High Fiber Diets
Welcome back! And thanks to all who visited me over the break. It's a new year, and finally I've been able to produce my first bento. Over the break we shifted gears towards a new diet, we're aiming for a high fiber, low fat diet, now this kind of falls in line with the existing low glycemic index diet but it releases a few restrictions on the carb side and changes some of the ingredients I can and cannot use. Basically it works like this, increase consumption of soluble and insoluble fiber helps with keeping your insulin level stable. This is pretty much simliar to the low glycemic diet's philosophy. The harder it is to break down foods the more even the release of energy into the body. Soluble fiber has a second benefit in that it's been shown to also help with increasing the good cholesterol. So all in all it requires me to be a little more vigilant about my recipes and rethink my planned menus a bit. Anyway for my first bento, I wanted to try to crank out something flavorful and showcase how a high fiber diet isn't as bad/bland/boring as it sounds.
The box went over well, but we had a lot of substitute eaters this time around as a portion of the lunch crowd were not in the office but were kind enough to abdicate their bentos to coworkers :) It's been educational for me, and I still need to scramble for more recipes and creations. Bentos will be a little slow to start for this year, I'm ratcheting down to 1 a week for the time being as we'll be moving this month and work has really been killing me. So I'll apologize in advance for the slow posts, I'll try to think up some more tips that I can add in.
Anyone have any good websites on high fiber recipes?
Box contents:
- Khichadi with spiced sirloin
- Spicy roasted new potatoes
- Stir fried snow peas with water chestnuts and oyster mushrooms
- White chocolate haystacks with craisins
Comments
Welcome Cici! Glad to have another reader. Cookbooks? well I'm not really using any cookbook to crank out the meals I've done thus far. They are usually an amalgam of a few recipes and tweaks in order to fit it inside the dietary restrictions. I've found many food sites to be very helpful recipezaar, foodnetwork. Also the various bento blogs have been very helpful in ideas and presentation. (mental note, I need to put up a links section on the blog). I've been collecting my recipes and their tweaks in my little binder. I've got friends offering to help me publish it online :) maybe someday.
In the meantime, i've tried to point people in the right direction (like the pumpkin crepes) or mine my own brain for responding to emails (granted I'm no professional, but I'll do the best I can). So if you have any questions fire away! I try really hard to respond to every comment I see popup.
Thanks again for stopping by and I hope you enjoy my work.