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Healthy & Yummy Beans and Lentils Recipes
Yummy beans and lentils recipes that provide excellent nutrition and are cheap.
Since bad finances can trigger excessive eating, keeping your food budget low is a good weight loss trick.
When you want to cut down on food expenses, the usual way is to choose cheap food like pasta, rice and potatoes, instead of more expensive food like meat and fish.
This kind of food may be good for your wallet, but what you're doing is replacing protein with carbohydrates. You still need protein and eating too much carbohydrates can affect your blood sugar levels negatively. And as you already know, trying to fight sugar cravings is not a good way to succeed at losing weight.
Try to incorporate pulses instead. They are low in fat, a good source of vitamin B and iron and they can also lower your cholesterol levels. Combined with nuts, seeds or grains they form a complete vegetable protein.
As they are high in fiber, actually one of the richest sources, they keep your hunger at bay for a long time.
Beans come in a large variety; Adzuki, Black Beans, Black-Eyed Peas, Kidney, Borlotti, Cannellini, Lima, Mung, Pinto, Chick Peas and the best ones … Soya Beans.
Lentils you can only find dry. Brown lentils still have their seed coat and have not been split. Red, yellow, and orange lentils have had their hulls removed and cook faster and are a good choice for soups.
Try out these yummy beans and lentils recipes; they will be good both for your healthy, your wallet and your waistline.
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Beans and Lentils Recipes for Snacks and Starters
Hummus - Chickpea Dip Hummus is a great snack, especially if you dip raw vegetables and not bread or chips. The basic ingredient is chickpeas, an excellent source of protein, dietary fibers and healthy carbohydrates.
This is a very easy-to-make dish with lentils and chicken where ginger, cumin and curry give it an oriental touch. If you want you can serve it with rice noodles or basmati rice, but that’s not necessary. This dish is filling anyway.
A chicken curry recipe that gives you lean, low fat meat and good carbohydrates in the chickpeas that also offer protein. A curry dish appreciated by children as well as weight concerned adults.
This is originally a French carrot soup recipe, but with red lentils added as an excellent protein source. Serve with a salad if you want to keep it low-carb, otherwise try the Mediterranean way and dip whole wheat bread in the soup.
This is a variation of the classic French onion soup that is traditionally served with bread croutons and cheese as toppings. In this recipe the protein comes from green lentils.
If you like tomato soup but usually make it with cream, try this tomato soup recipe with mixed soy beans instead. This is so much better for your waist line and you also get excellent protein.
An easy-to-cook vegetarian mixed bean soup recipe.
Some people believe that legumes upset their stomach. If you feel that’s the case with you, try to introduce them slowly and let your body adjust to a daily intake.
Adjusting to new circumstances slowly is the key behind any successful weight loss attempt, not only when you want to add beans and lentils to your diet. We all need time to feel comfortable with new things before they can become habits.
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