Plan A Green Healthy Party Menu

If you are one of those who love to entertain, but, don't like serving up so-called party food, dressed in oil, decorated in cream and bursting with calories, things which are not good for your own health, then it's time to introduce a green-healthy menu at your festive bash. For a start throw a Sunday Brunch and serve the most wonderfully healthy food which are super delicious as well as low in calories. As per nutritionists, since we end up partying once a week typically, it is important to eat nutritious food at all times. This leads to an overall healthy lifestyle and empowers physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Scientists believe, in the long run, it affects heredity. Bingeing overloads you with a host of problems. You feel uncomfortable, bloated, lethargic, suffer from acidity and constipation. People who party regularly, realise they need to eat smart, or they could put on weight, notch up cholesterol, sugar and blood pressure levels. Unfortunately, celebration food for many still means fried, overcooked food, high in salt, sugar and processed white flour. But it need not be!

Green Party Menu Ideas

Get The Basics Right:
Cooking Utensils/Method:When you are talking health, no detail is too tiny to be ignored. Use non-stick cookware so you need minimum oil or opt for low-fat methods, like steaming and grilling.

Every Drop Matters:
Choosing healthy oils is important. Cooking in olive oil will introduce your guests to a new flavor, and also ensure that they get a healthy dose of immunity-boosting fatty acids. Besides olive oil is absorbed less by the ingredients while cooking, so helps keep calories under control. Go for cooking oil sprays if possible. Canola and mustard are other good oils to use.

Organic Gains:
Choose organic ingredients wherever possible. Organic foods are grown without using chemicals, artificial pesticides or fertilizers. They are 100% natural. Do menus prepared with organic food look and taste different? Hardly. However your feel-good factor with organic is very high, because you believe you are eating the right thing and serving up the best, too. You can have organic food catered too. You can prepare innovative dishes using foods like millet, red chard/red spinach, mixed lentils and jaggery and brown rice. So tweak your favorite recipe and make it health-friendlier.

Avoid Synthetic Food Color:
Synthetic food colors load your body with chemicals, which can cause reactions. Instead, it will look pretty and very thoughtful, if you color food naturally with saffron (yellow), spinach (green) and beetroot(cerise).

Wholegrain Use:
Switch refined flour for wholegrains in bread, pasta and momos. Replace white rice with brown, or parboiled. Instead of fatty milk and milk products, opt for the low-fat option.

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