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If you’re anything like me, your capabilities in the kitchen end with boiling an egg. But, just like with any other skill, everything you need to learn about how to be a great cook can be found online.
The best place to start is with quick and easy healthy recipes which won’t overwhelm you and put you off the idea of ever setting foot in the kitchen again. The following list contains sites that aggregate easy-to-do healthy recipes, some include video tutorials, and introductions to cooking basis. And quite a few of them will help you stay organised while learning all about the art of cooking.
Epicurious
One of the most popular websites for healthy recipes, Epicurious, has an entire section dedicated to quick & easy healthy recipes. You can browse recipes by meal type including kid-friendly, salads and desserts, amongst others.
Signing up for an account allows you to make notes, review and save the healthy recipe to your list, and even print shopping lists for the healthy recipes you want to make.
One of Epicurious’ best features by far, which will come in very handy for the beginner cook, is their Menus feature. Rather than try to figure out which dishes to put together for a full meal, let Epicurious do it for you.
Plumello
Plumello, a great healthy recipes site with a twist, has a long list of easy healthy recipes for the beginner cook to dive right into. And if you’re feeling a little bit adventurous, or happen to have a specific ingredient handy, let Plumello tell you what dishes you can make with it.
Plumello has a few other useful and interesting features. It has a wide variety of healthy recipes from various international cuisines, which you can browse by geographical location, and the site allows you to aggregate healthy recipes from all over the web, so it gives you a great way to stay organised.
Cooklet
Cooklet takes yet another approach. Unlike the other sites listed, it doesn’t have an obvious easy healthy recipes section to click on, but it has something even better. Using the advanced search feature, you can specify the level of difficulty, the amount of time the cooking should take, and an ingredient or two.
The site also has some tips and tricks that will be useful for the novice, including how to easily peel tomatoes and how to cook corn, and it seems that there is more to come in that section. Like Plumello, the site helps you get organised by saving healthy recipes and preparing shopping lists.
YouTube
If you’re the kind of person who needs to see a picture of how the food should look when you’re cooking, why not take it a step further and use online cooking videos? Cooking TV shows are usually way too fast to follow, but having a video you can pause and rewind is a great way to learn new healthy recipes.
YouTube is actually a great resource for short cooking videos. Just search for what you want. There are also some great channels worth subscribing to that give you step by step instructions for each recipe like Asian Cooking Made Easy.
Food Pair
Another great resource for the novice cook is FoodPair. Take a look at what’s in your kitchen, and FoodPair will tell you what you can cook with it. The site also gives suggestions on what ingredients would go well, and based on that, you can find a recipe to get started on.
It also has an entire section for healthy recipes made with 5 ingredients or less. Signing up for a free account allows you to save your favourite healthy recipes, as the recipes listed are aggregated from different sites.
Reluctant Gourmet
The Reluctant Gourmet has a great section with a few introductory healthy recipes, that are a great place for a beginner to start. The list is short, but will come in handy when making many other healthy recipes, with an easy to follow outline on how to make tomato sauce, a vinaigrette, and even basic Risotto.
AllRecipes
AllRecipes needs no introduction. The mammoth cooking site is a great place for any beginner to start with its how-to articles, and its quick and easy healthy recipes. Registering for a free account allows you to save your favourite healthy recipes, and to vote for the healthy recipes that you liked the best. AllRecipes also has a special video section.
Food Tips for employees:
Prepare some snacks and drinks from home, a lot of drinking fluids, especially water, stay away from carbonated beverages and replace them with fresh juices, eating snacks such as sandwiches such as tuna or eggs or chicken sandwich, replace sweets with fruit such as bananas or dates or fruit salad, replace the chips with nuts toasted or vegetable salad, eating yogurt tray with vegetables or yogurt with fruit, reducing the stimuli and replace it with herbs or cocoa drink, eat light and grains such as cornflakes or toast, meals or grilled
Boiled instead of fried.
It depends of where you live, the weather and your nutritional needs that also depend of the kind of work you do. If you are a person at office who should stay seated working, well, try nuts, all kinds of nuts. Those are nutritious as well as dry fruits like raisins or cranberries. That's one, you also can take the chance for a local fruit and always a bottle of water or any drink that doesn't imply sugar or caffeine. If you cook your own lunch, have in mind you need protein, one portion of carbs and vegetables. If you are a person who doesn't stay seated, you might consider two things: sleep well and eat well. It's up to your nutricionist what's best for you, but always try for local food, not so smelly at office, but always available if you forget to bring your meals or didn't have time. Other suggestions are portions of cheese, banana, apples, yogurth, papaya. Take care.
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As a nursing undergrad and culinary graduate, I prefer 1 boiled egg and 1 banana for a snack. Boiled egg is rich in protein complete source of protein and banana is totally nutritious source of potassium, carbohydrates and vitamin B!
bread with egg fry and some salads(sandwich)
Brown Bread and Vegetable sandwiches with Low fat cheese
Thanks for inviting me here to share my ideas.
If I have to stay office for longer period I would definitely take those recipe
Stuffed Paratha
With a dollop of butter and pickle on the side, this classic and comforting paratha stuffed with potatoes, cabbage and onions will inspire lunch envy from your co-workers.
Quick Noodles
Toss up some quick noodles with mushrooms, lime juice, crunchy peanuts and some coriander. Light and lovely.
Egg Fried Rice
For busy mornings when you're pressed for time, make this quick egg fried rice ready in only 25 minutes.
Pasta Salad with Broccoli and Baby Corn
This pasta salad is full of colour and flavour. Dress it up with some herbs and a dollop of fresh cream.
You can have 2 boiled eggs white part only to have some protein and a cup of green tea.
1. Grilled Chicken breast sandwich. To make it healthier:
Skin off, micro greens instead of lettuce, homemade instead of store-bought mayo & brown, whole grain instead of white bread.
2. Popcorn, plain.
