Finally, the winter has arrived after a long wait. We would get satisfied with simple meals, we started to have a strong need for fatty food that warms our cold limbs and provides energy without causing us to gain weight.
Here are some tricks and foods that provide the body with nutritious and vitamins it needs away from bad fats and unsaturated fat.
* Soup
Soup is a main course and a basic requirement for healthy and warm food in winter.
Lentil soup tops winter drinks because of its high nutrients and heat emission, a dietitian advises adding mixed vegetables to the lentil grains.
It is recommended to add onions, garlic, tomatoes, green peppers, zucchini, and carrots while it cooks, and mix it all up before serving.
In order for it to be a full meal, add a cube of butter with toasted bread at the time of serving.
We can also make a vegetable soup and mix celery and green pepper with it for a delicious taste and high nutrients that enable us to face the cold.
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* Hot Salad!
Vegetables are very important in a healthy diet and the salad is a tasty dish that opens the appetite, but sometimes with the cold weather, eating fresh vegetables can be annoying, so maybe it is time to make a hot salad.
It consists of grilled peppers, grilled tomatoes, and grilled zucchini, in addition to adding a few herbs such as wild thyme with a little olive oil.
Olive oil can be substituted with avocado, which contains healthy body fat. It can also be substituted by adding three walnuts into the salad, which also contains healthy fats for the brain and memory.
*hot drinks
The body needs energy boosters throughout the day, which can be achieved by preparing hot herbs instead of tea and coffee, preferably to drink it only in the morning for alertness and energy.
The rest of the day, we can prepare a range of herbs useful for our general health such as anise, which strengthens the body's immunity and helps it to resist the cold, and tilia that helps get rid of the throat and chest from sputum, which is a major cause for virus incubation and activity.
Moreover, Moringa grass, or what as some call it the “miracle tree”, a natural antioxidant plant with 64 types of antioxidants and carcinogens, in addition to amino acids that are useful for the skin.
It is also a herb that has not been known to us for years, but research has made it on the list of the herbs that we must have daily.
Moringa grass is prepared by adding two small spoons of the grass into a boiling mug of water and drink daily.
Contributed by Yara Sameh
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