes makes you happy and being happy (and full of serotonin) is more than half way to being healthy. Moreover, as the author believes, any sensible person will have these dishes only once-in-a-while when you are bored eating your regular stuff.
˃˃˃ Again, quite boldly, the author declares that personally he does not count calories in his diet, oops recipes.
He feels that counting calories can actually drive you mad. This book celebrates exactly this very viewpoint and deliberately with some justifiable pride eschews providing any calorific or nutritional information for the listed recipes. If you want to still count calories, feel free to do so by taking advantage of so many tools that are readily available on the internet, the author advises.
At the end of this book, there are tips relating to how you can manage to have five to six small meals a day, regardless of your busy schedule, how you can exercise even if you are not a "gym person", how to freeze and preserve leftovers and finally how to sequence and parallel process your actions so that you save time while cooking your meals.
˃˃˃ So if you are sick of dieting, counting calories, or gorging on supplements, do consider investing in this book of simply sensible cooking and get on to a journey of eternal joy and happiness.
Scroll up and grab a copy today.
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Healthy Cooking In A Jiffy - Prasenjeet Kumar
I: Cooking At Home Is Extinct; Eating Together Is Uncool—-My First Encounters With 21st Century Culinary Practices
I still remember these experiences as if they had happened only yesterday. It was the summer of 2000. I had just finished my class 10 school examinations. These being an all-India Government of India conducted affair with millions appearing in it was quite an ordeal, both physically as well as psychologically. And then there was the typical Delhi heat, with temperatures soaring over 45 degree Centigrade (113 Degree Fahrenheit).
We had to go to cooler climes, but where? The nearest popular-with-the-British Hill stations were just a few hours away by road. But we had already covered them, one by one in the previous summers. Should we then go abroad? To Europe? Normally we did that when we wished to celebrate some good news. But here I was sure that there was nothing to cheer about my performance in class 10. God, why were they teaching me Calculus, Trigonometry and Set Theory when I just wanted to be an ordinary Lawyer!
Anyway, we debated our options, and my parents in a sudden fit of unexplained generosity, decided to take me to the other end of the earth, to Canada, to see the Niagara Falls and the Rockies.
So a week later, we were in Toronto. A family friend received us and took us home. After chatting for a few hours, we went straight to bed. We did not wish to have dinner as we had already had a lot on the plane. We were terribly jet lagged, I suppose.
The next morning when we woke up, our hosts served us some very nice Egg McMuffins from McDonald’s for breakfast. I was (as is usual, for any 15 year old anywhere in the world) quite fond of McDonald’s but I didn’t know that you could have some kind of egg burgers
too for breakfast there. Anyway, we were quite touched that our hosts were ordering breakfast from this great multinational in our honour.
Oh you are so kind to order food from McDonald’s
, my mother couldn’t help remarking.
Hey, not at all. We regularly order breakfast from McDonald’s. It is so convenient.
said the friend.
Actually I hardly cook anything at home. You know, in Canada, you have plenty of options for eating out, at really affordable rates. Plus I find cooking at home, and especially the cleaning thereafter, to be quite a bit of a pain in, you know, where. In fact, nowadays I cannot even recognise the fruits and vegetables that are available in the supermarket, they are so many of them.
boasted the wife (as if it was something to be really proud of).
The egg burger
was very tasty but I couldn’t quite place the oil used to make the egg. Was it animal lard, I wondered.
I was surprised that the son, who was my age, had not joined us.
Where is your son
, I asked.
Oh he is having McMuffin in his own room. You know how kids like to have everything in their bedrooms
, replied our host rather indulgently.
Our hosts too had just one son. His parents would drop him off to school after breakfast and pick him up during lunch time.
Around 10, our hosts had to go shopping and we tagged along. The mall that we went to was bigger than whatever I had seen till then anywhere in the world. In between we had some really delicious chocolate doughnuts. The wife said that these were easily the best doughnuts in town and that she comes here, almost every day, to have them.
For lunch, we were taken to a nearby Vietnamese Restaurant. This time the son also joined us. We had some really nice boneless fish with vegetables and fried rice.
You know, in Canada, eating out is very affordable
, our hosts reiterated.
For dinner, our friends had bought some roast chicken from the nearby supermarket and simply heated it in a microwave. I couldn’t help but notice that the son again did not join us for dinner.
We were explained that the young man didn’t like to eat dinner so early (at around 8.30 p.m.!). He instead preferred having his roast chicken watching his favourite TV show an hour or so later.
I found this rather interesting. I thought that I had a very peculiar problem that I could never multi task like this. That is, I couldn’t eat my roast chicken and watch TV at the same time. My problem was that if I started relishing my roast chicken, my mind will not be able to concentrate on what was going on the TV. But if I instead focused on the television, then I could not enjoy my roast chicken (because I found that I then ate mindlessly without really enjoying the flavours).
At that time I thought maybe there was something wrong with me. Only later when I started reading Health magazines that I learnt about why one should not eat and watch TV at the same time. The main reason is that you then tend to indulge in mindless eating and consume larger quantities of food than what you otherwise would have. In fact, if you were grappling with obesity, this would be one of the first lifestyle changes you will be immediately recommended to adopt.
The next day it was the same old story. This time for breakfast, our hosts had got some hot dogs from another popular chain of restaurants. We had then some chocolate doughnuts for snack, some sweet and sour pork with rice from a nearby Chinese takeaway and some Spaghetti with meat balls for dinner (that too as a ready-made meal from a supermarket).
Our friend’s son would hardly ever join us for any meal unless all of us were eating out. On some days, he would simply have some popcorn and chips for dinner.
You know my son binged on popcorn and chips, so he does not feel like having a full dinner
, the wife used to explain.
Then we went to Niagara and I was thrilled beyond words. We just freaked out photographing ourselves and the mighty falls from all possible locations and angles. When we came back to Toronto, our hosts had their annual health check-ups lined up for the entire family. That was not really our concern.
So we went for a cruise on Lake Ontario, of the breath taking Great lakes. When we came back, we gathered from the downcast faces of our hosts that the results of their blood work were not exactly pleasing. What I could gather at that age was that our hosts had somewhat wonky parameters that necessitated more tests, more consultations and probably higher insurance premiums.
The most surprising aspect was that their son too, who was only 15 years old, had abnormal blood cholesterol levels. What were our cholesterol levels, our hosts (like all nosey Indians!) were curious about? They were disappointed to learn that they were all boringly within normal ranges, without having any medicines (statins, I later learnt).
The price of having a rich diet, I suppose
, our hosts sighed. The wife promptly blamed her husband’s mother who used to feed him eggs every morning for breakfast, back in India, (when he was a child) for his high cholesterol levels. I later learnt that it is not the egg that is usually the culprit in such cases, but the lifestyle (high in saturated fats) which should actually take the