Eating healthy Chinese

Alright everyone, lets be honest. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, even if you are obsessed with cooking, wants to cook every single night. Some nights, (which is total okay and natural) you are going to want to get take out. Chinese, is one of the most people take outs available. And usually, people don't understand how to do it healthy. The key is to stay away from heavy noodle based dishes, heavy sauce dishes, and entrees that are fried. I fact, most people do not realize this, but se will get chicken dishes, thinking because it's poultry and not red meat like beef, they chose a healthier option. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily true. Most chicken dishes, or at least the popular chicken dishes (sweet and sour, orange, and sesame chickens) are fried, and I do believe deep fried because I have actually see them using their deep fry friers in their mini kitchen there, where the process cannot be hidden. The key to eating Chinese healthy? You have to get it steamed! The process of steaming uses no oil, and lots of water when cooking! Plus, I personally think steed cuisine even tastes better because as the food is cooking, the meats and veggies soak up that water while cooking, which makes the food more tender when consuming it. I got a steamed Chinese meal tonight, it looked like this:

It is a seafood and steamed veggie mix. Worth every delicious bite :)! I would not even estimate a high calorie amount for this. I would estimate 300 tops because this dish had more veggies than seafood. Plus majority of seafood on its own does not have a large amount of calories either. However, if you do not like seafood, most Chinese places I have seen do offered steamed as just veggies, beef, or chicken (a few, while not as popular have steamed with tofu...just be careful with tofu since too much soy is not good for the body). Also your taste buds I promise you will get used to the taste of steamed without the fried or heavy sauce component! Our taste buds will change on their own when allowed and when you give your body the chance to like it. That's where I believe the term "acquired taste" stems from, because it takes some time to allow taste buds to change what they are used to. But give it a week or two, and you and your body will not have heavy cravings for sauce and fried, I can promise you that! Our beings, the homosapian, we did down the line stem from animals. We are programmed to eat foods without sauce and without being fried. Sauces and fried are man made, these things were not created in nature. That is partly why I believe we can like, even enjoy steamed, sauceless foods after a max of a two week period, because it is getting back to basics of food, actually eating the food itself, as is intended! 

That's all for now my fellow readers! Time for this gal to exercise and then relax with this adorable little babe pup, my baby girl: 

Stay fit, fabulous, and healthy!