Fast Family Recipes for a healthy year ahead

Every single year we make resolution, as time passes all the resolutions disappear. This year make a resolution for yourself and for your family. Make a resolution to make yourself and your family not just healthy but healthiest. It not difficult if you get on to it, beginning is never easy but once you’re on a healthy track you will never leave it.

Seeing your husband and children active happy healthy is the only wish a mother can ask for. Everyone wants to be healthy and it’s the best time of the year to start, so end the year with a wish and begin the New Year with a pledge.

Making healthy food is not the problem; the problem is make it look yummy and appealing for the children. The best way to begin is making the whole week’s menu on the weekend itself, as per the list pick up your groceries.

As per your list name the day if you have thought of making Pasta on Monday then name it PASTA Monday or Italian Monday make the name as exciting as you can to attract your baby.

There are loads of recipes available online for fast and healthy cooking, get a print of whatever food you think your family will enjoy. Salad is a must with every meal, and most difficult food to feed your kid, to make the salad look exciting trying adding as many as colorful vegetables as you can. You can make it with Broccoli, carrots, red cabbage, iceberg lettuce, colorful salad leaves, cucumber, red peppers, yellow peppers and also add baby tomatoes to it. The more colorful salad the more nutritious it is and the more your kid will be fascinated. Try and pick up fat free dressing to pour on your salad, within minutes a healthy side dish is ready.

If your making Pasta for dinner stick to whole wheat pasta and ensure you make the white sauce at home, the Arrbiatta sauce or the tomato concuss  can be bought  from the store make sure the base oil in the ingredient’s is olive oil. To make it a complete meal you can toast garlic bread along with butter and some herbs too but insist on picking up whole wheat or multi-grain bread only.

Week night Pizza can be a good treat for the family, but it need not be from outside. Healthy simple and quick pizzas can be made at home within minutes. You can always pick up whole wheat pizza base from Wal-Mart; they will also be available at a super mart close by. Load the pizza with all kinds of veggies making it look like a beautiful colorful pizza on top you can grate fat reduced cheese and cover all the vegetables so your child eats them without picking on them. Lean meat sausages turkey slices, chicken ham slices can also be used as toppings.

Sandwiches are also a fast and a healthy diner option, first because the bread you will use is multi-grain and make sure you load it with fresh greens and lean meats. Using fat free mayo and mustard will ensure lesser calories.

Soups should also be an entrée at least 2 times a weak. Being the fastest entrée you can cook within minutes. Blanch all the veggies in stock add some noodles for flavor and for your kid making it a healthy and filling entrée.

After dinner fruits as well as nuts soaked in sugar syrup are better than chocolates, if they eat fruits directly even better but if fussy pour fresh cream over the fruits. Fresh cream with reduced fat is also available use that making your dessert low in calorie. Low calorie fruit yogurts are also an excellent dessert option.

Make your food more appealing by adding as much as color to it. If it appeals the eye your baby will eat it fuss free. Weekends can be an off from your kitchen and a treat for following a healthy week. Enjoy your indulgence guilt fee!!

Make sure on the last day of the year you wish for a healthy new year and on the first day of the New Year, make a pledge to make your wish come true.