Turbo Broiler

To help me eat healthier, we bought a stove top grill and a turbo broiler. A turbo broiler is a popular appliance in the Philippines. It helps you cook meat and chicken (even fish) without the oil. You can think of it as a cross between oven baking and grilling. This way, I will not eat too much food with oil and would not need hoodia gordonii pills to help me lose weight.

A Turbo Oven is really quite simple to operate but if you want to make sure you knew how to use it properly first, have a look at the following video and see how easy it is to have a beautifully-roasted chicken in just 40-45 minutes!

A Turbo Oven / Cooker / Broiler is a table top oven that uses convection heat and therefore cooks 50% faster than regular ovens so if you’re adapting a regular oven recipe, remember to cut cooking time in half and lower the temperature of the turbo by about 50 degrees fahrenheit. Don’t worry because there will be some examples later in the page.

You can also prepare healthy and delicious dishes with it. There is no need to rub meat with oil or butter for a tender and juicy roast because the circulating hot air perfectly browns and sears the outside of the meat, sealing in the juices to preserve flavor and moisture. You can opt to let the fat drip onto a baking pan, placed under the wire rack in the oven, for a flavorful, delicious and satisfying meal minus the guilt.

 

  • It’s versatile. A turbo oven can bake, steam, broil, grill, roast, and even thaw frozen food.
  • It’s very easy to use. Just throw all your ingredients together in a baking pan (or a few sheets of foil), place it on the wire rack that comes with the oven, cover, switch it on, set the temperature and timer and voila! You can go on doing other things while the oven cooks your food.
  • It lets you save on time. Because it uses convection heat, it’s hotter and therefore cooks up to 50% faster than regular ovens so you can make more in a lot less time. It also requires no preheating so you can just go ahead, put your food in and relax.
  • It lets you save on space. Unlike oven ranges, turbo ovens are portable and can easily fit on a kitchen counter or table top. If you’re short on space, getting one would be a practical solution as you can cook practically anything with it.
  • It lets you save money. Turbo ovens are a practical and economic choice for your kitchen, requiring 80% less electricity than a conventional oven. Like I mentioned above, they can cook anything and they cost a fraction of what an oven range does. If you have a small family and don’t do heavy-duty cooking and baking, a turbo is definitely a smart choice.
  • It lets you cook healthy. Preparing food in a turbo, like chicken for example, doesn’t require extra fats or oils to guarantee that you’ll always end up with crispy, golden-brown skin and flavorful, juicy meat. The circulating hot air perfectly browns & sears the outside of meat and seals juices inside to preserve flavor and moisture.
  • It’s not hazardous to your health. Because the turbo oven doesn’t use the harsh radiant elements of a microwave or a conventional oven, heating is more gentle and more thorough and the flavor of your food is kept intact. Notice that when you cook with a microwave, heating is uneven – hot outside but cold in spots?
  • It keeps your kitchen clean and fresh. It’s smokeless, odorless and won’t heat up your kitchen.
  • It’s easy to clean up. I usually place the food on a baking pan or on a wire rack (with a baking pan beneath for catching drippings) so my food doesn’t actually touch the inside of the oven. After using, I just take the food out and then wipe the vessel clean with paper towels. That’s it!

High Fiber Meal

Because of my dietary restrictions, our eating out every now and them have considerably lessened. At least we can save much more and do not need to rely on an online cash advance to be able to meet our needs. It is just hard to choose meals when we were out. When I was in the city for my doctor consultation I had to eat out and here is what I ordered for myself:

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Healthy Foods for Me

I am still trying hard to eat healthy, so far I haven’t had a sip of cola in a week (it’s been a week since my medical tests) and my rice intake has been lessened considerably. I am due for a weigh-in tomorrow and I am super excited! We just need to look for some ariens snowblower parts at the Handyman store and I will go for a weight-in!

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Some of my usual dining fare: chopsuey and eggplant and tomatoes (half a cup of rice)

Foods that Promote Hair Growth

Coming from a family where baldness is a dominant trait, I am making sure I read up on this!

Hair loss affects up to 40% of women and half of men at some point in their lifetimes. Some causes of hair loss include:

What are the top foods that promote hair growth?

Of course there is an available hair loss treatment for men but what you can prevent is better than treating them!

Benefits of Sea Salt

 

 

 

We have been made to understand the dangerous side effects of living on a diet high in sodium. Unfortunately, due to fast living, processed foods are high in preservatives which conversely is high in sodium. These are the ready meals you see in the grocery and the meals you take out from fast food restaurants. The average Western diet is too high in sodium. In the US, average sodium-intake in the daily diet is 4,000-5,000 mg. In the UK, dietary sodium-intake averages 3,500 mg daily. That is why many people are pushing for the use of sea salt. The benefits of sea salt outweigh the disadvantages of using table salt.

Sea salt is produced through evaporation of seawater, usually with little processing, which leaves behind some trace minerals and elements depending on its water source. These insignificant amounts of minerals add flavor and color to sea salt. Natural sea salt retains the trace minerals – and is effective.

 

One of the sea salt health benefits is using them when taking a bath. The minerals in sea salt is effective in helping alleviate certain skin conditions such as psoriasis. It has also been shown in studies to help relieve symptoms of osteoarthritis and tendonitis

I Love Me Some Bananas!

I love bananas! I seriously can eat them all day. I was looking for hot tub covers to recommend to a friend when I came across banana recipes that look easy to try.

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Bananas are rich in Vitamin B and potassium, and these two are necessary in the production of sex hormone. The sugar in bananas is easily digested by the body, thus it is a good source of instant energy boost for those times when you are feeling weak and fatigued. With a good amount of iron, banana also stimulates the production of hemoglobin in the blood.

I especially like the export quality ones – those are the best ones dipped in chocolate!

You might want to try these recipes:

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Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

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Banana Chocolate Trifle

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Nutella Banana Panini

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Strawberry Banana Tarragon Milkshake

I hope I can make the banana chocolate dip bread soon!

Organic Meat

The advancement of science and technology has its uses but disadvantages as well. Cloning of animals have been controversial as well as injecting animals and plants hormones and antibiotics to make it larger, stay fresh longer and boost its market price. It comes with sacrifices though. Processed foods are never safe nor healthy.

Niman ranch
Natural Meat
has been provided by Niman Ranch for over 30 years. They raise their livestock traditionally, ensuring its meat will have the meatiest and natural taste. They market beef, pork, lamb and poultry and this is sustained by 650 independent farmers and ranchers.

Here are their best-selling products:

They use their own superior beef, pork and lamb to produce these. They offer a full line of uncured items containing no added sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite.

- Applewood Smoked and Uncured Hams
- Dry Cured and Uncured Bacons
- Fully Cooked Dinner Sausages
- All Beef and Beef/Pork Franks
- Dry Salame
- Fully Cooked St. Louis Ribs with BBQ Sauce
- Seasonal Items (Spiral Hams, Corned Beef)

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Probiotic Revolution

Did you know that your digestive tract contains more than 400 types of “friendly” bacteria? These little guys, commonly referred to as probiotics (which means “pro-life”), help reduce the growth of harmful bacteria and promote a healthy digestive system. That’s right! Probiotics are live bacteria with clinically-documented health benefits.

Health Benefits
It appears that when the digestive system is kept healthy, other body systems greatly benefit as well. Probiotics may:

* Protect against infection
* Enhance and boost the immune system
* Promote and improve digestive health
* Alleviate diarrhea caused by antibiotic treatments
* Promote urinary and genital health
* Assist in the management of inflammation
* Help alleviate symptoms of lactose intolerance
* Improve some types of eczema in infants and children
* Reduce cholesterol levels
* Decrease the risk of certain cancers

It is important to note that each type of friendly bacteria has a specific health benefit to the body. With over 400 different types of probiotics identified, researchers are just starting to uncover the health roles and benefits of each.

Food Sources
Currently, foods that contain probiotics are primarily dairy products and dairy beverages, including:

* Yogurt
* Drinkable and squeezable yogurts
* Fluid milk with added probiotics
* Fermented milk such as sweet acidophilus milk
* Kefir

Through fermentation, probiotics enhance the flavor and texture of these particular dairy products. Dairy foods actually buffer your stomach acid and bile, thereby protecting the probiotics from the stomach acid so that they can reach the intestines.