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How To Make Healthy Meals Both Gorgeous And Good For You

06.10.2017 by Girl on Fire // Leave a Comment

Trying to be healthy can often feel like a drag. Whether you’re looking to get to shape under your doctor’s orders, or you just want to do what you can to make sure that your family is in a tip-top condition, you can often find yourself faced with a huge challenge. Not only do you need to work on changing your lifestyle and the food that you consume, but you want to try and make it enjoyable too. When it comes to livening up your cooking, you can often find it hard to do with healthy food. But, making good food taste amazing is a lot easier than you think, you just have to be creative.

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Keep Your Ingredients Simple

Rule number one – always work with clean and fresh ingredients. When you want to be healthy, you need to know exactly what you’re eating. Not only does that mean knowing what protein, carbs, fats, and sugars are in your food, but the ingredients too. So, not matter how healthy a ready meal says it is, but it aside. It’s not worth the additives. Instead, always work with fresh ingredients and create a meal yourself.

Make Your Meats Tender

When you’re eating healthy, you’re probably going to be eating a lot of meat or fish. Sometimes that can feel super boring and repetitive, but the trick is to make it tasty. Using an electric smoker, like the one reviewed here https://electricsmokercenter.com/smokehouse-products-little-chief-front-load-smoker-review/, is often a great way to make sure that your meats and fish not only taste amazing but are super succulent too.

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Always Add Flavor

Next, you’re going to want to start focusing on flavor. When you’re working with a lot of fresh ingredients, you can be faced with a lot of natural and raw tastes. And they’re just waiting to be transformed. Whether you’re a lover of garlic or go crazy for chili powder, you’re going to want to stock up. Seasoning your food well is often a super creative and effective way to make all of your healthy meals taste amazing.

Be Adventurous

Sometimes, flavor just isn’t enough. After a while, you can find some of your old favorites just don’t cut it anymore. But then, what are you meant to do? Well, be adventurous of course. If you want to be able to shock your taste buds, work with some unexpected flavor combinations like these https://www.buzzfeed.com/emofly/23-unexpected-flavor-combos-that-taste-amazing?utm_term=.byN0PyLqO#.sfq50Mqa3. Not only will they spice up your food, but you’ll always be looking for new ways to be creative with your cooking.

Create Your Own Snacks

When you’re used to snacking or eating large meals, you’re going to need to make sure that you have nibbles to keep you sane. But, you’re not going to want to pick up crackers and cookies from the store for this – oh no. Instead, you should work on creating your owns snacks, like granola bars, egg muffins, and even frozen yogurt, using fun flavors. That way, you can eat on the go and still know that you’re eating well.

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Brandy is the wife to a carpenter/musician and the mother of 3 amazingly awesome homeschool/unschooled girls. Brandy is a Photographer as well as a Coach for the Weebellion as part of Rolling Rebellion Jr. Roller Derby. Brandy is passionate about many things and suffers from a very painful and degenerative neurological disease called CRPS/RSD.
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