Are you bored of eating South African meals everyday, for losing weight or staying healthy? Well, you can still eat other cuisines and stay fit and healthy.
The key is to make these foods at home, so you can regulate the ingredients and avoid adding high-fat ingredients to boost flavor. One such dish is pasta.
1. Add lots of veggies
Eating simple pasta without any veggies would mean loading up on carbs. Instead, add lots of sautéed veggies to your pasta, such as corn, broccoli, zucchini, bell peppers, onions, olives and jalapeños. This will also reduce your overall consumption of carbs-loaded pasta and increase your fiber intake.
2. Choose whole grains or millet based pasta
3. Avoid pink sauce pasta
Many people enjoy the pink pasta – best of both worlds – red and white. However, mixing tomatoes with dairy may not be the healthiest choice. This is because citric acid present in tomatoes does not work well with lactic acid present in dairy products, according to nutritionists. This can lead to undigested metabolic waste that lies in your gut for hours. So it is best to choose only one sauce at a time.
4. Use liberal amount of oil
You may think you are making a healthier choice by using less amount of olive oil in your pasta. However, this is the opposite of what you should be doing. Go liberal in using cold pressed olive oil, which helps lubricate your GI tract and move digested foods smoothly, thus preventing the pasta from sitting in your gut for hours together.
