Healthy Diet at Home

it's summertime, it's time to head outside and get some good sunshine in our lives and take our food with us. so this video is going to show you a fewpicnic ideas, mainly with pita pockets, but hopefully if you're nearsome water you can hit the beach. i'm karlene, and i'm a graduatestudent at the university of alabama. so take your pita pockets, and choosewhole-wheat if you can, and cut them in half, and take as many as you need and juststore them separately and zip locks. what we're going to do is take these freshingredients and mix them up and combine them. so we have chickpeas, onions, tomatoes,peppers, cucumbers and parsley. you're going to chop everything up and storethat separately from your pita pockets. it's really important because you don'twant the pita pockets to get really soggy. so just chop up your fresh ingredientsand put them all in the bowl. now we add our chickpeas and give it a good mix. chickpeas are a great vegetarian source ofpr...

How to Plan the Perfect Low-Carb Fourth-of-July Celebration (Photo by Jeffrey Kontur ) If you’re following a low-carb diet, you can still have a fantastic Fourth-of-July celebration without having to worry about popping yourself out of Ketosis. You don’t have to sit on the sidelines or deprive yourself of holiday goodies either. With picnics and barbecue parties the most popular ways of celebrating America’s freedom and independence, it’s easy to surround yourself in colors of red, white, and blue – yet still maintain control over those carbs! All it takes is a little bit of thought and preparation. With that in mind, you don’t want to wait until next Tuesday morning to start figuring out how to stay on plan. If you do, you’ll end up with a plain bun-free burger or hotdog, a boring lettuce salad, a handful of pork rinds, and maybe a few strawberries for color. Eating that way when everyone else around you is chowing down on potato salad, baked beans, corn-on-the-cob, and colorful cupc...

Try Indoor Grilled Chicken, Low Carb at Its Best! (Photo by Ray Dehler )    What do you normally think of when you picture Italian food? Probably not something that’s quick and easy to fix. Am I right? Most people think about homemade spaghetti, Lasagne, or an extra-large slice of pizza with all of the trimmings. While you can certainly find alternative ways to replace most of those carbs, with the holidays right around the corner, you’re going to need a few low-carb dinner ideas that are quick and simple. Here’s one of my favorites. Marinate and Grill Your Chicken Chicken makes an extremely economical low-carb meal. In my own area, we can get boneless, skinless chicken breasts at our local WalMart for less than $2 a pound. I do have to buy a family pack to get it at that price, but many times our small local grocery store runs special deals on Thursdays. Those deals are even cheaper. Sometimes, I can purchase chicken breast for as low as $1.79 a pound. I don’t use the frozen ...