Elia Glazer - Home Cooking Recipes: Sustainable Home Cooking with Paleo and Vegan Recipes

Home Cooking Recipes

Sustainable Home Cooking with Paleo and Vegan Recipes

Elia Glazer and Suellen Southwell

Copyright 2013 Elia Glazer and Suellen Southwell

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Home cooking recipes are a nice way to start a diet. Foods taste better cooked from scratch. By preparing foods from good recipes, you are able to cook healthier meals for the family. The facts are we are what we eat. If we consume junk foods then our bodies will react accordingly. Our immune system will be compromised because of a junk food diet. So many health ailments stem from our diets. It only makes sense if we wish to be healthier we should start with what we put into our bodies. Many illnesses stem from eating unhealthy foods. However, eating habits are like any other habits and can be changed.

Did you know that eating junk foods and craving junk foods are a result of an addiction to these junk foods? Sugary foods and foods made from processed white flours are highly addictive, as addictive as smoking cigarettes. Breaking the junk food habit is tough at first. However, the benefits from breaking such a habit are greater and worth doing. It takes about three weeks to break the junk food habit. At first the cravings may be tough to deal with. If you try to ignore these cravings and press forward, instead of reaching for a sugary snack, reach for a dessert or snack made from the home cooking recipes within this book, you will satisfy the hunger. Eventually when your body rids itself of the impurities built up from the junk food the junk food cravings will subside.

You can do things to help with the transition from a junk food diet to a healthy diet by practicing consistency. Try to eat the meals at the same time every day, including the snacks. Condition the body to expect this and then fill it with the goodness of the home cooked recipes within this book. Eventually the body will stop craving the junk and will start craving the good foods you prepare. Do not skip meals, because this will encourage hunger and cravings and may take you beyond what you can control. Keep your body satisfied with the breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack recipes you prepare. If time is an issue, look through the recipes and prepare and refrigerate or freeze ahead of time.

The benefits of home cooking reaches beyond the obvious, by preparing your meals from scratch at home you get to hand pick the ingredients you put into the recipes. All the recipes within this book contain healthy whole ingredients. You will find no junk foods in here. When you sit down to make your grocery list, open this book, and first do your meal plans. Plan ahead for however long you choose, be it a week, a couple of weeks or even a month. There are enough recipes within this book and within each section for you to have a big variety of foods without much repeat in the meals. Write the grocery list and go shopping, choosing the best, the freshest, foods from the grocery. This gives the power of your health back into your hands since you are choosing to eat healthy by preparing home cooked meals instead of eating out or eating processed junk foods.

Another way to help the process along from eating and craving junk foods to eating and craving home cooked foods is to drink plenty of water all through the day. Water works to cleanse the body of the impurities left behind by the junk foods you ate. It also helps to stave off hunger pangs so you will not feel the need to eat as much. It helps to clean the body from the inside out making you a healthier person. So make sure you drink plenty of water each day along with eating these delicious home cooked recipes.

Other benefits of eating healthy home cooked meals include better weight management. Being overweight is a big issue for many people. By eating whole healthy foods on either the Vegan Diet or the Paleo Diet the weight can be managed better, making it easier to lose excessive weight and fat, and then making a lifestyle change and continue to eat right after. Make preparing and eating home cooked healthy meals the habit.

Eating healthy home cooked meals from the Paleo and Vegan diet plans will help the body to build a strong immune system. So many illnesses stem from obesity or excessive weight. Once a health condition takes place it is tougher to overcome if you continue to consume the wrong foods. Sometimes all a person needs to do is change their diet and their health improves vastly. It is almost as if food can replace certain medications. Eat right for a while and see how it makes you feel.

Did you know that if you eat good healthy foods it would boost your metabolism? By boosting your metabolism, you will have more energy. If you have more energy, you will feel like getting up and moving around. Exercise is vital to a healthy body; the more you do it the better you will feel. However, do exercise in moderation. If you are just starting out with dieting to become healthier, you will want to start slow with the exercise. Start with three workouts a week for about a half an hour. Increase this over time to more days and longer times. You will find the weight will be easier to maintain, you will have more energy and you will feel better overall.

Below you will find two distinctive diet plans, one for meat eaters with the Paleo Diet and one for vegetarians with the Vegan Diet. Each section gives you a wide choice in home cooked recipes offering dinner, lunch, breakfast, desserts, snacks, soups, and salads. With this big variety, you can plan meals for weeks in advance without repeating any of the home cooking recipes. Each recipe has nutritious ingredients that stay within the guidelines of the diet plans.

What is the Paleo Diet?

Also known as the caveman diet and the Stone Age diet, the Paleo diet is a diet which is low in sugar, low in sodium, largely dairy free and relatively high in protein. Its a diet based on the foods which would have been available to our pre-agrarian Neolithic ancestors. The Paleo diet isnt a carb-free or low carb diet, per se, but it is free of grains, with carbohydrates coming from fresh vegetables and fruits rather than grains.

This is also a diet which steers clear of processed foods, at least for the most part and any processed foods included in the diet are as minimally changed from their natural state as possible. While you obviously dont have to hunt or gather your own ingredients (and to be honest, the diet does include many vegetables which werent really developed until we started to settle down in agrarian communities), the idea is to avoid the modern processed foods which can wreak havoc on your health.

Better health is really the main goal of the diet and while it isnt actually geared towards weight loss, many people who adopt the Paleo diet do indeed experience weight loss, especially when combined with regular exercise. It really comes down to common sense for the most part. The Paleo diet is rich in natural, fresh foods in short, the kind of food which we know that we should be eating in the first place.

Following this diet will require a little bit of adjustment on your part and a little more time in the kitchen, at least until you get the hang of things but once you start enjoying the health benefits of the Paleo diet, we think youll agree its a change well worth making. From main dishes to salads, soups to desserts and breakfast and brunch, these recipes cover all of the basics so without further ado, lets get cooking, Paleo style!