You are eating just mummies

British people tend to boil the vegetables too long. 

Most of the nourishment will be gone;

you are eating just mummies.

Besides you are not enjoying the texture of the food.

Can your teeth feel the difference between broccoli and cauliflowers?
I will post "how to  look for the degree boiled exquisite" sometime.

Use the top of cauliflower.  

Eat it raw

 Sprinkle them on the top of the salad, with walnuts vinegar, 

olive oil, garlic salt and whatever you usually like to add

Enjoy the texture

Carbohydrate is always a sub character

Yes, even in Sushi.

 Today's post is sushi for very beginners.

Here is sticky rice:

When you make sushi, the rice must be vineger rice, but I will leave it to the intermediate course.
Boil the rice. You can mix with sesame seed, poppy seed, sunflower seed or pine seed, when it is boiled.

Well, have you seen this in UK? This is the seaweed for sushi. You can buy them at the Japanese, Chinese or Korean food shops.

Cut them into four:

And the excitement starts from here. You can prepare anything you want. Avocado, Asparagus, seafood stick, cucumber, scrambled eggs, lettuce, smoked salmon, tuna,  smoked mackerel or prawns, anything you want! 

Place the rice on the seaweed as little as possible  ( otherwise you will be full after eating only a couple of rolls) And put them in any items, any combination.

This is a conventional one (Carlifornia roll? ) with avocado and smoke salmon

And you roll it 

Just with  a little dip of say sauce (only a good quality one!)

You make it as you eat.The point of the diet is to place the rice as little as possible, as you are eating vegetables together with rice.

Scale Magic

Make it a habit to weigh yourself every morning. Just place the scale under your sink so that you'll have to step on every time you go to wash your face. The first time you step on the scale you'll probably look at the numbers and never want to step on the scales again, but don't give up. Just step on it again the next day, and the next, and the next...

Most people will start to see a decrease in numbers on the scale, even if they're not on a diet. It's because your subconscious kicks into a healthy mode and in turn controls your eating habits without you even knowing. You start to swap the crisps for an apple, you may ditch the extra shot of caramel in your latte.. anything that won't make the number of the scale shoot back up again.

Don't get obsessive though! Just blend it into your daily routine and see how it goes.

I

My first scale was only　￡5

My Latest fancyone.It displays not just your weight, but your muscle mass, fat mass, bone mass...
Great for fitness fanatics.

I feel the lightest after the bath

the cartoon is from google image

Are Japanese fanatics about healthy food?

Well,  they are traditionally eat mainly vegetables and fish. 

So they do not really feel the need to go through a dramatic change in diet.

And of course, when it comes to white rice, it's a staple in their country.
They can't ever let that go.
Sushi would not go with brown rice!

However, it has become trendy to mix it in with other grains.

Here is a recipe of delicious mixed grains with white rice.

1.) Prepare your white rice into the portion size you want.

2.) Mix with barley, lentils green peas, even brown rice (from a packet of barley mix)

I prefer the grains to be slightly hard, but soak them beforehand if you would like softer ones!

3.) Boil them. I find the rice cooker to work is easy.
Worth investing in too!

4.) Prepare tinned sardines (spring water or brine)

It is good to eat small fish as you can eat the whole including bones

and they are less toxic than bigger fish as smaller ones are at the beginning of the food chain

The bigger the fish is the more toxic...

Microbiotically speaking, it's better not to eat fish or animals that are bigger than you.
In other words, what you cannot hunt by yourself is not for you.

5.) Warm them up in a frying pan just for a couple of minutes.

Important thing here is to use (as I will always carry on saying in this blog)
 Use only good quality oil, such as 100% pure sesame oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, or Good Oil

Add lemon, lime and a little bit of soy sauce.

6.) Place the fish on top of the rice and add spring onions or maybe some radish, like so...
(I sprinkled ground brown sesame, but ground peanuts or whole peanuts would be just as delicious) *


And there it is! You've just converted an average dish into something very healthy and nutritious and not to mention, absolutely delicious.

No worries. It is always ways around if you do not fancy brown food

* please be advised, the recent EU Law states that peanuts and sesames are part of the 14 allergens, so check you are not allergic!

Brown or White?

You know the answer.

It’s better for your health. It takes longer to chew and that stimulates saliva. It’s great for your bowl movement and is packed with minerals and vitamins. 

Then why can’t you switch over?  Too soggy, comparing with bleeched pasta?

Stop seeing  ‘brown' as an alternative. Think they are another nice things.

For example,

Cut the spagetti in three

 

Brown food tastes better when it's not too soft so I boil the past/rice to a hard-ish texture and mix it with beans, broccoli, garlic, kale, tomatoes, mushrooms, whatever you like (but do not boil them too long) with some soy sauce, olive oil, lemon, and chees on top on it.  

The secret is not to count it as the main ingredient, but just another ingredient. So the amount of pasta is not huge.

And yogurt, honey and sunflower seeds, goji berries, lemons, pineapples, blueberries, cranberries (from a packet) as a desert.

Easy to take 30 pieces!
 

You don't throw away the stem of a broccoli, do you?

Some people throw away the stem of a broccoli?  Oh no, there is a plenty of nourishment in it.

You can use the soft bit (white part)

Thin slices

Why don't you add carrots or celery?

Remember? Relax rule!

Fry them with garlic just for a few minutes 

(Do not cook too long. You need to taste the texture)

Saysauce and Sesami oil is Japanese style

Olive oil and Salt is Western style

Topping with nuts, seeds radish anything

Appetiser?

Try to achieve 30 kinds variety a day - Not as hard as it sounds

We try to eat less to avoid high calories.  Some people skip breakfast or lunch, to reduce weight.  However, if your body presume that food intake is getting poor or irregular, it starts storing your fat in order not to be starved.  And you tend to eat a lot in the evening because you are so hungry,  The indicator of the weight scale never ever moves! 

What you need is to eat a variety of foods regulaly. This is where '30 Pieces a Day' rule used in Japan becomes very handy. To break it down simply, when you're setting up your plate, go by these guidelines.

-Carbohydrate (55-60%)
-Protein (15-20%)
-Healthy fat (20-25%)
and about 300 grams vegetables

So, how do you count 30 pieces a day?

● No matter how many times you eat the same food, count is as only one variety for that day.
● If you decide to eat out that day or you want to settle for a ready-made meal, try to count how many different varieties you can see.  
● If you don't know exactly what is in your food, then just count it as one.
● Seasoning doesn't count; with the exception of mayonnaise and dressing  

30 items a day sounds like a challenge, but actually it's really easy. For example, try adding spinach, mushroom, onion, tomatoes into the plain cheese omelet you usually have.  Add fruits and nuts to your morning cereal.  Honey and berry fruits in your yoghurt.  You can do so much with salads! Add some seeds and nuts and even fruit in there.  Ditch the butter on your toast and add avocado or sardines to your toast.  This is only just the breakfast. 10 different items in each meal for 3 times.  You may have already done so. 

Why not? Sometimes go for it!