Everyone wants to add variety to their daily diet. It would seem that what could be easier? But then restrictions come into play: conservative family tastes, limited time to cook and buy food, and a narrow range of products in the nearest stores. Few people can draw up a menu and start a new life on Monday because it’s much easier to eat fast food and gamble at https://www.playamo.com/en-NZ/games/blackjack till 2 am instead, so we suggest moving in small steps. Here are basic ways to help solve this problem without too much effort.
Add New Tastes to Your Diet
Try New Marinades
Before baking, oil the bird with something other than the usual oil, salt, garlic and pepper.
Here are the basic options:
- Soy sauce + garlic + grated ginger + vegetable oil + ground coriander.
- Honey + mustard + olive oil + salt + pepper.
- Pesto + salt + chili flakes.
- Butter + lemon zest + sweet paprika + salt + pepper.
- Curry + vegetable oil + salt.
- Teriyaki sauce + salt + pepper + garlic.
And it’s better to grease the bird under the skin, so the marinade will be absorbed into the meat and not remain outside.
The same method will work with other types of meat.
Learn New Sauces and Gravies
If you like beef stew with tomato sauce, try making it the same way, but in a slightly different way.
For example:
- With a flour-based gravy.
- Sour cream or cream sauce.
- Mushroom gravy.
- In its own juice on the type of stew.
- With Mexican chili sauce.
Change the Side Dish
Are you terribly bored with rice and your family is ready to eat it every day? Play around with side dish toppings.
For example:
- Roast bell peppers and carrots in olive oil, mix with rice and dress with a few drops of rice vinegar.
- Blanch the beans and mix with the rice or quinoa and season with soy sauce.
- Add thawed green peas to the cooked rice.
- Roast mushrooms and/or onions and mix with buckwheat.
- Mix cold bulgur or couscous with crumbled feta, fresh vegetables and herbs.
The beauty of this method is that you can set aside the garnish for fastidious eaters before you add something for yourself.
Try New Healthy Foods
Add some variety to your diet with the help of healthy and tasty products, which are now readily available in any supermarket:
- Fresh spinach makes a great addition to salads, or if stewed, it makes an incredible side dish.
- Broccoli and cauliflower can be added to omelets or used as a complete side dish.
- Asparagus is another idea for an easy and healthy side dish. Brown it a little in a pan without oil or use a grill.
- Quinoa is added to a salad or served as a side dish as well. This cereal goes well with sesame oil.
- Celery is a treasure trove of vitamins that can be added to salads. Also squeeze juice from celery: try mixing it with apple, carrot or tomato juice or adding spinach.
- Avocados can either be sliced into a salad or mashed for a whole-grain bread sandwich.
- Rucola, iceberg lettuce, frisée can help garnish side dishes or diversify familiar salads.
- Mangoes are added to cottage cheese, made into smoothies, sliced into salads to give the dish a tropical touch.
- Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, currants, cranberries, and lingonberries can be found in stores all year round. Berries are a wonderful addition to porridge, cottage cheese and various desserts.
- Sesame is also added to salads and desserts. You can also sprinkle it on whole-grain avocado toast.
- Matcha is a wonderful drink, if you haven’t tried it yet, get it right. It’s better than coffee and goes great with coconut milk.
