HOW TO EAT RICH CHEAP, Or, CHEAP, RICH
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...If you want to lower your cholesteral, salt, and sugar a good healthy cheap dish are dried legumes in a pot. The good thing about these easy to brew up legumes is they go well with many types of other food. I was eating just legumes with some seasoning, it was hot, so one day I had the bright idea of adding pimentos right from the jar to cool it, this tasted a good bit better, it was still so hot I added more, like bamboo slices, this cooled it to a comfortable heat and also made it taste better! Aha, a good hot dish, complete with complete protein (if you eat grains the same day) with no sugar or fat. They say about half of what we eat should be like grains and beans. Easy to cook, and its own timer, while I'm typing this in I can find the beans by sense my nose alarm, so it's never burned like other dishes like pasta. Best of all perhaps about this method of having your hot dish in just minutes, it makes other vegetables not taste bad by taking out most of the flavor by drowning it out a good bit, even so you can find the other vegetables with flavor, not it overpowering taste but in contrast IMPROVING the flavor of the legumes, especially with optional salt or other herbs (if salt is not a herb, so be it!) This is "even better" because it allows you to put say 3 vegetables in the pot with good taste, and continually change your chow from day to day. Thus in essence it becomes viable to eat vegetables 4 times as often, and of many more types, cheap, with good hot meals (research proves that soup makes diets twice as worthwhile when dieting). I'm eating many types of vegetables I was not looking foreward to before like, bamboo, carrots, asparagus, rice, okra, and so forth. Eating five types of vegetables where you would eat just one is much more healthy. You can also use herbs like cinnamon in place of salt for better health yet. I often use hot chili sauce. Unlike dried beans, dried legumes or dried peas don't need to be soaked and don't have much odor. Like pasta, if you add water so the pot is mostly full you'll have minimal or no stirring because, the circulation of the water continually raises the pasta or legumes up from the burner, just so there's enough water to buffer the hot dish from the heat. This gives you more time between when it's cooked and when it's burned. If you're taking suppliments like vitamins, this may help you just as much because food contains thousands of compounds not found in suppliments that boost your health, especially veggies.
HOW TO COOK MINUTE RICE WITHOUT AN HOURS WAIT FOR IT TO COOL!
Put it in a zip loc add the water and heat as usual in the microwave. When it's finished put the zip loc in a pot of water in the sink and keep adding cool water from the faucet to cool it faster, then take out of the pot and pour the contents of the zip loc to serve. This trick also works for cooling bags of frozen food after you cook them in the microwave, like itallian vegetables (brocolli, carrots, and so on complete liver cleanse) and many others.
HOW TO COOK MINUTE RICE WITHOUT AN HOURS WAIT FOR IT TO COOL!
Put it in a zip loc add the water and heat as usual in the microwave. When it's finished put the zip loc in a pot of water in the sink and keep adding cool water from the faucet to cool it faster, then take out of the pot and pour the contents of the zip loc to serve. This trick also works for cooling bags of frozen food after you cook them in the microwave, like itallian vegetables (brocolli, carrots, and so on complete liver cleanse) and many others.
