Recipies for Lunch

I have been distracted by debates in which I am involved. But I will get to nutritional research soon. In the mean time I promised by niece I'd give recipes.

Lunch!

The point is small meals high in fiber and whole calories.

I always center lunch around three things:


(1) Beans

(2) Salad

(3) Sandwiches.

Not that I have these at the same time, but one of them is uusally the center of the meal. The meals should be more like snacks.


Beans:and sardines







Excellent resource for fiber. I sometimes eat just a can of beans for lunch. I mostly like Pinto ranch style with sweet onion or jalepino. To round it out I add a can sardines and bowl of soup. I use canned beans a lot. You still get the fiber. Other kinds of beans that are good are kidney and butter beans, aka "Lima." Kidney beans are actually a kind of Lima bean. Beans and sardines are often my meal. A quite snack you can either mush the sardines in the beans or just have them on the side.

I sprinkle white powder cheese (Romano) on them with crushed garlic and red bell pepper. Melt Mexican cheese made with skim milk. You can use any kind chili pepper, chopotle or anything spicy. spicy chili pepper, especially red ones, are very good for weight loss; they speed up the metabolism.

one of the greatest tastes of my life is to put cyote squash into pinto beans with cheese and peppers. Cyote squash looks like a small green pear, with a wired wrenckle in it. It's not very nutricious because it's summer squash. But in pinto beans it tastes wonderful!




You can also buy a bag of dried beans. These are great because they are extremely cheap. You can fix them up any way. I've bean soup out of them. I put into a huge vat of pintos carrots, onions, scallions (those long green stemmed small onions) mush rooms and tomato paste. biol in water for a couple hours, follow directions on the bag. Dont' foget to washt he beans first. Add to that cyote squash and maybe some broccoli and chard; the chard is to get green leafy nutrition (important for fighting Alzheimer's)


Salad

there are a million salads. I'm a great believer in simple meals. I make one salad all the time. I very the kind of lattice. But usually I use ice berg (not pc).

Tomato, purple onion, black olives, olive oil, crutons, power cheese and shavings of Mexican cheese. I use either lemon juice and olive oil as dressing, or sneak in some low fat ranch or butter milk.

Bens, sardines and a salad makes a good filling lunch. Or soup and salad.


Sandwishes

Tomarrow and cheese. I use flour tortia and make it a wrap rather than actual bread, that's a bit less fattening, i you don't cover it with melted caso. add some Green chilis like from New Mexico and its' wonderful! Pita bread is good as a substitute for bread as well.