Monday, December 31, 2012

New Year's Eve Create the Food Celebration with Choices


RealW8 Task:
Accommodate each person's healthy lifestyle choices while still offering variety for taste, make a pleasing, cohesive meal.

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Yes! You can eat food as scrumptious as this while on RealW8. Losing weight and cutting free from your "Food Drama".  It's all in preparation and choices.

Let's have sandwiches and pasta salad for New Year's Eve

Offer Options

Instead of creating a sandwich and salad and serving it, let your family create their own from a variety of choices. 
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We all have different likes and dislikes, some of us have allergies to certain foods, some of us are salt sensitive, some of us are picky eaters. By offering choices, within a certain group, then everyone can make their own healthy adjustments and choose what is good for them. Learning to pick the foods that make you feel good is part of a healthy lifestyle change.

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In the preparation, we made some of the initial choices for healthy options. We chose to use Quinoa pasta in place of wheat pasta.  It's a better choice for it's high protein content and other nutritional pluses. Quinoa has gained in popularity.

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We also chose to offer a better choice of Olive Oil and Vinegars. We splurged over the holidays and bought some upscale bottles at a wonderful specialty store here.

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We also chose to offer homemade bread. We made our Pizza bread and grilled it out on the grill instead of the oven. (The RealW8 Cook offers video on Pizza Dough) 

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We grilled our chicken. It tastes great and most of the fats drip off the meat.

When you   lay out the choices and let people choose what they want or need, they start to learn what works or doesn't work for them. Maybe it's just a preference or maybe they need to care for their medical limitations, but, they can come together to share a meal, and accommodate their own needs, while still enjoying great taste.

Choices

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Look what happens when you lay it out and let them pick and build it themselves.

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Happy People

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Diverse Variety, The Spice of Life

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With RealW8, our whole family has learned to choose what is 'right' for themselves individually. Having an entire family share the same goals and understandings help to offer awesome support through our RealW8 journeys. Why not offer your family choices as well. Start small, each little step adds up to Big Changes.

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