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Monday, January 1, 2018

14 Ways To Stick To a Healthier Lifestyle Regimen


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Not only do you need to live a healthier lifestyle, but also, you must find a variety of ways to maintain this new regimen. If you follow an assortment of tips for improving your well-being, then you will have more physical energy and mental clarity. Use these ideas for improving your health along with sticking to your healthier regimen.


Healthy Regimen Tip 1: Have Daily Menus

Rather than preparing meals and snacks randomly, create daily menus that include the foods or beverages required for better well-being. You can write your menus using a computer before printing out the information to keep the items on your kitchen's refrigerator. With the menus in front of you, you are less likely to eat poor-quality foods that will ruin your health.


Healthy Regimen Tip 2: Schedule Time For Breakfast

If you sleep too late to eat breakfast, then you must wake up 20-minutes earlier to scramble an egg or prepare a bowl of cereal. Studies reveal that eating a healthy breakfast will keep you from eating large quantities of food later in the day.


Healthy Regimen Tip 3: Take a Cooking Class

When you don't know how to prepare homemade snacks and meals, you can take cooking classes at a community college. Alternatively, you can find books about cooking at a public library, or you can learn more about cooking at an online website.


Healthy Regimen 4: Clean Out Your Cupboards and Refrigerator

After you decide to change your diet, you must clean out your refrigerator and cupboards. Take everything out of these storage places to sort through the beverages and foods to throw away high-fat items such as mayonnaise or high-sugar items such as cake mixes.


Healthy Regimen 5: Prepare a Grocery-shopping List

Don't shop mindlessly at the supermarket because it is filled with temptations. Use your menus to have a grocery-shopping list so that you won't buy unneeded items such as ice cream, pie or potato chips.


Healthy Regimen 6: Eat a Lot Of Fruits and Vegetables

Begin shopping in the produce aisle of your supermarket to buy seasonal vegetables and fruits. Dietitians recommend eating as many as 13 servings of fruits and vegetables each day to get all of the nutrients required for a healthy body.
 
Healthy Regimen 7: Join a Fitness Gym

If you only want to watch television while you are at home, then you aren't getting enough exercise. Joining a fitness gym is one of the best ways to improve your health because there are an assortment of weights and exercise devices available.


Healthy Regimen 8: Learn How To Meditate

When you feel anxious most of the time, it can damage your mental and physical well-being. You may have chronic indigestion, migraines or nightmares because you have too much stress. Enroll in a meditation class to learn how to clear the anxious thoughts from your mind.


Healthy Regimen 9: Avoid Drinking Too Much Alcohol

If you are drinking a lot of alcohol, then it can damage your health. Your body's liver must work harder to eliminate the toxins from alcoholic beverages, leading to problems such as cirrhosis. When you drink too much but can't stop, it is time to look for a support group to overcome this bad habit.


Healthy Regimen 10: Don't Smoke Cigarettes

The tobacco and other chemicals in cigarettes will damage your body by creating inflammation in the mouth, throat and respiratory system. When you can't stop smoking, you should begin to use nicotine patches, or you can join a smoking cessation program.


Healthy Regimen 11: Visit an Allergist

If you have health problems such as constant sinus congestion or digestive issues, then visit an allergist to determine if you are allergic to certain substances. You might have an allergy to pollen, or you may have an allergic response to the lactose in dairy products.


Healthy Regimen 12: Socialize Occasionally

It is important to socialize occasionally by spending time with your friends or relatives. If you spend too much time alone, then you can develop depression from isolation. Get interested in a hobby or social cause so that you can become involved in meetings with other people.


Healthy Regimen 13: Practice Positive Thinking

The way that you think can affect your physical and mental well-being. To improve the way that you feel, read books and watch DVDs about positive thinking. You may need to practice to learn how to speak and think in a positive way.


Healthy Regimen 14: Try Prepackaged Meals To Lose Weight

Whether you don’t have time, or if you’re just not good at planning, prepackaged meals can help you stay on target.  They provide a set amount of calories, typically offer a balanced diet of nutrients, protein and fiber.  But what’s more, they make it easy by removing the difficulty of making choices about what to eat, or what to cook.  It’s just easier.  And as Pure Healthy Living will tell you, there’s no price difference, just look at Nutrisystem cost.

There are a wide variety of other options to try, and Nutrisystem isn’t the only one.  But be aware that some of them can be pretty expensive.  So you may have to weigh being healthier, and not having to think about your food, versus having to pay a little more at times.

Sunday, December 31, 2017

No-Bake Lasagna Recipe for New Year Media Noche



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The No-Bake Lasagna recipe I got from the Internet requires Parmesan, Mozzarella and Quickmelt grated cheeses, plus evaporated and powder milk, also all-purpose cream, flour, cornstarch, butter,.... then tomato sauce and paste for the ground beef added with onion, garlic, basil leaves, pepper, powder, salt, soy sauce, sugar... ..and of course, the lasagna pasta.

NO BAKE LASAGNA PASTA RECIPE:

Ingredients:

500 Grams Lasagna Pasta
1 Kilo Ground Beef
1 Kilo Hunt's Tomato Sauce Basil and Cheese Variant
3 Tbsp Tomato Paste (this will make sauce thick in texture)
1 Cup Finely Chopped White Onion
1 Head Garlic Finely Chopped
Pepper Powder
4 tbsp Soy Sauce
Salt
1 tbsp Sugar
Dried Basil Leaves
1 Can Nestle All Purpose Cream
3 Tbsp Cornstarch dissolved in 3 tbsp water
Grated Mozzarella Cheese
Grated Parmesan Cheese
2 Grated Box Quick Melt Cheese

Bechamel Sauce Ingredients:
Unsalted Butter
6 Spoon Flour
1 Cup milk - any powdered milk will do, dissolved in warm water. Powdered milk is rich in fat. The fat in this milk will help the sauce become thick
1 Large Evaporated Milk
1 Cup grated cheese

Bechamel Sauce:

This is the thick white sauce used for layering. In french cooking they call it roux. In Greenwich (fast food chain in Philippines) you can also see it on top of their Lasagna.

In very low heat, melt about 1/4 sliced of butter. Make sure not to burn it. It should look golden yellow. Once butter is in little bubbles mix flour, whisk it using fork, until it becomes egg like lump and paste like.

In low heat, slowly add full cream milk. Mix it thoroughly until it becomes consistently smooth that when you spoon it, the thickness will cover the spoon. Mix and cook around 2 minutes then slowly mix in evaporated milk until very smooth in texture.

Cool and set it aside for later use. This sauce will be use for bottom and top layer.

Lasagna Pasta:

Cook it for 13 minutes in boiling water with salt and 1 tbsp oil, cover and simmer. Make sure to mix it from time to time to avoid pasta from sticking on the pan. But be careful not to chip the lasagna.

Once cooked, drain and set aside.

Sauce:

It makes Lasagna stick to all other ingredients without the need to bake it. Just the sticky sauce, Cheeses and Bechamel Sauce. No need for baking.

Saute Garlic until light brown, followed by Onion until translucent.

Add in Ground Beef, salt pepper, soy sauce and basil.

Pour in Tomato Sauce and simmer for few minutes and mixing it to avoid sticking from the pan.

Add in Tomato paste and diluted Cornstarch, Nestle All Purpose Cream.

Add in sugar and salt to adjust taste.
Simmer and mix for 2-3 minutes

Sprinkle Grated Mozzarella Cheese
Once Mozzarella is melted. We're ready to layer it in the pan!

How to Layer:

Spread Bechamel Sauce (bottom)
Combined Lasagna Pasta and Beef Sauce (2nd layer)
Bechamel Sauce (3rd layer)
Quickmelt cheese (4th layer)
Parmesan cheese

Cooking tips: Use more mozzarella to make every lasagna slice more cheesier as presented in the photo.

Ready to serve. Enjoy!!!

I will be cooking it tomorrow late afternoon so it will be ready for dinner.

Did I miss any ingredient? Is my cooking procedure correct?

Aside from this yummy foods you may also try Lectin free protein bars, see the usual paradox recipes and lectin free foods for your diet.

Outcome:

I made a booboo on the lasagna pasta because they got stuck to each other during boiling... So the supposed to be rectangular pasta sheets got all shredded into pieces. Lol!

But the end result of the no-bake lasagna was more than OK since my kids said it was delicious thanks to all yummy ingredients that are included in the bechamel sauce, the lasagna sauce, plus all that grated cheese on top.

In the end, it's still the taste that will tell if your dish will sell or not. The looks or presentation could add to the appetite, but it will immediately be excused and forgotten after the first bite.

The tray was half-done during dinner, and it's still 3 hours before New Year Media Noche. They just couldn't wait to try it, repeatedly.

Maybe next year I will be able to perfect it, or try something else more challenging...hehehe :)

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Lamudi Conference Features Discussion on Affordable Housing



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Pioneering event by global property website Lamudi features solutions to the country’s widening housing backlog

Increasing the government’s available funds for financing the low-cost housing segment was one of the ways to meet the housing backlog that Atty. Christopher Ryan Tan, former president of the Organization of Socialized Housing Developers of the Philippines (OSHDP) and CEO of housing developer Hausland Development Corporation, gave at The Outlook by Lamudi.

The Outlook by Lamudi: The First Event of Its Kind in the Philippines

The Outlook was the launch of global property platform Lamudi’s comprehensive report on the country’s real estate industry, which involved a nationwide survey of 10,000 Filipino property seekers from across the country to complete. This event coincided with a coming-together of the industry’s thought leaders.

Held at the Marquis Events Place in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) on November 29, the event brought together top-level industry representatives, including real estate players specializing in mixed-use or township developments, leaders of organizations advocating more cohesive, comprehensive and affordable housing programs, and key officials from the public sector, to discuss what’s next for the industry, backed by real consumer data gathered by Lamudi. Among the topics discussed were trends in mixed-use developments, the evolution of residential condominiums across the country, the details that go into building new cities, provincial expansion and its significance, the importance of building green and the housing backlog.

The Housing Backlog: A Closer Look

Citing a government study, Atty. Tan noted that the country’s housing deficit is estimated to reach a staggering 7.67 million by 2022. “In other words, in the eyes of the government, that’s how many households would direly need housing provision or housing units. And that is a huge number,” he said.

Given the government’s peg of the housing shortfall, Atty. Tan is aware of the daunting task ahead both for the private and the public sectors, especially since according to him, there’s only an actual production of less than 200,000 housing units annually for the past five years. “It’s somewhere between 168,000 and 190,000 a year,” he approximated, “so when you do the math, considering that population grows, it seems that you would not be able to catch up. So that’s really a huge problem.”

The battle, however, is not yet lost, assured Tan. “That’s the challenge now: How really to meet the housing need, and to be able to do that, you need to produce on the lower end.”

Homes not valued more than Php3 million are classified as affordable housing in the country. Government agency Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) outlined the bracketing for the low-income segment based on price range and ceiling. In its categorization, units sold for more than Php1.7 million but not exceeding Php3 million are considered low-cost housing. Those that sell for Php450,000 up to Php1.7 million are classified as economic housing, while homes under the socialized housing group are those with a selling price below Php450,000.

Together, these three groups comprise the low-income market, which, according to Atty. Tan, eats up the lion’s share of the country’s residential market in terms of production.

“That is the majority in terms of the number of units,” he explained, “but when you look at it in terms of the value or in terms of prices, it’s the reverse. You would find that the much expensive housing units, in terms of value, when you convert the total amount of loans generated by the housing sectors, majority are still cornered by the high-end.”

In the country, living spaces with a price range of Php3 million up to Php6 million are labeled mid-cost. Those that are sold for more are tagged as high-end. While these units enjoy a positive response from banks in terms of loans, Atty. Tan says it’s not the same for the lower income segments, especially those under socialized housing.

“The toughest, really, is in the socialized housing segment, or those housing units not sold more than Php450,000,” he lamented, “because not many banks would be willing to lend at this level. The reason for that is, this segment is perceived to be the least capable of paying and the highest risk.

“But that is the greatest need if you ask me where production has to be accelerated. So it seems that both ends don’t meet.”

This, for Atty. Tan, poses one major challenge for the government: “We need the government to come in because if private banks would be hesitant to provide financing for the low-end market, the government’s role, really, is to increase available funds for financing for that segment.”

Get Lamudi’s The Outlook report on January 2018 to read the rest of Atty. Tan’s solutions to the housing backlog—and more.
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