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Topic started by dev on Sat Feb 26 12:23:27 2005. [Full View]

I understand that lot of ppl have concerns about healthy cooking & eating. I'm starting this thread to share knowledge on healthy cooking & eating. Any questions on healthy lifestyle are welcome in this tread. I would try to answer to the best of my knowledge.

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From: Tharuna on Wed May 30 23:14:43 2007. [Full View]

well , ayesha has posted oats kichdi recipe. will try that dev.
i heard that drinking a glass of warm water before goin to bed will help in reducing weight and some people drink hot water after eating high cholestrol foods. does that help?
From: dev on Thu May 31 7:38:04 2007. [Full View]

IMO, there is no short-cut to weight reduction...
From: Tharuna on Thu Jun 7 2:48:59 2007. [Full View]

what is IMO dev ?
From: dev on Thu Jun 7 3:25:54 2007. [Full View]

In My Opinion...
From: Raghu on Thu Jun 7 5:35:35 2007. [Full View]

Dev,

r u still live and kicking

how have you been?

question (1) what is Tofu made of ? some one said, it is made from bean curd?
From: dev on Thu Jun 7 6:28:20 2007. [Full View]

Raghu,

Am doing very fine, Raghu...

Tofu=bean curd thaan...

It's made from soy milk... of course soy milk is from soya bean...

more here.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu
From: dev on Fri Aug 24 2:24:35 2007. [Full View]

http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2000/document/DIETGD.pdf

Very informative article...
From: Sweety4u on Thu Nov 29 22:59:23 2007. [Full View]

Hi Dev...

You are really Great....U done a wonderful job here....I amazed by your posts... Keep going...

Whats your opinion about taking noodles for dinner...? for weight watchers..
From: myebi on Thu Nov 27 10:06:51 2008. [Full View]

Here are few tips we practice in our home. hope this helps.

Use Soy Milk instead of Coconut milk for making any Non-Veg items such as curries or briyanis.

Use Soy Milk instead of regular milk to make coffee and Tea.

Stop using sugar on your tea/coffee, you will get use to it and will never have sugar again.

Use equal amounts of Quaker Oats and Dosa Batter to make Oats Dosas. This tastes the same as normal oothapam dosas with sambar, chutney and podi.

Dont fry curry leaves, mustard seeds, cumin seeds or fennel seeds, just add them to the sambar or non veg stews while cooking without fying in oil first.

Use oil to fry unless you can't avoid in situations.

Avoid 100% deep fried items, we can still have tasty indian food without fried items.

Make Appalams in microwave instead of deep frying in oil. It takes a minute to make 2 appalams in one go in a microwave.

If you are a great fan of Goat/Mutton dishes, you can still eat them by draining the fat if you use a steam cooker, or else you can leave the meat in the oven for 30 to minutes which drains the fat out, you can still cook the meat as a normal curry, the taste remains the same.

Somethings south indians are not used is eating nuts. Eat a handfull of Almonds and Mcademia nuts every day. These nuts contain higher levels of mono-unsaturated fats which are very important.

Don't use Electric rice cooker to boil rice. Instead, wash the rice in luke warm water until all the white starch go away and boil it in a large utensil and filter the rice. (vadicha saatham). All the starch will be drained this way and we use the rice to fill our stomach.

Last but least, check the nutrition label at the back of any food/snacks/drinks you buy in the store, if the label says saturated fat in grams then, think before buying.
From: Selviem on Fri Nov 28 5:21:00 2008. [Full View]

u can also make chapathi like this atta - 2 cups; oats powder - 1/cup; soya powder - 1/4 cup, black channa atta- 1/4 cup; methi powder - 1 tsp.
this is good for people who want to reduce weight, also good for diabetic people.

use flax seeds powder for reducing cholestrol.

also if anybody want receipe for flax chilli powder , i can give . this is good for reducing cholestrol

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