Do you like to eat healthy meals at home? Excellent choice. But it is sometimes harder than you think to prepare a healthy, fresh meal every day.
It takes time and energy to think about what you are going to eat, to get the right ingredients at home, and it also takes discipline to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Fortunately, there are things that make your life a lot easier. The same is true when it comes to healthy eating. By having the right stuff at home, you make it a lot easier on yourself.
Vegetables, vegetables and more vegetables
For some it's a breeze, for others a huge task:eating enough vegetables throughout the day. Any kind of vegetable is actually good. If you usually only eat vegetables for dinner, you will not always get enough. Then try to add some vegetables during lunch and possibly breakfast. Try making oatmeal with carrot or beetroot, add some slices of tomato and cucumber to your cheese sandwich or eat a large salad for lunch. One way to optimally preserve the vitamins and minerals, which are so important in vegetables, is by steaming the vegetables. A good investment is a pan for steaming food. With a steamer, the vegetables do not come into contact with the water, only with steam, so that the vitamins and minerals are not lost and the vegetable retains its taste better.
Everything in the blender
A blender is multifunctional. You can make delicious fresh smoothies with it, which is an ideal way to get more fresh fruit and vegetables. You can also prepare soup, homemade hummus or healthy pasta sauces in a blender. When choosing your blender, you mainly look at the power (number of watts). The higher the number, the more powerful the blender. The more powerful the blender, the higher the price (in most cases). It just depends on what you will be using it for the most. If you also want to be able to easily crush frozen ice, for example, you really need a powerful blender.
Tasty soups
A large pot of soup is the ideal healthy and also easy meal. In a soup you can easily get rid of all the leftover vegetables you had lying around. Add some seasonings and stock and you'll have a delicious meal on the table in no time. It is usually easy to make, the soup just needs to be on the stove for a while. Time that you can now spend on other things. So make sure you have a large (soup) pan in which you can put everything. A stick blender is also useful for a nice smooth tomato soup. You can eat what is left over for lunch the next day or freeze it for later.
Measuring is knowing
Preparing too much food often also means eating too much. Especially with things like pasta and rice it is difficult to measure exactly the right amounts. As a result, you often have just a little too much, which you then eat anyway because it is a shame to throw it away. That is a thing of the past with a kitchen scale. This way you weigh exactly the right amounts so that you never have too much. This is not only useful for limiting your portion size, by the way. It also ensures that you have less food waste. Better for the environment and your own wallet.
Sin healthier
Do you also like a potato or croquette every now and then? This also fits in well with a healthy lifestyle, as long as you do it in moderation. It's all about balance. If you keep denying yourself 'unhealthy' things, the desire for them will sometimes only increase, making you unstoppable one day. If you allow yourself some chips or another snack of your choice every now and then, it's fine to stick with it. That said, you can then make sure that that snack is prepared in the most healthy way possible. And you can do that by getting an air fryer at home instead of a deep-fat fryer. With an airfryer, your fries are not fried in fat, but in air. Hence the name of course. This already makes a significant difference. Moreover, you can also use an airfryer for many other things, such as baking sandwiches or preparing grilled vegetables.
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