If you’re looking to lose weight this year, perhaps it’s time to look at your eating habits and find out how making small adjustments can help you shed the kilos.
Here are eight ways you can do that:
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Source local ingredients that are in season for your next dinner party. Buying ingredients to fit the latest Jamie Oliver recipe might sound like a good idea, but using fresh produce will give a better result.
Check out Kranji Countryside Farmers’ Market, Open Farm Community’s Social Market or Central Singapore CDC’s Farmers’ Market for a start.
Want to bake but don’t know how and don’t want to resort to Betty Crocker cake mixes? Take the idiot-proof route with local company Batterful’s easy-bake kits. Each Curated Baking Kit comes with a recipe card, pre-portioned ingredients, bakeware such as muffin cups, and extras such as parchment paper and bamboo sticks. Oven not included, though.
Kale has been called everything from the “queen of greens” to the “new beef”. While it’s been trendy in the US (and in organic shops here) for a while now, kale is now a common sight at NTUC Fairprice Finest supermarkets. Starting from S$3.95 per 120 gm pack, it’s no more expensive than rocket, chard or baby spinach.
Soup is good but bone broth is better, which is why it sparked its own health trend in New York in 2015. Even if the health benefits such as improved immunity and better skin don’t impress you, it’s just really good soup. Get your slow cooker on and find a recipe online.
No more Pizza Hut or McDelivery. Get a home-cooked meal prepared by your friendly neighbours instead. Or make some money by selling your own cooking to your neighbours. There are three apps right now offering such services: Share Food, hcooks and Heartland Chefs. Never have to eat fast food again.
If you’re going to eat hawker food, make it the best you can find. Rather than fork out $2 for the nasi lemak at your nearest hawker centre, go for broke with The Coconut Club’s $12.80 version which is worth every cent. The team spends hours every day squeezing fresh coconut milk by hand, just to open a few hours a day for a buzzing lunch service.
The next time you have a craving for something sweet, deep-fried or starchy, make it yourself. You’re likely to use better and fresher ingredients and, knowing the trouble it takes to make them, you’re likely to crave them less often.
Discover this under-the-radar superfood that’s indigenous to Asia. Moringa is high in vitamins A and C, fights free radicals, increases metabolism, dramatically reduces inflammation and aids blood detoxification.
Anantara Angkor Resort’s executive chef Ken Wagner says fresh moringa leaves or dried powder can be added to many soups, curries, stir-fries, omelettes, and salads – any dish that includes the use of various herbs.