A Simple Soup Recipe for Better Nutritional Value by Bruce Neale

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:24:41 +0000

How can we simplify our diet to improve the quality and maximise nutritional value?
Lets take a soup as an example. Many recipes contain a long list of ingredients, but are they actually necessary?
For our soup we will select whatever single vegetable takes our fancy or we happen to have.
It could be celery, courgette, leeks, onions, potato, pumpkin, tomato, etc, etc.
We take sufficient quantity of our selection, peel it, wash it and cut it into small chunks and place it in a pressure cooker with a cup or more of water, depending on the quantity of the ingredients.
That is it then:- water + our selected vegetable (one of them only, because we want to be able to taste and know what we are eating).
We cook it for the required time, let it cool a bit and then use a liquidiser to bring it to a consistency for your taste. Add water as necessary to obtain the consistency you prefer.
Warm through before serving and add a little salt and pepper if necessary to suit your taste.
The end result will depend on the quality of the ingredients, so if the taste is not to your liking, then look at the quality of the contents available to you.
It may take a few attempts to get it to your liking and different vegetables and seasons may require different quantities of water, but this can be adjusted at the final cooking phase.
What we are trying to achieve is ingredients with good natural quality, with a minimum of chemicals and pesticides in them, so that our body can get the maximum nutrients out, without having to wage a war with unnatural elements.
And if we can minimise the amount of bread, etc, we have with a meal like this, we may just be doing our bodies a big favour – especially if we suffer from allergies, lack energy or are overweight.

How We Can Improve Our Nutrition with Healthy Eating by Bruce Neale

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:24:41 +0000

We have all heard the phrase that “An Apple A Day Will Keep the Doctor Away”. Today we need to consider the quality of the apple we are eating far more than in the past.
Our food quality is deteriorating and catching out many people who are unaware of this trend and their health is suffering accordingly.
In the apple example we either need to eat many more to gain the same essential nutrients or eat the best quality ones to achieve the same result.
Also, food processing, such as cooking the apple will usually result in reduced nutritional value to us.
Food processing is not just about buying packaged processed food – but it is what we do to the food ourselves.
Some foods require cooking to release their nutritional value, but generally we are reducing the nutritional value by cooking or processing.
So the simpler we keep our food preparation, the more nutritional value we should retain and the fewer unhealthy additives we are adding to our diet.
If we reduce additives to our food, we may be able to save some money and improve the quality and often the taste as well.

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A Simple Soup Recipe for Better Nutritional Value by Bruce Neale

How We Can Improve Our Nutrition with Healthy Eating by Bruce Neale