Easy, healthful food suggestions?

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Yeah I enjoy soup's very much I like soup the most if it is home made.

I make a large pot every week and keep it in a jug. It takes about 20 mins to prep and 30 mins to cook out. Not bad for a week's worth of healthy lunches.

Good point. Maybe I will try that. I used to do something similar when I was going to school, but with spaghetti instead.

Something I found from a quick google search.

Potato Starch and Glucose

Of the 64.46 g of carbohydrates in a potato, 56.97 g exist in the form of starch. Starch is a complex carbohydrate that consists of multiple glucose molecules attached together. Because the body converts the carbohydrates it consumes into glucose, potatoes are easily digested and have a high glycemic index, or the rate at which carbohydrates cause a rise in blood glucose levels after you eat something.

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Glycemic Load of Potatoes

The glycemic index simply measures how quickly a carbohydrate is converted to sugar after consumption, but it does not take into account the food's serving size or nutritional value. For example, watermelon has a higher glycemic index than soda, although the former is clearly better for you than the latter. The glycemic load was created to provide a better reflection of a particular food's effect on blood sugar and nutritional value. While a russet potato has a high glycemic index, it has a much lower glycemic load, with a measure of 23.

I don't really pay attention to the Glycemic Index myself. A lot of people do though.

But yeah, soups and stews... Load em up with bunches of veggies, herbs and spices, meat, even fruit! So healthy. I am making some soup right now. Got tons of carrots in it, some roast beef, onion, celery, garlic, bell peppers, lemon juice, potato, LOTS of many different types of spices and herb, a halfish cup of browned long grain brown rice, and about a box of low sodium broth mixture made of beef, chicken, and vegetables, then a generous amount of water. Took me about 20 minutes to prepare, and will take about two hours to cook. What's wonderful about soup and stews is that they are very hard to mess up and you can add so much healthy things in it and it will only taste better. Home made soup and stew also tastes better when it's given a day or two to sit.

What I do is get a pineapple at Aldi or I use Wal Mart price matching of Aldi's sales fliers and get it there. I take the outer layer off, the brown part, slice and core it and cut it into bite sized chunks. I put it in a big bowl full of water with a little bit of white distilled vinegar. I let the pieces soak for around fifteen to thirty minutes in the bowl on the kitchen table. The vinegar helps keep the fruit from getting discolored or going bad as quickly in the fridge. A little bit of vinegar in a water rinse can have the same effect on all kinds of fruits and vegetables you want to slice up and keep in the fridge a couple weeks. I drain the pineapple chunks in a colander and put them in a plastic container with a lid and place them in the fridge.
Every day, I eat a little bit of the pineapple, either with plain Greek fat free yogurt or with low fat Raspberry Vinegarette. It comes in strawberry, too. Any low fat fruit vinaigrette will do. Put the chunks and dressing or yogurt in a container with a lid and shake vigorously. This is the key to getting the sweetness in the fruit mixed with the yogurt or the vinaigrette dressing. After shaking, take the lid off and enjoy.
This method of shaking also works very well with salads that have a lot of lettuce of various kinds, and spinach. Lettuce and spinach are very healthy and extremely low in calories but they're so boring and very bland tasting. Salad dressing is, usually, very fattening and loaded with calories but without it, the salad just isn't very good. So, what I do is use a little tiny bit, between one and two tablespoons of dressing, on a storage container full of various lettuce varieties, and I shake it with the lid on until every piece of lettuce in the container is coated with the tiny bit of dressing. I find this helps the salad taste loads better without drowning it in calories and salad dressing.
Another thing I do with the salad before I toss/shake it in the container is add a little salt and pepper and also a little bit of red wine vinegar, which has no calories, fat or sodium. Try to use seasonings that contain little or no salt and calories to liven bland health food up. That's another trick. Also, go to the store and find some tea bags that have natural flavoring and no added sugar or calories, like Chai or Caramel Truffle black tea. It's like having a little bit of desert with nothing artificial and no sweeteners. If you aren't sure, you can look at the packaging to know exactly what's inside.