Preparing Balanced Meals

Eating balanced meals is nutritious, makes you feel fantastic, and it is the best way to good health. Balancing meals is easy when you use the various foods recommended by the Food Guide Pyramid. A large number of nutritionists follow this balanced meal pyramid guideline. The many foods in the pyramid can be broken down into protein, starchy vegetables, and non starchy vegetables. Without a doubt, this simplifies preparing any well balanced meal.

For starters, one fourth of each meal should include protein from meats which contain little or no fat. Usually meats like venison, chicken, turkey, and fish are in the right category. Some people include very lean beef portions, but it is not a good idea to make this a habit. Now, if you are a vegetarian, this may include tofu, nuts, dairy, soy, eggs, and other foods from the list. They key issue is not to get lean foods and soak them in grease during frying and cooking; this does not go along with the pyramid definition of a healthy meal.

According to nutritionists, the non starchy vegetables must be half of your meal. These are the normal and well known leafy greens, yellow, black, and other color vegetables like carrots, eggplant, green beans, iceberg lettuce, green and red peppers, etc. Finally, let’s talk about the starchy vegetables or the last fourth of your meal. These are corn, green peas, green lima beans, potatoes, non bleached rice, and more. Once again, corn or corn on the cob by itself is healthy, but not if you cover it with butter. And, rice will not be good to you health wise, if you fry it. And for taste, tomato salsa and other light sauces are delicious and healthy too.