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Creating a Healthful KitchenIn your healthful kitchen there will be only delicious foods that are really good for you. Your kitchen will become a canvas painted with colorful fruits and vegetables, white and yellow cheese, lean meat, poultry and seafood, high protein nuts and seeds. When planning our menu we start each day with protein: high protein meats or nutrient rich eggs, cheese, crispy vegetables, and coffee or tea. Lunch is more of the same. There is little room left on our meal planning chart for calorie dense, low nutrient foods. Every course, from appetizer through dessert, can be made from the basic high value foods that will be found in your healthful kitchen. So if you want to win at this game of losing, transform your kitchen into a healthful kitchen. Start by discarding all the low value food. Consult the Food List. Use it as a guide for restocking your kitchen. Don't have any breads and crackers except for low carb varieties. When I must have bread I use the lite 40 calories whole wheat. It has 9 grams of carbs and 3 grams of fiber. You can substract the fiber as it is not absorbed, and you are left with 6 grams of carb per slice. Look for low carb crackers. There are some specialty brands. Keep wine if it does not tempt you. As a matter of fact, don't stock anything that you can't keep from snacking on, even it it is allowed. Get rid of all candies, cookies, chips, cheese curls and crackers. Go through your refrigerator and freezer and discard or give away all processed foods. Read the label for carbohydrate count. Most of those pasta dinners are made of white flour, something you don’t want in your diet. Discard the ice cream unless it is sugar free and low carb. Instead of ice cream, you could eat low carb yogurt with some whipped cream mixed in. Yummy. Also sugar free Jello with whipped cream is a wonderful dessert. There! Don’t you feel better with that nice clean healthful kitchen. Now plan your menu
and go shopping for healthy foods to replace those which you just discarded.
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