10 Tips For Boosting Your Energy
A fourth cup of coffee isn’t what you need to get through that energy slump. Try a few “you-friendly” remedies instead.
How to break the stress-fat connection
Did you know that “stressed” spelled backwards is “desserts?” This ironic connection makes sense because under stress, we frequently do destructive things, frequently overeating, and overeating the ‘wrong’ foods.
Daily stress leads to feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and defeat. Too much of it in turn leads to toxic stress. And toxic stress frequently leads to self-destructive behaviors — overeating for many women; overdrinking for many men.
The big issue with stress-related eating is that it leads to belly fat deep inside your body, and this belly fat is associated with increased risks of heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
How can you fight the urge to self-destruct in response to stress?
For students, eating at college is an entire new thing, the late night pizza delivery and food from buggies. Even though some of these quick and easy options taste great, they are probably not healthy for a student’s body.
The food choices can affect whether or not they’re able to stay awake during class and whether or not they will go down with mononucleosis when it hits campus. The problem is not only about eating up trash food, it’s more about not getting the suitable proteins, carbs, vitamins, and minerals that their body needs.
When it comes to fighting against illnesses, vitamins and minerals are very important. It’s best for students to get their nutrition from food.
You can find vitamin C in citric fruits, Vitamin A in milk and diary products, and vitamin E in nuts, whole wheat products. This is the best way to get nutrition as your body relies on these vitamins for many reasons.
When you eat on campus, try to skip on the soda’s and go the juice machines instead. Explore the different meals that are available and go where there are fresh vegetables. There are always healthy cereals and plenty of fresh fruit available outside the campus if you can’t find them in campus.
Always remember that eating healthy isn’t just about avoiding greasy foods. Eating healthy is about getting a balanced diet and getting the right nutrients and vitamins to keep your body in peak mode, so that you can learn faster!
Did you know that mashed potatoes are not just some popular everyday food, there are actually some healthy substances in the common potato? The main two ingredients in potatoes are starch and water. And some of that starch is resistant to enzymatic digestion that happens in your stomach and small intestine. That means that is comes almost intact to the large intestine. This has similar effects and benefits as eating food rich with fiber. I’m sure everyone knows how to make mashed potatoes, but there are a few tips and tricks to make it them better. They are all included into this mashed potatoes recipe.
For this mashed potatoes recipe we will need:
1 1/2 lbs potatoes (Yukon Gold are pretty good for mashed potatoes for instance)
4 Tbsp heavy cream or a half half mix of cream and milk
2 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
Salt and Pepper
First you need to peel the potatoes and cut them into big pieces. If you cut them into small pieces they will absorb more water and you don’t want that (tip no.1). Now cover them with cold water (not warm, tip no.2), add salt in bring them to boil. When they are boiling turn down the heat and let them simmer. Potatoes are cooked in 15 to 20 minutes. You can test them by sticking a knife or a fork in a potato and if it’s soft it’s done.
Drain the potatoes and put them back on low heat so all excess water evaporates (tip no.3).
Now add warm milk and butter (cold milk can turn your mashed potatoes gluey, tip no.4) and some more salt and pepper if you want. Take a wire masher and mash them. You are done. Here you can find more mashed potatoes recipes including garlic, cheddar cheese etc…
How to Use Bagged Salad Greens Safely
* Check the “best if used by” date, and of course, choose the one that is furthest from the date you buy it.
* Look through the bag and check for wilted, spoiled or old greens, and don’t buy that bag. When you get them home, don’t wash them. They’re pre-washed and safe to eat. Washing them can actually make them break down faster and become more susceptible to bacterial growth.|
* If you have leftover greens, leave them in the bag they came in.
* These bags are more high tech than they look; they’re specially designed to allow the perfect amount of oxygen and moisture into the bag to preserve the greens still in there.
* Add some protein, some vegetables and a light dressing and you have a ready-to-eat meal in minutes, and you get the vegetables you need.
How to decorate sports cupcakes
* To make turf: Place coconut in zip-top plastic bag. Add a few drops of green food coloring. Close bag and knead coconut by hand until it turns green. Spread on the serving platter.
* To make a basketball: Frost a cupcake with orange frosting, turning cupcake as you go to evenly coat. Using a pastry cone filled with chocolate frosting, pipe lines on the cupcake to look like stitching on a basketball.
* To make a baseball: Frost a cupcake with white frosting. Pipe two arcs on top using the red frosting in the pastry cone. Then pipe the stitches on each arc pressing down as you start to squeeze frosting out and then lifting up.
* To make a tennis ball: Frost cupcake in the “tennis ball” green frosting. Pipe two arcs in white on top.
* To make a soccer ball: Frost cupcake in white. Using the pastry cone filled with chocolate frosting, make a pentagon in the center of the cupcake and fill in with chocolate frosting. Make a line from each of the points of the pentagon out to the edge of the cupcake. At the edge of each of the lines, pipe and fill a triangle shape.
* Place finished cupcakes in a cupcake tree or on top of the coconut “turf” on a serving platter.
Note: Cupcakes can freeze for up to two months.
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Foods containing sugar are not the healthiest out there, but from time to time you just have to pamper yourself. Especially if you like ice cream. What goes perfectly with vanilla ice cream? What makes a perfect dessert? Yep, it’s apple crisp. And lucky for us, apple crisp is pretty easy to make at home. This apple crisp recipe will teach you how. The ingredients you need for this recipe are the following:
for apple filling:
4 - 5 cups apples
1/4-1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 tablespoons sugar or less
3 tablespoons flour
and for the crisp
1 cup flour
1 cup oats
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup cold butter
Now we can begin. Set the oven at 350 degrees. Thin slice the apples into a pan and mix them with 3 tablespoons of flour, 2-3 tablespoons of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon. Done? Good, now we will do the crispy part. In a bigger bowl mix in 1 cup of flour, oats and brown sugar then slice the butter into the bowl. Mix it in with a fork and spread everything over the apples. Apple crisp is done when it turns golden brown.. That should take about 45 minutes. Let the apple crisp cool down a little and you are done. If you liked this one, you can find more apple crisp recipes here.
Buying fresh fish can be a little scary, if you don’t know what to look for. Whole Food Market’s Martha Drayton shows and tells what you need to know to make sure you’re getting the freshest fish.
Kids love chocolate chip cookies. Actually everyone loves chocolate chip cookies. Give me some cookies and a glass of milk and I am happy. But you do not have to buy the cookies in the store, you can easily make them and bake them right at home. It’s aeasy it’s fun and they taste delicious. All you need is some time and a nice and simple chocolate chip cookie recipe. You can use this simple recipe here or you can visit a site dedicated to chocolate chip cookie recipes.
You will need:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup melted butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
First set the oven to 350 degrees, then mix the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar. Beat in the eggs one by one. Stir in the vanilla. Put baking soda in hot water and add it to the mix. Finish by mixing in the flour, chocolate chips, and nuts. When your batter is done take a spoon and drop large spoonfuls of cookie dough onto a cookie sheet. You should bake your chocolate chip cookies for 8 to 10 minutes, wait for the edges to turn brown. Enjoy this recipe.
