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EASY LUNCH RECIPES

Bernard Preston's packed lunch ideas

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Healthy Slow Food, Made Fast is our slogan. Lunch recipies don't have to take an age to make. In fact, today's quick lunch ideas took me only four minutes to throw together. She who must be obeyed makes hers the night before, but Bernard Preston is far too idle for that. Four minutes in the morning. That's what it takes, four minutes to make easy lunches.

We are looking here at Mr and Mrs Average. If you're diabetic, blood pressure of 200/120, haven't had a decent holiday for eighteen months, haven't been on your bicycle, taken a walk or had a swim in months... well it needs to be a lot more stringent if you want to see sixty! Smoker? Well, chance are you won't see sixty any way, unless you cycle, and dip regularly into healthy choice foods.








EASY STUFFED EGGPLANT RECIPE

This is a very simple Lebanese dish, one of my favourites, but something of an acquired taste perhaps. Use only fresh baby eggplant. My son-in-law calls them Amazon slugs! EASY EGGPLANT RECIPES ...



PACKED LUNCH IDEAS

Your easy lunches should include

  1. a carbohydrate, (low if you're overweight)

  2. some protein, and

  3. some salads.

  4. Certainly a fruit, if you didn't have any for breakfast. A few olives perhaps?






Here are a few easy lunch ideas for your four minute lunch.

  • 2-3 slices of whole-wheat brown bread. NEVER eat white bread or crackers, junk food that destines you for an early grave. Why?

    Hi in carb, zero fibre, zero vitamins, usually artificial flavourants. In short, crap, sorry to be vulgar, but I feel strongly about it. The short route to obesity, painful arthtric knees and ankles, diabetes, heart disease and all that stuff... Well, I do break down occasionally, perhaps once a month. A white roll with a tomato soup is lekker isn't it? Nice.

  • Absolutely avoid margarine (hydrogenated foods), they are full of trans-isomers now known to raise LDL's, the bad cholesterol, and lower the HDL's, the good cholesterol that transports fats back to the liver for turning into bile, and hence excretion. But here you sit with a conundrum. Do you use butter, a natural fat in the body that will raise your cholesterol too? Is there an alternative? Yes, our homemade mayonaise. HOMEMADE MAYONAISE ...

    TOMATO SOUP RECIPE ...

    HYDROGENATED FOODS ... why are they so bad? You need a bit of chem background for this.

    My advice? A smidgeon of butter or mayo, and make sure you have plenty of the healthy goodies in your packed lunch ideas.

  • On your bread some low fat protein. A bit of chicken left over from last night, some low fat cheese, my first choice some hummus nutrition, but really, just use your imagination. Some mutton stew from last night? Tuna and homemade mayonaise... AUTHENTIC HUMMUS RECIPE ... I'm not exaggerating, you can make our Authentic Hummus Recipe in four minutes. I just did. Timed it.

  • And now the salads. Just follow your own dictates, and if you don't like salads, stuff something in anyway. A stick of celery? Today I'm planning a peanut butter sandwich, with a leaf of lettuce in. Doesn't stick to your mouth either with the lettuce. I love a couple radishes in my lunch, some olives, they are a fruit by the way, do your own thing... What's special about lettuce, radish and PARSLEY BENEFITS ?

    TODAY'S QUICK LUNCH IDEAS

    Of course in order to make your lunch in four minutes, you have to scrounge around in the fridge. Because I love butter, my great weakness, I have to compensate, so yesterday I made a favourite Eggplant Dip called Moutabel Baba Ghannouj. MOUTABEL BABA GHANNOUJ ...

    Don't be put off by the name, it's Lebanese not Ben Laden stuff, and eggplant has wonderful cholesterol-lowering properties. It takes me less than ten minutes to make Moutabel, delic. Wonderful on a salad, sandwich or, if you insist, a cracker.

    So today...

    1. One chicken drum stick left over from last night.

    2. Three slices of wholewheat bread with:

      • Peanut butter and lettuce

      • Moutabel

      • Garbanzo bean dip called Hummus.

    3. A couple slices of cucumber, and half a dozen olives.

    Oops, the peanutbutter is 'op' as we say in Holland. Finished. So it's cheese instead.

    Bob's your uncle, four minutes, I'm not exaggerating, including taking these pics! Klaar, done.


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    EASY LUNCH RECIPES


    Do remember this is a working man's lunch. I don't sit behind a computer all day. Also, today I'll be cycling to the Barendrecht station (20 mins x2), plus 2 x 10 min walk from the Dordrecht station to the clinic. It beats going to the gym.

    Later: Three slices of bread was too much. Two tomorrow. I felt stuffed all afternoon. The olives were more satisfying than I expected. I enjoy pickling olives by the way, or making Olive Pate or even better Tapenade, once the can is open. The olives don't keep too long. Olive Garden menu TAPENADE ...

    PICKLING OLIVES ...

    OLIVES PATE ...


    A HEALTHY DRINK FOR A HOT SUMMER'S DAY?

    Lemon juice makes an invigorating and delic ice-cold lemon-water drink, but it doesn't keep due to certain compounds that are oxidised once it is cut and squeezed. The alternative is to heat the juice... read more: LEMON DROP DRINK RECIPE ...


    GREEN BEAN SUCCOTASH RECIPES

    Green beans and corn from the garden make a delicious healthy lunch, made in a jiffy...

    Green bean SUCCOTASH recipes ...

    Nuts?

    Okay, I'll admit it, I am a bit of fruit cake! But I promise you this, my lunch today was far tastier than any McDonalds can produce. I haven't done a costing, but I guarantee it is no more than $2. Better still, I have no arthritic knees and aching feet, my BP measured last week (when I donated blood to the vampires) was 120/82 (not bad at 62), and I've taken no drugs since a misdiagnosis five years ago when the quack thought I had sinusitis. Turned out to be a very mild dose of Shingles, on the forehead to boot.

    Tired of pain, sick of taking drugs every day, want to reach a healthy 80 with all your marbles intact? Join the fruitcakes!

    Have a good day. And don't forget the easy lunch recipes (how's your spelling?), and share them with your friends if you enjoy them.


    CHIROPRACTIC SHINGLES ... one of the conditions where I think (but have no research to back it up) Chiropractic has a contribution to make. I've got the Tshirt myself...

    Enjoy classical guitar? Fantastic with lunch...

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    Chiropractic-Help.com and Bernard-Preston.com send out a joint monthly newsletter. It covers an overview of a health topic (this last month’s Issue #14 Hip and Groin pain), always a nutritional corner (Cholesterol /Statins and aching legs), and a piece from Bernard Preston.

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    Have a good day. For tomorrow, think Easy Lunch Recipes instead of eating out. Good for the heart, good the brain, tasty too, and easy on the pocket. Only four minutes to throw together.


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