A healthy dinner menu should be rich in whole grains, vegetables, and fruit (great as a dessert) -- with some lean meat, fish, poultry, and low-fat dairy foods. Fat should play a small role. Begin to make your meals healthier by slowly phasing out your old dinner recipes or by making healthy ingredient substitutions.
Substitute regular cheese with a light variety and switch from whole milk to low-fat milk. Start experimenting with one new, lower fat, healthy recipe each week. If you work new recipes into your family's life gradually, you won't create a mutiny. It won't be long before you have 20 or 30 family-approved healthy recipes in your pocket.
When you find a winner, copy the recipe into a notebook and you'll have a great new family recipe collection.Here are some tips to keep your portions light while the rest of the family chows down: Always prepare yourself a tossed salad with light dressing with your meals.
This will help fill you up (for few calories) and slow your eating down if your not taking weight loss pills. Also, don't add any margarine to veggies, potatoes, or grains during cooking. Instead, let each family member add his or her own, based on personal preferences.Last, forget dining "family style," which covers the table with bowls and platters of food.
It's clearly more difficult to resist seconds when the chicken is winking at you from the table. Instead, keep the food in the kitchen and make dinner plates for each family. Bring ONLY the plates to the table. Those who want seconds can go to the kitchen and help themselves. (Consider this another way for them to get their daily exercise.) Here's the best part of all: You won't have to wash any serving dishes! healthy dieting
