Do you love to eat? Putting together a glycemic index food list will suggest some great recipes for your meals. This food can taste so good, you will not even realize that it’s healthy. Here are a few recipes to get you started:

Chicken with Fried Rice

What to Do:

12 fl. oz of chicken stock
1½ oz brown rice
5 ½ oz cooked chickpeas
2 fl. oz light soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
2 cubed boneless skinless chicken breasts
8 oz sliced mushrooms
1 green onion, chopped
1 carrot, diced
2 sticks sliced celery
8 oz bean sprouts

Salt, to taste

In a medium saucepan, add 10 fl. oz of your chicken stock, salt, and your rice. After it boils, reduce the heat to low and cook, covered, for about 25 minutes or until all of the liquid in the pot has been absorbed.

Fluff the rice with a fork, and set it aside.

In a large non-stick skillet, add sesame oil and heat over a medium to high eat. Cook the chicken the mushrooms for 8-10 minutes, or until the chicken is white all the way through.

Add the onions, celery, carrots, chickpeas, and rice. Stir thoroughly while cooking for about two minutes.

Add the rest of the chicken stock, along with the soy sauce, for another 5 minutes. Add the sprouts and mix.

Enjoy this delicious glycemic index recipe with a light salad!

Chicken Tarragon Delight

What You Need:

2 chicken cutlets (Roughly 4 oz each)
2 teaspoons of vegetable oil
8 oz sliced mushrooms
2 oz. white wine
1 teaspoon of margarine
1 tsp. dried tarragon
Fresh ground pepper
1 small onion chopped
4 oz. chicken stock or water

In a non-stick pan, add oil and heat over a medium to high heat. Take the chicken and sprinkle with fresh ground pepper – then sauté in the oil until it’s done. Remove the chicken and cover.

In that same pan, add the margarine and sauté both the mushrooms and the onions until they’re soft, or for about five minutes. Then, add the wine and tarragon.

Let this mixture simmer for roughly a minute, then add the stock. Let it simmer for about two minutes, or until it’s reduced itself to half. Add a bit of pepper to the mixture, and it’s done!

Serve the sauce over chicken.

Suggestions: Looking for a great side with this? Serve this glycemic index recipe over rice!

GI Chocolate Cookies

What You Need:

3oz non-hydrogenated soft margarine
3oz wholemeal flour
1 tablespoon of wheat bran
Sugar substitute equivalent to about 4oz of sugar
¼ pint cooked white kidney beans
1½oz unsweetened cocoa powder
3 fl oz skim milk
1 egg
2 teaspoons of vanilla
½ teaspoon of baking soda

Add the beans, 1 fl. oz of skim milk, and wheat bran in a food processor. Puree until well blended.

Add the egg, vanilla, skim milk, baking soda, cocoa powder, sugar substitute, flour, margarine, and bean puree until a bowl, and beat it together until well mixed.

Preheat over to about 375 degrees. Drop the cookie batter from heaping teaspoons onto a wax paper-lined baking sheet. Bake them for about 10 minutes, or until they’re firm.

Note: Not sure about the bean paste? You can’t taste it, it keeps the batter from drying out, and adds a little extra fiber into your diet!

Now you have a short glycemic index food list and some great quality recipes to go with it. There is more information in the e-book “The Glycemic Diet Index Guide.” With a little more practice, you can easily convert many of your favorite recipes to increase fiber and protein. Soon you’ll become a great Glycemic Diet Chef!  What is even better…  people will wonder how you can enjoy food so much and not gain weight.

It is important to give our kids healthy and delicious meals on a daily basis and getting kids to eat vegetables can be a real task. Forcing them to eat can be the worse thing to do. There are ways to make eating vegetables more appealing, more natural, or even fun.

1. Start early, and put vegetables on the plate when they’re babies. Offer toddlers lots of different types of foods and let them see you eat and enjoy different foods, especially fruits and vegetables. This will influence them. If you hardly serve or eat vegetables, it is more than possible that your kids develop the same tastes.

2. Invite them to try a new vegetable. Sometimes they will love it the first time they try it, other times, it may take two, three, or even several tries before getting used to the taste of a new item. Ask kids to try just one bite. They may not like it, so leave it at that. Allowing them to stop at just one bite will make trying new foods less scary.

3. Let them choose a vegetable. When serving fruits and vegetables, letting kids choose from three kinds is a great food idea. Choosing between green beans, carrots, or corn will teach them that they can make a decision and their opinions really do matter. If you ask kids to pick the vegetables for a meal, this gives them a chance to be actively involved in what the family eats.

4. Kids like finger foods, why not cut some fresh veggies into little chunks and serve in a tray for all the family members. Set out individual cups of dipping sauce.

5. Another one of my great cooking tips is to serve salads first at dinner time just as the restaurants do and make it a routine. Think of it as a pre-dinner snack. Have a salad set out wherever the family is waiting for dinner. Whatever you are serving, even if it is a simple meal or one of the family’s favorites like a pizza, smelling the food cooking will surely build up the kids’ appetite and they will start nibbling on the snack.

6. Kids are hungry after school or play, so have snacks readily available. They will grab what they see first. Grab and run snacks are the best. Have cut raw vegetables, maybe grapes, plums, and peeled segmented oranges ready in small bags.

7. Grab their imagination by making vegetables more exciting. Serve cut up fruits and vegetables, and then let them create funny faces, cars, flowers, or animals. While their creativity is in the working, they are most likely to snack on the tasty pieces of art.

Heres 2 quick recipe ideas to get you started on a journey to creating those quick healthy food ideas which will not take up alot of your time!

Recipe 1:

Tuna Salad

This is very good quick and healthy recipe which is very easy to prepare and will not take up too much time. First, find a decent size bowl which is where the tuna salad will be prepared. Open the tin of tuna, drain the oil, then empty the tuna into the bowl.

Next, open a bottle of mayonnaise or salad cream and pour half of the contents into the bowl of tuna while mixing. Mixing the tuna is important so that the tuna does not end up looking too lumpy.

Wash the lettuce or cucumber in warm water, this is to properly wash off any small insects that may be found while preparing. After washing, put salad into the bowl of tuna and mix. Add black pepper and these you have it……Tuna Salad

Optional ingredients include:

olive oil
croutons
tomatoes
anchovies

Recipe 2:

Banana and oat Smoothie

Here is another idea to add to your list of great cooking tips! Even though the idea of a porridge drink does not sound too appetizing, this drink really is delicious and extremely healthy. Porridge has been proven to lower cholesterol, and having this drink will be a great addition to your healthy diet plan.

To make a delicious healthy porridge oat smoothy, put all of the ingredients listed above in a blender, and blend for one minute and drink immediately.

Looking for health and fitness quotations as inspirational sources? Want to get and stay inspired to redefine a healthy lifestyle? This blog with inspiring health & fitness quotations would do the trick for you.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live.  But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men’s necessities. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. – John Diamond

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. - Logain Clendening

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. – Sydney J. Harris

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not. – Mark Twain

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.  – A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. – James Rippe, M.D.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. – John F. Kennedy

Health and Fitness play important roles in the life of each one of us. This is simply because only a healthy and fit individual can walk on the path of success in any sense of the world. If you are not fit, you are nowhere and if you are fit, you are everywhere.

Staying fit and healthy does not mean that you need to spend a fortune or wake early. You can always exercise at your convenience, starting from a vacant space in your own home.

Walking or jogging for about 20-35 minutes per day and then following it with some stretching exercises can put your body safe against common ailments besides improving the level of immunity. If walking and jogging are not your cups of tea then you can swim, ride a horse, or spend some quality time in the gym. Whatever may be the mode of staying fit, you need to understand that you can gain and live for long only when you stay in the best shape.

In addition to that, it is always better to leave those bad habits of smoking and alcohol. If you are on antidepressants for any reason, try to walk for 30-40 minutes just before you sleep after having dinner. You will be surprised to know that you will get comfortable and uninterrupted sleep without those pills. Furthermore, enjoy an active lifestyle and include fresh fruit and vegetables in your diet; take small meals 4-5 times a day rather than encouraging obesity by taking big meals.

These small health measures can go a long way in helping you to stay away from a sedentary lifestyle to march on the path of health and fitness.