Is dinner the main meal? Even if so, make it light.
Are you vegetarian? Even if not, add as many vegetables as possible.
Start with a soup. Did you know that you can have 6 colors soups to choose from daily?
Even if you eat meat,chicken or fish add a mix of following grains and vegetables as your main or side dish:
Vegetables: broccoli, spinach,collard greens, dark green leafy lettuce, mustard greens, romaine lettuce
turnip greens, sweet potatoes, carrots, acorn squash, butternut squash, Hubbard squash, pumpkin
Dry beans and peas: tofu (bean curd made from soybeans), pinto beans, soy beans, chickpeas, black beans
black-eyed peas, kidney beans, lentils,lima beans (mature), quinoa, navy beans, split peas, potatoes, corn, green peas.
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Other vegetables:zucchini, tomatoes, tomato juice,vegetable juice, cabbage, artichokes,asparagus
beets, eggplant, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, celery, cucumbers, green beans, green or red peppers, iceberg lettuce
mushrooms, onions, turnips
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tips to eat well and not get heavy:
- Find a green-grocery store with variety of fresh vegetables. Visit it twice a week - just to enjoy the beauty, and buy what you need.
- Have a yummy soup daily.
- Drink mineral water or soda water with lemon.
- Have a large pot with cooked vegetables.
- Have a pot with brown grain - Rice or Quinoa, or any other.
- If you are having meat or chicken or fish, - have small piece.
- Don't eat bread, have flat bread with low calories, instead.
- Remember conscious eating ? Eat Lean, thin and light.... and you will be light!
