January is traditionally the month when people go on a diet. Whether it is to loose holiday pounds or to meet a New Year’s resolution, the key to a successful diet is finding a good selection of low calorie recipes. Most diets fail because people get bored with their food choices and because they feel deprived. If you are interested in losing weight this year, then forget about fad diets, and instead infuse you regular diet with new low calorie recipes.
Beans are a great option for people on a diet. Beans are versatile, they provide your body with a vegetarian source of protein, and they have a very pleasing texture. Beans are also a very affordable ingredient that you can buy dried, canned or fresh. You can even grow them in your own garden.
While beans are generally very healthy, some recipes reduce their healthiness by pairing beans with a lot of fat. Bean burritos, for example, can be very high in fat, especially when the refried beans contain lard or if the burrito contains high fat cheese and/or sour cream. If you love burritos you don’t have to give them up, you simply need to use better ingredients. Start by selecting vegetarian refried beans, low fat cheese and omit the sour cream.
Low-fat Bean Burrito
Ingredients
Directions
Start by spoon 2-3 tablespoons of refried beans onto your tortilla and spread them out over the tortilla.
Top this with a tablespoon or two of the black beans. Then add onions, salsa and lettuce.
Roll up and microwave for 45 seconds to 1 minute.
If you are looking for great Jewish recipes to lose weight with then look for tempting low fat Jewish recipes and vegetarian parve Jewish recipes.
If you are a woman and have problems with bloating, it may be because your diet has wheat in it. Nearly one in five women have a wheat sensitivity. Try removing wheat from your diet for a couple of weeks and see how you feel.