Popular Cook Books and Magazine Food Suggestions

On a recent trip to the library I glanced quickly at cookbooks in the New Releases section and was amazed to still see that the recipes, although quick to produce, still promote less than ideal ingredients. If you want to disrespect your insides with quick food just buy from established fast food restaurants and support business in your community. These recipes contained so many processed products, few fresh ingredients and completely ignore the basic principle that to be quick and easy and FRESH, simple advance preparation is necessary. The answer is not to create fast and quick meals using processed foods but to learn some simple recipes containing fresh ingredients and to discipline yourself to think ahead a bit and have ONE prep session a week. A prep session includes pre washing fruits and vegetables, chopping some veggies, thawing some meat or cooking some meat to be used in recipes for the week. You don't even have to have specific recipes in mind to be ready for the week. Having fresh things ready to go allows creative meals to occur, like an impromptu stir fry or saute something to nutritionally compliment an omlet or frittata. Don't know how to do any of these...take a class. Respect your one and only body enough to fuel it with quality as often as possible.

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