The 100 Foods You Should be Eating How to Source, Prepare and Cook Healthy Ingredients

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Healthy eating is within everyone's reach in this simple guide to buying, preparing, and cooking one hundred delicious and nutritious foods. Packed full of recipes, information, and guidance, 100 Foods You Should be Eating is a book for anyone who wants to take a simpler approach to health and good food. It has been written with one thing in mind: to make us think differently about the food we buy and eat. Award-winning author of The Health Delusion, Glen Matten, gives us a straight-talking take on the best way to buy, prepare, and cook the best ingredients—and it really is easy. The details of each of the 100 foods cover all the information you need, including what it is, health benefits, the best way to buy, cook, and store it, and a simple recipe or serving suggestion. New diets appear all the time with promises for drastic weight loss and better health, while the supermarket shelves are full of products that have bits put in, bits taken out, "healthy" ranges, low-fat alternatives and fortified foods—not to mention exotic new "health" ingredients. The fact is that eating good nutritious food doesn't have to be this complicated. Organized into eight chapters that reflect the way we eat (Breakfast, The Munchies, Lunch on the Go, Strapped for Cash, Summer Living, Friends Round, Fast Food, Lazy Sundays, Kids, and Desserts and Drinks) the book is extremely easy to use and includes photographs of recipes as well as ingredients. "If you think that healthy eating is all about eating "rabbit food," foods that are expensive and foods that are difficult and time-consuming to prepare, then this book will turn everything you think you know about healthy living on its head.... Glen proves that healthy food doesn't mean food that is tasteless, dull and bland."—Norwich Evening News INTRODUCTION BREAKFAST Almonds Yoghurt Eggs Raspberries Apples Oats Tomatoes THE MUNCHIES Bananas Celery Red grapes Cashew nuts Pumpkin seeds Oatcakes LUNCH ON THE GO Watercress Coriander (Cilantro) Quinoa Peppers (Bell peppers) Butter (Lima) beans Butternut squash Rye bread STRAPPED FOR CASH Leeks Beans Peas Broad (Fava) beans Anchovies Red lentils Prawns (Shrimp) SUMMER LIVING Basil Rocket (Arugula) Mackerel Sardines Steak Halloumi Parsley Beetroot (Beet) Olive oil Rapeseed oil Hemp seed oil Lemon Miso Chives Pine nuts FRIENDS ROUND Chicken Venison Lamb Salmon Cod Duck Turmeric Garlic Ginger Chilli and cayenne pepper Black pepper Garam masala Mozzarella Walnuts Chickpeas Spelt Broccoli Carrots Kale Courgettes (Zucchini) Puy lentils Swiss chard Onions FAST FOOD Mushrooms Purple sprouting broccoli Mussels White fish Asparagus Avocado Haricot (Navy) beans Sesame seeds LAZY SUNDAYS Beef Red cabbage Tomato purée (Tomato paste) Chestnuts Spinach KIDS Turkey Sweet potato Brown rice Wholewheat Buckwheat Mango Blueberries DESSERTS Peaches Strawberries Dark (Semisweet) chocolate Prunes Pineapple Pecan nuts DRINKS Watermelon Pomegranate juice Mint Coffee Black tea Green tea White tea Rooibos (Red bush) tea Red wine INDEX