Balancing Meals

Eating healthy is something I practice at home with my family, but it wasn't always that way. Recent health alerts have made me pay more attention to what I put inside my body... and inside my children's bodies.

Be it Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner, make sure you're including your vegetables and fruits throughout the day.

Fresh fruits and vegetables are more full of nutrients and natural vitamins, and therefore more healthier than frozen or canned fruits and vegetables. And where vegetables are concerned, the more green vegetables the better!

I happen to be a seafood lover and although many may have allergies, seafood is a healthy alternative to red meat and pork. But another healthy alternative for the non-seafood eater is turkey or chicken.

Breakfast in the first photo consisted of turkey bacon, French toast, two eggs over easy with cheese, strawberries and bananas with orange-mango juice and coffee.

And breakfast in the second photo is an egg omelet with cheese, bacon, and tomatoes, hash browned potatoes and pancakes. Don't worry, she didn't eat it all in once sitting!

Breakfast should always be your biggest meal of the day! And the earlier in the day you have it, the better. Also try to have your last meal of the day no later than 7:00p.

Dinner

Dinner is an important meal of the Day too. I'm into eating Paleo myself with low Carbs. Eating Paleo is a type of Diet where you only eat or consume foods that were available to the early Cavemen during the Paleolithic era.

So eating Paleo means mainly eating veggies, fruits, meats, fish, certain fats, nuts and seeds.

It means removing grains (breads, pastas, rice, etc.), beans, soy, diary, certain vegetable oils, and refined sugar from your diet.

The photos below are NOT Paleo choices:

Photo 1: Lobster, potatoes, corn on the cob and sausage.

Photo 2: Scrod Fillet covered in Shrimp with a creamy cheese sauce and broccoli.

Photo 3: Sautéed shrimp skewers, broccoli and a baked potato.

Photo 4: Baked potato smothered in chopped broccoli and shrimp.

There are a combinations of ways to have Paleo foods but as I am currently learning this way of eating, I won't try to teach it. I can share my experiences from time to time.

For pasta lovers, you can have seafood spaghetti with Angel hair pasta, shrimp, baby scallops and minced clam. Make your own white clam sauce or buy a can of white clam sauce as a short cut; I prefer the Progresso White Clam Sauce, but you can choose from the many other brands that are available.

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