9/25/07

Low Carb Dinners For A Low Carb Diet

Low carb dinners are everywhere. You can order low carb dinner at restaurants, fast food places and even make your own low carb dinners using low carb ingredients.

When you are cooking, just ensure you are not adding sauces and salad dressings with high carbohydrate content. Always read the nutrition information on all your food products.

Unless you can find low carb alternatives, it is best to avoid adding sauces, salad dressings and other appetizers while cooking, or on your meals at the dinner table.

It is good to have a variety of meals, so that you are not eating the same low carb dinner every night.

There are other low carb delights you can have at home, like a low carb cheesecake. A lot of the fresh fruit are also low carb. Just avoid the canned fruit, as they usually contain a lot of sugar.

You can cook your own low carb dinners, just make sure all your ingredients are low carb. There are a number of recipes online for low carb dinners.

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9/23/07

Healthy Appetizers For Your Salads And Meals

Healthy appetizers are added to vegetables and salads, to make the meal more edible and delicious.

If you are on a dietary plan, then you need to ensure the appetizer is not the high calorie version most widely available. When you are at the food store, check the label for nutrition information and make sure you buy the low calorie version of the appetizer.

A major mistake is made these days, when some people are on a diet. They avoid major meals and eat salads instead. The mistake is when they add a high calorie salad dressing as an appetizer. Then they wonder why the weight never comes off, even though they are on a diet.

If you are on a diet, always stick to the low calorie foods.

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9/20/07

Nutritional Information On Food Labels

Nutritional information on your food products is easy to use to stay in control of your dietary needs.

You may be allergic to some ingredients in food, so you make sure those ingredients are not in your food products by reading the nutritional information on the label.

You may want to control the amount of calories you put in your body, so you read the label and it tells you the effect of the food on your body with average daily intake.

For example, some people avoid red meat all together and eat just salads. On the salad they add a high calorie salad dressing as an appetizer. This defeats the purpose of eating only greens to lose weight, as there are too many calories in the salad dressing.

If you seriously want to lose weight, the solution is to either buy a low calorie salad dressing to add to your salads as an appetizer, or avoid salad dressing altogether.

Whenever you are buying any food product, make you read the food label, so you can always be kept aware of the content of food with detailed nutritional information.

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